Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-09-18

OiOOus anu WHICH, mueH our UBIQUITOUS
legions had prepared the winding
sheet of the rebellion, in its National
Convention assem- bled, resolved the
war failure
Stripped Of all guise, the two great
parties OF the country are again rang
ed on either side OF the line Of de-
marcation of the powers Of the Ma
tlonal Government and the State
Wherein row differs the issue from
that made up in 1861? Thea. the
Democratic party demanded OF Presi-
aent Lincoln that he should purge
.iinnSeif in his official oath, or they
you'd overthrow the Government by
armed force. Lincoln answered in his
inaugural: You have nu oath in
heaven to destroy the Government,
while L shall have the most solemn
one 10 preserve, protect aud defend it. "
This demand was referred to the
last dread court of arbtrament, where
tor four years, in the white heat of
fearful war, the great argument pro-
ceeded, until at last at AppomattYx
the verdict was delivered to that
matchless soldier whose marshaling OF
the Union forces had brought rebel
traitors to submission and avenged an
outraged nation. That verdict was
that the Constitution of the United
States was not compact, entered in
to by the States, but was ordained and
established by the people Of the
United States for themselves and their
posterity; that no State or cembina-
ton of States can nulify the Consti-
tuition; that the Union is family of
States, independent of each other for
local concerns, but united unoer one
government for the management of
common Interests and the preservation
of the general peace-a plan, to Dor
row the language of another, "most
hopeful Tor combining the home-bred
blessings Of small State with the
stability and power of great Empire
In short that verdict was. that the
Nationality proclaimed by our fathers
shall stand, until justice, domestic
tranquility, the common defense, gen
eral welfare and the blessings Of liber-
ty shall, in Gods own good sine, un-
der the stars and stripes, be the last
ing heritage of all who may be dwell
lers upon the face of this entire con-
tinent. And the Republican party Of
the Empire State, remembering that
the great charter of our Nationality
was enacted upon her soil. and recall
ins the heroic deeds, the sacrifice and
the fidelity of the almost half million
of her sons who participated in that
bloody assize, pledges here anew to
stand by the verdict.
In this year Of grace, this same
Democratic party which sought to
coercc President Lincoln from his
official duty has demanded of Presi-
dent Hayes that he should Ierjure
himself i'll his official oath: that he
should surrender a prerogative given
him by the Constitution, SO that Con-
gress, alone might become the law
making power and that power might,
by Congressional enactment, strip the
government of the power to protect
its citizens, to enforce its laws for the
prescIVaCGOn or the peace, and Tor the
security of the ballot box, to the end
that this palladium of our liberties
might be left prey to fraud and yio-
lence in the South and swindling re-
peaters in the North This revolu-
tionary demand was accompanied by
the menance that, the President refus-
ing. the whole machinery of the gov
eminent should be brought to stand
still by withholding the supplies
which constitute its very life currents.
This new assault upon the Constitu-
ton differing in form only from that
made By the same party in 1861, was
met with frmness, dignity and pat
riotism which make Rutherford B.
Hayes ilIustrious in his high Office and
a worthy successor of him who for
twelve years, in field and cabinet,
stood against every such assault as
wall of adamant.
From the decision Of President
Hayes. as from that of Lincoln, the
Democratic party takes its appeal; not
this time do we wager of battle, for tho
discretionary States, the great factori
of the party, have not yet forgotten
the tramp OF the armed legions of the
Union, who bore upon their banners
into the heart of its strongholls the
death warrant of slavery, nor the old
inspiring notes of ''Glory Hallelujah,
rung out by those legion<. as they
swept by the gaIlows of John Brown,
carrying the day star Of the morning
of liberty to those who sat in the
night of bondage. The appeal is now
taken to the balIot-box, which itself is
made the brunt Of the assault of the
Democratic party. because through It's
prostitu ton alene lies It's only hope Of
success
X. X. X.
MAINE ELECTS DAVIS Governor by