The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-08
ANOTHER ROUSING RALLY
WHAT THE YOUNG REPUBLI-
CANS CAN Do.
A SALUTE OF 2J GUNS.
EEOquencc, Energy, Effect,
Enthusiasm.
SPEECH OF HENRY BALLARD.
Address of Hen. TrenOr
w. Park.
SPEECH OF HENRY BALLARI
NEW AND APPROPRIATE MUSIC

topics OF conversation upon tnc Street5 was
the approaching evening meeting under the
auspices of the young mems Hayes and
Wheeler club. 1t was anticipated that the
meeting would be largely attended and
enthusiastic one, and the well-known abil-
tiles of the speakers announced had mag
netic effect in filling the hall with an audi
ence of which Rutland may well be proud.
Early in the afternoon the Altimont cornet
band of Ludlow arrived, and their enlivcn-
ing strains soon notified the public that some
thing wasup. As soon as the cooling breezes
of the evening had toned down the sui
try atmosphere prevailing during the day,
the streets were filled with people vending
their way to the spacious town hall. Out
side multitude had congregatcd, which
on the filling of the hall either entered or
went their way. A salute of twenty-five
guns was fired, and every gun spoke loudly
the heartfelt enthusiasm for Hayes and
Wheeler. The band, after a short street
parade and voluntary concert before the
hall, opened the meeting with music.
Geo. L. Lawrence, Esq, president of
the Young Mems Hayes and Wheeler club,
presided, and upon opening the meeting
invited the officers of both of the Hayes
and Wheeler clubs to seats upon the stage.
He then with little delay introduced Henry
Ballard, Esq, of Burlington.
MIR. BILLIARDS. ADDRESS.
Lad,eS and Gentlemen Among the an
cient Greeks, in the days of Scion, there
was law making it obligatory upon every
citizen to take sides in political affairs.
There is no law which compes an Ameri-
can citizen to take sides except duty. In
my judgment it is the duty of every Amer
lcan citizen to lake part In politics, and to
80 inform himselfth that he may be able to cast
his ballot wisely, discreetly and honestly.
The two political parties have met in con-
vention and their platforms and candidates
are before the people. The issue is made
and the question for the voters of Yer
mont to determine is why they shall vote
for Hayes and Wheeler rather than for
rilden and Hendricks. No man can vote
wisely in the campaign of 1876, who does
not thoroughly understand why and for
whom he voted in 1879, or 1868, or even
farther back. In politics as in everything
else, | believe experience to be the best
teacher. In holy writ we read that 'the
tree is known by its fruit" "a man is
known by his deeds" Let us apply the
same principle to men and politics.
The democratic party IN the plat
form adopted at the st. Louis conven-
ton attacked the republican party. They
charged 1t with sixteen years OF misrule,
and after denouncing its every action for
sixteen years summed up, as follows:
These abuses, wrongs and crimes, the
fruit of sixteen years ascendancy of the re-
publican party demand a reform which can
only be effected by the turning out of the
republican party and the return to power
Of the democratic party.
If these sixteen years of misrule have
been endured, when did they begin? Go
back to the 4th of March 1861 ! Have the
republicans of Vermont forgotten that day?
| That day on which Abraham Lincoln, the
| first republican president took the chair,
marks the beginning of republican misrule
| Go little farther back. From about 1880
TO 1852 the potent element of our politics
| was slavery. The democratic party bowed
| down to the slavery propagandists of the
south. The slave masters and drivers were
| all-powerful. They prosecuted such men
rs Adams and Giddings, and whenever the
anti-slaveiy apostles came into their power
| hey "gave it to them" with will.
| You remember how in 1862 Franklin
| Pierce, the democratic candidate for the
| presidency, congratulated the country on
the opening of an era of security and re-
pose. Yet before that dispatch had gone
over the country a democratic congress
Notwithstanding their pledges and the Mis-
souri, compromise began to work at the re-
peal of that compromise. This was the
work of a democratic congress sanctioned
by democratic president and the entire
democratic party. 1t was too much fol-
both parties. The democratic and the old
wing party persisted and new party
sprang into existence to check slavery.
Who composed it2 The christian, the phi
lanthropist, the free soiler, the old aboli.
ZIONIST, the old whig, all opposed to slavery
and many democratic followers OF Jeffer.
son and Madison, remembering the lessons
learned at their feet, worked beneath i'll
banner.
This young republican party, formed il
1854 and '55, went into its first campaign
in 1856 with Fremont and was beaten. i
needed one more term of democratic mis-
rule to open the eyes of the people. Ii
| iOoo Niut Nho tiC ioouO. ohoiPiJ
and plainly il was this: Shall slavery con
troll the country? The democratic party
said yes; the republican party said no. d.
you remember that campaign and tn,
threats of disunon If this terribly uncon
stitutional party succeeded? How demo
Gratis declared that il the abolition O
slavery was attempted there would b
blo0d:hed north of Mason and Dixon's line
Now let us look at this man Samuel
Tilden. AT that time he was in the prim
of life, being now about sixty.fve years o
age. Then after Lincoln's call for volur
teers, and when grand war meeting wa
to be held in Union square, this man I'll
den, when asked, refused to countenanc
, the meeting either by his presence or b
signing bis name. He refused then, /
the hour of the nations peril. Was he
fit man for president then? Could yo
trust him thenp Democrats and republ
, cans alike answer; No. Then he is n
, more fit to be trusted now. Ifyou conldn
trust the democratic party then you can
trust them now
: The war came. The republican part
took the reins, organized an army OF 2,O0O
u 900 of men, set sfloat one of the most pow
: erful pavies ever seen, coerced states an
l.. nut down an armed rebellion. In 1864 ",
of fire around the southern capital. Or
: after another Mcclellan, Hooker, Burr
, side and Meade had failed in the fiel,
4 Then the issue was Shall the country
y saved to liberty? The republics
J. party said yes, and pledged ther
d selves renewed vigor In prosecutor
l. the war. The democratic party m
/. IN convention in Chicago, declared the "
failure, and demanded peace at any cos
Yes, and this man Tilden, whom they vii
to make president to-day, wrote that res
luton asd was glad to see that that a
d rose up against him in the st. Louis CO
Ia vention. Manton Marble, editor OF q