Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-26

the Southern Mississippi, from which all
| Europe may be clothed and fed, owe their
success to the votes Of Northern Repuhli-
cans The one hearts desire of Republican
New England is for a prosperous, happy,
free peaceful, educated South. All We have
to ask Of her is Come out from among the
tomhs. Think of the living and not of the
! dead. Look abroad over fields, and factor
les, and railroads, and school-hOuses, and not
at gravcyardS. Think of the future and not
OF the past or, if YOU must think of the past
think Of the Revolution and not ofthc Rebel
lion, (Applause)
DirectneSs OF speech in the trucst friend
ship. The time requires fair warnings and
plain truths. II our brethren at the South
VIII show us any way 10 promote their moral
or material prosperity, no one Of their own
representatives, will pursue it with more
cagerness OF desire than ours We will help
build their school-houscs, we will help re-
vivc their commerce, we will help improve
| their rivers md harbOrs and cover their land
with railroads. But for their sake, as for our
own, we will not permit them to wipe out
the results of the war, or TO trample under
| their heels either our own Constitutional
| rights or those of our Republican fellow citi
zens applause
1t is no accident that every campaign in
the South begins with homicide, in which
some conspicuous political opponent of the
Democratic party is the victim and some
Democrat the victor The Southern strug-
gle for political power begins always. like
the ancient games, with sacrifice, II sacri-
flee in which is she'd. not the blood of bulls
and goats, but of American citizens. God
will take care OF the negro, as lie did of the
jew, as He did of the Puritan, as He did of
ss.a.N.. al.
doth Of all that are desolate and oppressed
God will take care of the negro, as lie did of
the Jew, even if lie must send His pillar of
cloud and Of fire to lead him in anew exodus.
(Applausc.) But what will become of the
white man : What will become of those
fair States What will become of the
American youth, bred, under the examples
of his fathers, 10 think that violence, that
corrupt acts, that tissue ballots, that muir
der are common methods by which power is
gained and maintained in free States.
For the first time for thirty years the
Southern Democracy control both houses of
Congress. The Democrats have u small ma
iority in each branch and the South an over
whclming majority in each caucus. What
the Democratic caucus resolves, the Democ-
ratio Congress enacts. Their purposes he
who runs may read They mean: First to
hold power in their own States, suppressing
by violence, so far as il is needed, the free
dom of discussion and election; second, to
deprive the nation of any power to secure
the purity Of the ballot and the honest cleo
ton of its own officers third, to destroy the
National credit by imitation, and the National
strength by paralyzing the army fourth, by
these methods. and with the aid of few
Northern allies, to make the National Gov
ernmcnt, thus weakened and defenceess, an
easy prey. There are sixteen Southern
States which will vote as unit in 1880
Ten of these, with fair discussion and cleo
ton, would be likely to be Republican, and
six of the ten would be as certain as Mas
sachusetts or Vermont.
All the great issues of 20 wears are to be
crowded and concentrated into the decisive
struggle of 1850. There is everything in this
contes, To stir the blood Of the Republicans
of Massachusetts She is not wont to lag
behind Maine and California when liberty is
in question. Maine is the foreman of this
mighty jury of States. To the verdict which
she pronnunces Massachusetts will not dis
agree. Let him who has separated from us
in the past come back TO us now. If the
man of your choice be nominated. your ef-
forts are pledged to his success. If candi-
date hc selected less calculated in vour iudg- /
" IhlHIdl II IS YOUR
duty To do twice as much. As was well I
said the other day by one of the wiSest and .
truest of our friends, The standard must /
he saved"
The caIsr in which We are engaged is the .
cause alike Of memory and of hope /
Against the memories Of the lost cause be it /
ours t. put the memories Of the cause /
which is ever won. As you came from every |
city and town and hamlet in Massachusetts |
on this 25th anniversary, there must have |
risen by your side the images of the wise and |
true and brave; some who rest al home in |
honored graves, some who sleep on distant .
hattlefiells, who used to come up here with |
You to our annual council
But better than the memories, even such .
memories of arc are the promises of youth. .
lie who now clasps hands with us, and |
ConscCrltcs his youthful strength to our /
cause, may look forward to grtater triumphs |
and brighter rewards in that time when .
slavery and rebellion and secession and re-
pudation and kukluX and white league and |
Butlerism shall be forgotten, or remembered
dimly hut as hidrou3 dreams, while the life
Of the RepuhEican party shall blend and
become one with the life of the Republic
Great applause