Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-22
feet abstract of whose remarks is here
with given:

publicans. He was present, in the old
Congregational church, in Rutland, when
the. Republican party was founded in
1854. We tender you loyal hands, not
hands dripping in the blood of loyal
men. What caused this ''bloody chasm?"
Is it true, we can politically shake hands
across the bloody chasm without belit-
Ting the loyal cause, and putting us OF
the northern States, as well as the Unit
ed States, and placing them on par
with the South American States and
Mexico, and saying, at the same time,
that we, as we'll as the South, are to
blame in the war. Can we do this?
The declared purpose of the South,
in the rebellion, was to found a
Slave empire We are young country,
young in years, but old in cras. And
this era that embraces the period OF the
rebellion, its suppression, the reconstTuc-
ton measures, etc, is the most import
ant and comprehensive era of any III our
history. Who made this bloody chasm -?
Who but the South. | may say South
ern Democrats. God forbid that we
should forget the past, or that ever we
should cherish any enmity toward our
Southern brethren. But is it safe or
right to give them political power? They
say we must appease the South. Shall
we do it by wrestling the wreath from
the brows of our loyal soldiers? Never.
They cannot be appeased, in the way
they desire, without electing Horace Gree
ley and, with him, returning the Demo
Gratis, north and South topolitical power.
But I will not detain you longer, but
will introduce to you Hon. George B.
Loring of Massachusetts.
HON. GEORGE B. LORING
was greeted with hearty applause. He
said it was not his first visit to Vermont.
He had been here before when he en-
loved himself much better than he pre-
sumed he should here in the hot town of
Rutland on this hot day. | knoW your
farms and agricultural products, thor
oughly, but ! do not believe that | know
them any better than do your staunch,
unfinching Republican politics. | am
told there is trouble in the political sky,
that a heavy wind, and even terrible
gale is blowing in the political heavens.
am as calm as you are, but if there is
his fog, this storm, this gale, would it
Dt be a good and wise plan to look
round us and see about where we
sand? This campaign did not COM
lence at the Philadelphia convention.
was present at that convention as a
elegate. | told the good people of
Philadelphia that | came there in behalf
the people of Massachusetts to nom
late Henry Wilson for Vice President,
ad I wouldn't leave until had done it
ad I didn't But this campaign COM
minced before that. 1t commenced
for years agowhen Vermont, with other
lOal States, stood up and nominated
Can't and Colfax on a sound platform
70 equal rights. Did our country then
stad at peace within Eer own borders,
an hold that high place, among foreign
naons, that she now does? After the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, when
A1lrew johnson endeavored to recon-
stuct the South, we had practical eX-
ample of shaking hands across the bloody
chsm. We had it when that weeping
convention met in Philadelphia, when
hig.ly respectable gentlemen of MasSachu-
sett and South Carolina met and march
ed, through the streets of Philadelphia,
weoing over their sins. You, loyal
Republicans of Vermont, have not for
gottn the DAYS when Or. Dostie was
shot down in New Orleans for endeav-
oringto reconstruct the South on true
basis. SO they were shot down in the
streets IF Memphis, and elsewhere, as
YOU wei remember. In eight States,
there was open unadulterated Ku KluX-
ism. When the Chicago convention as
sembled, four years ago, these States were
practically out of the Union. The gov
eminent lad no financial policy. Some
men even talked of reputation. The
lines were not drawn, as closely, then as
now, that AL Republicans were honest
men. We could not negotiate a loan
abroad, at any favorable, or even reason
able, rates That was dark time. Then
there was storm, gale, compared to
which the present time is the 'nerest ruff
fle, a midsummer madness. The cOnven-
ton assembled. 1t was loyal cOnven-
ton, because the Southern Democrats
were not enfranchised and they did not
even wish to be, unless they could have
their own way. This loyal convention
adopted platform extending, first of all,
thanks, gratitude, etc, to the soldiers
and sailors, who had saved the nation.
This was in marked contrast to that OF
the platform adopted by the Democra,
tic convention, of which Wade Hampton
and others were members, held July 4th
of the same year. The next plank, so tc
speak, of that loyal platform was that
the national debt should be paid dollar
for dollar. Next that the loyal element
should be placed first and foremost II
the work of reconstruction. That every
loyal man, whatever his birth or des
cent, should be protected-the doctrine
"once a subject, always a subject" was
exploded. The platform being fixed
who did they nominate? Who would
you have nominated? Not a philoso.
| ~ f. Id
shuts me out.) No sir. They turned
their eyes to Ulysses s. Grant, g
man unheard of before the war, and
who said at its breaking out eff there is
anything | can do to save the dear Ole
flag, for Gods sake let me do it." He
went into the office of the Adiutant
General of Illinois and rendered his
services in any way that he could
be useful. He didn't seek Dro-