Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-14
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Eloquent Address ia yern eni-Knthusiasti Re
publican Raliy-Problems for Democrats.

At S.. Adams, VT. on tho 18th ult.,
she Republican rally was largely at
tended, but heavy storm intorforod
somewhat with tho original arrange
ments, ani the proposed illumna-
ton. Hon VIM. A Wheeler, of
New York, Republican candidate for
Vice President, arrived by special
train from tho White Mountains at
Ais p. NJ. Ga his arrival a salute
was fired. A. 8 P. NJ. he was seren-
AIDED by tho ST. Adams Brigade band
Mr.. Wheeler appeared on the bal
cony Of the hotel and was greeted
with great cheers. He was intro
duced by Mr.. E. A. Smith as one of
the noblest statesmen of the Repub-
lie. Mr.. Wheeler spoke as follows:
Republicans OF St. Adams: You
honor the cause of which just now |
am prominent representative. |
was placed in nomination as the Re-
publican nominee for ce-President
by the States of Vermont and Massa-
chusetts. 1t is the greatest honor of
my life hat the Republicans in these
States doom me sufficiently ground
ed in the New England faith to be
one of The representatives OF their
ideas in the pending canvass Ap-
plause.l In the matter of my faith
[ trust they have made no mistake.
+ AppIause. | boieve in New Eng
land; l believe IN Plymouth Rock,
fsr they are convertible terms. One
of the most gifted of New England
women has said: plymouth Rock
is no quartz; it is 3 perfect cut stone,
out OF tho mountain without hands,
and hands cannot prevent it from be-
coming great mountain, filing the
earth" Every church, every school
house, every town house from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, has Ply
mouth Rock for its foundation.
Wherever freedom aims musket
or raises a standard, or sings song
or makes a protest, there is Ply
mouth Rock, tho church, the school
house, the town house. These, my
friends, form the very cardinal prin-
ciplcs Of the Republican party. l
have ofLon thought and often said
that the commonwealth of vermont
composes and illustrates the CON-
pleto realization of the highest ideal
of a republican form of government.
Where else can you find such gener-
al intelligence, the respect of your
free popular system of education;
where so much of fidelity and econo
my in the administration of state AZ
fairs; where so much respect for the
civil rights of each and all tho PEG
pie, az in the State of Vermont? 1t
is the mission OF the Republican par
ty to confer on oil the people OF this
country, in all the States and in ell
the Territories, the inestlmable priv
ileges which you in Vermont enjoy.
1t is duty to which in this Centen-
NAL year Of our nation we ought TO
address ourselves with renewed at
tention and fidelity have no pnr-
pose here tonight, my friends, to re-
call she memorable conflict through
which this nation has passed, and
which has made the American army
forever illustrious; but let US never
forget the obligations resting on US
to secure the results Of that great
conflict for ourselves and those who
follow after US; and never, my
friends, were these obligations more
apparent and imperative than now.
We arc already engaged in another
conflict. As in 1860 We are once
more face TO face with united South
with the Democratic party of the
North, q subservient and plant ally.
In every slave State in the Union,
where this Confederate party is dom
insnt, it claims $50 votes in the cleo
toral college. 1t has complete con-
troll of the lower House, and the bal
auce OF power in the Senate.
There ia not to-day in these late
slave States any man holding q
prominent position who was not
identified in the struggle against the
government; not even in the State of
Kentucky can you find man in any
position whatever who was not en-
gagged on the rebel side. This is the
condition of the South to-day. |
have sat for months, during the last
winter, in Congress. by the side OF
81 men, who, few years since with
! arms in their hands were engaged in
an attemp, to break up the GoVeTn-
ment. Nov | have heard these men
defend the hellish atrocities at Lib
| by and Andersonville and Salisbury