The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18
.LOQUENT WORDS.
Ia by Vice President WILL
lam A. wheeler, yf
he New York Republican State
Convention, at Saratoga.

aMEN OF THE CONVENTION: Thrice
en- honored with the position to which
now assigned me, and, if gratitude
,mputed by progression, thrice am 1
for your kind partiality. / had the
preside over, the Republican State
IN twenty years ago, when the slave
aving the constitution, the laws, the
}, Congress and the courts in COM
lination, was nevertheless demanding
euliar interest rights and protection,
the pale of the constitution, was Sc
.anizing vast conspiracy against the
of the Union, and kindllng the flame
1thless civil war which, within two
,reafter, opened it's dread drama in
n harbor in the glare of eleven bat
artillery, which hurled their iron bolts
small, siege-worn company of United
9ops, whom the Government, in it's
9sire to avoid hostile demonstrations,
lvoring to feed, and not to reinforce.
Sumter that the experiment. of starv-
overnment was initiated, with repeti-
Jacksonville and other places of his =.
atty, and more recently at Washing
late extra session of Congress. | came
3ition again in 1872. The curtain had
a upon the bloody drama opened at
a. The long, weary, battling years
ntervened had drifted into the dead
efag had been lifted up from it's hui
at Sumter, and, again inviolate and
proclaimed the national sovereignty
Potomac to the Rio Grande. A half
{ the defenders of that sovereignty
ping in soldiers graves. The blood
eds of battle fields, the emblems OF
:, the tears in o million of sacrifcial
@ bereft, the desolate, the helpless, the
nd the wasted, encountered on every
,sted the costliness Of the sacrifices
I'd been made for the national life.
confidently believed that, by an i'm
aw of the Supreme Ruler, such sacri-
not been made in vain; that the ma
ID, the nations tears, and the nations
had found compensation in the des-
If the germ of the fatal heresy of Sc
nd in saving the grand framework of
eminent from falling into wretched
$. With immense majorities in Con-
4 every Northern State, and omnipo-
TX the status of its defeated enemies,
rnment, with a magnanimity for which
ry of the world furnishes no parallel,
he contest as one of principle, and
rsOnal hatred, and lifting itself above
9vel Of mere personal triumph, had
| the crime of treason and rebellion,
ally reinvested traitors and rebels with
is they had forfeited, and made them
in the privileges they had
Y cast off in their mad purpose to de-
, national authority. This magnanim-
been supplemented by every possible
in the Southern section of
TRY substantial era of reconciliation
70. Military garrieons have been with
III alleged national interference hereto
plained of discontinued, and, contrary
itical precedent, appointments to Of
been given to those who, a few years
3re moving heaven and earth to pros
Government and Union. To-day we
re confronting the consequences
magnauimity of the Government
ts wasted and despised efforts to- COR
8 late armed assailants. In the lightof
vents it is not hyperbole to inquire.
surrender of Appomattox wretched,
ruce, patched up to enable the rebellion
e new line of assault upon the new
aud was the mushroom Confederacy
led at Montgomery really failure, or
ounders and ideas to become the liv-
trolling forces of the country? The
lich detied the authority and sought to
the Unity of the republic has again taken
'rm in solid South, supported by the
power of the party North, which
declared that the constitution had
Q Government powerless in the
an armed enemy, which, with
spirit but fainting flesh, pledged
resist coercion unto blood; and
when our victorious legions had pre-
Re winding OF the rebellion, in it's
Convention assembled resolved the
,ilure.
7ATE RIGHTS AND MULTIPLICATION s
'ed of ali guise, the TWO great parties of
ltry are again ranged on either side of
, Of demarkayion of the powers of the
| Government and the States. Wherein
fers the issue from that made up in
Then, the Democratic party demanded
ident Lincoln that he should periure
in his official oath or they would over
le Government by armed force Lin
jwered, in his inaugural "You have
registered in heaven to destroy the
nent, while have the most solemn one
serve, protect and defend it." This
was rel erred to the last dread court of
nent, where for four years, in the white
fearful war, the great argument pro-
until at last, at Appomattox, the YER
8 delivered to the matchless soldier
of the Union forces had
rebel traitors to submission and
an outraged nation. That verdict was
constitution of the United States was
ompact entered into by the States, but
tanned and established by the people
United States for themselves and their
Y; that no State or combination of States
lily the constitution; that the Union is a
IF States, independent Of each other for
but united under one. Govern
r the management of common interests
} preservation of the general peace-a
} borrow the language Of another
hopeful for combining the home-bred
IS of small State with the stability and
IT a great empire" In short, that YER
that the nationality proclaimed by oul
shall stand until justice, domestic tran
, the common defense, the general well
I'd the blessings of liberty shall, in Gods
od time, under the stars and stripes, be
ing heritage of oil who may be dwelling
e face of this entire continent. And the
lean party of the Empire State, remem-
hat the great charter of our nationality
acted upon her soil, and recalling the
deeds, the sacrifices and the fideiity oil
ost half million of her sons who partici.
n that bloody assize, pledges itself here
, stand by the verdict.
lis year of grace the same Democratic
'hich sought to coercs President L,ncolr
lis official duty has demanded of Presi-
ayes that he should perjure himself il
cial oath; that he should surrender {
alive given him by the constitution, Sc
Ongress alone might become the law
power, and that the party might, b,
ssional enactment, strip the Government
power to protect its citizens, to enforct