The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-10-05
WAYNE COUNTY. IND, OCT.

What did those who assembled
in this convention do ? They pre-
pared an address, in which the
President is arraigned as a tyrant
and his administration denounced
as corrupt. They preferred gen
eral and sweeping charges which in
every instance have been proven
false. They adopted a platform OF
resolutions, IN which they admit as
correct, all that. the Republican
party has done and advocated and
pledge themselves to do in the fu.
tore what the Republican party
has done in the past. This is what
Mr.. Julian calls coming out of the
grave yard of dead issues" but
as he and his Democratic friends
come out Of this grave yard they
bring their collins with them, and
there is withan, such a smen Of
dead mems bones about them, that
the people will think, that the grave
yard is their proper abiding place
and will send them back, where
they may gnash their teeth in soli-
tude and exclaim in the bitterness
Of their anguish, @Oh grave where
is thy victory
When the Liberal Republican
party attained its growth at Gin
cinnati, it began courting the De-
mocratic party, and this courtship
ended in most shameful fornica-
tion in which child was begotten,
which at Baltimore, like Richard
the Third, "was sent into the world
before its time scarce half made
up" 1t proved to be political
hunchback and the fond parents
were not altogether pleased with
their offspring. 1t needed pro-
lection and they we're not ''pro-
tectionists," they however conclud-
ed to support IT, SO they named
it Horace Greeley and consoled
themselves with the thought, that
it would do for the "anythingn
with which to beat Grant.
This cry of 'sanything to beat
Grant" is the shrek of dispair and
strikes no terror into the Republi-
can ranks; for the Democratic can
didate hims elf has assured us, that
Gen. Grant never was defa ated
and never will be-" Victory has
always been on his side, and to-day
he has marshalled around him the
great Republican Army, thirty
five hundred thousand strong, and
is marching on to the grand est
victory Of his life. This army
saved the nation and will preserve
it. 1t is steady tramp. tramp,
tramp, the soul of John Brown is
marching on. 1t is the great army
of liberty and reform. All its vic
tories have Eeen in behalf Os the
right. 1t has forged no fetters but
has broken many
The Republican patty has moth
ing to forget, it may forgive. Il
cannot forget the past, for to this
party the past is crown OF glory
while to its adyersaries it is q
crown of thorns. We cannot for
get those who died that the coun
try might live. Tie blood they
shed was the purchase price OF .
measureless benediction to the peo
pie. If we forget them God may
forget US and compel US 10 drink q
the bitter waters Of adversity
They will, not be forgotten, bu'
around loyal hearts, memories o
them will ever cling and cluster
They will live in history, story and
song, for all time to ccme. Tht
stars are shining on their graves
tonight as dreamless they "sleeE
the sleep that knows no waking
On many battle field,t these heroes
went -"down into the valley ant
shadow of death this the woIll
may know. but it can never know
the tears that fell and the hearts
that bled at their ''taking off.
"Green be the turf that wraps thei
clay" and green be their memo
ries in the hearts Of their country
men. The same old flag undel
which thev died is again unfurlet
at the head of the column, and i
will suffer no dishonor at oui
hands, for the Stars and Stripes
are the crown jewels Of the Repub
iican party.
A school boy having been re
quired to write composition on