Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22


this essential difference. that they found
Hayes. and not Buchanan. in the chair.
Great applause.
All the great issues of twenty years
are to be crowded and concentrated into
the decisive struggle of 1880. There
is everything in this contest to stir the
blood Of the Republicans of Massachu-
sets. She is not won't to lag behind
Maine and California when liberty is in
the question. Maine is the foreman of
this mighty jury of State. To the YER
dict which she pronounces Massachusetts,
will not disagree. (Applause.) The
struggle Of 1880 is at hand. It is to
be waged for as great stake as was
ever ventured on peaceful combat The
supremacy of the nation lately vindicat-
ed on hundred battlefelds; the free
dom of race bought with SO much
precious blood ; the purity of the ballot
box, without which statutes and consti-
buttons are but rags; the national cred
credit, on which all property and safety
rest; the resumption of specie payment,
essential to the security of business and
the steady employment of labor-all
these are to stand or fall by the result
of the coming strife. You must join
one or the other Of the two great armies,
or be content to be nothing and to do
nothing. You must enlist in the patriot
rank, or take service under the tory ban
49,, = 49, w. ~Ha- shta.v.s,
who seek to follow and plumber both
camps. Let no personal discomfort let
no difference about men, have feathers
weight, compared with the welfare of
the Republic. Let him who has sepa-
rated from us in the past come back to
us now. If the man of your choice be
nominated, your efforts are pledged to
his success. If candidate be selected
less calculated in your judgment to ex-
cite popular enthusiasm, it is your duty
to do twice as much. AS was well said
the other day by one of the wisest and
truest of one friends, 1.-The standard
must be saved" (Applause.)
The cause in which We are engaged is
the cause alike of memory and of hope.
Against the memories of the lost cause
be it ours to put the memories of the
cause which is ever won. AS you came
from every city and town and hamlet il
Massachusetts,. ON this twenty-fifth an.
niversary, there must have risen by your
side the images of the wise and true anC
brave; some who rest at home in honor
ed graves. some who sleep on distan
battle fields, who used to come up here
with you to our annual council.
''Then in this same boat beside.
Sat two comrades. old and tried;
One with all a fathers truth,
One with all the fire of youth.
One on earth in peace hath wrought,
And his grave iI peace hath sought;
But the younger, brighter FORM
Passed in battle and in storm"
+ But better than the memories, evel
: such memories, of age are the promise
of youth. He now clasps hand
with US, and consccrates his youthful
t strength to our cause, may look forwar
l to greater triumphs and brighter reward
: in that time when slavery and rebellion
and secession and Reputation and K
e Klux and White League and Butlerisr
s (applause) shall be forgotten, or remen
a bered dimly but as hideous dreams
e while the life of the Republican part
b shall blend and become one with the lii
S of the Republic. Great applause.l