Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-27

As l said a moment ago, all these,
or the salvation of all these. follow as
the legitimate glory of the great Re
publican party of the United States
Fellow citizens, what does our Demo
cratic party say on this question =
how do they behave on it? l will not
go over their record Your distin
guished Senator has done that so thor
oughly that it leaves nothing to do
but to pick up here and there a sheaf
of wheat that may have fallan from his
load. But let me call your attention
to one single fact. Every triumph
that the Republican party has achieved
in the last twelve years has been
grumblingly and hesitatingly adopted
by the Democratic party, about five
years after it was done. There is not
an element of power, or strength, or
manhood, or decency, in that party to-
day that they did not borrow from US.
Ia es a little way back now, all you
need to do to trace their history is to
read our struggles five years before,
and what they denounced and cursed,
that afterward adopted, silently
or in some crafty way put into their
| platform. Well now. the new depart
ure, to which you have listened, and
well styled by our Senator, is only
another specimen of the same kind of
work. They have tried three kinds of
platforms and candidates in the last
six years. They first tried a regular
out and-out platform, and regular
out-and out Democrat on it; and we
answered then, you remember, by the
one hundred thousand majority
against them. That is when they got
farthest away from the Republican
party. You remember that two years
ago they tried second time. They
sot Democratic platform and more
noble soldier to put on it as a candi-
date, thinking to win something by
that; and he stepped upon their plat
form and kicked their planks to shiv
ers, and bade them good mo; ming
Having tried those two plans they now
propose to try the third, and the third
is to make their platform as nearly
like ours as they can venture, and take
a man that is not altogether unac-
quainted with war. Laughter. Now
this is the third experiment, the third
in kind; and even with that it was ut
| GcIIJ I'M JOSSAD1S " AO4u l4CiL party
upon it.
Fellow citizens. the real strength ot
parties, the real strength of politics
| rests at last upon a few simple quail
ties of human nature that the humbles
} man can judge of as well as the proud
J est, and one of those qualities l cal
your attention to an instant. If there
be one thing upon this earth tha man
kind love and admire better than
} another, it is a brave man-it is a maj
who dares to look the devil in the face
: and tell him he is the devil laughter
2 who dsres to tell what he believes Ii,
t ought to do, who dares to take Fat,
: by the horns and say, Il go dow
+ with this truth rather than survive witt
E one lie - And if the Republican par
: ty be not the most magnificent exam
i pie of that=kind of truth. then | don
f know where to find it. And if th
e Democratic party be not the extrem
t opposite of the truth, in the last tel
: years, don't know where you vii
;, find contraries. Think for momen
e of some gigantic question we wer
It called to meet and handle. We cam
q into power few and young, in The nj
y nority. We were a party of destroy
e ers; we were the hook and lad lie
d company of the Union, tearing dow
j the whole the whole fabric of SLAYER
D and the Democratic party. We ha
0 not yet learned to hold up and main
o tain, as a majority in power have t
} do; but weak and young and hopeful
Y strong in heart, we hardly got int
! power until this gigantic rebellio
e came on, with the old leaders of tn
: Democratic. party confronting us, an
= shook its spear in our faces,
l, But without fear, without a falte
n without a step backward, the Republ
V can party gathered its might and maj
If hood about it and plunged into I'll
e awful chasm, and came through glor
h Gus, though bloody, on the fartht
' shore of victory. Applause An
n they were not only called upon to d
N more than to meet the men in arm
but we were met with tremendoU
l. power of prejudice. These men {
r color, and millions like them, who ha
a been so long trampled down by I'll
ID prejudices of twenty. seven millions
st white men, were stirred to the yer
e depths against them When the r,
u publican party saw themselves cor
2 fronted by that gigantic question, the
is said, we will do justice and will pc
5, ish by the side of these black men G
. we will triumph doing them Justice
IF Applause
And if you have known any brav,
p act in history than that by which y
lie espoused the cause of the humble al
* lowly, and dared to die in trying I
r elevate him, and then l know n,
/ where you will go in history to find
IN And when that great triumph WI
,h achieved. up came the keen. shar
s gnawing tooth Of self-interest to d
/ your and destroy it, the theories
ne Pendleton and similar theories that to
er you how to pay your debts by chea
7n ing aud deception; appealing to tt
nj pockets and avarice Of the Americ;
at people. The Republican party, weig
id ing victory on the one side and just
tie on the other, met these prejudices e,
ID to eye, and said to the people: "Be
. the heavy burden of taxes, and sa
nd your honor as honest men. and sa
ee, the honor of the Republic, or follc
lis these people to an early death and
of decent burial" and when the appe
,ht was made the great American &C
nd science, thanks be to the God of il
70 tice and the honor of the Americ
1re name. our people sDranU to the rescI