Morris tribune., 1880-06-17

which the demon Of sIavery has aeYer dared to
cross. It made them free forever. Loud APP
plAuae aud cries of good. Strengthened by
It's victory On the frontier the young party, UNI
der the leadership of that great man who, ON
this spot twenty years ago, was made its lead
or, it entered the national capitol and assumed
the high duties of the government lappiause)y
The light which shone from ats banner diapelled
the darkness in which slavery had enshrOnded
the capitol, and to that melted the shaOkels OF
every slave and consumed in the Ere of liberty
every slave pen within the hhAdow Of the capi-
toll.
Our great national industries by an unpr0-
toeted policy were themselves Frustrated and
the streams of revenue flowed in such fesble
currents that the treasury itself was will nigh
empty, the money of people was The wretohed
notes of two thousand uncontrolled irresponsi-
BILE state banking corporations which were
filing the country with n circulation that
poisoned rather than sustained the life Of
business. cloud applause ai, j.s
The Republican party changed all this, Abol-
ished the babel OF confusion and gave the
country = currency az national ~ its flag, based
upon the saGred faith OF the people. Jap
plausel. It threw its protection around QUIZ
great industries and they stood erect "a with
new life. IL filled with the spirit OF nation
atty of the great functions of the government.
10 confronted q rebellion of unexampled
magnitude with alavery behind 1t, and under
battle was won, (Applause.l Then after the
storms of battle were heard the sweet calm
words of peace spoken by the conquering ma
tiOn, and saying To the conquered foe that lay
prostrate at its feet, this il our only revenge
that you join rs, lifting into tho serene 6rma-
ment of the contribution to shine like stars
forever ana ever tine immortal principle or
truth and justice that all men white or black
shall be free and stand equal before the law.
Cloud applause.) Then came the questions OF
reconstruction. OF the public debt, and the pub
lilo faith in the settlement Of these questions.
The Republican party has completed ita
twenty five years OF glorious existence, and it
has sent Us here to prepare it for another
lustrum Of duty and Of victory. How shall We
do this great work. We cannot do it, my
friends, by aasailiug our Republican brethren.
(Great applause and cries Of, gOod.)
God forbid that should say one word 10
cast q shadow on any name ON the roll Of our
heroes. This coming fight is our Thermoply@.
We are standing on narrow isthmus. If our
Spartan hosts are united we can withstand all
the Greeks that the Xerxes of Democracy can
bring against Us. LIT Us hold our ground this
one year, for the stars In their course fight
for us. In the future the census to be taken
this year will bring reinforcements and CON-
tinusd power. (Applause.) Bat in order to
win this victory nGW, We want the vote of every
Republican, every Grant Republican and every
ansi-GrRnt Republican in America. (Great
applause.) OF every Blaine man and every
anti, Blaine man. The vote of every follower
of every candidate is needed to make our suc-
cess certain. (Applause.) Therefore, say,
gentlemen and brethren, we are here to take
calm counsel together and enquire what we
shall do? Nominate Garfield, . voice said.
Great applausal
We want man whose life and opinion en-
body all the achievement of which ! have
spoke. We want man who, standing ON mon
tain height wee all the achievements of our past
history and carries in his heart the memory of
all It's glorious deeds and who. looking forward
prepares to meet the labor and the dangers to
come. We want one who will act in no spirit
| of unkindness toward those We lately met in
| battle.
The Republican party offers to the brethren
of the South the olive branch OF peace, and in.
| vites them to renewed brotherhood on this su-
preme condition, that it shall be admitted for.
ever and forever more that in the war for the
Union we were right and they were wrong.
(Cheers). On that supreme condition we meet
| them Is brethren and no other. We ask them
to shars with Us the blessings of the great re-
public (applause). Now gentlemen, not to weary
you / am about to present to you . name for
your consideration, the name of q man who
was the comrade and associate, and friend of
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces look
down on us from these walls tonight (Cheersl
aeieTIins t to the portraits .S Of
Chandler and other eminent Americans hanging
in the hall among whom he began bis career Of
public service several years ago, whose first duty
was c0arageOusly done in the days of peril on
| the plains of Kansas when the first red drops
| of that bloody shower began to fall which
finally swelled to the deluge of war. Cheers.
He braved aud stood by young
Kansas then, and returning to his seat in
the national legislature, through all the subse,
| Quent years his pathway has been marked
| by labors performed in every department OF
| legislation. You ask for his monuments. ]
point you to twenty-five years of national stat
utes. (Cheers.) Not one great bene6cent stat
| ute has been placed on our statute books, with
out his intelligent and powerful aid. (Cheers.)
He aided these men to formulate the laws that
| raised our great armies and navys, and carried
ms through the war. His hand was aeen in the
workmanship of those statutes that restored
| and brought back the unity and marred calm
Of States. His hand was in all the great
legislation that created the war currency,
but in . still greater work that redeemed
the promises Of the government a1d made the
currency equal to gold, and when at last be
passed from the halls of the Legislature into q
high executive Office, be displayed that expert
of character which has carried us
through stormy period of three
years, with one-half the public press crying
cruelty him, and hostile Congress seeking to
prevent success. In all this he remained
unmOved. Victory crowned him. The great
fiscal affairs of the nation, and the
great business interest of the, country
he has guarded and preserved, while executing
the law of resumption, and effected it's object
without . jar, and against the false propriesiel
Of one-half Of the press, and all the Democracy
Of this continent. (Applause.) He
has shown himself able to meet with calmnesl
the great emergency of the government. For
twenty-five years he has trodden the periIOul
heights of public duties, and against all the
shafts of malice has barred his head unframed.
He has stood in the blaze of thSt fierce light
that beats against the th1one, but its fercest
ray has found NO flaw in biz
honor, NO stain on his shield
do not present him a. q better Republican, o.
| better man than thousands of others that VI
honor. but I present bim for your deliberate
consideration. nominate John Sherman, O
Ohio, (applause.) +. G. Winkler Of Wisconsin
and B. B. Elliot, Of South Carolina, mad
speeches secOnding Sberman's nomination.
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