The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-08-19
GEN. GARFIELD.
A TRUE REPRESENTATIVE. OF
REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS


In closing his admirable speech at
Clifton, July 31st, a speech which
the veteran writer, Hon. e. D. Mans
field, pronounces the abIest political
speech he has read for ten years,
Hon. Stanley Matthews ably defined
the principles of the Republican par
ty, and paid an eloquent tribute to
Gen. Garfield, as a living embodi-
ment and representative of these
principles. He said
In my opinion, there is ensbrined
in the body polite Of
THE REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION Z
all there is good in our present po
IiticaI situation [great applauseJ, and
all the mischief and all the danger is
in the Democratic party. Zap
plause. To my mind, the Repubii-
can party embodies now, as it always
has done, the great idea of our ma
tionality Ccheersl, and l spell the
word "nation" with the biggest IN. D."
Laughter and applause. All There
is in theunity Of this people, all there
is in the fraternity of these races that.
are to inhabit, and cultivate, and
civilize this continent, is inits keep
ing-the keeping of this nation in its
own integrity, and unity, and great
ness, and power, and glory, and in
the idea Of its nationality, is carried
out by that political party, which has
upheld its banners and defended its
flag, and preserved its Constitution.
In that, to me, lie the hopes of the
world as they are to be developed on
this continent [Great applause
There is one other idea that is not
second to that, but that is subsidiary
to it, and that is that it is a great ma
ton, intent upon the preservation of
its nationality for the purpose of de /
veIoping the individual men and
women who live under it to be gods
on the earth, rejecting the glory of
their Creator. Loud applause. ItI
is that they may be free, not because /
liberty is the end, but the means to
morality, and virtue, and religion. It
acts upon the principle which con
5titutes the definition Of civil Justice
render to each man his own, Civ
ing to every man that liberty only
which is consistent with the right and |
liberty equally of every other, 50 that
all men shall have an equal chance
in the race of ife-there is no chance I
shall have the opportunity to de |
velOp the gifts which God has given |
them, without let or hindrance Il
shall be equal before the law; shalTl
stand in the majesty Of human nature !
before the government, with equal |
whether he be rich or poor, |
whether he be great or small, wheth- !
er he be learned or ignorant, wheth- |
er he be black or white. Applause |
And I shall never be. satisfied, my |
tongue will never be idle, until there |
is recognized throughout the length [
and the breadth of the land, through !
every State, and in spite of State lin
itations and State prohibitions, the
right of every citizen of the United |
States, no matter where born or bred,
to migrate to any other States, there
to live and dwell and exercise his
civil, political, and personal rights
and privileges, with no man to mo
lest or make him afraid. Prolonged |
applause And if my government
my nation, is rot to-day strong
enough to make the weakest of its
equal in strength to the
Of his oPpressOrs, then /
will add power to power and strength /
to strength until its energy is felt by |
every tyrant in the land. Applause |
And it is because the Republican
party represents to me those ideas
that I am proud and hOnored to be
called a Republican Tcheersl la
Black Republican, if you choose.
Laughter and cheers And 1 set
my face as flint against every host
that combats, denies, or abridges
those ideas. [Cheers.
And, fellow citizens, the RePubi-
can party, by happy Providence,
has presented for the sufrages of the
people a man that, above
all other men that I know, embOdies
those ideas. [ Great and long con
inued applause. A poor boy that
worked with his hands in the humble
and unaristOCratiC employment Of
driving a team on the tOw-path of a
canal, contributing out Of the mite OF
MS wages to the support Of his wild |
owed mother ; studying his books
and improving his mind as best he
might from time to time ambitious
to be something other and different
from that in which his lot had been
cast, not for himself, but for those
on him, and we might say
improving those faculties to make
them most useful to his kind unset
fish, modest, honest, pure, laborious;
a model of an American boy, youth,
man friend of free institutions in
this country, of which every citizen
Of the country ought to be proud.
Great applause