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and checked the natioual growth and its
stately steppings towards its magnificent
future. But, IN spite Of all these draw,
backs what has 10 done for the republie9
~ Look at the contrastf Ten years ago
men were mobbed and hung for saying
they preferred freedom to slavery. To.
day, liberty enthronedi In our land, Ten
years ago, the overseer, the lash, the cof-
fin, and the auction block, To-day, race
lifted from bondage into self-reliant man.
hood and womanhood. Ten years ago,
an arrogant oligarcby breathing threaten
ings against all who resisted their pur-
poses. To day, none so poor as to do
them reverence. Ten years ago, nation
divided by conspiracy and treason, and
hostile government iDaugurated upon our
soil To-day, nation united, and more
powerful because more free. Ten years
ago, a aconstitution recognizing property in
man! To-day, regenerated constitution
guaranteeing equal rights and national
protection to the poorest ''f
y Look, too, at the position our land oo-
cupies among the nations of the earth.
With all the croakihgs of our enemies as
to the burdens of taxation, the legacy of
the rebellion In which our last National
all the false charges that the poor are un.
justly oppressed-there is no nation In all
the world to which the hearts and hopes
of the poor in-every country turn, as they
do toward our Republic. 90 to the banks
of the Shannon or the Rhine, 10 the Bal
tic or the Adristie, upon the Alps or the
Apprentices, and 70 what land does the
poor man look, with longing in his heart,
hoping that he may there make for him
self, and the family that God has given
him, a'home, and enjoy GiVil and religious
liberty2 AL around the world, from ma
ton to nation, and continent to continent,
you may ask this question, and the eager,
earnest answer Is always America y
Whenever the poor or the oppressed seek
to better their condition, their thoughts,
their hopes, their eyes, their hearts are all
turned toward this republic Of ours Who
can dispute or misunderstand this testi-
mony of the toiling millions of every ma
tion and language and creedP And is it
not an irrefutable answer to every charge
that the republic has been injured under
thelgevsrnment of the Republican party,Y
And for all who come with their
household goods, to become Of us and with
us, to share our destiny, TO endure our
trials, or to participate in our. prosperity,
to secure by their toll home, TO live and
rear their children in the true spirit OF de.
votionto our free institutions, there is room
and TO spare. Our mountains welcome
them to their mineral wealth, without fee
or reward. Our Western plains beckon
them to the free farms and free homes Re-
publican legislation proffers to all who
will come and possess and cultivate the
land. Or, if they prefer to live in the
older States, in the workshop and factory
they will find faithful labor remunerated
far beyond the rates it commands in the
Old World .a
The future history of the Republican
party can be judged by its past; and its
pledges and its acts show what that future
will be .i.
l. 1t viii surely and resolutely maintain
its work of enfranchisement, of recon.
struction, OF making all citizens equal un,
der the protection of our supreme law,
against all hostile attempts-so that, by
the final settlement of these questions, so
happily ended and 80 faithfully TO be
maintained, the nation shall have stability
and peace, and this once exciting issue be
regarded as decided for all time.
2. The work of retrenchment of our
national expenses-of the abolition of all
needless offices-of the elevation and i'm.
proVement of the civil service-and of
the saving of every possible amount to
the people-will go on as faithfully as du.
ring the past eighteen months.
T 3. The pledge of the last National Re-
publican platform that taxation shall be
equalized and reduced as rapidly as the
national faith will permit" will be faith
fully carried out, as already inaugurated
by the undivided Republican vote of the
recent Congress and, as the national OBJ
legations diminish, the burdens of taxa
ton, increased as they were during the
war expressly to meet these obligations,
will be justly reduced.
4. The debt will be funded at lower
rate Of interest, and "haVing been cJn
| tracted for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, will be extended over
fair period for redemption" lessening
largely, without doubt, the present month.
ly amount of its reduction, 30 that the
same generation shall not be required TO
| fight the battles Of the Union, and also to
pay off the entire cost of It's preservation
by bearin 6 heavy and oppressive burdens
needlessiy. eNHE 81 ERa
5. The revival Of eur American com.
merce-the development of our vast re-
sources-the completion of the work OF
amnesty to the fullest limits of the liberal
prctfer of the National Republican plat
form-are all sui jects worthy of, and that
! will doubtless receive, the fullest con-
siderstiOn and the wisest legialatiOn. y =
Thus acting-fsithful to the 6 untry
! and all its interests faithful to the Union
and its integrity-faithful to the people
whose confidence and support has sus.
tanned it in all its trials-fsithful to its
brilliant record for the right-and faith.
full to every pledge on which itnobtained
power, Republican administrator and
Republican Congress VIII go forward in
the work entrusted to them, and the nation,
under their legislation, will go on, pros
pering and to prosper.