The Portland daily press., 1872-10-04
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a. permanence that the equal rights of eve
~ citizen are the sacred guard cf the whole
Seoplei that unity does not depend upon any
o.ate OF any section of the country nor any
niJorlty IN that section; that the Union Is
not adepartment of foreign affairs but tbe ma
tlonal authority of the sovereign people of
theUnited States. ''From nv birtb j says
the nation, "a cloud has rested upon NV con-
stitution, and the Virginia and Kentucky re-
solutions have threatened me every moment
| in the hands of the Democratic marty
Thank God, am released. / am no more a
child, but man; no longer a eonfederacy. but
q nation no more separated States but am
| the United States of America, one and indi-
visible. If a man has received injustice or
injury, and his neighbors will not protect him
| in the local courts under the local law. and
refuse to aid him, j will defend him." says
| the new born nation of the war. Amen"
echo Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Port Royal
''Amen," says the Kearsarge, as she sinks
the Alabama. 'Amen," shouts Sherman, as
he marches to the sea. ''Amen," saws Gen
eral Grant, as mid the heavenly music of four
millions of breaking chains General Lee sur
renders to him the broken sword of slavery.
Loud applause. This is the new Union;
the war was not fought for nothing. Its Cos
pei is yet unseen, undeveloped To which
party will you trust it? / do not, of course,
repeat the story of the Democratic party.
You know that its strength and its mastery
were in the principles and the spirit known
as the South, which in our politics is not and
| never was so much place as an idea The
| South was not New York; it was not Boston.
When Mr.. Toombs said he would call the roll
OF his slaves on Bunker Hill he said so be-
cause he knew he had slaves in Boston. The
most cherished Democratic tradition is State
authority, which is as different from local self
| government as despotism is from freedom.
| This is the party of which Mr.. Greeley truly
| W. NJ r,otp Z
in the country the Democratic party would
be far stronger than it is. No wonder that
| he and the party around him now shout in
| vociferous cries, "Forget, forgetr' Fellow
| citizens, it is the only political wis
dom, Remember" cries the slave of
Yesterday from his new found freedom;
Remember" murmurs the soldier who
/ sleeps with folded hands in his grave Take
the rosiest view possible, then answer me:
| Are the traditions. .dogmas,p policy OF the Demo-
cratic party the sign of that craftsmanship,
Of that justice and genuine respect for equaii-
| ty which the country demands? Here is a
new union, here is union of liberty, not slav-
| cry, in which there is to be progress and re-
| form, all dependent upon intelligence and
morality. Ifthe issue of the hour should be
that OF administration merely, they are, new
| ertheless, issues to be met in a. certain spirit
and with certain affections. Nothing is more
untrue, nothing is more perlous than to sup
pose that the old issues are settled in such a
final manner as is often asserted We hear
of wars being settled, as if they were books
that had been read and then laid on the self.
30 the snake in the fable was a dead issue be-
fore it was reviviied by the fife; so the Demo-
cratic issue, slavery, is dead until it shall he
| revived by success. After an allusion to the
pledges Of the Republican party, and to the
old wing party, Mr.. Curtis continued-The
Democratic party has now done precisely
what the ruling party did twenty years ago,
save it has taken its candidate from the other
party, and it can no more be trusted than
could the party of 1852 But saws Mr.. Sum-
ner. II hold the Democrats to their cove
nant." shall never mention Mr. Summers
name, said Mr.. Curtis, without the utmost
| affection, respect and gratitude. IApplausel
His services to us all in this country have been
immense and his fame is secure. 1t is his
glory to have identified himself at an early
| period with the oppressed race in this country
and in senate ruled by slavery and the dark
ages to have stood fast at the peril of his life
for you and for liberty in America. The
wrath drove against him like surging sea
against a sky-kissing bluff, and recoiled, whip
ped, into the Kissing spray of an impotent
malice. The vast majority of those who
praise him to-day cursed him during the tre-
mendous battle of his life. Could they have
had their Way, Brooks would have silenced
him, and they would have said in your own
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martyr, 'sCharles Sumner dies as the fool
dieth." Now, those who praise him do 30 be-
cause they think they can use him, but they
do not and can not comprehend the true glo-
ry of his life. Those who know him best and
sympathize with him most truly feel that he
is at this moment most strangely and cruelty
unjust to himself and to the whole cause of
his life. Yet, though Belisarius be for mo-
ment blind, yet will at Least for a moment
remember that there was a time when his
eyes were open. May the soft air of the Medi-
terranean renew that strength spent in our
service! My he return, the election over, to
find that we have all been true to Charles
Sumner to follow the counsels he has given.
