The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-09
A VOICE.

which we have been requestedtO pup
lish. While regrcting we can not
give it in fill, for it is an excellent
speech, we take pleasure in present
ing a few extracts:
| am entirely conscious of the pecu-
iiarity of my position tonight. 1t Is
not a position of my W seeking.
| Years age | had the honor of meeting
some of the Democracy of Joliet at
Houses grove. There made a Demo-
cratic speech, with which they were
well pleased, and for which l was
complimemted. They were KIND
| enough TO invite me to this city four
years ago, for the purpose of address,
ing the Democracy on the issues i'll
volved in that campaign.
When | made those speeches, L
| thought the ideas i enunciatcd were
truc-I think they are true to-day. l
made them for Democratic mcn and
for Democratic measures. then de-
tailed to you the results OF Radical
| Republicanism. | told you that Is
| the peculiarly dangerous exponent OF
Radical Republicanism, Horace Gree
lev stood solitary and alonc. on
cheered me OH these occasions-you
said | was right. =,
To-day | am here before YOU. L
have nc reasons to change the opln-
ions | uttered on previous occasions.
/ When | was last here, l held up be-
| fore YOU, as an enemy OF this country
as an enemy to its peace and pros
~ncritv. and its every. interest-llorace
Greeley, and claimed that his name
ought not 10 be presented 10 inc
American people as an exponent OF
the views of the Democracy. o
were Kind enough, on that occasion,
TO cheer me and applaud what SAID.
Four.ycars have passed since then.
am here auain-still the same man as
before. lam here for the purpose OF
saving that rs long as there is a Dem
ocratic party. composed of Democrat
IL men, and representing Democratic
measures. nv heart swelling with en-
| thusiasln al the recollections OF its
mast glory. | stand before you tonight,
having the same convictions, holding
the same principles, faithful to the
same ideas that l entertained Tour
years ago.
Joliet and Aurora have a commu-
uity of interest: they are both MANU-
featuring towns. | have lived in Au-
rora for invent wears. and have al
WAYS been n Democrat. | have an
swercd every buglc call. and attended
every mass meeting i'll those long
wears. Ilravc stood there, during all
tina. time. upon the blcakest watch
tawcr of that party in this great state,
aud have been denounced, baniSlied,
prescribed and scofied at, and yet |
thought was right, and believed
that it was neither manly nor honest
to desert the party. So long as it was
true to itself. As Il Democrat, born
in a western home, they have 4 right
to command my icalty, so long as they
are faithful to the trust imposed in
them but when they say to me that
this thug is all gone: that the whole
scheme of Democracy is ended: that
every principle for which we have
struggled, and everything which we
have said in years past Is a lie that
our whole being i a fraud !: then |
say to them, | cannot go with yon ina
contingency of that Kind. Vixen
principles and men arc Abandoned
when, with 100000 of Democrats
in this country, the brain, the heart
and the conscience oftlie party Is gone.
and there Is no man worthy Ia carry
your standard-no man under whose
banner YOU can march-honor gone
manhood gone principles discard
ed: if that is Your condition, y. Dem
| ocrats, surely YOU ought TO die. APP
plausc.1 If among the 100000 Dem
| ocratic voters on this continent there
is no man worthy to receive Your
| yotes-no man worthy of your smf-
| fragcs-that YOU must throw aside er-
| erv principle Of your life-that YOU
must cast away your hate. your love.
your very shame. and i'll agony of sonl
take to YOUR hearts your lifelong enc
mv-:he nam YOU have ALWAYS ahllnr-
red, scorned and dctcsted-thcp ! say
| cannot go with you. [Chccrs.
If AT any time there was any meas
IRE brought forward dangerous 10
| the liberties of this people, Horace
Greeley was its earnest advocate. II
there was anything proposed by the
Republican party peculiarly obnoS-
| ious to YOU. Horace Greeley was its
| strong supporter. If there was amy.
thing in the constitution that was un-
| suitable to the uses of his party, Hor-
acc Greeley was the first to want, it
set aside !: if there was any principle
that YOU cherished, since yonr party
was organized. Horace Greeley was
your antagonist in that principle. |
| can assert, without fear of contradic-
tion, then, that rs far as principle is
concerned. there never was one single
| principle held by You and him in coa-
| mOu, not even this much laudcd one
term principle. In Democratic times.
when we had Il good man, we kept
him. We elected Jefferson twice. old
Hickory Jackson twice, Madison
twice. and Monroe twice. Loud
checrs.l When we came to the imhc-
Giles. and do-nOthings-the old bacle-
lors, and WORKOUT politicians like Bu-
chanan, we let them slide after one
term, and nominated some one else. |
say then, that in every principle you
have advocated before the American
people; in every principle that has
been emblazoned on your banner; your
avowcd and lifelong enemy has been
Horace Greeley. Looking ut the
question in this light, where is the
man who darcs to ask Democrats to
vote for Horace Greeley us the rep
resentativc of their ideas and princi-
pies?
Let us look a little further. Not
only has he denounced and spit upon
every principle that we have held, but