Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24

shall be made the land of supreme, constitu-
tional liberty, as Interchangeable as the stars
symbolized upon her banner. We demand
that the faith of this nation to it's creditors shall
be maintained upon the basis upon which we
placed it in the hour of it's 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
helpless whom we have liberated, and
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
Roman and uncondemned ?" When the CEN
turion heard that he went and told the chief Cap
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 q
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 Pope's bull
at Wurtemberg, the progress OF the human
race toward higher civilization has swept on,
not always with uniform force, but with many
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 OPP
portunity and new duty. We of New York earn
estly and with determination dedicate ourselves
to the work of warding off the new perlls which
threaten u.s. The spirit which inspired the or, :,
ganization of the party and its deeds, Immortal
for freedom and nationality, is again q living
flame in all her liberty-loving homes, klndling
anew the determination to make secure
the foundation laid with such costly
sacrifices and to garner up their full frultlon
Let us here to-day, as her delegated represent
atives, enter upon our work with a just concep-
ton of its magnitude Our success at the COM
ing election is not only vital to the welfare Of
the nation, but will insure as well 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 80 as to have
reduced it's taxation and indebtedness and OF
having laid the foundation in our constitution
upon which our public works and reformstory
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 Of
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.aThe 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 U.S. 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 deliverer. Beyond
these lowering clouds, in another's language
@we see piled quietly up against golden sky
mountains of compensation, bright with the
hues of glorious peace, and holding within
their precious bosoms treasures for the endow-
ment of all the coming generations Of men,"