Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-29
Republican Rally Tues
day Night.
A MAGNIFICENT OVATION.
A Most Convincing and Eloquent
Address.
THE PEOPLE AROUSED.

The Town Hall was filed to its ut
most capacity literally packed-last
evening, to listen to the eloquent words
of Gen. Stewart [. Woodford, Of New
York. Long before the hour of eight
had arrived, every chair in the hall was
| occupied, the gallery and all of the
standing room was filed, many being
unable to even gain admittance. 1t was
a magnificent tribute and ovation to one
of the most polished, cultured, eloquent
and convincing speakers of the cam
paign. 1t was an outpouring of the
masses, and the address was worthy
| of it.
At twenty minutes past eight o'clock
Gen. Woodford appeared on the stage
and after the tumultuous applause, with
which he was greeted, had somewhat
subsidized, Col W. G. Veazey, president
of the Rutland Grant and Wilson Club,
presented him to the audience as one
whose ''reputation as an orator was too
well known to require more than the
mention of his name,
GEN. STEWART L. WOODFORD
then delivered an address of surprising
| eloquerce and convincing power, occu-
pying some hour and half in its deliv-
cry, of which we are able to present only
the following imperfect abstract:
The Republican party was organized,
in 1854, after the repeal Of the Missouri
| Compromise, to resist the encroach-
ments of slavery, They achieved their
! first victory in the election of a speaker
/ Of the National House of Representa-
tiyes, and their first national contest was
in 1856, when they supported Fremont
and Dayton. In 1860, you continued
the contest and was met by the threat,
/ that if YOU elect Lincoln, We, of the
! South. will seccde. Despite the threat,
you continued the contest and won the
victory. The South rebelled, and for
over four years you carried on the con-
/ test. Your cause was then the cause of
the country. and good men Of all parties
aided you. In 1864, you were still true
to the old flag, and, by the reelection Of
/ Lincoln broke the back bone of the re-
bellion, which finally yielded and gave
up the contest Of arms the next spring.
Then came reconstruction, our old en-
emits. the Democracy, still resisting and
fighting Us. In 1868, it was the same
thiUr over. and we elected Ulysses :.
. Grant Oh q platform Of equal rights;
protection 10 labor and laboriag men
all the country over economy in gov
ernmental affairs and financial stability,
We are met this year 10y not the same,
vet fear the same enemy, in 4 dccep-
tive guise. Some OF whom were former
Nv with and of us. [ much fear that
this Liberal ReDublicanism leads into
Ku KIux fields They tell us the Re
/ publican party has fulfilled its mission
that il has done its work l admit this in
part. Tho Republican party has sacred
. ly fulfilled It's every pledge. and relig-
iously kept its every promise. Il prom
Used, in 1856, to prevent the extension of
slavery. to build the Pacific railroad, to
/ preserve the public domain for the ac-
tual settler and to prohibit polygamy.
All this it has done, except the latter,
and before the close of the present al
ministration that too will have been ac-
complished. Is its work completed?
The Liberal Republicans say ii is. and
point to Baltimare's endorsement of Gin
cinnati and the nominations Of Greeley
and Brown, and say, these are the assur-
ances we give YOU. that YOU need not
fight it over. If YOU were going to hire
4 man to work on your farm, you would
ash, where he came from, his antcce-
dents, etc. So now. Behind the Re
publican platform stands the party that
has saved the nation, reduced the debt,
decreased taxation. preserved the nation
al honor; and there never was time
when labor was so well employed and
paid, and every interest OF labor pro-
tected as during the past thFee years
Now my Democratic TRENDS, lam not
going to taunt you ABOUT repentance.
My good Ola methodlSt mo'her taught
me to accept the hFSt signs OF repent
ance' put tnen On proOa'l"h Ior SIX
months aaInn th'In 70 tne cl"SS' out not
TO make class ieaoeTS OF tnein at once
mere mas never oeeH " parry 'Ila' mas
learned as h'uch "S you nave MS Is
not the hTs' Ciile you nave "uop'eo the
PrhcipieS o' int H}'"'i'',cn parry
Inc trouble is you are Always loar years
too late. you come 'n'o camp 70 heIp
TO guard IT, JUST Iour years a!'eF we get
out OF II. lie Illustrated thlS oy com
parlson OF the prlnclples aoFocaCeo ny
the different paFueS since l02o.) In
1872, you admit that everything we have
done IS all right on are almost ready
| 10 INTO the class. DIlt we Guess