lAppiause. He knows, as We all know, that
the character OF the administration is deter
mined by that of the party WEIGH brings it in
to power, he knows it is not Mr.. Greeley. but
the party that votes for him, which is the i'm
portant point, and therefore he saws.
''They may continue Democrats in
name, but they are in reality Re-
publicans, by the same title that those who
sustain republican principles are republicans"
The very dead soldiers protest against the
assertion, and we refuse it in the name of
common sense Is Fernando Wood a rcpub-
can by the same tenure with Frederick
Douglass, or Raphael Semmes by the same
tenure that John Albion Andrew was? II
q man would know what his vote for Greeley
means, let him see the men, the traditions,
for which he votes. He may declare that his
party aseans reform, Feconeiliation-is that
what the vote of Talnmany or Ku-Klux
means, who viii vote for Greeley, not because
they are republicans, but because they hope
to ride into power in his name. As regarding
was the tbeealllsd Ned coalition, Mr. Curtis thought IL
of the fly, and that " Katked Tie into the Paror OF
slightest mention of his needs rsIe e'ikT skitaaee ktae
would reply, 'Shoo-fy, don't bodder me -
10 Il hat
. ton to power woldd result in an effort to re-
store slavery or to reneH the rebellion; il
, | would, however, destroy all sense of conf
, | dence in the country. In reference to the
: | charges made against General Grant. only
: one was adyerted to at any length, and that
: was the negro supremacy, upheld by pro-
E scription and the ballot" The standing
: army, the speaker said, consisted of only
{ $4,000 men, and less than oneseventh of these
9 are distributed among the States lately in re-
: bellion, but chiefly in Texas. The only sign
: of the bayonet in Virginia is the ordinary
{ garrison in Fortress Monroe, which IS about
: the same as that in Boston harbor. In Ala
: bama there are 286 soldiers, the 'Legions OF
o Cesar in Arkansas number 63 men, and
e there are $40 soldiers in Tennessee, and that
a is the bayonet and the military rule that Mr.
e Greeley hourishes in the eyes of the country
n The force of the attack is not now on the
o republican party, but on the President, who
is not regimental color, but the national hal
e at the White House, the symbol of the new
n union of liberty. peace and justice,-and by
c that sign he will conquer, Applausel i
o is said that General Grant has not done mucl
: for the country; he did not conquer the re
r bellion, but by giving the army confidence il
IS himself he had already won the victory befor
II the sword was given up. So 1t is to-day. /
e is the country that has paid the debt, tina
n has reduced taxation, that has kept the peac,
# and protected the citizens, under Genera
= Grant, who has given it confidence in his ad
d ministration. Do you think the sense of Sc
o irity that now pervades the country will b.
Is increased by the election of Nj. Greeley
IS Why has President Grant gwen it that conf
, dence? Because he is the symbol, becaus,
!. he is the representative of the principles tina
!, triumphed in the war, as Washington was o
Re- the Revolution and the principles of 'S7
70 Here, like the Swiss magistrate in the gree
70 meadow of Uri, he descends from his ehai
II and profers to us the trust we gave him
Il Shall we say to him, go up, take that chai
% again? The voice of this country expresse
" itself in the cry that ruag through Europ
!, | and sent the cf11Sadars -, III. Il