Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-07-08
NUMBER 27.
NEWTON BOOrH,s POSITION.

of devoted friendship have received, should
be more or less than the man am if were not
moved almost beyond the power of self COM
mand Applause.] If my sense of gratitude
were boundess as the sea, should be bank
rupt in expression as stand before you to. day.
Applause. Beggar that am am even poor
in thanks. accept, gentlemen, the nomination
for Governor upon the platform you have put
forth. accept the platform, not as an idle for
mality, not as stepping stone to office, but
from conviction. accept 1t as the latest ex-
preston of the living faith of the party to which
am proud to belong. [Applause.l If polit-
cal parties anything other than combinations
to seek Office, they are public opinion organized;
they are forces whose general direction is fixed.
They can be judged far better by their trad-
tions, instincts and governing ideas than by any
formal declaration of principles. Tried by this
test which party to-day best deserves the conf
dence and regard Of the American people, which
has champoned the great measures of human
freedom and good government, which has en-
deavored to direct the current of events in the
grand channel of right, which has stood as bar
and obstruction until it has been swept forward
by the sweeping tide? [Applause.1 Both par
ties continue to-day the same organization that
they did during the war. Each stands upon the
history 1t has made. Can the Republican party
ground arms in the presence of its old antago-
nist2 We have heard much of the "new depart
ure " of the Democracy. Laughter and ap-
plause, Perhaps it was time for the Democratic
party to depart. Laughter. Sir, when polit-
ical party abandons its old ideas, its instincts,
and its traditions, it departs this life. ZAP
plause. For the first time in history we have
the remarkable case of suicide that insists upon
holding an inquest upon its own body. Laugh
ter. Sir, the Republican party needs no 4" new
departure" Applause 1t stands upon its
history. 1t has written no chapters that it de-
sres to tear out. Every page is emblazonod
with glory. Let the record stand the party
will stand by the record. Applause. Aye,
they tell us they will accept the policy of recon-
struction as hard necessity. We adopt it as q
living truth. They regard it as an obstruction
which must be over climbed in the road to Of
fee we as sacred principle baptsed in the
best blood of the land. [Applause.1 The late
Democratic candidate for Governor in Massa-
chusetts was right when he said the American
people would never abandon the attitude of hos
tile vigilance, which is the true Interpretation Of
the policy of this Administration, while one of
their war trophies was threatened. And what
are these war trophies They are not captured
citadels and cities, not guns and flags they are
moral trophies-a republic saved from destruc-
tion freedom made the law of the land. ZAP
plause. BY these trophies the Republican par
ty propose to stand guard while the stars shine
[Applause We do not propose now, nor at
any time, to rekindle the passions of the war
but we cannot forget its memories, and we would
be false to ourselves, false to the dead, if we did
not claim all the moral force bequeathed to US
by the past to accomplish every attainable good
in the present and future. IApplause] But
grand as is the heritage of glory that has come
down to us from the past, we cannot live upon
that; we must meet living questions as living
men, looking forward to the grand future. The
party has saved the Government from an open
foe it must also protect 1t from an insidious en-
emy. [Applause. The rebellion struck with
barred arm in broad day, and with naked sword
There is q danger more alarming because more
subtle, that comes as the stealthy poisoner,
creeping in the dark the corruptng power of
money in shaping legislation and controlling po-
litical action. For US this question of subsidy
and anti-subsidy has far broader significance
than any partial application would assign to it.
1t means purity of legislation it means integrity
of courts it means the sacredness Of private
rights it means that whatever man has,
whether it is broad acres or narrow home,
whatever he has acquired by his industry and
enterprise, is his, his though he stands in the
minority of one his against the power of the
world no majority, no legislation, however po-
tent, can make private wrong public right.
[ Applause and cheers. 1t means this Shall
this Government be and remain mighty agency
OF civilization, the protector of ALL or shall it be
run as a close corporation to enrich few2 Zap
plause.] Our party recognizing public sent-
ment on the question, propose to organize that
sentiment into living forctso that the sacred
ness Of individual rights shall be protected by
all the muniments Of constitutional law. Zap
plause. The instincts of our party are un-
changed. In the recent European war we in
stnctively felt that the principle of the "solidar-
ity of peoples +" would be vindicated that the
old artificial system Of balance of power, fruit
full in wars and kingscraft, would be destroyed;
that nations would rest not upon central pv-
Ot, but upon broad, natural foundations and if
anywhere on earth there is movement of liber-
Al thought, the Republican party is in sympathy
with that movement. Applause.l If there is
IN aspiration for human freedom, the Republi-
,an party is in sympathy with that aspiration.
The country, the world, cannot afford that
generous an impulse in human forces should die;
and it will not die. Let it be kept in accord
with the great moral laws ordained for the gov
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