The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18

| rebellion. We make no secret of our parmality
for the regulated bayonet in the hands of men
wearing the blue of the Government as against
| the shotgun in the hands of the red-shirted
mobocracy of the South. We demand that this
| land
| She that lifts up the manhood of The poor,
| She of the open soul and open door,
| With room about her hearth for all mankind
shall be made the land of supreme, ,onstitu-
tional liberty, as Interchangeable as the stars
| symbolized upon her banner We demand
that the faith Of this nation to its creditors shall
be maintained upon the basis upon which we
placed it in the hour of its peril, and have
steadily upheld it through weary years of pri-
vations, reverses, sacrifices and vanishing val
ues until now every dollar of the public debt
commands it's face in gold. Insisting always
upon the equality of the national obligation with
gold, we will keep the nations honor unsullied
and never permit it to be tainted by the touch
of the repudiator, whether he comes in open
assault or IN artful guise, with silvery tongue
We demand Government which shall pro-
tect the weak, the Ignorant, and the
that American citizenship shall be
raised to the dignity at least of that of the Ro-
man empire. When Paul had been bound with
thongs, he said to the centurion that stood by:
Is it lawful for you to scourge man that is a
Roman and uncondemned 2" When the cen
tain, saying: "Take heed what thou doest, for
this man is Roman" The Republican party
will be wanting in "decent respect to the
opinions of mankind" will be false to itself,
false to it's plighted faith and false to humanity
until this scourging Of American citizens, uncon-
demned and unaccused, save of exercising a.
right given by the constitution. shall cease, and
until the admonition, Take heed what thou
doest, for this man is an American, shall be as
potent when applied to the lowest freedman of
the land as was that of the Roman centurion
From the day Luther burned the Popes bull
at Wurtemberg, the progress of the human
race toward higher civilization has swept on,
not always with uniform force, but with many
a temporary recession. But the tide, gathering
new power in its subsistence, defying every OBJ
stacle in it's pathway, has in it's return over
leaped all barriers. In this temporary ebbing
in the tide of our civil liberty and universal
freedom, the Republican party finds new op-
portunity and new duty. We of New York earn
estly and with determination dedicate ourselves
to the work of warding off the new perils which
threaten u.s. The spirit which inspired the Or
ganization of the party and it's Deeds immortal
for freedom and nationality, is again living
flame in all her iberty-loving homes, klndling
anew the determination to make secure
the foundation laid with such costly
sacrifices, and to garner up their full fruition.
Let us here to-day, as her delegated represent
ton of it's magnitude. Our success at the COM
ing election is not only vital to the welfare of
the nation, but will insure as we'll the control
of the administration of the affairs of the State
to which we are justly entitled by reason Of
having shaped it's financial policy so as to have
reduced its taxation and Indebtedness and of
having laid the foundation in our constitution
upon which our public works and reformatory
institutions can be managed with the greatest
efficiency and economy. These real reforms
ought by every consideration, to be intrusted
to those who originated them and are most
thoroughly imbued with their spirit
Let us not be lulled by the idea of
division in the ranks of the Democratic
party. We shall confront an opposition
which will challenge our every legitimate eff
fort. Sinking every consideration of ambition
and personal partiality, let us be rivals only in
every needful sacrifice, to the end that by our
action to-day we may lift up the banner, by
whose sign-"The Union, the Constitution and
the Enforcement of the Laws"-we shall not
only conquer now, but lay the sure foundation
for national success in the greater contest just
before us. And so, remembering our obliga-
tons to the loyal dead and to generations who
are to follow, let us grid ourselves for the new
conflict, invoking the guidance of Him who
hath hitherto been our deliyerer. Beyond
these lowering clouds, in anothers language,
I'VE see piled quietly up against a golden sky
mountains of compensation, bright with the
hues of a glorious peace, and holding within
their precious bosoms treasures for the endow-
ment of all the coming generations of men,"