Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-29

suits of that great conflict for ourselves and those
who may follow after u.s. and never, my friends,
were these obligations more apparent an impera-
tive than now. We are already engaged ia an-
other conflict with the opponents Of the party
which saved the nation and which to day protects
its integrity and guards its honor. As in 1861 we
are once more, my friends, face to face with an
united South with the democratic party of The
North as its subservient aud plant ally. In every
late slave State in the Union where this Confed-
crate party is dominant it claims and may receive
hundred and thirty votes in the electoral col
lege 1t has complete conAo oil of the lower house
and the balance OF power in the Senate. There
is not to day in those late slave States any man
holding prominent position who was not identi-
fed in the great struggle against the government
Not even 10 the State of kentucky can you fl nd
man in any position whatever who was not en-
gagged on the rebel side This is the condition of
the South today. l have sat for months, during
the last winter, in Congress, by the side of sixty
one men who few years since, with arms il their
hands, were engaged in the attempt to break up
the government. Now | hive heard those men
defend the heish atrocities OF Libby, Anderson
vile and Salisbury. l have heard Lincoln ma
lgned. l have heard defended the light of Vir-
ginla justice OF the peace to detain and open the
mails of the United States. Can you tell me
where is the difference in the spirit which twenty
years ago let Missouri border ruflians into Kan
sas, and the massacre at Hamburg, where reg
uarly organized militia company is first disarrned
and then murdered in cold blood, 10 order that
the white race might assert their superiority :
My official relations have called me during the
past two or three years into the Southern States,
and tell you what know, my friends Of the real
feeling of the Southern people regarding the re-
construction acts. They regard the anne ndment
to the Constitution in reference to slavery anil the
laws for the protection of freedmen as the French
provinces did their cession 10 Prussia at the point
of the 5ayonet. 1t is to the South, my friends
with this spirit, and with the demo cratic party Of
the North as its plant ally, that we are asked to
turn over the government Of the United States to,
with all its powers of legislation, with all its ma
chinery of taxation. No such proposition, for au-
dacity, has its parallel IN the history of the couu-
try. What is the spirit Of the democratic party
Do you want to know what the democratic party
of the North still is? Go to Washington, see fifty
turned out of the House to make room for as
many rebel soldiers. This is the evidence of the
spirit of the Northern democracy. My friends,
we confront the old issue. You must not under
rate the strength Of the South and its allies in the
North. You ask me if it can be averted. / tell
you yes, it be averted ia the Old way, aud in
the old way only. GU must not underrate the
strength of this alliance. | have conflng
fcently awakened to avert the great peril under
the lead of the gallant Hayes, who perilicd his life
on the field of battle, modest man, PLAIN man. a
man who has evinced great ability 10 bis admins
tration of afirs of the great State of Ohio. Tn
der Hayes the republican party will again achieve
a new triumph. [Applause.l
What shall be your duty in this canvass : tell
you, freemen of Vermont what know. The
democrats are making great efforts to reduce the
republican majority in this State. WIN you per-
NIT this, my friends Voices, mo, Not The
banner Of Vermont never trailed on the bat
tie field let your ballots protect the work so eff
fectually done by your bayonets at Gettysburg,
and on many field of strife .ls You value good
| government, as you value the sacrifices of The
past as you hope for the future let your devotion
| to the cause of the Union be proved by your bal
| lots on the first Tuesday of November next. May
| the star which never sets beam with new etidl
gence to light the other States to victory. [Grea
aud prolonged applause