The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-30
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campaign. Soon after & o'clock, DIR.
King called tho meeting TO order and
proposed DIR. III. II. OoiIey for President,
whose name was received with cheers.
llo also read the list of vico.presldonts,
including some of our most prominent
citizens.
DIR. CofIey introduced Hon. Thomas
M. Marshall, who said: "Moro than
thirty years ago, when boy, ard
standing within stones throw Of this
corner, / was called upon to address my
fellow citizens on the same principles
as those advocate to-day. A voice,
"You were for Henry Clay" No, sir,
| was not for Henry Clay; 1 was for j..
G. Birnoy, and l was among tho first
abolitionists of this county. was taught
tho principles of human liberty ut my
mothers knee. Applause. L have
always believed in that, and maintained
1t. Now / am told that because L am in
favor of Horace Greeley for president
that / have loft the republican party. If
l have left the republican party / have
many companions. l shall not feel lone
ly. But what is the republican party
composed Of? Is it composed of custom
house and income tax and revenue col
lectors? Are these officers the republi-
can party? Ifthey arc 1t is because you,
the people, have permitted them to be
so. You, the people, fought the battle,
and preserved the country, and gave
lican party? They nrt in Philadelphia
in 1855 and virtually adopted the
Declaration OF Independence as their
platform. Every article, every lire,
every letter OF that PLATFORM can be de-
fined to mean just these three plain
propositions: First, free men second,
free labor third, free lands. The plat
form doesn't say word about the tariff.
To-day we stan hero eye to eye and
look at each nlher fr,n TO face, and
where Ia the man ira' iiiDt free except
tho southern white man. Applause.
Show me man with a black skin and
| will show you u free man. But his
former master in the south il not free.
Applause. And labor is free to every
man save some of the late southern mas.
ters. Haven't we free lands2 Every
acre from north to south, from east to
west oft this broad domain is free to every
man save some of the southern masters.
We are told we mustn't leave the repub-
lican party that mado slaves and labor
and land free! But was it the republican
party that made the slaves free? 1t was
the republican party with the heart of
the American people that made them
free. 1t was the Irish and Germans
with the American people that made
the slaves free. Who were those, 1 ask,
that came home from the war shattered
and crippled? Don't the Irish Catholic
who sacrificed his sons demand the
right to say: 81 gave my jewels to free
the slaye?" Applause
Tho Garypov, nu ~, n n barn Iyit a I,l
lar, but he had a brave and honest heart.
He was content to 60 out and get pos
session of little piece of rock that the
Irish and Americans would laugh at.
But with true German courage he would
plant a tree and dig up the stone, and
in a few years with industry and per-
severance the "Wilderness was made to
blossom as the rOse." The next genera
tiOn saw the Germans power in the
land, and then the Germans went out
to the war and gave up their lives to set
the slaves free. Do not tell me nobody
struck blow for human liberty but
Grant? Icheers. Who are the true
heroes? Their names are numerous, but
they never wore shoulder straps nor
stars. l honor Grant and voted for him,
and you Democrats know 1 hit you
many a hard lick for him. Laughter. |
know Horace Greeley. He is pure
minded man. He is the only man in pub.
lie life in the United States that l may
say my feelings are for. He is pure and
innocent. Partisan papers here describe
him as harlequin, a fool and clown,
as man who goes about shabbily and
oddly dressed with old cowhide boots,
and one leg. of his pants rolled up for
the mere love of eccentric notoriety.
He is also guilty of every crime in the
calendar. He is the author of the Asiat-
cago fire. He sold cow that had calf
to a calf of Mrs. O'Leary's cow that
kicked over the lamp that set fire to the
barn that burned Chicago. Roars OF
laughter. He had read Mr.. Greeley's
book "Recollections of Busy Life"
and he thought it one of the finest proofs
of the worth of Mr.. Greeley's real char
acter. He said in the book he had no
higher ambition than that it might be
written on his tombstone that he was
the founder of the New York Tribune.
But he, the speaker, thought the proper
epitaph Of Horace Greeley ought to be
that he was the founder of the. republi-
can party. prolonged cheering. He
was an instructor of the nation in ma
tional and political honesty and virtue.
1t had been said of him that when that
old white hat was on his head it covered
the largest brain in the United States,
and that old white coat covered the
warmest heart in America. Applause
Look at his history. His fame is not
built on the sighs woes of humanity.
His fame was made in free land and
in the interests of humanity; and now
let US make him president of free peo.
pie. Partisans say that Greeley is a
tickle man, full of vagaries. A man who
has fought for one idea for over thirty
years, and thus succeeded in making
the greatest mind H. the nation,
Is no, iickl- mao. Dies IN" >nr of
poor farmer, VII" succeed Il his way,
appear tickle?
Take up the republicar iIcI,"t in Alle-
gheny county and look over it.. You
would not supposefro it there are 5000
or 5000 Germans in this county. There
Is not one German name on the list.
They are sorry for that now, and are
anxious to have some of the smallest
officers off, 80 as to put Germans on, to
buy the German vote.
All the great points of my political
have been fulfilled. In the
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the states should be respected and each
one left to regulate its own domestic af.
fairs according to its own laws, and the
rights Of states should be protected.
That was good republican doctrine In
1868, and 1t ought to be in 1872. But at
the last congress they brought up bill
to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, to
enable Grant to suspend the laws In fif-
teen states
But they say you can't vote for Buck
alew. Yes, I'm going to vote for an hon.
est man, and every honest state senator
will endorse Charles II. Buckalew as an
and upright gentleman. am
opposed to Hartranft; / know him.
Laughter. l don't think he is very
bad; there is not enough of him for that.
The speaker related the Evans affair,
for the repetition of which we lack
space.
They say Buckalew did not vote in
with republicans. am sorry
for that. wish he had. Bat he is hon.
est, and / will vote for him. But they
say, "You 60 over to the democrats. - /
went over to them once before in 1856.
We went TO bed American citizens one
night. as Dutch and Irish and the next