New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-12

field Of Gettysburg s{ill nerycd and cbeered IN.
patriot heart, MS 1t echoed down the centuries, tins
party met IN convention at CiieagO aud declared
the war q. failure and demanded ca immediate
cessation Of LOstiIlties.
We were asfed to spike cur guns when tho foe was a.
And the es OF his black banner wrre dropping away,
To tear down the proud name orr Nation hsld " n
AND strike her brave bird from ls home in i..c sila
In this night Of national disaster. had Tho cou ellis
and policy Of the Deiaocraic party pfcrae. a. ex-
pressed in It's conventions In its leading cfgans by
its votes in Congress and State Legislatures, the
sun Of our first century OF existence would have set
uDOi severed Union, with three thousand miles Of
hostile frontier lined With ff0wning battlenents
and bristling cannon. thus entailing upon coming
generations the countless woes OF endless border
conflicts. For il the people between the Cult ana
the Lakes could not live together In peace as One
nation they certainly could not as two.
The last great experiment Of free elective Govern.
ment among men would then have been tined ard
the Goddess OF Liberty, heavng her last sigh might
then have winged her way back from earth to
heaven, and the down-tFOdden of the world could
have Rugged their CHAINS as the only legacy they
could beqneath TO their children.
What has the Republican party done II dedi-
Gated by legislative enactment and cOnsecrated
forever the dnoccupied public lands of the Union an
ERIE HOMES FOR FREE MEN. and bade the sons of
toll everYwhere come SIT under their own vine and
fig tree, secure against homeless poverty and want
It opened the courts of justice closed by the Dem-
ocratic party against the poor, the desPised and
frendless OF the race; so that to-day AL men on
American soil. of whatever birth condition. stand
equal before the law. lt saved tho life of the
Republic in the hour of its direst peril, thus presery
ing the ark and the covenant of liberty TO coming
times. 1t broke the chain of tue b0ndman, 80 that
the sun in his course across the continent from
ocean to ocean no longer rises on master sets on
a slave. And the martyr President seals with his
blood the emancipation of q race and gTasping four
millions Of broken shackles ascends TO the bosom Of
his God; thus consecrating the land OF Washington
as the home of the immigrant and asylum of the
exile of every cline and of all races of men. Hence
forth the Goddess Of Liberty rear her affairs with
out shudderng at the clank of the chain ryeted by
her protested yotares and wherever eartRs broad
surface wrong is done 10 bleeding humanity every
American heart will beat in sympathy, and il power
less to do aught else will drop tear Ger the sad
tate of the oppressed
The youngest voter before me was toddling boy
when the Republican party was born. He has seen
it develop from the cradle into it's young manhood
crowned with these more glorious deeds than ever
before circled the brow Of political organization
since time began.
On the second Tuesday Of November next the
voters of the Commonwealth will be called upon TO
decide at the balOt-box to which Of these two par
ties they will ntrust their rights and their liberties
the hopes of their children and destnies OF the Re-
uublic