Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-30
ADDRESS.
To the People Of Minnesota !:


70 the People of Minnesota:
In seeking at your hands renewal of the trusts
heretofore confded to the Republican party, the
undersigned deem themselves alike justified in
proudly pointing to the achievements of the past
and rendering congratulations upon the prospects
OF the future. The great national party which was
called into being by the force of moral conviction,
to resist the encroachments of human slavery and
yindcate the equal rights of men, has exhibited no
less capacity to grapple successfully with difficult
practical affairs, and it is scarcely too much to
claim that its achievements have exerted more
potent influence in behalf of popular government
and the advancement of civilization than any
political organization known to history.
NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
In the twenty five years of its existence, it has
rescued the nation from distinctions it has liberated
a race and transformed human chattels into re-
sponsible citizens; it has asserted the national dig
nifty and enforced reparation from governments
insulating our national flag; it has promoted the
substitution of peaceful arbitration for the bloody
arbtrament of war; in behalf of our foreign born
citizens it has compelled foreign governments to
surrender their claim to the perpetual allegiance of
their subjects; it has advanced the national status
among the governments OF the earth, and enhanced
the safety and honor of American citizenship the
world over; it has added six young States to the
national Union; by it's liberal and enlightened
policy the continent has been spanned by great
railroad, its vast rivers deepened and cleared in
the interest of internal commerce, its broad acres
peopled and cultivated and its treeless wastes con-
verted into inviting homes for the poor and andless
of all nations; it has maintained the dignity and
rights of labor, supported the right of legislative
control over transportation monopolies, and en-
couraged the prosperity of agriculture, manufac-
lures and commerce; 1t has steadily repaired the
wastes of the dire struggle for national preserva-
ton; it has kept the public faith, it has paid
500, 000, 900 of the public debt; it has made an
enormous national currency of equal value with
gold throughout the world; it has by the practice
of wise economy cheapened the means of personal
comfort while fostering the enlightened agencies
and arts of peace at home, and it has by its firm
and just foreign policy encouraged the advocates
of free government among the nations OF the world.
These are the achievements which entitle the
Republican party to the continued confidence of
the country. Shall they be continued and enlarged
to prouder results and wider prosperity, or cur
tailed, reversed and defeated?
TREATMENT OF THE SOUTH.
No candid man can deny that the victorious
North has treated the States recently in rebellion
with more than magnaninity. [t has called for
no vengeance; it has neither shed the blood nor
confscated the property of it's tratorous brethren;
it has fed them in restitution and mnistered unto
them in sickness; it has freely pardoned their
offences and removed their disabilities; it has with
drawn military guarantees for the maintenance of
order; 1t has given them the exclusive control of
their local affairs, and in its earnest and continued
desire for fraternal concord ithas carried its for
beafance to the verge of culpable sentimentality
REBEL oUTRAGEs.
What is the return for such generous treatment?
The murder of peaceful citizens for opinions sake
reign of brutal intolerance toward northern sen
timent and people of fraud, intimidation and vio-
lence to enforce an odious political despotism.
Every pledge aud guarantee of good faith made by
these people has been violated Their fraud and
terrorism evince desperate purpose to compel a
solid South, and thus to obtain within the Union
what they failed to achieve by the disruption of
the Union. In proof of this it can only be neces-
sary toadduce the efforts of these men in congress,