The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-10-31
H1ILsDALE MICH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81. 1876

upon injustice can stand. From sand.
enshrouded Egypt. from the marble
wilderness OF Athens, from every fallen
crumbling stone Of the once mighty
Romes. comes a wall, as it were. the
cry that no nation founded upon IN
justice can permanently stand
| Cheers don't want any man
that ever fought for this country to vote
the Democratic ticket. You are swap
ping of responsibility for disgrace.-
There are thousands OF you-great,
splendid, grand men-that fought
as grandly for the Union as anybody
else. and now beseech you, beg OF
you, do not give your responsibility TO
the enemies and haters OF your coun-
try. Applause. Don't do ID. Don't
vote with the Democratic party OF the
North. Sometimes think bate the
rebel sympathizer in the North worse
than the rebel, and I will tell you why.
The rebel was carried into the rebellion
by political opinion Mt home. His ia
ther, his mother, his sweetheart his
brother, everybody he knew--and there
was kind OF wind, kind OF tornado,
kind of whirlwind that took him into
the rebel army. He went into the reb-
el army along with his State The
Northern Democrat went against his
own State; went against his own gov
eminent. aud went against public opin-
ION at home. The Northern Democrat
The Southern rebel went with the cur
rent; the Northern Democrat rowed
against him from pure, simple cussed-
nj II
beg every man that eyer fought for this
Union, that every man that ever barred
his bosom to storm Of shot and shell
Il beg him. implore him. do not 60
with the Democratic party. And every
young mnn within the sound of my
voice, do not tie your bright and shin.
ing prospects TO that old corpse OF De-
mocracy. You will get tired OF drag
ging il around, and you will get tired
of smelling it. Applause and laugh
ter. Don't cast your first vote for the
men that were tho enemies OF your
country. Recollect that this Demo
cratic party was false TO the nation
when your fathers, your brothers, and
your chfvalric sons were lying IL the
hospitals OF pain, dreaming broken
dreams Of home and seeing fever-pic-
tures of the ones they loved. Recol-
lect that the Democratic party was false |
ID the nation when your fathers, your
brothers, and your chivslric SONS were
lying alone upon the field of battle ut
night. the life-blood slowly oozing
from the mangled, pallid lips OF death.
Reoelloet that thA Democratic party
wns false to this country when your
husbands, your fathers, your brothers.
and your chivalric sons were in the
prison pens of the South with no cov-
ering but the clouds, with no bed but
the frozen earth, with no food except
such as worms had refused. and with
no friends except insanity and death.
Recollect it. and spurn that party for
ever. Applause.
i have sometimes wished that there
were words of pure hatred out OF which
I might construct sentences like snakes,
out OF which might construct SEN
tences that had mouths fanged, that
had forked tongues, out OF which i
might construct sentences that writhed
and hissed, then could give my opin-
ion OF the Northern allies OF the South |
eru rebels during the great struggle |
for the preservation OF this nation. -
I Cheers.
Let me say one moro word, and am
done. rCries OF go on The young
est man here, the youngest child here.
will never live long enough to see q
Democratic President of the United
States. Cries Of Good" and "Nov-
er," and applause. No man can carry
'hot agGreeption OF rnscality, that ag-
gregation OF treasouapic practices, that
aggregation OF SontheJn sympathizers,
that aggregation OF traitors, that ag-
CATION OF men that endeavored TO de-
stroy this country-no man can carry
their reputation on his back and make
q successful run for the Presidency OF
the United States. Cries Of "Never,"
"Never. No man can carry
SECESSION UPON HIS sHoULDERs.
No man can carry Libby Prison, no
man can carry Andersonville, no man
can carry the history OF the Democrat
ic party and get majority OF votes in
the United States. [Cries of Never"
and applause.
THE PRoCEssIos
was magnificent spectacle, when il
got started, but il took long time TO
start. Some of the companies, having
long distances to travel, were late in
reaching the rendezvous, and it vas
o'clock before the column, numbering
several thousands OF men, mounted
and on foot, bearing torches and trans
parepcies, began to move. All along
the line of march the procession was
received with the most enthusiastic de-
monstrations. The crowds on the
sidewalks cheered and shouted them
selves hoarse, and at the Exposition
Building, Gardner House. and nc other
peints rockets were fired of in honor
of the occasion. The demonstration
was eminently successful in every par
ticular HAN