Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-02
Mr.. Wheelor IN Vermont.

~ SAeANSNfet NhS W CiNSF lAOuSts ~.
Adams, on the 25th. by the Hayes
& Wheeler club of that place and re-
spOnded as follows: II
"REPUBLIcANs eFSF. ALBANS You
honor the aause of which, just now, l
am a prominent representative.
was placed in nomination as a Repub-
lic2n candidate for the Vice-Presiden-
ey by the action of the States of Yer
mont and Massachusetts,. My friends,
it is the greatest honor of my life
that the Republicans of these States
deem me sufficiently grounded in the
New England faith TO be one of the
representatives Of their ideas in the
pending canvass. (Applause.) In
the matter of my faith / trust they
have made no mistake. applause
l believe in New England; l believe
in Plymouth Rock for they are con.
vertible terms. One of the gifted
women of New England has said that
Plymouth Rock is no quartz, bnt is a
perfect stone, cut out of the noun
tain without hands, and hands cannot
prevent it from becoming mountain
in filling the whole earth. Every
church, every school house, every
town house, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, has Plymouth Rock fol- its
| foundation stone. Wherever free.
dom aims a musket or raises a stand
ard, or sings song, or makes pro-
test, there is Plymouth Rock. Free
dom, the Church, the school house,
the town house, these, my friends,
form the very cardinal principles Of
the Republican party. have
thought and often said that the Com
monweaIth of Vermont best illus
trates the complete realization of the
republican form Of government.
Where can you find so much general
intelligence, the result of yo"r free,
popular system Of education where
so much Of fidelity and economy as
exists in this State of Vermont? 1t
is mission of the Republican party
to confer upon the people of this
country in all the States and in all
the Territories the inestiTable privi-
lege which you here in Vermont en-
Joy. 1t is duty to which you in
this Centennial year, the nation too,
ought to address itself with renewed
devotion
We have no purpose here tonight
my friends, to recall the memorable
conflict through which this nation has
passed within the past decade. Let
us never forget the obligation resting
upon us to secure the result of that
, great conflict for ourselves and those
that follow after us, and never my
, friends were these obligations more
: apparent or imperative than now
) We are already engaged IN the con-
fict with the opponents of the party
t which saved the nation and which
| to-day protests its integrity and
: guards its honor as in 1860. We are
3 once more face to face with united
: South, with the Democratic party O
5 the North as its subservient ally. Ii
, every late slave State in this Unior
were this Confederate party is domn'
ant it claims, and they may receive
: 1873 votes in the Electoral College
. 1t has complete control of the lowel
House, and the balance Of power ir
: the Senate. This is the condition 0
. the South to-day. l sat for months
t during the last winter, in Congress
S beside sixty-oae men who few year!
=, since, with arms in their hands, wer,
e engaged in the attempt to break W
4 the Government. Now [ have hcarC
: these men defend the hellish atrocitie,
I of Libby, Andersonville and Sails
bury | have head Lincoln maligncC
: and | have defended the rights Of {
n Virginia Justice of the Peace to re
: tain and open the mails of the Untet
: States My friends, can you tell MI
e where is the difference in the spiri
t which twenty years ago led Missouri
s border ruflians into Kansas, and a
t Hamburg, where regularly organic
S ed militia company were first disarm
: ed and then murdered in cold BLOOD
t in order that the white race might as
sert their superiority? My official re
+ lations during the past two or three
!. years have called me into the South
s ern States, and l will tell you what
; know, my friends, regarding the re
construction act. They regard the
amendments to the Constitution in
: reference to slavery and the laws tc