Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-26
The Vice President
SPEECH FROM WHEELER.

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storm prevented illnminations. VIM. !
a. Wheeler arrived this evening and
was greeted by salute, and in re-
sponse to a serenade spoke as follows;
REPUBLICANS OF ST. ALBASs:
You honor the cause Of whit.h am
just now prominent representative.
was placed in nomination as the re.
publican nominee for vice president in
the national convention by the action
OF the states Of Vermont and Massa
chdseets. 1t is the greatest honor of
my life that the republicans of these
states deem me sufficiently grounded
in the New England faith to he one
of the representatives, of their ideas III
the pending canvass
In the matter of my faith trust
they have made no mistake. AP-
plause. believe in New England;
| believe in Plymouth Rock, for they
are convertible terms. Oae Of the
most gifted Of New England women
has said that Plymouth Rock is no
quartz. II is a perfect cut Of the
mountain without hands, and hands
cannot prevent it from tbccptfsi iittsss-a &
great mountain, filing the whcie
earth Every church, every school
house, every town house, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, has Plymouth
Rock for lis foundation stone. Where
ever freedom aims musket or raises
standard, or sings a song or makes
protest there's Plymouth Rock free
dom.
The church, the school house, the
tow house, these, my friends, form
the very cardinal principles of the re-
publican party. | have often thought
and often said that the commonwealth
lof Vermont compasses and illustrates
the complete realization of the high
est ideal Of republican form OF gov
ernmeut. Where else can you find
such general intelligence, the result
of your free popular system Of educa-
tion; where SO much Of fidelity and
economy in the administration OF state
affairs; where soMuch respect FOR the
civil rights OF each and all people as
in the state of Vermont.
| II is the mission Of the republican
party to confer upon all the people OF
this country in all the states and in
all the territories, the inestimable
/ privileges which you in Vermont
enjoy. II is duty to which, in this
centennial year of our nation, we
ought TO address ourselves with re.
newed attention and fidelity. have
no purpose here tonight my friends
to recall the memorable contlici
through which this nation has passed
and which made the AmerIctn Hrms
forever iilustrious but let us never
forget the obligations resting upon VI
:. to secure the result Of that great con
fiict for ourselves and those who fol
low after US, and never my friends
were these obligations more apPar
ent aud imperative than now. w,
are already engaged in another con
flict with the opponents of the part
which saved the nation, aud whicl
to-day projects its integrity an,
guards it's honors, as in 1850. w
are once more my friends face 20 fac
with AN united south, with the de
e mocratic party OF the south ac il
sabseryient and plant alley. |
!, every late slave state ini the unior
+ where the confederate party is don
inant, it claims and may receive on
hundred and thirty votes in the eiet
. toral college.
: 1t has complete control Of ,h
J. lower house and the balance of powe
in the senate. There is not to-day,
those late slave states, any man hole
, ing prominent position, who WI
:, not identified in the great strugg
y against the government. Not in II
state of Kentucky can you find in an
g position whatever = man who W,
!. not engaged on the rebel side. Th
is the condition OF the south toda
have sat for months during the la
mi winter, in congress, by the side
d six,y-one men who few years sine
n with arms in their hands, were e
Or gagged in an attempt TO break up q
+ government. | have heard tho
8, men defend the hellish atrocities
II Libby, and Andersonville and Sail
a. bury. / have heard Lincoln mali
IS. ned. j have heard defended the rig
n Of Virginia Justice Of the peace
. detain aud open the mails Of !
United States. Can you tell I
=, whcre,s the difference in spirit xhi
~ twenty yesrs ago led the Nilsson
!, ~ border fuffians inlo Kansas, and I,
=. massacre Mt Hamburg. ,wbs
u 4 regularly organized .imitii
company we're 6sst disarm
re- and then murdered in cold blot
da While race might assert their 8.
nd eriority. NV official relations hs
RS, called me, during the past two
~. three years, into The southern sta
and tell YOU what know my friet