The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-11-01

"A voice "Amen ~ / am a Republican be-
cause the Republican party says "We viii
protect the rights of American citizens at home,
and, If necessa ~, we viii march an army into
any State to protect the rights of the humblest
American citizen in that State" tCheeu.1
am q Republican. tLaughtcr.1 / am a
Republican because that party allows me to he
frce-allows me to do my own thinking in my
own way. tCheers. am a Republican be
cause it is a party grand enough and splendid
enough and sublime enough to invite every hu-
man being in favor of liberty and pro-
eress to tight shoulder to shoulder for the
advancement of mankind. lCheers.1 IL In
yites the Methodist it invites the Catholic; 1t
invites the Presbyterian, and every kind OF sec
tartan 1t invites the free-thinker; 1t invites the
mid provided he is in favor of giving TO every
other human being every chance ana every
right that he claims for himself. lCheers. i
am a Republican, ] tell you. Laughter.
There Is room in the Republican air for every
wing there is room ON the Republican sea for
eyery sail. Republicanism says to every man,
L your soul be like an eagle fly out in the
great dome of thought, and question the stars
for yourself. lCheers That's so."l But the
Democratic party SAYS I" Be blind, owls sit on
the dry limb of a dead tree, and only boot when
Tlden & Co. tell you to-" Laughter In
the Republican party there are no followers.
We are all leaders. ICheers. There is not a
party chain. There is not a party lash. ANY
man that does not love this country any man
that does not love liberty any man that is not
in favor of human progress; that is not in IA
yor of giving to others all he claims for him
self-we don't ask him 10 vote the Republican
ticket. lCheers. You can vote it if you
please, and if there is any Democrat within
hearing who expects TO die before another
election we are willing that he should vote one
Republican ticket simply as a consolation
upon his death-bed. [Great lsughten What
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believes in frse labor. II believes that free
labor will give us wealth. Ii believes in free
thought, because il believes that free thought
will give us truth. IA yoice-"Enat's SOL
You don't know what a grand party you be-
long to. / never want any holier or grander
title TO nobility than that / belong TO the Re-
publican party and have fought for the lib
erty of man. GCheers.l The Republican
party, / say, believes in free labor. The
Republican party alse believes in slavery.
What kind Of slavery In enslaving the
forces of nature. We believe that free
labor, that free thought, hive enslsved
the forces Of nature and made them
work for man. We make old Attraction and
GravitatiOn work for us we n,ake the light
ming do our errands we make steam-hammers
and fashion what we need. The forcess of
nature are the slaves of the Republican party.
ICheers They have got no backs to be
whipped they have got no hearts to be torn
no hearts to be broken they cannot be
separated from their wives; they cannot he
dragged from the bosoms Of their husbands
they work night and day, and they never tire.
You cannot whip them, you cannot stsrve
them, and a Democrat even can be trusted
with one of them. ILaughter.l j tell YOU |
am n Republican. Laughter | believe, as
told you, that free labor would give us these,
slaves. Free labor will produce ali these things,
and everything You have got to- day has been
prNdnraA nv FREQ labor npfhiru nv e1ara 1ahor
Slavery never invented but one machine, and
that was q threshing machine in the shape Of a
whip. Laughter. Free labor has invented
all the machines. We want to come down to
the philosophy OF these things. The problem
Of free labor, when = man works for the wife he
loves. when he works for the little children he
adores-the problem is to do the most work in
the shortest space of time. The problem Of
slavery is to do the least work in the longest
space OF time. That is the difference. Free la
Dor, love, affection-they have invented every
thing Of use to the world. ICheers. am a
Republican. tell You, my friends, this world
is getting better every dav. and the Democratic
party is getting smaller every dav. Sec the ad-
vancement We have made in a few years zee
what we have done. We have covered this ma
ton with wealth and glory, and with liberty.
This is the first free Government in the world.
The Republican party is the first party that was
not founded on some compromise with the devil.
Laughter Il is the first party of pure, square,
honest principles; the first one. And we have
got the first free country that ever existed. And
right here | want to thank every soldier that
fought to make it free (cries Of "good ~
60 good % and cheers ; every one, living and
dead. thank YOU again and again and again.
You made the first free government in tire world
[cheersl and we must not forget the dead he
roes. II they were hene they would vor the
Republican ticket, every one of them. / tell
you we must not forget them.
The past, as it were. rises before me like a
dream. Again we are IN the great struggle for
national life. We hear the sounds Of prepara-
tion-the music Of the boisterous erums-the
silver voice. of heroic buf,les. We see thousands
Of assemhlages, and hear the appeals of orators I:
We see the pale cheeks Of women, and the
flushed faces of men, and in those assemblsges
we see all the dead whose dust we have covered
with flowers. We lose sight Of them no more.
We are with them when we enlist in the great
army of freedom. We see them part with those
they love. Some are walking for the last time
in quiet woody places with the maidcns they
adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet
VOWS Of eternal love as they lingcringly part
forever. Others are bending over cradles, kiss
ing babes that arc asleep. Some are receiving
the blessings of old men. Some are parting
with mothers who hold them and press them to
their hearts again and again, and say nothing /;
and some are talking with wives, and endeayor-
ing Win uEaFb ~ slphtl III he pll
tones TO drive from their hearts the awful
fear. We see them part. We see the
wife standing in the door with the babe in
her srms-standing in the sunlight sobbing-at
the turn of the road = hand wayes-she answers
by holding high in her loving hands the child.
He lie gone. and forever.
We see them all as they msrch proudly away
under the Haunting flags, keeping time to the
wild grand music Of war-mirching down the
streets of the great cities-through the towns
and across the prairies-dovn to the fields Of
glory, 10 do, and to die for the eternal right.
We 90 with them one and al. We arc. by
their side on all the CORY helds--in all the hos
pitfalls of pain-on all the weary marches We
stand guard with them in the Wild stC nm and
under the quiet stars. We arc with them in
rayiues running with bloOd-in the fur rows OF
old fields. We are Will them between contend
ing hosts, unable to move, wild with Thirst, the
life ebbing slowly away among the vithcred
leaves. We sec them pierced by balls spd torn
with shells in the trenches by forts, ands in the
whirlwind of the charge, where men become
iron, with nerves of steel.
We are with them in the prisons Of hatred
and famine but human speech can ntner tell
what they endured.
We are az home when the news cones that
they are dead. We see the maiden in the