Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-24
DEMOCRATIC INTOLERANCE.

ing doubts.
DEMOCRATIC INTOLERANCE.
But the list of Democratic offenses is
not exhausted. Responsible for the con-
tinued disorder in the South, their recent
conduct in the City of New York threat
ems that most dangerous of all political
excitements a war of clans and of creed
/ The Government is based on the absolute
liberation of all forms of religious belief
I-ProtestAnt and Catholic, Jew and Gem
tile-snd whosoever aims to strike a blow
at the rights of one imperils thereby the
right of all. The stme article in the Fed
eral Constitution which guarantees free
dom of religious belief guarantees the
right of the PEOPLE peacefully to assem-
ble,' and when the Democratic Govern
meut of the City of New York undertook
to say that certain procession of Protest
ants should not march through the streets
of the American metropolis, they were
false to the first principles of religious
freedom, they aimed deadly blow at the
spirit of American liberty. Protestant
myself. l stand for the rights of all; and
while I concede the fullest right of the
Catholic Irish to celebrate St. Patrick's
Day. [ demand the equal right of the
ITOLbHISuI lEISu ~ CGA6OldNO lLb bOS nc
Water The spirit of religious liberty,
which is fully enjoyed on the 18th of
March, must be held equally sacred on
the u h day of July.
REPUBLICAN POLICY AND PRINCIPLES.
Over 2gainst the shortcomings of the
Democracy, the Republican party stands
strong and firm, panoplied in the right
"Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and
all its paths are peace" In our domestic
policy we declare for the equal rights of
all men before the law-knowing no
caste, no creed, no color, but only and
simply the inalieDable and indistructable
rights cf American citizenship, as pro.
claimed in the Declaration of Independ-
ence, and decreed in the Constitution of
the United States, as it 1aOl0 is. For, I'M
til the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments were adopted. the
Federal Constitution did not embody the
doctrine of human rights, as set forth in
the immortal Declaration.
In our foreign policy we rest the honor
of the Government upon peace and pres
tige-lhe prestige which commands peace
the peace which adds to our prestige |
Our diplomat history, from the first in
au9uration of Washington down to the
present hour, contains no other chapter so |
brilliant as that which records the recent |
treaty with Great Britain. A powerful |
nation is not only led to do US Justice in
the matter of debts and dues, but, in the
less palpabe but more enduring repair
alton which, by acknowledging errors, re.
moves the source of irritation, and grace
fully heals the wounds of pride-thus
to the adjustment of national
the knightly courtesy and the
Christian spirit which marks the inter-
course of true gentlemen. When we re-
fleet on the nameless and unimaginable
misery and wretchedness inflicted on
hundreds of thousands by the late war
between France and Prussia, the vast
number that were slain, the still vaster
number that were less kindly dealt with
in their cruel wounds and maimings, the
hardly less cruel burden of debt and tax
falling upon all alike, we may in some
faint degree measure the blessings of a
policy that avoids war and secures
peace founded upon justice and upon
honor. Our differences with England
were of the gravest possible character {
hose between France and Prussia were
but trivial in comparison. The latter ,
we're settled by an appeal to arms and a
war. It is to the highest honor (
# an administration at whose head stands
victorious soldier, that the former were
djusted in the spirit of that great beati-
ude which was given to us in the sermon
N the Mount. !
CLOSING REMARKS
But, gentlemen, must close. I have {
detained you too long already, and were i
to claim your attention while recited
he achievements of the Republican party
Turing the period of its national power. |
he night itself would give place to day a
efore [ could finish. I point you to a t
ointment untrodden to-day by the foot of a
slave. L point you to constitution 8
ounded and perfected in all the elements t
f civil rights and personal liberty. Y
oint you to credit and a currency that n
ore us triumphantly through the sever I
ST of wars, and have assured to us the a
mplest prosperity in time of peace. I Z
oint You to a nation of forty millions of c
eople--the freest, the happiest, the most t
rosperous on the globe-and, finally. I
ONT you to the fact that the policies and
Measures which commanded these great
ssults, were the policies and measures Of v
ne Republican party. Q
The remarks of Mr.. Blaine wera fro g.