Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-10-13

Htnt' Inc DeuocrAtlc party says the gov
ernment can't march its troops into the
South to protect the rights Of the citizens
Ii l. lie. Great cheers. The govern
ment claims the right, and it is conceded
that the goverenmnt has the right TO 20 "a
your house. while you are sitting by your
hreside with your wife and children about
you, and the old lady knitting and the cat
play ing with the yarn, and everybody hap
pY anu sWeet-the government claims the
right 10 90 to your treside and take Won by
force and put you into the army take YOU
down to the valley Of the shadow of hell I;
set YOU by the ruddY, roaring guns, and
make you hight for your flag. Cheers
NoN, that beng 50. when the wGr Is over
ana your country Is victorious, and YOU 90
hack to your home, and lot of Democrats
want TO trample upon your rights, want
TO know II the government that took yOa
from your freside and made You fight for il
! want to know If it l. not bound to fight
for YOU? Cheers. The flag that wil'not
protect its protectors Is dirty rag that
| cOntamlnates the air in which it waves. The
/ government that will not defend its defend
ers Is disgrace TO the nations of the world
/ \ voice, Amen | am Republican
because the Republican party SAYS, " We
will protect the rights Of American citizens
at home, and If necessary We will march
an army into any State to protect the right
/ OF the humblest American citizen in that
state Cheers This is the
FIRST FREE GoyERNMENTIN IN THE WORLD.
The Republican party is the first party
that was not founded on some compromise
with the devil. Laughter 1t Is the first
party Of pure, square, honest principles
the hrst one. And we have got the first
Tree country that ever existed. And right
here | want to thank every soldier that
fought to make it free, cries Of good, good,
and cheers +, every one living and dead.
thank you again and again, and again.
You made the first free government in the
world, cheers and we must not forget TIE
dead heroes. If they were here they would
vote the Republican ticket, every one Of
them. tell you We must not forget them
THE DUTT OF THE GOVERNMENT To THE LOYAL
aEN or The SOUTH.
What is the next question? The next
question is, will We protect the Union men
IN the SOUTH Noices-"les, yes
tell you the white Union men there have
suffered enough. Ii Is a crime in every
Southern State to love this country, to be
llevc in the sacred rights OF men. tell
You the colored people have suffered enough.
They have been owned by Democrats Tor
200 years. Worse than that they have
been isrced to keep the company of their
owners. Laughter 1t Is a terrible thing
TO live with a man that steals from you.
They have suffered enough. For 200 years
they were branded like cattle. Yes. for 200
years every human tie was torn asunder by
the cruel hard OF ayarice and greed. For
200 years children were sold from their
mothers, husbands from their wives. broth
There was not during the whole rebellion a
single negro who was not our friend. We
are willing to be reconciled to our southern
brethren when they will treat our friends as
men. When they will be Just to the friends
OF tins country when they are IN favor Of
allowing every American citizen to have
his rights-then We are their friends. We
are willing to trust them with the nation
when they are friends Of the nation. We
are willing to trust them with liberty when /
they believe in liberty. We are willing to |
trust them with the black man when they |
cease riding in the darkness OF night-those |
masked wretehes-tO the hut OF the freed /
man, and, notwithstanding the prayers and |
supphcations OF his family, shoot him down; |
when they cease to consider the massacre /
of Hamburg as Democratic triumph then,
I say, We viii be their friends and not be-
fore. \ voice That Is the idea
An APT ILLUSTRATION.
Now, my friends, thousands of the SJuth
ern people and thousands of the Northern
Democrats are afraid that the negroes are
going TO pass them in the race Of lite. and,
Mr.. Democrat. he will do it unless y5u al
tend 10 your business. The simple fact that
you are white cannot save you always. You
have got to be industrious. honest. and cnl-
tivate a sense of justice. If you don't, the
cOlored race will pass yOu as sure as You live
| am for giving every man a chance. Any
body that can pass me Is welcome. \
voice, There can't many DO 1t. / be
lIeye, my friends, that the Intellectual do
main of the future, like the land used TO be
in the State of illinois. Is open to pre-emp-
ton. The fellow that gets a fact first, that
is his, that gets an idea first, that Is his
Every round in the ladder Of fame, from
the one that touches the ground to the last
o ne that leans against the shining summit
Of human ambition belongs to the foot that
gets upon it first. Applause Mr.. Demo
crat, q point down because they are nearly
all on the first round Of the LADDER If you
can't climb. stand on one side and let the
deserving negro pass.
| must tell you one thing. | have told 1t
so much, and YOU have all heard 1t, have
no doubt, so times from others. but | am
going to tell it again because like it
suppose there was great horse race here
to-day. free to every horse in the world, and
to all the mules. and all the scrubs, and all
the dJnkeys. At the tap Of the drum they
come TO the line, and the judge says. - Is It
a go?' Let me ask you, what does the
blooded horse, rushing ahead. with nostrils
iisteEded, drinking in the breath of his own
swiitncss. with his name flying like ban
~ Of t-Ia kfs
all over him as If a net of life had been cast
around him-with his thin neck, his high
withers, his tremulOus hanks-what does
be care how many mules and donkeys run
on that track Prolonged and deatenlng
laughter. But tine Democratic scrub. with
bis chuck lehead and lop-ears. with his tail
full Of cuckle-burs, jumping high and short,
and digging in the ground when he feels
the breath Of the coming mule on his cuckle-
bur tail, he Is the chap that jumps the track
and says. am down on mule eq uallty."
Renewed and uproarious laughter.
Ny friends. the Republican party is the
blOOded horse in the race. \ yOlce-'Any-
tning that may follow that wants to.
Laughter.
sCATHINC REBUkE TO TILDEN.
Samuel j. Tilden said in l86O-GI " Our
fathers left revolution organized in every
State 50 that whenever the public opinion
Of a State demands it the State can snap the
tic OF confederation that binds 1t to the ma
tion the same as nation can break treaty,
anG State can repel invasion" No one
ought to be president who thinks this ma
tion is coniederacy. No man ought to be
president who has said this war Is an out
rage voice And he never will be.
II be Is, hide your scars that now make
your faces sacred 4; it you have an empty
sleeve, hide 1t; IT You have crutches. throw
them away If you fought for the flag,
don't mention 1t
NY COUNTRY It's OF THEE.
tell you We must stand by the country.
1t is glorious country. 1t permits you
and me to be free. Ii is the only country
in the world where labor Is respected. Let
u support it. 1t Is the only country in the
world where the useful man is the only arIs-
tocrat The man that works for dollar
day goes home at night to his little ones,
takes his little boy on his knee, and he
thinks that boy can achieve anything
that the sons of the wealthy man can
achieve. The free schools are open to him ;
he nav be the richest, the greatest and
grandest and that thought sweetens every
drop of sweat that rolls down the honest
face of toll. Applause Vote to save
that country.
PROMISE FOR THE FUTURE UNDER REPUBLICAN