The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-10-31
NUMBER 1865.

fugiMye slave law of 1850; repealed
the Misscqri compromise in 1854; per-
Petrated the ehorder-ruffian outrages Of
90 and 90, pre~ured the Dred Scott
decision IN 1857. prsslaimed the right
of secession in 1850. ore.nized ele2ep
States in rebellion against NE fsg in
1861, declared the war failure in 1894
opposed the constitutional amend,
ments, stood in the way OF reconstruc-
tion, has upheld a system OF lawless-
ness, intimidation and murder, culmi-
mating in the Hamburg and other mas
sacres in the South. IL is party CON-
posed largely Of people in the South
who are aptly described by Governor
Bair in March, 1914 half-civilized
people who in some States Of the Union
are burning the school houses built by
the poor, and scourging the teachers
who had been keeping them without
pay" IL is being led to-day by the
same old leaders, il manifests the same
spirit, and is made up OF the same kind
OF camp-followers as was found in the
party in 1860. IL is not in sympathy
with the amendments; had no faith in
human liberty in its best sense; evincs
no kindly interest in the oppressed and
down troddon, and yet it is the party
of Reform" The Republican party.
we are sagely told. embodying to a
large extent, ell that is pure snd noble
and God-like in the history of the last
fifteen years, cannot reform itself. The
Republican organization, numbering
in its ranks the great majority of those
who fought for Union and Liberty, the
millions who labored and prayed fer
the success of our national casse, and
for the permanency of free institutions
in this land, cannot be trusted. Al
ways true to Justice and Humanity in
the past. this grand party cannot be
trusted in the future.
Reform is demanded" and the
faithful ally of Tweed is set up as the
leader Reform is needed" and the
John Morriseys, and John Kellys are
the agents through which this reform
is to be effected.
reform must be secured, and the
denizens Of Five Points, the dangerous
classes in every community, the
"Scoundrels" whom Gov. Blair would
have had excluded from the ballot
box" will cast the votes necessary to
bring about "Democratic Reform!'
Why, my friends of this "old putrtd
Of Mr.. Story had half
the decency of Judas Iscariot it would
go where libsrty would cease troubling
II, where crippled soldiers would never
exhibit their bruised and mangled
forms, and say "thou didst il, when
Its distempered vision; IT would
seek the speediest means Of dissolution
and give the good men who still may
be found cliuging to it's shattered for
tunes and decayed virtue, an opportu-
nifty to seek alliances, and find polit-
ical home, suitable to their honest in
tentions and patriotic impulses.
The best blsod of the country died,
that liberty and Union might live;
died, that Freedom should be the
eternal heritage of Americans; died,
that every man who should, in all fu-
ture time, acknowledge the supremacy
OF the flag might be secure in the en-
joyment of nll his rights, franchises,
and privileges in every part of the Ma
tional domain; died, that the oppress-
ed, and the poor, and the down trodden
in this aud from other lands should
here find a refuge secure from the iron
heel Of tyranny, a home free from the
curse Of slavery, an altar
where they may worship God accord
ing to the dictates OF conscience. The
party has fought for this;
to-day it stakes its all on this.
In the language Of Daniel O'Connsll
I'VE ask nothing for ourselves which
we are not willing TO guarantee to 9TH
era-univarsa hberty-a common hu-
manity. On this ground we have
stood, and here, please God, till the
last gasp viii we stand"
ask yon, my friends, to resolve, in
the name Of our common humanity,
that you will constitute yourselves
in this great cause, and
that you will labor from this time till
the night of election for victory-vic-
tory over intimidation, victory over
political murders in the South, victory
over oppression and tyranny in every
form, victory in favor of q peace found
ed ON the eternal justice of Omnipo-
tence. The graves filed with the slain
Of hundred battles; the bones of the
young, the brave, the loyal and tho
true bleaching on many a CORY field ST.
Iently but no less touchingly, ask you
TO be true TO the cause for which SO
much blood was shed, and treasure ex-
pended. The $50 900 crippled soldiers
Of the Republic, the skeleton survivors
Of Andersonville, the widows made and
the orphans thrown out on the cold
charity Of the world, all plead with you
to be true to the cause for which they
suffered so much, and are still suffer-
ing. By the sacred memories OF the
has, Wy tho iropvs Of tue present, py
the anticipations of our national future
/ ask You tonight to stand by the flag.
Liberty for you, liberty for your child
ron, liberty for every man who ac-
the supremacy of the flag.
We do not wish to injure the South.
IL is n part Of our common country.
We desire its people TO join with us in
that 'out OF one blood
God creased all tie nations that dwell
on the face OF the earth" We ask
them 10 join with us in claiming every
American citizen as brother beloved.
But so long as they indulge in deliber-
ate murder, in cold-blooded assassina-
ton as political measures, We must be
excused from placing the utmost conf
dence in their methods OF reform.
Ia view of this condition of affairs,
let our watchword be, "Nono but loyal
and true men on guard" and as the
old crusader cried, who had travelled
over many lands, had fought many bat
ties, for God aud his religion, whhe
viewing from distance the towers and
minarets OF Jerusalem, 81 Da ready to
die for the cause" so may every man
in this audience exclaim, 81 am ready
to die rather than cast a ballot against
the cause for which my friends, my
my children died-God,
country and liberty. In this great
work Of rallying around the flag, we
should be joined by tens of thousands
Of loyal Democrats, who will not sacri-
fee their country's honor.
Tha anti.Tildan wing Of the Democ-