Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-07-18
THE EVENING SESSION.


cess was then taken to three o clock
THE, EVENING SESSION.
u Whe6ethe CONVENTION reassembled
the committee on permanent orgaDl-
cation reported the name of ex-Sena.
tor J.:R. Doolittle, rsf Wisconsin, fot
chairman: Senator Bayard and Gov
ernor Hoffman conducted him to the
chair. He was received with great
applause, and said:
80 Gentzwsea gsstae Comuemtio's-I
thank youfor this great honor. Words
can hsrdly tell how much; but you
will allow. me to pass at once from
what is personal to speak of the great
occasion, the duty ard the purpose
which brings us here together. Near
.lv five years after the bloody period
of the civil war had closed, the Lib
eral Republicans Of Missouri, ap-
plause, feeling lzeenly all the evils
of the proscriptive test oath, the hates
and the strifes and the passions Of the
war had left upon them long after the
war itself, had ,eeased, and feeling
keefily Tie Executive Federal power
in their local elections, determined to
organize a movement to restore Equal
Rights to all our citizens, applause, ]
white as we'll as black, applause; to
restore local self-government, and to
arrest the further GENERALIZATION of
federal power, applause, Theythen
said this thing has gone far enough,
if not already too far; the. time has
come when all honest and patriotic
Republicans must say Halt, and re-
assert theHital doctrine Of Republi-
can goyernment-that under the con-
stitution the powers of, the federal
government are defined and limited,
fapplause and cries of good good
the people Of the States have
iEu6 s35ofStil ilsluSAuSSt,s 90 - IL
i eiiffo@Tr @ domestic affairs npon the
basis Of the equality of all the States,
before the higher law, before the con-
stitutiou ,yand tue equality Of all men
before the law. (Applanse.) Of uni
versal loyalty, amnesty, suffrage and
peace; taking no steps backward; ta-
king no right and franchise which
had been secured the blacks, pledg-
ing themselves to support them an in
their full vigor. They at the same
time demanded in the name Of peace
in the,4ame of liberty, in,the name
of repu5llsah govvernment itself, thai
freedom and equal rights should be
restored to the white people. (Great
applause.) They organized nearly
forty thousand strong, and called up
on B. Gratz Brown {applause) to lead
the movement. They r}plaeed him in
nomination FOR Governor. Then what
followed? Eighty thousand Demo
cratic Republicans, (cheerg,) looking
upon the success of that movement
as above any party triumph, Cheers
resolved to sustain it with their whole
strength. Love of country, love Of
republican liberty, love Of the equal
rights of ali men, inspired that union,
and taught men to act together who
hal been politically opposed to each
other all their lives upon other ques-
tions and in other times, and without
violating honor, logic, conscience or
consistency on either side. This pa
triotic union was based upon hig her
grounds than ordinarily control po-
htical action. (Great applause.) Even
those who had fought against each
other in battle clasped hands over
the bloody chasm,' y (renewed applause
and, side by side like brothers, with
hearts beating Unison, beating strong
with the same high purpos,, they
helped to bear its flag to glorious:
victory. That, gentlemen, is Liberal
Republicanism, enthusiastic applause
and that is Democratic Republican
ism. (Great enthusiasm.) The victory
which came from that union was the
endof prescription, test oaths, of pain
and strife, and of all di>loyalty; in a
word, the real end of the civil war
came with that victory, and did not
come until then in Missouri. In
tense applause.) 1t redeemed that
State; it gave the right Of treemen
to seventy thousand men who had
been bound and fettered. Missouri
is now a free State in this Union
with all her rights. dignity and equal.
ity under the constitution, and not
enc murmur of dialoyalty is any.
where heard. By that union Federal
dictation in Missouri. in their loca
elections, was overthrowS; ard by
that union strife and hate have giver
place to peace and to good will. By
that union liberty, with equal rights
for all, have given to the State un'
bounded prosperity, and to her peO
pie a. joy almost unspeakable. s. s.
their success, that the Liberal Re
publicans of that State were not con
tent without making an effort to ex
tead the same union Of Liberal ane
Democratic Republicans, and with i
the same blessing of liberty, peac'
and fraternity, to all the other States
rounds of applause.) Accordingl!
in State convention, on the'24th q o
March last, ttey resolved to lnvlt'
the Liberal Republicans in all tn
States tomeet them in national con
vention in Cincinnati, on the first da.
Of May. The invitation was accept
ed; there was indeed a great response,
They came by thousands; in sucl
vast numbers that a delegate conven
ton of representatives of all tn
States was formed, both from princi
Jle and from necessity, 10 give form
to ;ts.nroceedinps. MANY of the ables