Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-04
VICE-PREsIDENTs.

NICE-PREsIDENTs.
Albion, Hon. Mark Rollins.
Augusta, Edward A. Mason.
Belgrade, Joshua l.. Heath, Esq.
Benton, Madison Crowell, Esq.
Chelsea, n. r. Winslow Esq.
China, u. p. Bolster, Esq
Clinton, John f. Lamb, Esq.
Farmingdale, George Wheeler, Esq.
Fayette Hon. A. G. French.
Gardiner, Hon. Joshua Gray.
Halowell, j. r. Bodwell, Esq.
Ltchfeld, Hon. Josiah True.
Monmouth, George F. Andrews, Esq.
Mt. Vernon, Moses S. Mayhem, Esq.
Readfeld, Hon. Ii. p. Torsey.
Manchester, Nathan Weston, Esq.
Pittston, j. NJ. Carpenter, Esq.
Sidney, Silas l.. Watt.
Vassalboro', Isaiah Clifford, Esq.
Waterville, Col. l. S. Bangs.
West Waterville, John Aver, Esq.
Rome, Eleazer Kelley, Esq.
Vienna, Sewell Eaton, Esq.
West Gardiner, +. P. Seavey, ESQ
Wayne, G. w. Walton, Esq.
Winslow, Hon. David Garland.
Windsor, Levi Perkins, Esq
Unity Pl., +. b. Lane, Esq.
SECRETARIES.
Col F. Z. Heath, Waterville.
Howard Owen, Esq. Augusta.
w. II. White, Esq, Winthrop.
James Atkins, Jr., Hallowell.
Gen Conner said, that while we were satisfied
with the choice of the national convention at
Cincinnati we in Maine and in this district do
not attempt to disguise our disappointment that
the convention did not put in nomination our
honored townsman, the Hon. James G. Blaine,
[Great applausel the man who stood up in rebel
Congress and stripped the smiling masks from
the faces of the rebel democracy. [Applause.l One
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fellow citizen Col. Robert G. Ingersoll of H.
linois, and he would now have the pleasure and
the honor of introducing that gentleman.
Col. Ingersoll's speech.
Col 1ngersoll, in coming forward. was greeted
with great applause, and proceeded at once to his
work.
Col Ingersoll said that good character is de-
sirable in a nation as we'll as in an individual.
ly inquire, what has he done, what is
his record The republican party has
accomplished grand things. Its record is
kept open, and it points with pride to every
shining page. 1t does not ask you to forget,
but to remember. 1t does not say, " Let bygOnes
be bygones," but challenges the scrutiny Of each
and all. The berizon of the past is filled with the
glory of Republican achievement. The monu-
ments of its wisdom, its power and patriotism
crowd all the fields of conflict.
Upon the Constitution this party wrote equal
rights for all upon every statute book, human
ity; upon the flag, liberty. The Republican
party of the United States is the conscience of the
10Th century. 1t is the justice Of this age, the
embodiment of social progress and honor. 1t has
no knee for the past Its face is toward the future.
1t is the party Of advancement, of the dawn, Of
the sunrise.
The Republican party commenced its grand
career by saying that the institution of human
slavery had cursed enough American soil; that
the territories should not be damned by that most
infamous thing; that this country was sacred to
freedom; that slavery had gore fer enough.
Upon that issue the great campaign Of 1860 was
fought and won. The Republican party was born
Of wisdom and conscience.
The people of the South claimed that slavery
should be protected; that the doors of the terri
tories should be thrown open to them and to their
Institutions. They not only claimed this, blu