Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-09-25
Before the New York Republican State
Convention, at Saratoga.

upon Ouo sIQdlA, S1ero-WOTu company OI Ou1tcC
States troops, whom the Government, in itf
earnest desire to avoid hostile demonstrations
was endeavoring to feed, and not to reinforce
It was Ut Sumter that the experiment Of starv'
ing the Government was initiated, with repet.
ton at Andersonville and other places of his
toric brutality, and more recently at Washing
ton At the late extra session of Congress. I came
to this position again in 1872. The curtain had
then fallen upon the bloody drama opened al
Charleston; The long, weary, battling years
past. The flag had been lifted up from it's hu-
initiation at Sumter, and, again inviolate and
supreme, proclaimed the national sovereignty
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. A half
million Of the defenders Of that sovereignty
were sleeping in soldiers graves. The blood
Of hundreds of battle fields, the emblems OF
mourning, the tears in q million Of sacrifcial
homes, the bereft, the desolate, the helpless the
SCARED, and the wasted, encountered on every
hand, attested the costliness Of the sacrifices
which had been made for the national life.
We then confidently believed that by an i'm
mutable law of the Snnranao Rulo1, such sacrl-
ticas had nut been made in vain; that the ma
TONS BLOOD the nations tears, and the nations
treasures bad found compensation in the des-
truction Of the germ of the fatal heresy Of 90.
our Government from falling into wretched
fragments. With immense majorities in Con-
gress and every Northern State, and omnipo-
tent to fix the status of its defeated enemies,
d
the history Of the world furnishes no parallel
treating the contest as one Of principle, and
not of personal hatred, and lifting itself above
the low level OF mere personal triumph, had
condoned the crime Of treason and rebellion,
ard actually reinvested traitors and rebels with
the rights they had forfeited, and made them
equal participants in the privileges they had
insolently cast off in their mad purpose to de-
stroy the national authority. This magnanim-
ity has been supplemented by every possible
effort to establish in the Southern section Of
this country = substantial era Of reconciliation
and peace. Military garrisons have been with
drawn, all alleged national interference hereto
fore complained of discontinued, and, contrary
to all political precedent, appointments to Of
fee have been given to those who, few years
since, were moving heaven and earth to pros
trate the Government and Union. To-day We
are here confronting the consequences
of the magnanimity of the Government
and Of it's wasted and despised efforts to con-
ciliate its late armed assailants. In the light Of
recent events ii is not hyperbole to inquire.
hollow truce, patched up to enable the rebellion
to choose new line Of assault upon the new
Union and was the mushroom Confederacy
proclaimed at Montgomery really failure, or
are the founders and ideas to become the liv-
ing, controlling forces Of the country? The
spirit which defed the authority and sought to
destroy the unity of the republic has again taken
living form in a solid South, supported by the
whole power Of the party North, which
in 1851 declared that the constitution had
face Of an armed enemy, which, with
valorous spirit but fainting flesh, pledged
itself to resist coercion unto blood: and
which, when our victorious legions had pre-
pared the winding sheet of the rebellion, in it's
National Convention assembled resolved the
war failure.
STATE RIGHTS AND MULTIPLICATION.
Stripped of all guise, the two great parties of
the country are again ranged on either side of
the line Of demarkation Of the powers Of the
now differs the issue from that made up in
1861? Then, the Democratic party demanded
of President Lincoln that he should periure
himself in his official oath or they would over
throw the Government by armed force Lin
coin answered, in bis inaugural: you have
no oath registered in heaven to destroy the
Government, while have the most solemn one
to preserve, protect and defend it." This
demand was referred to the last dread court Of
arbitrament, where for four years, in the white
heat Of fearful war, tho great argument pro-
SEEDED until at Last At hAppo%9stes the yer
whose marshaling of the Union forces had
brought rebel traitors to submission and
avenged an outraged nation That verdict was
that the constitution Of the United States was
not compact entered into by the States, but
was ordained and established by the people
Of the United States for themselves and their
posterity; that no State or combination Of States
can nullify the constitution; that the Union is
family of States, independent of each other for
local concerns, but united under one Govern
nent for the management Of common interests
and the preservation of the general peace
plan, to borrow the language of another
most hopeful for combining the home-bred
blessings Of small State with the stability and
power Of great empire" In short, that YER
dict was that the nationality proclaimed by our
fathers shall stand until justice, domestic tran
quillity, the common defense, the general well
fare, and the blessings of liberty shall in Gods
own good time, under the stars and stripes be
the lasting heritage of all who may be dwelling
upon the face of this entire continent And the
Republican party of the Empire State, remem- :
bering that the great charter Of our nationality
was enacted upon her soil, and recalling the
heroic deeds, the sacrifices and the fidelity of
the almost half million Of her sons who partici-
pated in that bloody assize, pledges itself here
anew to stand by the verdict.
In this year Of grace the same Democratic
party which sought to coerce President Lincoln
from his oficia duty has demanded of Presi-
dent Hayes that he should perjure himself in
his official oath; that he should surrender
prerogative given him by the constitution, 80
that Congress alone might become the law
making power, and that the party might, by
Congressional enactment, strip the Government
OF the power to protect its citizens, to enforce
its Laws for the preservation of the peace and
for the security Of the baot-box, to the end that
the palladium of our liberties might be left
prey to fraud and violence in the South and
swlndling repeaters in the North. This revo-
menace that, the President refusing, the
whole machinery Of the Government should
De brought to . standstill by Withholding !,
the supplies which constitute its very life
currents. This new assault upon the con-
stitution, differing in form only from that
made nv thu Yarkv in 1921 mot wit
q firmness, dignity and patriotism which make :
Rutherford B. Hayes illustrious in his high
office, and worthy successor of him who, for
twelve years. in field and Cabinet. stood against :
the decision Of President Hayes, as from that !
Of Lincoln, the Democratic party takes it's ap- |
peal; not this time to wager of battle, for the !
insurrectionary States, the great factor of the !
party, have not yet forgotten the tramp Of the !
armed legions of tho Union who bore upon t
their banners into the heart of its strongholds !
the death warrant Of slavery, nor the old in
spring notes Of sGlory Hallelujah!" rung out
by those legtons, as they swept by the ga1lows |
OF John Brown, carrying the day-star of the |
morning Of liberty to those who sat in theuight 7
OF bondage. The appeal is now taken to the
tho assault Of the Democratic party, because
throughits position alone lies it's only hope Of I
success. l make no apology for putting the |
periloue national issue now Joined above ell
s s;aasI t1 soc The Republican party be-
lutte supremacy o.: the constitution and
the laws Of the nation. We are thus
early, by the action Of the Democratic party at
the Last session of Congress, forced upon the
first line Of the Presidential canvass Of next
by {. majority Of the, people Of, this State,
speaking through t6eir ballot. boxes in Novem.
ber next, will be the assurance Of the completa +
overthrow OF this new attempt to subvert the