Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16

turion heard that he went and told the chief Cap
tain, saying: "a Take heed VIVA thou doest, for
this man IS Roman The Republican party
viii be wanting in &decent respect to the
opinions of mankind" will be false to itself
false to its plighted faith and false to humanity
until this scourging of American citizens, uncon-
aemned and unaccused, save of exercising
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
a temporary recession. But the tide, gathering
new power in its subsidence, defying every OBJ
stacle in its pathway has 10 its return over
leaped all barriers. In this temporary ebbing
in the tide of our civil liberty and universal
freedom, the Republican party finds new op-
portunity and new duty We of New York earn
estly and with determination dedicate ourselves
to the work of warding off the new perils which
threaten us. The spirit which inspired the or
ganization of the party and its deeds, immort tai
for freedom and nationality, is again living
flame in all her liberty-loving homes, k1ndling
anew the determination to make secure
the foundation laid with such costly
sacrifices, and to garner up their full fruition.
Let US here to-day, as her delegated represent
ahVes enter upon our work with q 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 o. the State
to which we are justly entitled by reason of
having shaped its financial policy so as to have
reduced its taxation and Indebtedness and of
having laid the foundation in our constitution
upon which our public works and reformatory
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 eff
fort. Sinking every consideration of ambition
and personal partality, 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-"The 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 us. 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,
Swe see piled quietly up against a golden sky
mountains of compensation, bright with the
hues of glorious peace, and holding within
their precious bosoms treasures for the endow-
nfent of all the coming generations of men"