The Hartford herald., 1879-07-23
Speech Of J. E. FOgle Delivered nj
Cromwell, July 10.

FELLOw-CITIZENs Il am here to adj
dress youas votersand patriots, and those
who feel an interest in the continuation
of that system of government trans
mitted to us by our fathers, sealed with
the blood of their lives, and Justly de-
nominated the best Government that
, the world ever knew. The time lnhs
come when everyone should be politi.
clan; not a politician in the every day
jargon we meet, but i'm the broad sense
it imparts-versed in the science of gov.
ernment. This Government of ours is
both wisely arranged one, as well as
one beautiful and durable; and if we
will but take thoughtful view of it,
and act the part of patriots and lover,
of free institutions, when duty calls we
will reflect glory and honor on vet un-
born generations. 1t is wisely provid.
ed that the legislative branch of the
government shall be vested in Con
gress to he composed of Senate and
House of Representatives and that the
Executive he vested i'm a President, and
each clothed with peculiar and distinct
and separate authority, powers and du-
ties; and the one prohibited from en-
crOaching upon the prerogative of the
other. To obtain such a government
as this, it cost the lives and fortunes OF
just and good men, and deprivations
and hazards only undergone by those
who contend for principles-aye, that
never die-and while | make these
utterances Valley Forge, a New Or
leans, and the heights of CerrO Gordo,
attest their truth, and the verdure OF
hOnored graves join i'm the chorus. For
three quarters of a century, this chosen
country and this wise system of govern
ment was i'm the hands of the Dem
ocratic party, and under its judiciOus
administration, civilization spread over
the land, the forests were hewn down,
and where once had been the haunt of
wild beast, became the habitation OF
man, beautified and adorned by flowers
and brOadacres of corn, waving wheat
fields and fragrant meadows; and i'm
the midst of these lowered the hospita-
BILE mansion, surrounded by all the
comforts and joys so peculiar to thrift.
Villages sprang up, cities We're formed,
the buz and hum of industry filled ev-
cry nook and corner of the land-com-
merce and manufacturing flourished,
and the sail of our ships whitenedeve
sea-the arts and sciences revived,
school houses and colleges sprang
into existence; telegraphy and the tel
egraph wire carried the tidings abroad
and proclaimed our greatness with
magic rapidity; the railroad car trans
ferred the products from the producer
to the consumer and bound the country,
as it were, by iron bands, the pripting
press became the dispenser of good and
a tribute to genius, and churches be-
decked the land, asserting the goodness
of the fathers who so wisely inaugu-
rated thia system Of things, We had q
credit abroad, and our ministers were
respected and hOnored in all the courts
Of the world. But we have cause to re-
gret now. The administration of gov
ernmental affairs in 1861, came into the
hands of another political party--a par
ty that for corruption in both high and
low places, has no parallel in history.
have nothing to say of the war, for |
am one of those who believe that the
war has long since closed, or should
have closed, for certain il is that the
strangers graves found here and there,
and the widowed ZONES and more than
orphan children all over the iand, ars
enough to keep alive the memory of it,
without the TRADE and flming of the
Office seekers and office holders of this
history-cursed Republican party. Four
teen years have come and gone since
the war, and still these unconscionable
Office seekers and office holders and
time servers, parade the bloody shirt be-
fora the people. What object have they
IN this3' ahaMe al SG,.tst, That Ipe,lest
virtue has long ago been stricken from
their vocabulary, for a party who dares
to indorse the Fraud that fills the Presi-
DENTAL chair, stolen as il was, from an
other, what will it not do? There are