Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-27

| north, men
SPRUNG TIC THEIR FEET,
! and restored the republican patty Of 70
years ago. Applause So therefore, |
say the work that was done here in 1854
was the revival OF the noblcst party hat
ever existed on this continent, and the
chapter of its work, dropped when it
persisted with the Adams, was revived by
the new republican party Of 1854.
We have been told by our democratic
friends that they were the only people who
could hold up government on this CONT
nent; tn at all parties that opposed them
were eflemina'e and temporary, to pass
away; but we date back to party older
than modern democracy, higher in its
aim nobler in its purposes, truer in its
spirit worthier of the high honor of the
public (Applausc) The work did not
spring up in 1854. Here and there the
spirit Of revived republican liberty lived,
as you heard from my worthy Fl lend who
read us the beautiful sketch of the origin
of the abolition party 1t lived when
THE YOUNGER ADAMS STOOD
| up in the house of representatives and
defended the right Of petition and the
! right Of slaves, even, to petition for )iber-
! ty. Itliyed wherever free man raised
! his voice lived in the person of that no
! bic old predecessor of mine, J. Il. Gid
dings, who represented the district !
now have the honor to represent; who
stood in his place for twenty long, tur.
! bulent years, against the bludgeons OF
| assassins, against the post OF the duelists,
| against the bowle-knife of the cut-throat
that carried about him his best argument
| against truth-stood there until his white
hair, like the plume Of Henry of Navar,
re, showed when the battle of freedom
! fell thckcst and fercest. (Applause)
| Stood there | say, until from minority
! 0. two, Adams and himself he hal the
proud satisfaction of leading to the chair
and swearing into Office a republican
speaker of the house. Stood there until
he saw, in his old age, as the mantle had
fallen from his shoulders, the delight of
his heart and the hopes of his youth re-
allied in the destruction of human sla
very and the restoration of the national
ity TO this country. (Applause) And
so, fellow citizens, from these thousand
beginnings, from these thousand rills
that leaped from your springs, bounded
from your hills, began at last the united
stream of 1854, which made the republi-
can party what you know it 10 be.
The republican party has been charged
all over the land with bringing a bur
den of debt upon the people Fellow
citizens, let us lie honest about that
business Who made that great debt?
1t is yet enormous. twas twelve years
ago Il still more enormous BURDEN but
who made it, | bring the vast burden
of that public debt and lay it at the door
of the democratic party, for they made it
all, IApplause,l No republican ever
lifted his hand to smite the Union, The
men that sought its life in the war were
democrats ALL and If the democratic
party Of the north had stood like one
man against the rebellion there never
could have been a war. 1t was because
the south believed they would have the
help Of the northern democracy, or be-
lieved they would not have their opposi-
ton; and for that reason the enormous
burden of debt was piled up on the
shoulders of this country. When the
war was over and we stepped forward to
the front, we saw this load Of debt, so
great that timid men said, "you can
never pay it," and wicked men, dishonest
men said, you ought not to try-re-
pudiate it," but the republican party,
them with victory, and back to the
debt is the price Of blood, the price of
liberty and bowling the shoulders of
the nation to it they
CARRIED THE MIGHTY load
in honor. And what has happened-what
has happened? Thirteen years have
not passed, and eight hundred millions
of that mighty load are gone-paid in
honor and cancelled, and the burden OF
interest that Won carried one hundred
and fifty millions annually, is now re-
duced to eighty seven millions, by the
effort and force of their manly honesty
in keeping the promises you had made,
Applause | You did that, in spite of
all The opposition that the democratic
party have given you at every step. APP
plause.1 There has been no chance to
sneak out Of the obligations, although
they have been suggesting it like evil
counse lors. There has been no
chance to weaken the public faith
that they have not limited at, and
against their hints, against their
| opposition, the credit and honor of this
| Union has risen higher and yet higher,
until in the last six months you have
| seen eight hundred millions of dollars of
your debt refunded at a lower rate of in
terest; and now the government has
gradually been getting out of the way of
the citizen. Before this the government
was competing for loans and paying
! high rate of interest. Now, these loans
are down to per cent, and you can Dor
| row il with ease and at last through the
! darkness of This terrible panic that struck
/ us in 1873 we have held our own way,
/ keeping the faith, abiding our time, meet
| inr pur inst pll iuatipOS pNhprlinp orr