The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-28

licans, starting from only a oozen
men and growing up to the three
and half millions who will vote
in November next-I say that there
has not been moment in all those
years when the champions of hu.
man rights have not occupied po-
sition that the Christian men and
women who belong to it or sympa-
thize with it could not take it into
their closets, and, on their bended
knees, invoke the blessing of God
upon it. l do not know that there
are not some men so forgetful of
the position of the Democratic party
that they might ask the blessing up
on it of that Being who bids us re-
member those in bonds. But can
not imagine how man who has
spoken for, apologized for, voted
for, or fou hit slavery, privilege and for
caste, the side the Democratic party
has taken-I do see how such
man would not dare ask the bless
ing of God upon the violation of the
doctrines of the New Testament,
that teach US to love our neighbor.
Ihave briefly referred to this his
tory to show where the Democratic
party has stood and now stands, and
where the Republican party has
stood and now stands. The Demo-
cratic party, unmindful of its record
of forty years, is asking the toiling
men of New Hampshire to give 1t
their confidence and their support.
I should quite as soon think that the
Democratic party would go to South
Carolina, and ask the men whom
we Republicans have made free
the men from whose limbs we have
smitten the fetters, the men into
whose souls we have breathed the
spirit of manhood, the men whom
we lifted up and put upon their feet,
made them citizens of the United
States, secured to them civil and po-
litical rights, and made them our
peers--I should quite as soon have
supposed the Democratic party
would go to South Carolina and ask
the votes of those men, whom we
converted from things into human
beings, with human rights, as that
it would ask the votes of the toiling
men who stand on the hills of New
Hampshire. They will tell US that
these men were black men. 1 have
only to say this, that the man who
would make a black man slave
would make white man a slave,
if he had the power to do it. M
I see before me men whom I rec
ognize as toiIing men; men who
have to support the wives of their
bosoms and the children of their
love by manual labor. I call the
earnest attention of these men to
this terrible struggle through which
we have passed, and to what has
been achieved for the poortoiling men
of this country during the last twelve
years. I feel that I have the right
to speak for toiling men and to toll
ing men. 1 was born here in your
county of Stafford. 1 was born in
poverty; want sat by my cradle. I
know what it is to ask a mother for
bread when she has none to give. 1
left my home at ten years of age and
served an apprenticeship of eleven
years, receiving a months schooling
each year, and at the end of eleven
years of hard work, a yoke of oxen
and six sheep, which brought me
eighty-four dollars. Eighty-four
dollars for eleven years of hard toll!
1 never spent the amount of one
dollar in money, counting every
penny, from the time I was born
until 1 was twenty.one years of age.
know what it is to travel weary
miles and ask my fellow-men to
give me leave to toll.
l remember that in October, 1888,
1 walked into your village from my
native town, went through your
mills, seeking employment. If
anybody had offered me nine dollars
month I should have accepted it
gladly. went to Salmon Falls,
went to Dover, 1 went to Newman
ket, and tried to get work, without
success, and l returned home foot
sore and weary, but not discouraged.
l put my pack on my back and
walked to where 1 now live, in
Massachusetts, and learned a me-
chanic's trade. know the hard LOT
that toiling men have to endure in
this world, and every pulsation Of
my heart, every conviction of my
Judgment, every aspiration of my
soul, puts me on the side of the toll.
ing men of my country-ay, of all
countries. became an anti-slavery
man thirty-six years ago, because
the poor bondman was the lowest
most degraded, and helpless type o.
manhood. An anti.slavery mar
from conviction is by logical 'necess
ity not only the infiexible foe of the
doctrine that capital should owr
labor, but the unyielding FRIEND
of the rights of the sons and daugh
ters of toll. ....
Let US see what the Republican
party has done for the laboring mer
of this country during the last twelv,
years. 1t struck the fetters from