Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-10

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eide wisely ! cannot doubt nor can any one
doubt who looks over this body OF men, repre-
Senting as they do thr millions of citlzcnsi
and who feels as every one here must feel, the
high and patriotic purpose which inspires YOU.
Gentlemen, what means this great and rsliiS
movement which YOU everywhere see2 What
means this prOpoS / union of three millions of
democratic republicans with million, it may
be, of republicans what means this union upon
common platform, and this prop oSed union
upon the same candidates? a union so sudden,
so compact, so earnest as to surprise It's trends
and to conlound its enemies, tappause) (which
comes as the winds come, which--to borrow
hgurc-overWhelms the ordinary currents OF
public opinion as the great storms always run
counter to tine surface currents. What means
all this! There are some things, gentlemen,
that it does no. mean, 1t means no abandon.
ment of what is true, of what is Just, of what is
good III human government (ApplauSe.l 1t
means no union OF dead upon dead issues, but
union OF the living upon the living issues Of the
present. (AppauSe) IL means no union with
the spoils of office. (Applausc.) But it means
union of men with the same faith upon the
great and paramOuntissues of the present hour;
frank, manly, honorable and equal union OF
men who have the sagacity TO see and the moral
courage to accept the situation. (Cries of good
good, and loud cheerng) lt means union OF
men who have the sagacity TO see what is past
and to deal with the issues Of the present, and
for the future to do their duty to their country,
their God and their fellow men. (Applausc.)
The issue of to-day is not the repeal of the Mis-
souri, compromise nor the question OF slavery in
| the territories, upon which alone the republic
can party was organized in 1886, Ii
| is not upon that which followed
when the LecomptOn constitution for Kansas
divided the democratic party in twain and elect
ed Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860.
II is not the question OF secession, nor of war
to put down rebellion, nor the abolition of
slavery in the states by military order, Or by
the constitutional amendment upon which Mr.
Lincoln was elected in 1864; nor yet is it the
question OF reconstruction, or of the fourteenth
or fifteenth amendment; nor the question Of ne
gro suffrage, nor Of the establishment by federal
power of universal suffrage as Il condition prcce-
dent to the states of the south having any rights
orr any existence even as states in the Union. lt
is none of these questions that is now in the
issue; ali these have been issues in the past
great isSucS-suficieut in themselves to create
and to dissolve political parties, because ideas
are stronger than men or parties; but they
are all past issues; they have been fought out,
and fought 10 the end-n the forum or on the
field, and they are no more in the issue to-day
than the Mexican war OF the war of the rebel
lion. (ApplauSe) We could not reopen them
if we would, and they falsely misrepreSent our
purposes who say that we would reopen them If
we could. Loud chceTing) This great Union,
| therefore, means no step backward. (CheersD
| Forward IS the word cloud cheering), and, first
Vi All, II lntduS lOidN Of All inc OlUcI SltilGS
of the south what it has already done in Mis-
souri,. (Cheers) Instead of proscriptye test
OathS suspension of the habeas corpus and mil
| itary dGspOtSm, it means personal freedom
for the individual, and republican govern
| ment for all. cloud applauSe) Instead OF
| negro supremacy upheld by prescription and the
| bayOnet, it means equal rights TO all men,
white as well as black cloud applause) In
stead of thieving governments organized to
| plumber Suhjugated states, it means the domina-
ton once more of intelligence and integrity III
| stead Of strilp hdtp and rObberv IL means
| Justice liberty, peace loyalty and good will ;
| and, gentlemen, for our whole country, east,
| west north and south, it means instead of Il
| war Observation-Disclosures only in a military school
| and whose whole character has been formed in
| the ideas arts, habits and deSpotism of mill
| tarv hfe-@jt means peace president (cheerS),
| trained in the ideas. acts, blessings and republic
| can SIMPLICITY of pcace and universal fIcedom
| (oud cheerinUl. of peace not enchaiu ed, Of
| liberty not under arrest awaiting trial, sentence
| and executiou Nv a drun1 head court-mGrtial,
| but that liberty and thar np,ife which the con.
