The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-14
The REPUBLICAN PARTY.
wo Stirring Speeches by Gen. Gar
field and Zach Chandler.
delivered at the Great. Republican Cele-
bration at Madison, Wis.

ave q TlSub w uSo 'Uu0 WOEUS BI6llOW-C1ClZ6nb,
1d I use them in no narrow sense I might do
}, however, inasmuch as the State Of Wiscon-
n once formed part of Wayne county, where
now reside. But | use the words in their
roadest sense-American citizens. It has be-
,me popular to talk of State citizenship and
9ny national citizenship claim that you and
have precisely the same right to go to I'LL
)is, to South Carolina, to New York, or Geor-
a, and express our views and cast our votes
safely as we have right to express our
ews and cast our votes in Wisconsin or in
ichigan. Therefore, [ use the words fellow
items in their broad, natural sense. 1t is
Ill for us to celebrate the twenty-fifth' ami
rsary of the Republican party. It is well,
rhaps, that we should boast little of the
rt that we individually took in that forma-
n. But let me say that we were but mites in
mighty whole in they work. Michigan claims
have formed, on the 9th of July, 1854, in ad
ace of Wisconsin. But what does that mat
? The Republican party was formed by
d to save human liberty. No matter who
3 a day, or week, or month in advance in
rying out the will of Almighty God We
re simple agents. 1t may be proper for me
dwell upon the reasons for the formation of
Republican party.
Why was it born and why has it lived? The
,roachment of the slave power had been 80
>at that all the lovers of human liberty
oughout the land decided to unite and re-
its further extension. 1t had repealed the
3souri Compromise line, and ordained that
very should take possession of all the vast
rritories of these United States, and the Re
bllcan party was organized as a one ld5ad
Fly to resist that power. We were o one
ad party at our birth, but that idea was
lad enough and large enough to cover almost
world 1t was the liberty of man. Are we
ation, or are we not? At the foundation of
Government, when our constitution was
opted, the people, the whole people, Of these
3ited States believed that we were nation
Iced, and so they continued to believe in
80, when South Carolina declared that we
re not nation, or that she had right to re-.
t the General Government Andrew Jack
a was then President When South Carolina
sed the flag of rebellion, he said if she at
npted to resist the laws of the United States
the Eternal, he would hang John O. CAL
I'm, the father of the State-rights doctrine,
d all the people, including John @. Calhoun
ew he would do it. From that day forward
was admitted on all hands that we were
ticn. We remained under that conviction
til after the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
,se, when notification again raised it's head
took my seat in the Senate of the United
ates on the 4th day of March, 1857. At that
no it was deemed that we were nation.
The daily and hourly threat on the floor of
tn houses, and everywhere throughout the
pital, was, " If you do this, or if you don'tdo
at, we will dissolve this Union" They
oclaimed that State sovereignty overrode ma
)nal sovereignty, and that one State had the
ght to overthrow the Government. That
minated in 1861, in revolt against the ma
IN. Careful preparations had been made for
during the four years preceding 1861. Your
mics were scattered mostly among the
1uthern States. Your navy was scattered
herever the winds blew and water was found.
our national credit, which stood high in 1857,
as so absolutely destroyed that, in February,
j6l, your bonds paying 8 per cent. interest,
)llar and no takers for the whole amount We
ere in no situation to go to war. But you
emit to war notwithstanding all these disad-
Sntages, and you fought the war through to
tccessful issue. When therebels surrendered
Appomattox they admitted that the United
ates were nation. "Very sadly we had
admitted the question to the arbitration of
ms. You have conquered, and we surrender
this nation" At that time these
bells made no claim upon the Government
l every ordinance Of secession which they had
gned they had pledged their lives, their fort
les and their Sacred honors to the over
IF 10 foyI al
icy had lost their lives, their fortunes, and
leir sacred honors" They made no claim
N rights, for they had none. They asked,
Id humbly asked, the boon of their miserable
yes, and that was all they did ask Such mag
lnimity as was exhibited by this nation on
at occasion the world had never seen. We
ave them their lives. We restored to them
cir property, and, finding them naked, we
othed them and restored them to citizen
zip. They were bound by the laws
nations and by the laws of war
r LOCO years to pay every dollar of
II magnanimity, forgave them the debt and
ok them to our arms as brethren. But in
70, what DOVE find? The same identical is
es that were presented to us in 1857 are pre-
nted to us now. After twenty -four years from
time I first took my seat in the Senate go
ok, and what do find? Not the same men,
1.-THE same measures being pressed that were
essed then The men havo changed, but the
9asures have not changed at all, and to-day
lat are they doing? They tried war; They
dertook to shoot the Government to death.
ley failed. They undertook to capture Wash
ton with arms in their hands, but they did
tcapture it But to-day they have captured
ashmgton, and to-day, while they don't
eaten to shoot the Government to death,
~ say, "Unless you allow us to rule this Ma
II, we will starve the Government to death"
20 national life and the national honor are in
eater peril to-day than they were in 1861.
icy said then, "Unless we can rule this nation
will ruin it." They say the same thing to-
y The issues are the same to-day. The
10000 of men who were so recently in
ms against the Government absolutely rule
d control it's legislation through caucus
,tation. One 4 man from Wisconsin
lom will not name [Braggl the whole nation
vs. proud of, for he seemed to exhibit man
cd, although Democrat But he humbly
rendered to caucus dictation, and his name
forgotten. These men say, sWe want purity
office men who occupy their seats on the
>or of both houses through fraud and vio-
ace, through shot-guns and tissue-b ballots
lirty-six in the House haven't a single soh-
ry man for constituency, and are repre-
natives of the colored race in violation of
", for the law expressly says that where 3
ce or class of men are disfranchised they
all not be represented on the floor. Twelve
embers of the Senate secured their seats in
e same way, and thus they hold control of
9TH houses, and, holding il, turn around and
y; @You rascally Republicans, we will make
III obey such laws as we dictate, or We will