Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01
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superior man Is the man who loves his fell
low-men. Let me say right here that the
good men. the superior men, the grand men,
are bro hers the world over. No matter
what their complexion may be-continents
may divide them-yet they embrace each
other Centuries may separate Them, and
yet they are hand in hand, and all the good,
and all the grand, and all the superior men,
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, are
fighting the great battle for the progress of
mankind. lCheers] l pity he man, exc
crate and hate the man, who has only to brag
that he is white. Whenever am reduced to
that necessity believe shame will make me
red instead Of white. l believe another
thing. If l Belong to the superior race l
will he so superior that can make my liv-
| ing without Sealing from the inferior. Ibe-
| lieve all the intellectual domain OF the flu.
| ture is open to every man. Every man who
finds a fact first, that is to be his fact. Every
man who thinks thought first, that is his
| thought / believe that every round in the
ladder Of fame, from the one that rests upon
| the ground to the last one that leans AGAINST
! the shining summit of human ambition, be-
longs to the foot that gets on it,.
| A Government founded upon anything ex-
| cept liberty and justice cannot and ought not
| to stand All the wrecks on either SIDE the
stream Of time all the wrecks Of the great
! cities and all the nations that have passed
J away-all are warning that no Nation
| founded upon injustice can stand. From
| sand enshrouded Egypt, from the marble
! wilderness of Athens, from every fallen
crumbling some of the once mighty r me,
| comes wall, as 1t were, the cry thai no Ma
| ton founded upon injustice can permanent
| " stand. TCheers | don't want any
man that ever fou ght for this country to vote
| the Democratic ticket You are swapping
off responsibility for disgrace. There are
thous nds Of you-great, splendid, grand
men--that fought as grandly for the Union
as anybody else, and now | beseech on, l
beg OF you, do not give your responsibility
to Iheenemies and haters of your country.
tApplause.l Don't do 1t. Don't vote with
the Democratic party of the North. Some
times | think hate he rebel sympathizer In
the North worse than the rebel and | will
tell you why. The rebel was carried into he
rebellion by political opinion at home. His
father, his mother, his sweetheart, his
b other everybody he knew-and there was
a kind of wind, kind of tornado, kind Of
whirlwind that took him into the rebel army.
He went into the rebel army along with his
State he Northern Democrat went against
his own State; went againt his own
opinion at home. The Northern
Democrat rowed up stream against
wind and tide. The Southern rebel
| went with the current; the Northern Demo-
| crat rowed against him from pure, simple
cussedness. Prolonged laughter And
beg every man that ever fought for this
| Union, that every man that ever barred his
| bosom to storm of shot and she'll beg
! him, impore lin, do not go with the Dem
! ocratic party. And every young man within
! the sound of my voice, do not tie your
| bright. and shining prospects to that old
| corpse Of Democracy. You will get tired of
| dragging it around, and YOU will get tired
| nf Ian
| Don't cast your first vote for the men that
were the enemies of your country. Recol-
| lect that this Democratic party was false to
| the Nation when your fathers, your broth
ers and your chvalric sons were lying in
| the hospitals of pain, dreaming broken
| dreams of home and seeing fever-pictures
of the ones they loved. Recollect that the
Democratic party was false to the Nation
when your fathers, your brothers and your
| chyalric sons were lying alone upon the
field Of battle at night, the life-blood slowly
| oozing from the mangled, pallid lips of
| death. Recollect that the Democratic party
was false TO this country when your hus-
| bands, your fathers, your brothers and your
| chiyalric sons were in the prison pens of the
South, with no covering but the clouds, with
no bed but the frozen earth, with no food
| except such as worms had refused, and wi h
no friends except insanity and death
| Rccollect it, and spurn that party forever.
Applause.
/ have sometimes wished that there were
words of pure hatred out of which | might
| construct sentences like snakes, out of
which might construct sentences that had
| mouths fanged, that had forked tongues,
| out Of which ! might construct sentences
that writhed and Kissed. then I could give
my opinion of the Northern allies of the
Southern rebels during the great struggle
| for the preservation of this Nation. fCheers.
Let me say one more word, and am done.
| tCries OF "Go on.nl The youngest man
here, the youngest child here, will never
live long enough to see a Democratic PreS-
| dent Of the United States. ECries OF Good"
and "Never," and applause No man can
carry that aggregation of rascality, that ag-
! gregation of reasonable practices, that ag-
| aggregation of Sou hern sympathiZcrs that
aggregation OF traitors, that aggregation of
men that endcavored to DESTROY this country
| no man can carry their reputation on his
| back and make a successful run for the
! Presidency OF the United States. Cries of
| Never" "Neyer"l No man can carry
secession upon his shoulders. No man
can carry Libby Prison, no man can carry
| Andersonyille, no m n can carry the history
of the Democratic party and get major ty
of votes in the United States Cries of
Never" and applause. For myself, | have
no fear; Hayes aud Wheeler win be the
next President and Vice. President Of the
| United States OF America. IChccrs.1 Let
me beg of you, let me implore you, let me
beseech on, every man, com" ont on cleo
ton day. Every man do your duty. Stand
by our ticket. Vote for every Republican
on the ticket, This year we need men who
vote with the party, and | tell YOU that Re.
publican this year, no matter what YOU have
got against him, no matter whether you like
him or do not Ike him, is better for the
Sountry--uo matter how much YOU hate
him, he i better for the couHtry--than anY
Democrat Nature can make, or ever has
made. We must in this supreme election,
we must at this supreme moment, tc only
for the men who are in favor of keeping this
Government in the power, in the custody, in
the control, of the great, sublime, Repub-
ICal party