The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-16
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Stand By The Republican COI0rsl
of Hon. Henry Wilson, OIL
Speech a..ac III at Great Falls, !. New
yISmpshlre, February "a 700"

RpuG Gor ibc spots on the sun that has
E Sl,,bcd the world today IN light - anu ~
S UaSntS The Republican party needs ~ ~
y %nIy, and no defense. There Is no
,l,Ss y men in America to-day who from
, % past history or present position hS wv.
wiz ,irbt to arraign it before the nalI0h' W.
e,5 the nations, or before God, +,
W, There was q struggle, beginning IN n
I.i9 and continuing until the sptIns h VI
lsCl-thc period Of one geherSH' wv, !, NO
, tay these antsgonistc forces but II was \,
s" struggle Of thought, oil voice, oil INC
smu y gs,rr ~ If Votes. Liberty at last
iri I"p' fhen the save,masters [ai ,
Si Ihe banners Of rebellion, hurried lnelt
GU Soc, tiIU into a wicked and brutal, bar
s ievs,U" and bloody civil war. These are
TS,I facts. They will go into the his,
,"py nj our country; and when we who
S are here 10 night, when the men oil THIS
Generation shall have passed away, IN
S1i6er days, with. clearer lights than those S,;
If the present, the human family Will
W yccognlze these facts, and historians will
,ccoTd them Tor the study and admiration
or condemnation oil after generations.
We have had a serious contest, q
b,gody struggle, in which some OF the
Gr,yest and noblest have gone down and
deep in soldiers graves. In this struggle,
where stood these two great parties that
Iyide the nation today Where stood
The Democratic party? Where stood the
Republican party? Here tonight ! u.s.
qt It, and there is not man ON Gods
r,r,h can contradict il, Tor the record is
,,,ps, him, that from the year 1882,
When William Lloyd Garrison and eleven
6Ocr faithful and fearless men that signed
beir names to the declaration that black
men had right to liberty, and that they
would do what they could, sanctioned by
law, humanity and religion, to emanCipate
lle bOndman and to hit up the poor and
bEly in the land, from that day to this
Lolr, every moment Of the time, and on
ryery distinct issue, the Democratic party
his been on the side Of privilege, the side
n caste the side Of brutal, ignorant, de.
snled barbarism. Measured by the
Standards Of the philosophers and states.
men of the ages, measured by the law of
The living God, there has not been mo.
ncnt when it was not clearly, plainly,
distinctly, unQualiiedly wrong. 1t has
bceu wrong, and it is wrong now, and II
lear il will continue to be wrong.
The Republican party, made up asst
h4s been of men who came out OF other
organizations because they were conVinc.
cd that the party OF freedom and human.
iry was the party Of the country, has at
a times, in every struggle, in peace and
in war, been on the side OF the country,
the side Of liberty, the side of justice, the
side Of humanity, the side ola progressive
Christian civilization. There has not
been moment during these forty years,
whether Garrison Anti.Slayery men,
LDerty.PNrty men, Free-Soilers, or Re-
plblcans, starting from only a dozen
men and growing up to the three and a
Aif millions who will vote in November
aeSt-l say that there has not been mo.
nent in all those years when the champ.
ions Of human rights have not occupied
ipsltion that the Christian men and wo.
men who belong to 1t or sympathize with
tCould not take II into their closets, and
VI their bended knees, invoke the blessing
Of God upon it. Edo not know that there
lrc not some men so fOrgetIul OF the posi-.
ton Of the Democratic mELy that they
might ask the blessing upon it of that
Being who bids us remember those in
binds But | cannot imagine how a
nIn who has spoken Tor, apOlOgized for,
"ied Tor, or fought Tor slavery, privilege,
Hl caste, the side the Democratic party
ss laken-l do not see how such a man
EolId dare ask the blessing of God upon
ils violation oil the doctrines of the New
testament, TINT teach lis to love our
NighbOrs.
have briefly referred to this history to
show where tie Democratic party has
Sood andnOw stands, and where the Re.
EOIlcan party has stood and now stands.
Ile Democratic party, unmindlul OF its
aCord OF forty years, is asking. the ,toiling
aelO New Hampshire 10 give I their
@nlldencc and their support. l should
quite as soon think that the
Democratic Tarty would go to South
VI0Ilna, aud ask the men whom we Re-
paOIICans have made free-the men from
whose limbs We have smitten the letters,
tle men into whose souls we have breath!
81 The spirit Of manhood, the men whom
We lifted up and put upon their feet, made
IAem citizens Of the United States, Sc
cured to them civil and political rights,
anI made them, our equals and our peers
- should quite rs soon have supposed
Tue Democratic party would 20 to South
carolina and ask the votes oil those men
whom We converted from things into hu.
man beings, with human rights, as that il
would ask the votes Of the toiling men
VINO stand on the hills Of New Iiamp.
SHIRE They will tell us that these men
were black men. ! have only to saw this
lha' the man who would make a black
9an slave would make white man A
save ii he had the power 10 do il,
LGl lis see what the Republican party
as done for the laboring men OF his
"lllIFy during the last twelve years. Il
MUCK !,H The letters from four and half
a'IIDa laboring men and women: cor.
,aled them from things into men and
tUulen In making them free, it struck
s .. That proud, naughty, aud (omi.
1SS''3S arlStocraCy Of the South that held
Is aOcIrlne-and proclaimed it, too
~ @'S capital ,,.s should own labor" that the
Ny VINO toiled for wages were "the mud
aus Of society,"" that the slavery Of
, SIUAlngmen produced "a class OF gen.
rs;uen' who were the substitutes for m
,,is Of nobility" Those were the doc.
rasS proclaimed in our ears Tor forty
"; ;Sa's BY the Calhouns, the McDuffles.
S -e uAnmondS, the Rhetts, the FIT.
r s.Sas : The HersChell V. Johnsons, and
Ivy Ivs u mat class, who laid down the
r, U", ~ boldly everywhere that slavery
n May iGe normal condition of laborinr
, Gsu, black aud white" In emancipatinS
w lour and a half million black men
'S1 women We struck down the power Of
wv owncH Of workingmen and working.
D D'Iien in this country forever. They
i,.InaOo labor dishonOra6le in eight hun.
S Ss. thousand square miles OF the United
N'AItSt u The sunny South na ihnu u,nrn