Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-12
YOUNG MEN,
Listen to the Advice of Gen.
James A. Garfield
Delivered at the Close of Hot
Campaign Eloquence and
Sense.
fCleFeland Leader

tcieseland Leader
The following, delivered in Cleye-
land on Saturday evening, October
IL, 1879, just before State election
day is SO tull of eloquence and good
advice that we cannot forbear to re-
produce it here and commend it to
the careful reading of every young
man In the land today:
Now, fellow. citizens, word be-
fore leave you on the very verge
of toe day of God-a fl. moment to
oonsecrate ourselves finally to the
great work of next Tuesday morn
ing. see in this audience Tonight
a great many young men--young
men who are about TO cast their
frat vote. l want to give you a
word of suggestion and advice. l
heard very brilliant thing said by
O boy the other day in one of our
northwestern counties. He said TO
me, General, | have great mind
to vote the Democratic ticket"
That was not the brilliant thing.
Laughter | said to him, "Why ?"
why said he, "my father is a
Republican and my brothers are
Republicans and | am Republican
all over, but | want to be an indie
pendent man and don't want any
body to say, That follow votes the
Republican ticket just because his
dad does, and have mind to
vote the Democratic tickst just to
prove my independence" did not
like the thing the boy suggested,
but | admired the spirit of the boy
who wanted to have some indepen-
denee of his own.
Now, l tell you, young men, do
not vote the Republican ticket just
because your father votes it, and do
not vote the Democratic ticket even
if he does vote it. [Laughter.] But
let me give You this one word of ad-
vice, as you are about to pitch your
camps. Your life is now full and
buoyant with hope aud when you
pitch your tent, pitch it among the
living and not among the dead.
[Applause
If you are at all inclined to pitch
it among the Democratic people and
with that party let me 60 with you
for moment while we survey the
| ground where | hope you will not
shortly lie. laughter 1t is sad
place, young man, for you to put
your life into. 1t is to me far more
like graveyard than like a camp
for the living. Look at It'll 1t is
billowed all over with the graves of
dead issues, of buried opinions, of
exploded theories or disgraceful
doctrines. You cannot live in COM
fort in such place. Laughter. |
Why. look herel Here is q little
double mound. | look down on it
and read, "Sacred to the memory
of squatter sovereignty and the
bred Scot decision" A million and
a half Democrats voted for that, but
it has been dead fifteen years-died
by the hand of Abraham Lincoln
and here it lies. Applause Young
men, that is not the place for you.
But look little farther, here is an,
other monument, black tomb, and
beside it as our distinguished friend
said, there towers to the sky 1000.
900 pairs of human letters taken
from the arms of slaves, and | read
on It's little headstone this, "Sacred
to the memory of human slavery"
For forty years of it's Infamous life
the Democratic party taught that 1t
was divine-God's institution. They
defended il they stood around il;
they followed 1T to its grave as
mourners. But here it lies, dead by
the hand of Abraham Lincoln. TAp.
plause. Dead by the power of the
Republican party. Applause. ! Dead
by the justice of Almighty God.
| [Great applause and cheers.] Don't
camp there, young man.
But here is another. A little brim-
stone tomb laughter] aud | read
across its yellow face in lurid,
bloody lines these words: "Sacrsd
to the memory of state sovereignty
and secession" Twelve millions of
Democrats mustered around il in
arms to keep it alive; but here it
lies, shot to death by the million
guns of the Republic, Applause. !
Here it lies, its shrine burned to
ashes under the blazing rafters of
the burning oonfederacy Zap
plause. 1t is dead. / would not
have you stay in there q minute,
even in this balmy night air, to look
at such q place. [ Laughter
But just before leave it discov-
or new-made grave, little mound
short. The grass has hardly
sprouted over it, aud all around |
see torn pieces of paper with the
word "fat" on them, [laughter1 and
| look down in curiosity wondering
what the little grave is and | read
on it, SACRED to the memory of the
Rag Baby" [laughter1; nursed in the
brain of all the fanatacism of the
world rocked by Thomas Ewing,
George Fl. Pendleton, Samuel Cary
and few others throughout the
land. But it died on the first dsy
of January, 1879, and $40, 100000
OF gold that God made and not fat
power, lie upon its little carcass to
keep it down forever. Prolonged
applause
Oh, young man come out of that
[Laughter.l That is no place in
which to put your life. Come out,
and come over TO this camp of liber.
ty, of justice, of order, of law, of
freedom, [Amsn] of oil that IS glori-
onS under these night stars.
l. there any death here in our
camp2 Yes Yes Three hundred
and fifty thousand soldiers-the 20.
blest band that ever trod tho earth
died to make this camp q camp of
glory and liberty forever. PRO
longed applause.
But there are no dead issues here.
There are no dead ideas here, Hang
out cur banner from under the blue
al l. l.