Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-02

TAMMANY AND THE FOURTH.
Triumphant Progress Of the Democratic
Pn'fy-"ds Well Stag the atlantic or Rid
Niagara Stand stu at the Plunge of the
Fails.
NEW YORK, June IL, 1879.
DEAR SIR-We invite YOU to celebrate with us
the approaching anniversary of Independence
Day. It is ordained in the constitution of this
society that the Declaration Of Independence
shall be read once year, in order that the
patriotic fame may be kept alive among the
sons of Tammany. The Fourth of July has
been set apart appropriate for this and other
patriotic exercises as the brightest day in the
calendar of liberty.
Come then, we cordially repeat, and ioin
as in our wigwam on Independence Day, to
hear the declaration read, not as an idle Ger
emony, but as sacred duty. It's truths ap-
ply now quite as much as when George III.
was quartering soldiers on our forefathers
without their consent. Has not the Presi
dent of the United States exerted all Lis
power to perp7tuate the military ideas of
George Ill? The ballot box, after having
blood, and lifted up like consecrated urn to
receive the votes Of the people when thew
repair to the polls to elect their public SER
wants, is to-day no longer free. It should be
the palladium of liberty, but the President
of the United States, SO far as in him lies.
has wrested the constitution from its mani
fest and long accepted meaning, has rendered
the freedom of elections the plaything of
tyrants, and has converted the precinct for
voting, within whose consecrated limits the
humblest American citizen was once the
equal of kings, into q threatened camping
ground for soldiers, where the bayonet and
not the ballot shall become the symbol of
sovereignty. His vetoes of the army and
legislative appropriation bills are precisely
those sins of tyranny against which the
declaration of independence is q ringing
protest. As far as it can be effected through
q President whose own accession to power
was an unparalleled defiance of the popular
end electoral will, the American people to-
day enjov the right to vote by the sufferance
of the army. The Republican party, which
never kept pledge nor observed cove
nsnt, turns from the people whom it has be-
trayed. to the army, which it would disgrace
into local police force.
At the end of the civil war our enemies
proclaimed the Democracy dead and only
awaiting burial. The corpse soon arose and
walked abroad once more. But what for
mldable task was before it! The South Law
PROSTATE and helpless under radical domino
tlon, to be plundered by carpet-bag adven-
tnrers. The golden West, the natural field
OF the Democracy, as exemplifed in the SIM
pllclty OF its people, was under the absolute
control of the Republican party. The East
ern and Middle States we're held in the
grasp of our implacable enemies. State
rights we're laughed out of court. Those
who advocated them spoke with bated
breath, as if afraid to proclaim the
truth, which could alone make them free.
Jefferson and Madison, jackson and Wright
were ghosts of the prehistoric period, to be
mentioned only for derision or to point the
lnsolence of radical sneers. It was the era
OF force and the philosophy of history was a
sealed book in the affairs of the Republic,
But the Democracy still lived.
DEMOCRATIC INv1No1BnrrY.''
At last, in 1874, the old Democratic line
was formed for victory, and North and
South, East and West, shibboleth was State
rights and home rule. Everywhere tie
principles of our party triumphed- maiori-
ties by the hundreds of thousands were ours:
Massachusetts itself did homage to the
spirit of Jefferson, and the irresistible
Democracy overwhelmed State legislatures,
Governors, the Congress every
body. 1t was at last popular to be Demo-
crat. Then came the Presidential election
of 1876, and again the Democracy swept the
country, winning the Congress, reducing
the Republican majority in the SEN
ate to three, which it has since wiped out.
and electing the President by decided ma
jority, both popular and electoral. Dead?
AS we'll stay the Atlantic or bid Niagara
stand still at the plunge of the falls. Prin-
ciples never die. The history of the United
States since the ratification of the constitu-
ton in 1889 has been narrative of Demo-
cratic invincibility.
The society of Tammany has contributed
its full share to restore the f. deral and State
governments to their prestine renown. This
city is the great stronghold of Democracy;
the State OF New York is a Democratic State.
In the approaching Fourth of July we
will pledge anew our faith to the creed of
Jefferson, and exhort all Democrats to q
union of hearts and hands, to the end that
harmony may prevail in our ranks, and that
those who think the same Thugs about the
Republic may deliver united blows against
the common enemy. Very respectfully
yours, AUGUSTUS SCHELL, Gland Sachem.
JoEI, o. STEVENS, Secretary.
Sachem Henry l.. Clinton,
Father of the Council
Sachem John Kelly.
Sachem Thos. Dunlap.
Sachem N. Jarvis, Jr.
Sachem E. Kearney.
Sachem 81. A. Gumbleton.
Sachem Cadwal Evans.
Sachem Aug. Belmont.
Sachem J. T. Hoffman.
Sachem 8. P. Nichols.
Sachem 81. D. Purroy.
Sachem Bern. Reilly.
Sachem Thomas Boese.
ARTHUR LEARY, Treasurer
JOHN D. NEWMAN, Wiskinkie.
Edward Gilon, Sycamore.
Augustus G. Docharty,
Scribe of the Council.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Lawrence Burns, of High Forest, Olmsted
county, arose in his sleep the other night
and fell down stairs, receiving serious in
juries.
The dam at Rice's mill, on the Little
Rock river, in the town of Langola, Benton
county, was washed away during the heavy
rain storm of Tuesday, June "a.
q. Il. Newsham, of Viola, Olmsted county,
had one of his fingers bitten recently by
cat. The finger became so painful and
swollen that amputation was resorted to,
to save his hand, and perhaps his life.
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