Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
NORTH CAROLINA.
SENATOR WILSON IN WILMINGTON.

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Senator Wilson addressed large au-
dience at Wilmington, n c., on Thurs
day, making his first speech of the cam
paign, He said: Five years ago last
May, just after the reconstruction meas
ure had passed visited your city and adj
dressed several thousand of your fellow
citizens. return here after five years
of listening to the stories of the ruin of
North Carolina and the despotism of
federal government but | find that your
city has increased in prosperity and
your condition improved. cannot see
nor do you feel this despotism of the
United States government. came here
to utter to you the sincere convictions
of my heart. | do not come to tell you
that every republican is good man and
every democrat bad man. There are
good and pure men in each party, and
there are also bad and ignoble men in
both parties. But the country is array
ed to-day in two grand organizations
each have their policies and their prin-
ciples; they are arrayed against each
other. [ do not propose to say any,
thing against Mr.. Greeley or Mr.. Brown,
they are both old political and personal
friends. come here not to speak of
men. Grant and Greeley are before
you but the contest is not between men
but between the ideas and principles of
these two grand organizations. Some
men will tell you, "You can vote the
Baltimore and Cincinnati ticket and
claim to be republicans, but you could
as we'll have been in Lees army and
say that you had fought for the banner
of the Union. A vote for Greeley is a
vote.to defeat the republican party, and
it means not only the defeat of that par
ty but its determination. They say
that it is time for this great party to die.
Why, we have just begun to live, and We
will live thousand years. We have
three and half million votes, and these
three and half millions we intend to
give for Grant. But what has this or
ganization done that it should die p
Has it committed crime against God OF
humanity? 1t has done more for the
country, for liberty, to lift up down
trodden humanity. and to make the
United States government grand and
glorious, than any organization that ev.
er existed on Gods green earth. Go te
England, and you will find no champion
, of popular rights there but admires the
! republican party of this country. &c
, to Germany, France, and every Europe
an state. and you will find that the mer
of progressive ideas there are in sympa
thy with the republican party of thu
7 western world. 1t appeals to the higher
and nobler sentiments of man. The re
| publican party fought through foul
/ years to strike the letters from every
t man in the country. With this specta
Gle before US, there are men in the coun
; try who come In and say that that part,
| has done its work, and must give wa,
/; to those who have opposed every meas
0 ure that it has accomplished but W
t have greater work before us than eve
e emancipation was. to change the heart
e of three million American democrats
y The republican party has been in tn
e right in every issue it has maintaine,
n since its existence: but if We are to die
e let us before we perish do somethin
e toward converting these democrats
n Something has been done toward tina
9 already, for just the other day they wen
t into convention at Baltimore and non
# mated two republicans. In the cours
;. of my political career l have visite
is twenty-seven states and addressed $50
|, assemblages, and never, in my life, hay
J. | written line or uttered sentenc
e tending to degrade any man, black {
IS white. God made us all, and | cal
o not whether man be black or white,
% recognize in him brother have &C
is ed with the republican party because
le advocates this idea. was born den
lie ocratic boy my father was democrat
l. but when l came of age | went hea
N and soul with the mob, the denounce
II anti-slavery men. l have acted wit
| the democratic party and against ii
re with the whig party and against it: b.
$, | have made the cause of liberty the S,
" preme doctrine of my life. After man
st years of struggling, the great republ
l. can party was brought into existence
q. uphold this great principle, and h;
ne pursued its work steadily We ha,
Is now arrived at the summit, but ha,
so yet to put the browning work upon
a | wish democrats would come out al
he say "You have been right-we wron
of We confess our errors, and hope "
at will accept our faith" but they mu
a prove this by the campaign. They a
3 preparing for it, and in the next fo
en- years may have shown themselves VIC
as thy to be with us. Holy Writ says, !.
er tree shall be known by its fruits, y b
H. they have got no fruits that we c,
OK touch yet they have, it is true, Civ
i'll us words in the past few days;