The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-09-18
THE STANDARD.
THURSDAY SEP. rs, 1879.
1879.
E.The Silver Wedding"

[The following "Stalwart' poem was written
by Professor S. $. lockwood, and read at the
great Republican Jubilee at Madison, Wis, on
the 23d of July:l
Eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Babes that were are babes no more
Boys and girls who breathed that air,
Manly and womanly forms now wear;
Men walked in Manhood's prime
Show the touch of the tyrant Time;
Heads that wore that glorious day
Kingly crowns OF iron gray
Now lift up their drifts of snow,
GIistening in the Sunlight'S glow,
While volcanic hearts below,
Still with patriotic fires aglow,
Keep their earlier faith sublime,
More than a match tor the gray-beard Time;
White with age or bowed with care,
Long ago in silence deep
Dropped away to that dreamless sleep
Out OF whose restful quiet springs
All the comforts eternity brings
Peace to their ashes, and passing peace
Keep their souls while the years increase.
Parties are born Of our civic needs,
Outgrowths they of political creeds,
Fixed and exalted by noble deeds,
Only debaseG by little breeds.
out of the wrath of God and man,
Out of the faith of a stalwart clan
Long reviled and under ban,
| Out of the Wings old hope forlorn.
Out of a Nations pent-up scorn1
What, do we say, is in that name?
| Twenty-Five years of more than fame.
| Born of principles, sired by thought,
| 'Slaves are men and not to be bought"
| "We Nation, ARE truths it has taught.
| Swiftly those terrible years have fed,
| Who are the partisan patriots dead?
| Lincoln and Stanton and Seward,
| These were statesmen of no mean breed;
| Wilson and Sumner and Seward and Chase,
Heroes embalmed in the hearts of race;
| Andrew and Harvey and Morton and Yates,
Rulers of Commonwealths, Empires, States;
Lovejoy, Hale and Old Ben Wade,
| Flanked by the rest of that mighty brigade,
| Greeley and Garrison, Birney and Brown,
| Names which the ages can never tear down,
| Sealed by their lives unto earthly renown.
| This is n roster excel.
These are the giants who fought and fell.
Still i'll the realms of this upper air,
| Worthy each fallen mante! to wear,
| Walk in our midst with gallant tread
Captains by whom we are valiantly led
Peers of the mighty, illustrious dead.
Here on this platform shall stand to-day
Champions of liberty worthy as they
Men of the people well trained to serve,
| Strong of heart and steady of nerve,
| Fearing alone to lie or swerve-
| Foes of falsehood and friends of truth,
R Burrows of fiS Michigan, @ H. Williams La of Rock,
Scions of sound Republican stock,
Brilliant defenders of human rights,
Dreading no traitors and stunning no fights;
Garfield, welding the laws keen blade,
Scorning the tricks of a demagogue's trade,
Swift to cut every Gordian knot made.
Chandler, who never has turned his back,
Mightiest hunter, on JEFF. Davis track,
Bitterest foe of the whole rebel pack,
Michigans chieftain, the warrior, Old Zach;
Matched by these in the halls afar,
Conkling and Blaine and Carpenter are,
Each fixed Republican star,
Triune gods at the Senate's bar,
Masterfu trinity of partisan war;
Logan and Cameron, Window and Hoar,
EdmundS and Foster, and dozens more:
Hawley and Howe and the Washburns all,
Ready to roll the Republican ball,
Ready to leap at their country's call;
Hayes in the White House with veto in hand,
Battling the traitors that threaten the land;
Evarts and Schurz with mastery skill.
Counciling, guiding, governing still;
Paying the debt without default;
Thompson and Devens, McCrary and Key,
Men of such stuff as rulers should be
Safely the Union Ship sails DER the sea,
Here at the helm of the Badger State,
Smith and the rest of the "Stalwart,' slate.
Cheers for our ticket, and cheers for our eau!
Theirs is the triumph of unbroken laws.
Such are the leaders of whom proud.
Who are the followers? All the vast crowd,
Farmers, mechanics and schoolmasters, too
Lawyers and doctors and preachers true
All the grand host that wore the blue,
| They are the boys who never turn coat,
: Crammed and rammed at the cannons thro
Shifting the rebel with bullet and vote;
Nothing have they but scorn for the spasm
OF sentiment bridging 1.-The bloody chasm.
Broken pledges and broken oathS-
State-rights doctrines, the patriot loathes,
Ku-KIuX KlanS on the midnight track
White League blows on the freedmans bacl
Moonshining murderers held at bay
All the great Government, day after day
Bulldozed electors and Butlerized polls
4 Ex-Brigadiers calling old muster rolls
Y Champions and leaders of the once "lOst eau
Everywhere making and breaking the laws;
These are the fruits of that bastard belief.
"Trust and not doubt is the law for a thie
These are the issues make in this strife
These are the Yillainies leaping to life,
Waiting the edge of our partisan knife
These are the Clouds the size of hand
Darlzening the sun and shrouding the lane
Ours be the mission to clear the sky,
Save the Nation, or bravely to die.