Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-07
GARFIELD AND CHANDLER.

AND CHANDLER.
'heir Utterances at tho Recent Repub'
ican Jubilee at Madison, Wis.
The Glorious Achievements Of the Re-
publican Party.
Following are the excellent addresses
delivered by the Hons. James A. Gar
ield and Zach. Chandler, on the occasion
# the "silver wedding" of the Republi-
an party of Wisconsin, at Madison, on
he 23d:
aARF1ELD's ADDRESS.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLow C1r1zENs:
know you will be glad to make the re-
naming exercises Of the dsy vely .LsnoIt snort'
I am sure you have with me enjoyed what
you have heard to-day of history, of remi-
niscence, of poetry, of music, of the pros
pect of prosperity, of all that belongs to
the Republican party. have only two
thoughts in my mind, and therefore I will
not be long in getting ct you; and the first
~ k08t t00 Ox1&AA Va bA0 AS0pUVACSA p0A AVy 40
very important m a matter of history. We
heard it said to-day that it was founded
twenty-five years ago. In one very impor.
tant sense, so it was; but in another exces-
sivelv important historical sense, the Re.
publican party was revived. 1t was, indeed,
restoration of the earliest party of this
government: The declaration of indepen-
publican party. The grand inspiration of
that instrument gave life to a party and sub.
which for nearly quarter Of
century was known as the Pro.
gressive Republican party Of the United
States. 1t was tho party OF Jefferson; it
government; that created the constitution
that started into its long career of life this
new republic; and it was party that has as
distinctive doctrine a. We have had since
our most recent origin of 1854. That first
Progressive Republican party had for its
central idea the doctrine Of the declaration
Of Independence, the equality of all men
before the law. They hated slavery and
their work just as far as Il ey could towards
realizing the meaning of the doctrine of the
| declaration of independence. They did not
hope to destroy slavery in their day, but
they hoped to limit, to restrict it, to narrow
its field and to enlarge the boundary of lib.
erty as far and as fast as the vested rights
and the vested wrongs Of slave:holders
would let them. They did abolish the slave
trade on the high seas; they did declare the
slave-trader was pirate to be known and
punished as such everywhere that our COM
merce or our ships of war could reach him,
and not only so aslovers of the rights of men
and the equality of all men before e.law;
while they knew they could not make men
equal in talents, they did decla1e that they
would make education free and give every
one a free chance to do all God had enabled
him to do by the talents given him in his
creation. That old Republican party, there.
fore, dedicated all of her territories in por.
tions of the west to the freedom of schools
, forever. They did more; they knew that
all men were not equal in wealth, but they
would do all in their power to give each
and that old Republican party abolished
: imprisonment for debt in every state in
t which they had control. They did more
q than that. The old Republican party ex.
empted from execution the necessaries OF
, all house.holders in the states where they
had control. They did more. The old Re
7, eight states of the union before they went
d out of power. They did more. They made
"a suffrage universal, without distinction o.
II race, in almost every one of the old north
ern states, except, perhaps, the single STATE
of New York, and That old Republican par
l. ty that died in the days of the younger Ad
n cred the first quarter of the present century
70 with glory in the interests Of liberty, in thu
20 interests of justice, in the interests of tht
rights of laborers, in the interests of al
those rights that are necessary to the intel
l. ligence, the prosperity, the freedom and thu
"a honor of great people.
"a but there were conservatives in those
~e %lAoA
% opposed by the conservatives to the utmos
e Of their power. The attempt to stor tht
slave trade was declared to be ungodly, fol
q it cut off the poor heathens of Africa from
Va coming to this country to hear the g0spe
~ preached. The abolition of imprisonment
for debt was assailed as strike against tn,
y rights of property and of creditors, and th'
"a abolition Of the old system that took ever,
last thing from the poor man in execution
# was also struck at and condemned for tn
- =. same reason. Year by year the malcontents
the conservatives, the resisters OF progress
~ of republicanism, gained, until at last the.
tt allied themselves with the slave power AM
er that alliance was too strong for the earl
ne Republican party. and it broke in piece;
- the better elements of that early day ha
@ @L degenerated, became the ruling power Q
ae this government. That Democracy ha
many noble impulses in its earlier day.
[r. had some good doctrines, but at last, unco1
ed sciously to itself, imperishably, as the year
Ito went on, it bowed lower and lower, an
descended deeper and deeper, until it b'
w ne came the bound slave of the slave power o
'ct this continent, and it was only when, =
ot- violate the old ordinance of 178
a. to break down the compromi'
no. of 1920, to prostitute to base Sc
1ue vices of slavery the freedom of all OF
DC western territories-it was only when,
w. last, freedom of speech, freedom OF though
,ur freedom of discussion, freedom of deba
dr. everywhere, freedom Of % congress, t treedo 10
' ;n worth having by free man, was gon
IN denied, and the aristocratic mobiof thespi]
the of slavery rode over the necks of freem
III everVWhere-it was only then, in the e
the tremity of that degradation and the dep
the of that oppression, that all over this count
.nd not In Wisconsin alone, but in Aichiga
';th Ohio, belt of states to the ocean-au ov
ear restored the Republican party Of 20 ye,
had ago. [Applause.] So, therefore. I say
3 of work that was done here in 1854 was
ore revival of the noblest party that ever exi
eels ed on this continent, and the chapter of
work, dropped when it perished with
Adams, was revived by the new Republic
nds party of 1854.
tQo "0 nave U6SA bOAu W VUA OOA0SAo
Fact friends that they were the only people v
I, a could hold up government on this COZ
a. n . " nent; that all parties that opposed th
as were effeminate and temporary, to 2
lun. away; but We date back to q party ol
and than modern Democracy, higher in its 9
mic nobler in its purposes, truer in its sPi
five worthier OF the hlgh honof OF tne e. pun
King lAPPiseasssl IN. e "", "md th:r. III ~. .n;f;
u9o revived republican liberty lived, ~
It IN heard from my worthy friend who read
ater the beautiful sketch of the origin OF
feet Abolition party. Itlived when the your
the Adams stood up in tho house OF represe
feet tives ana deienaeo tne E.gn' oi P;t;"n Pss;;;on
pa liberty. It lived wherever free man IA
oooy his voice; lived in the person Of that n
old predecessor of mine, J. B. Giddings,
represented the district I now have
honor to represent: who stood in his r
for twenty long, turbulent years, agains
and bludgeons of assassins, against the post Q
pen duelists, against the bowie knife Of the
q re. throat, that carried about him his best ,