Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-23
Lincoln, Br0derick and Baker,

Senator John Sherman, of Ohio. de.
1vered an able political address at San
francisco on the evening of September
I'd, from which we make the following
extract:
There Is grave in Lone Mountain
Cemetery, which is an altar at which
every patriot may worship as he studies
the marvellous progress of Republican
Ideas. The stately shaft that points
heayenward over the remains of David
Colbert Broderick is at once a warning
and example. Deafening applause,
which continued interrupted for sew
eral minutes. 1t warns us never to
yield what has been so bravely and so
hloodlly won. It IS an example that no
sacrifice is too great to maintain the
Republic IN Republican keeping. He
dled that our faith might live. But for
h1m and his brave followers, this great
commonwealth and the gorgeous riches
OF It's sister communities would have
been swept into the rebellion. Like
the Demo rat who now supports Grant.
he broke the chains of party. resisted
the usurpations of corrupt Admin
1stratlon, and by the force of his ex-
ample organized a band of men In Cal.
Norma who stood like wall of fire
around the old flag in the davs of peril
and death. AS [ stood on the granite
that covers his sacred dust, few davs
since, and looked abroad upon the
glorious scene, and recalled the mag
lcal growth of the State he loved so
well, and the fact that I have heard
nothing but praise and honor of his
name IN all this border, I felt that, lire
the other martyr, Abraham Lincoln
Applause that continued until the
building trembled, my cherished friend
had not died IN vain, and that
They never fail who die
In great cause: the block may soak their gore :;
Their heads may sodden in the sun their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls
But still their spirit walks abroad Though years
Elapse ard others share dark doom,
They but augmentthe deep and sweeping thouobts
Which overpower all others, anT conduct
The world at last to freedom
How strange the divinity that shapes
our ends There is another grave in
Lone Mountain Cemetery, where sleeps
another martyr to Liberty-Edward D.
Baker, of Oregon. The audience again
paid the tribute of prolonged ap-
plause. All of you recoIlect his magni-
fcent tribute to Broderick, in your
Plaza, September of 1859; and how
wonderfully exact his grand picture of
the Mechanic Senator " applied to
himself, when he was laid by the side
of his friend.
Inspired by these cherished names,
my friends, let us gather new confidence
in our cause. BY the holy triumvirate.
Lincoln, Broderick and Baker, let us
swear warmer allegiance to our be-
loved country and stand closer and
closer by her institutions and her laws.
Since the loss of these three men, the
progress of our country has made us
the wonder of the world. I stand here
in this, the last, the most modern, the
most unique of the revelation-a city
as beautiful as any on the earth, State
at once a ggrden of flowers and casket
of jewels, a people bold, enterprising,
and refined, and [ look abroad over this
fair land and ask myself why should we
change President who has done so
much to help this matchless prosper
ity Tremendous applause and
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