Ottumwa weekly courier., 1876-09-06
FINE GRAFTON.

ZION. Newton BOoth, the lndepcnu-
ent Senator from California. who re-
fused the rag-baby nomination for
Vice President, is just now making
magnificent Hayes and Wheeler
speeches in Indiana.
He spoke at Tcrrc llaute on the 81 st
ultimo. The following is his eloquent
conclusion:
Now, my friends, let me ask YOU
in candor, If the Rebellion had sue
cccded. the Confedcracy been cstab-
lished, and the present Democratic
candidates for President and Vice
President had gone down there and
| ran for office. could one uttcrance of
! theirs in their Northern homes have
been quoted to prevent any Confeder-
ate from voting for them? Would not
their Northern record have made
them very eligible and proper candi-
dates for the highest Office in the
Southern Confcderacy
When the great trial came which
searched the hearts of this people, i'm
that supreme moment of our history
when the instinct of patriotism was
higher guide than learning or philos-
ophy, when the great idea of country
came down like a revelation of love,
Gov. Iilden took down the Constitu-
ton to see if he could find IN its writ
ten words any warrant for the exist
ence of this Lation among the powers
of the earth. He examined it as
though he were trying to find flaw
in criminal statue, to ascertain if he
had country. The idea ofa country
whose living presence is in the heart
of a patriotic people never dawned
upon his calculating and metaphysi-
cal mind. He analyzed sentences,
hunted among nouns and pronouns,
adverbs and propositions among
commas and periods, colons and SEM
icolons. Think of it-the character
) and existence of the nation, the ques.
ton whether it should meet armed
rebellion with sovereign power, was
matter of punctuation. Our destiny
hung upon semicolon. AT last he
reached a conclusion--hear it, We
, stars! The Union was a-Sfedera-
tive agency. don't know whether
that is copulative or distinctive
, whether it is to be, to do, or to suffer
4 imperfect or pluperfect, past, present
or to come 4: do not know whether il
is animal, mineral. or vegetable.
. don't think it is anything to live for
or to die for. do not think the col
or-sargeant from Otter Creek, who
s left the home of his childhood to joir
Company &C. to follow it through
+, march and bivouc, in sickness ant
suffering. and privation and danger
who stood with his comrades in tn
front of the battle, joined them in tn,
charge upon the batteries that blaze,
n with the fires of hell: fell bullet
pierced. grasping the standard will
the grip of death. as the darkness o
: death sank upon his eyes,-I do no
! believe his soul went out to the un
: known with the aspiration, "God saw
:. the fedcrative agency" What is on
), country? 1t is not the land and tn
u sea, the river and the mountains-th
c people, their history and laws. 1t
i something more than all these. 1t j
4 a bright ideal, living presence i
the heart, whose destruction woul
II rob the earth of its beauty, the stars Q
's their glory, the sun of its brightness
e life OF Its sweetness, love of its joy.
J. My countrymen cherish this idea
1t will exalt you as you exalt i
II Make it your cloud by day, your pi
/ lars of fire by night. Follow wher
it leads. Enlarge your horizon. TAX
counsel of the dead. No martyr eve
:, died in the conflict of ideas. which
e one Of the conditions of human pre-
q gress, but pleads for the cause const
n Grated by his blood. Strive to piere
o the future, listen to the football q
:. coming generations. No child to b
/" boIn on earth but has an interest j
l. the cause Of liberty and cqualit,
c, Rise to the height of a great occasion
+ Hear the voice of the ages. TAX
. your reckoning by the stars. The
u choose. Onward! with malio
toward none, with charity to all. an
$. "May God defend the right"