New-York tribune., 1872-06-04
SPEECH OF GEN. FITZPATRICK.

FELLOW CITIZENS: We are living in a hopeful time
every day is radiant with the sunshine Of new and
glorious promise. THIS vast assembage Of earnest
is but another increment TO the great mass OF testimony
that hourly accommodating 10 show that our great po-
htical parties rapidly dissolyng for the want OF
honest principles TO battle for that the political lines
which have heretofore separated honest men are being
sponged out and that who have minds Of their
will longer allow their manhood to be prostrated be-
meath the tyranny and corruption Of the caucus,
and that at the polls, they will be influenced
by principles, and not by promises of patron
age, or driven by official threats. Honest Re
tration of their own creation which, while it controls
all the Of the country and holds In
arcRy vet procaims Itself above aud exempt from all
homes criticism its vast army Of mercenaries
ton which enons upon all its adherents an obligation
10 keep tembke silence IN regard to us iauits ana to
insignificant aehieyementsi an admnlslration WHICH
misrepresents solely because they refrain from singing
haeujahs in praise of its sagacty and purity and per
secues them when they have the manhood TO protest
against its garing niquties.
HONEST DEMOCRATS AND HONEST REPUBLICANS SIDE
BY SIDE.
Honest Democrats are standing side by side with In
this revolt because the questions that heretofore sep
arated them from to-day historical and not living
issues The question Of Territorial Slavery OF Slavery
itself no longer agitates the mind universal suffrage
and the guarantees in amended Constitution are
everywhere acknowledged. Leaving the dead past
which true men OF all parties are not substantially at
one And the traditions OF the elder Democracy espe-
cialy renders them most hearty and efficient allies in
this era Of Executive usurpat0n-when the rights OF
States, for which they have ever steadily con-
Central Government. And, after all, what Is
there TO excite criticism even comment in tho fact
that who have heretofore opposed each other should
now unite against a common foe Is 1t new eXpe-
rence In the political history Of this country Is not
necessity that new combinations should be formed TO
meet each new emergencyi Was not the Republican
party itself-aganst which loudly accused OF
treachery-cOmpOsed OF elements the most discordant
And what, let Inc ask Is treason To party but
ugge OF words TO frighten tmid souls from their pro-
priety And when aud where reformation
consummated that this selfsame charge OF reachery
was not launched against the reformef Is there Demo
crat within the hearing of voice. or IN all this broad
land who would stand above the grave OF Douglas
Dickinson and say that they were traitors To
Democracy. And is there Republican who does not
honor the names OF Fessenden and Crimes who dared
walk In what they believed 10 be the path Of dutyf Gen
tlemen, the world has outgrown this nonsense 7; and
when Republican Convention at Cincinnati, and two
and tho other Reading, In Pennsy all put forth
the declaration OF principles the most cheer
lng omen that are living In the dawn of a new
and With rests TO hasten the time when the gates OF
the morning shall be flung wide open and the shadowy
speeters Of party discipline DO chased away forever
WHAT GRAND UNION OF PARTIES MEANS
Gentlemen. this union OF from all parties and all
sections is certainly not without significance people
arc not inGrm of purposethis Is not mero freak.