Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-11-01

a voice: :. Amenr'l / am a Republican be-
cause the Republican party SAYS: We will
protect the rights Of American citizens at home,
aud, II Eecessa ", we will march au army into
any State to protect the rights of the humblest
American citizen in that State" [Cheersl
am q Republican. Laughter. / am a
Republican because that party allows me to be
free-allows me to do my own thinking in my
own way. LCheers.l / am a Republican be-
cause i Is party grand enough and splendid
enough and sublime enough to invite every hu-
man being in favor OF liberty and pro-
gresS 10 fight shoulder to shoulder for the
advancement OF mankind. [Cheersl 1t in
yites the Methodist; it invites the Catholic: il
invites the Presbyterian, and every Kind of sec
tartan it invites the fref-thinker it invites the
iniioel, provided he is in favor of giving to every
other human being every chance and every
right tina; he claims for himself. [Cheers !
am Republican, | tell you. Laughter |
There is room in the Republican air for every
wing; there Is room on the Republican sea for
every sail. Republicanism says to every mrn,
I" Let your soul he like an eagle; iy out In the
great dome OF thought. and question the stars
Tor yourself. ICheers - That's so."1 But the
Democratic party SAYS: . Be blind. owls; sit ON
the dr. limb OF dead tree and only hoot when
lliden d Co. tell YOU to-" Laughter. In
the Republican party there are no followers.
We are all leaders. tCheers. There is not
party chain. There is not party lash. Any
man that does not love this country; any man
that does No, love liberty; any man that is not
in favor of human progress; that IS not in ia
yor OF giving TO others all he claims for him
self-we don. ask him TO vote the Republican
ticket. tCneers. You can vote il if you
please, AMI If there is any Democrat within
hearing who expects to die before another
election we are willing that he should vote one
Republican ticket simply as a consolation
upon his death-bed. Great laughter. What
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believes in free labor. Ii believes that free
labor VIII give Us wealth. Il believes in free
thought, because it believes that free thought
Will give Us truth. voice" That's So"
You don't know what . grand party You be-
long to. / never want any holier or grander
title To nobility than that belong to the Re
publican party and have fought for the lib
erty Of man. [Cheers.l The Republican
party, / say, believes in free labor. The
Republican party also believes Ia slavery.
What kind OF slavery! In enslaving the
forces OF nature. We believe that free
labor, that free thought, have erslsyed
the forces Of nature and made them
work Tor man. We make old Attraction and
GravitstiOn work for Us; We make the light
ming do our errands; We make stsam-hammers
and fashion what we need. The forcesS of
nature are the slaves of the Republican party.
lCheers.l They have got DO backs to be
whipped they have got no hearts 10 be torn
separated from their wives: they cannot be
dragged from the bosoms Of their husbands /;
they work night and day, and they never tire.
You cannot whip them, you cannot starye
them, and n Democrat even can be trusted
Win one Of them. ILaughter.l tell YOU /
an Republican. fLaughter.l l believe, as
told you, that free labor would give US these,
slaves. Free labor will produce all these things,
and everything You have got to-day has been
produced uy tree labor, nothing by slave labor.
slavery never invented but one machine, and
that vas threshiug machine in the shape OF a
whip. Laughter Free labor has invented
ali the machines. We want to come down to
the philosophy OF these things. The problem
OF free labor, when man works for the wife he
loves, when he works for the little children be
adoTes-the problem is TO do the most work in
ths shortest space Of time The problem of
slavery is 70 do the least work in the longest
space OF time. That is the difference. Free la
hor, love, stection-they have invented every
thing OF use to the world. lCheers.1 am a
Republican. ! tell you, M friends. this world
IS getting better every day. and the Democratic
party is getting smaller every day. See the ad-
yenceInent we have made in few years ZEE
what We have done. We have covered this IA
iioR with wealth and glory, and with liberty.
This is the first Tree Government in the world.
The Republican party is the first party that was
not founded on some compromise with the devil.
Laughter. Is is the first party OF pure, square,
honest principles; the first one. And we have
20. the first free country that ever existed. And
right here want TO thank every soldier that
fought to make IL free lcries OF "sood ~
good !" and cheers] every one, living and
desd. thank you again and again and again.
You made the first free government in the world
lcheersl and we must not forget the dead he
roes. II they were here they would vote the
Republican ticket, every one of them. l tell
you We must not forget them.
he il-e
dream. Again we are in the great struggle for
national lie. We hear the sounds Of prepara-
tioa-the music of the boisterou. drums-the
silver voices OF heroic bugles. We see thousands
OF assembla-es, and near the appeals OF orators :;
we see the pale cheeks Of women, and the
flushed faces OF men, and in those assemblages
We see al the dead whose dust We have covered
with flowers. We lose sight Of them no more.
We are with them when we enlist in the great
army of freedom. We see them part with those
they love. Some are walking for the last time
in quiet woody places with the nsidens they
adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet
VOWS Of eternal love they lngeringly part
forever Others are bending over cradles, kiss
ing babes that are asleep. Some are receiving
the blessings of old men. Some are parting
with mothers who hold them and press them TO
their hearts again aud again, aud say nothing;
and some are talking with wives, and endeavor-
ing with brave words spoken In the old
tones to drive from their hearts the awful
fear. We see them part We see the
vile standing in the door with the babe il
her srms-stsnding in the sunlight sobbing-at
The turn Of the road hand waves-she answers
by holding high in her loving hands the child.
he is gone, and forever.
We see them all as they march proudly away
under the haunting flags, keeping time 10 the
wild grand music of war-marching down the
streets OF the great cities-through the towns
and across the pTairies-dovn 20 the fields Of
glory, TO do, and to die for the eternal night.
We 90 with them one and GH- We are BY
their SIDE on all the CORY telds-ia all the hos
pitas Of p.in-On all the weary marches. We
stand guard with them in the wild storm and
cHder the quiet stars. We are with them in
rayines running with blood-in the burrows OF
old fields We are with them between contend
Ing hosts, unable TO move, wild with thirst, the
lie eb5ing slowly away among the withered
leaves. We see them pierced by balls and torn
with shells n the trenches by forts, and in the
whiriwind Of the charge, where msA become
iron, with nerves Of steel.
We sr. with them in the prisons Of hatred
and famine; but human speech can never tell
what they endured.
We are at home when the news comes that
thev are dead. We SOC the maiden In the
shadow OF her first sorrow. We see the sill
yered head of the old man bowed with the last
grief
The past rises before Us, and We see four mil
lions ot human beings governed by the lash
we see them bound hand and foos-we hear the
strokes Of cruel ships-we see the hounds
lid