stiution secures Inv nIaciutr the civil law aliOve
| the sword Cond anniansrl Inv nrrserviup in fulI
| vigor the sacred writ of L3beas corpus and the
| right of trial by iury. (AppIauscl II means
| another thinr-Zand nerbons fine most inportant
| of them nil ii means 10 arrest the ceritrnIza-
| ton of power in tbe federal government fond
| cheeringl. il means ~ assert the vital priuci.
pies of onr republican system in which # lives
| and moves and has it's very heinq" hat consti-
tutions are made by thc neonIe in their sover-
| eign capacity for the pxnress uurpose of defn-
| ing and limiting the MOWERS Of government
| fannlausel tho nowers or oil roverrntnnte crate
or nanonal II means tbat 7ye arc determincd
| that presidents and oovcrnors congress- and
state legislatures and evar,, joyortn,l3nt IF tho
| government Shall obey the copstitntinn inro-
/ 1onued annIansel il means also a ganrine
| civil service reform. beginning with The nresi-
| dential Office (onnIsuseI n means r. inf an
| end forever IN certain nracticcs Which have
| grown up with this administrator which have
| driven So many of the oblpSt repubIicans IN
| Join this liberal movement and which have
deeplv wounded the hearts of republicans rs well
as deInocrats i'm this coubtrv fannlausel nroctces
| which never existed undpr any otbor odministra
| ton. which are but foo we'll known IN alI the
world and which our nations GOOD reputation
| will he hest consulted Inv moi oven psmin@
| Cheers If means also 70 6iye strnngth ana
| et,LiIitr .. -. g, -, 81 , ~ = r. = - - -:
| - ~ " 81 t' "ii'tii9 "iu O"l H"'lVii
| al circuit, ny bringing honesty ana economy ana
m;ninsg ~ ICY p1T.iU StIfo an9 ,u
dih5I tGia ~ o,O nuu
novmnnt o al n,, obiratios ,iU 30
pJsrSo " ~, Uu' ~ ,is0iiomou "p
| greater yiror TO the administration of our for
eipn and domestic ofFairs 90 90 N commend tbo
resnect and tLc confionca Of nrr ,, oo,io
an ~ " ali nv o "a oui omn peGPlo
anu vi uil lne civilized world; IL means 10 place
| whom ali the world will say "they arc honest
| and they are capable" (Applause)
Gentlemen. | have thus briefly stated the situ-
tion the duties and tho nurnnss which brin,r nc
bora 80 .,,U +" I'M" ~ 20
~ S'09t i0'Ponoiplll'g ies'o uPoil tiiiS
SoHNeuuou. H. us aclloh shaii DC sucil Jana
| doubt not 1t VIII pei as TO put an end to the
miSrule which for the last few years has afllct-
| ed our beloved country, this generation and
generations to come after us will remember
| with nride and crratitnde tho conyontin, ~ nj
gu" az ti w 7S "' par
'''i,o ': Vii lno 'l'i Va ou'y, lot-'
Amliu louu ana long continued applause, MI
Doollttlc took his scat. The yicc-prcSidentS
then, upon invitation of the president, came for
warn ana TOOK seats upon the PLATFORM.
General MeClernand OF Illinois moved that
committee OF one from each state be named by
inc respective delegations and be appointed
cotniniltee on resolutions.
u u. PERKINS oil Kentucky offered the follow
my resolution;
hes5olEseu, thaI committee on resolutions, com
by the y, o t ec State' De
man of zach state deIapation Inon cali NV sfa1as
rbo roso,,,il,r a,1o,,,,i 49,, :.
+arnf ~, was aIu III purSuance
M ny ot"tIo WIZ o"Iio0 WIFI tle loiIoW-
t".io" se"'ieiheu WIZ "n"o"hccu do cou-
'N'"'i"s'
THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
Alabama, Cnas. L.. Scott Arkansas, Gen. James
n, b9en Ja,lii9rnla' william NJ Gwln; C0nnecti-
Fiorida GhanInr Sr;th inods bayar1
Avery; Illinois, Aaron shaw. Indiana. Henry "
Harrington; Iowa, Charles Mason; Kansas, John
Martin; Kentucky, Robert Mallory; Louisiana,