Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-07-02
FAYETTEVILLE FLAG.RAEsING.
Speeches by Hon. y. N. Tyler and other
dsenaIamen.

NhNNi ~ Ohih1ih hhu hAlhuA ihb WAS Ihihtu NJ
Fayetteville ON the adjournment of the coun-
ty convention on Tuesday, and large num-
Der Of the delegates remaining to witness the
proceedings, speeches were made by several
gentlemen on the green. Hon. j. NJ Tyler
was first called for and spoke as follows
Mr.. TyIer's speech.
FCilO,o Ctiseas:-I did not como here to-
| day for the purpose of making any remarks,
but simply as n delegate through the courte-
sy of my fellow townsmen to attend this con
vontion. congratulate you upon the very
harmonious convention that you have held
| here to-day, and upon your choice of 80 able
and worthy men whom you have put in NOM
| inaton as the standard bearers of the Repub-
lican party of Windham county.
Now gentlemen, il you will allow me,
will say that since have had an opportunity
of noticing something of the workings Of the
machinery of our government, I am Impress
| ed more and more with the importance of
! the fact that this is government of the peo-
pie, and that the whole management of the
| government is in your hands and in the
hands of the people of this country, and
whether it be good or bad, you, as the poo
| pie, arc entirely responsible for it. / con
graduate you not only upon the nominations
that you have made here to-day, but also up
on those that were made q short time ago Mt
the national convention.
II had time would like to sny something
about the principles of the grand old Ropub.
lican party. l say old, although it is young
in years. II was organized little moro than
twenty years ago, but in noble work it is old,
the grandest party that this country or any
other country ever saw. In 1860, when
Abraham Lincoln was nominated, the issue
in that campaign was simply this-whether
this nation that had been dedicated to the
principles of freedom should be rededcated
to slavery. When we came down to %, what
was the issue then ? 1t was whether the war,
which had been prosecuted almost to a sue
cossful termination-when Sherman was then
making his victorious march to the sea, when
Grant laid before Richmond with his con-
quering hosts-the simple question in that
campaign was whether we should purchase
peace through ignominious terms, or wheth-
or the war should be prosecuted to a success
full termination. You, gentlemen of Yer
mont, and of the whole nation, answered that
question, and the rebellion was subdued.
Now we come down to the campaign of
1880, and the question now is this old issue,
almost. 1t is the old issue between n solid
South and as solid North as the Republican
party can make it, The issue in this cam
paign is whether this government shall be
/ say party of the South because it is a solid
South with the adjunct of the Democratic
wing in the North, and the question is wheth-
er the government shall be handed to the
men of the South who were once in arms
against it. There is no use in compromising
this question. Now have always been con
sidered a conservative man, and am u con-
sentative man to-day | wish that all the an
imosities of the late conflict could be forever
buried out of sight, but still we have no right
TO forget the lessons that were taught by that
war Now, after twenty years of absence
from the halls of legislation, after twenty
years in which the great majority of the
Democratic party have been out of power,
they have got back into tho halls of Congress.
| tell you, gentlemen of Windham county, il
there had been fair elections through the
country and the Republican voters OF the
South could have expressed their will through
the ballot box there would be no Democratic
majority in either House of Congress. ZAP
plause.) They have no right to be there.
When they came back if they had expressed
some penitence for what they had done, and
given some assurance Of future good CON
duct, we should have welcomed them with
open arms. But they came back proclaim
ing that the cause for which they had fought
was just and righteous cause, and declared
that unless the election laws that had been
passed for the purpose of protecting the bal
lot box, unless these laws should be over
thrown that they would stop the appropria-
tions of the government and the whole vast
machinery of this government should cease.
During that extra session of the Forty sixth
Congress they expressed no other policy, and
the Democratic party has had no policy or
principle except to get into the presidential
chair. applause and laughter.)
In regard to their candidate, Gen. Han
cock, it is far from my thought to say one
disparagng word against him. He WIS n
brave and true Union soldier, but his record
has been that of q military man rather than
that of statesman, and the Democratic par
ty have nominated him out of policy and not
principle, because they thought he would be
an available candidate. Now, gentlemen it
has occurred to me as a very significant fact
that after the Democratic party saw fit 10
send back into Congress GO or G5 ex-Confed-
crate soldiers and about 20 Senators who
were in the Confederate service, men who
held positions in the Confederate army, that
when they came to nominate a president of
the United States they should select Union
general 1t is very curious, but there is no
end to the curiosity that the Democratic par
ty can exhibit Why, you remember a few
years ago in their dilemma, in the emergency
of their case, they selected Horace Greeley
the worst and had thrashed them through the
New York Tribune. (Cheers.) Now can
you be surprised that last week at the Gin
cinnau convention they should select IN
ion soldier? 1t was nothing more or less
with them than question q availability
They did not take Gen. Hancock because he
was Union man, but because they thought
he might win soldiers votes
Now we have got as the standard bearer of
the Republican party a man who was as
brave and as valiant in arms as was Gen.
Hancock. A man who for more than q doz-
en- years has been in the House of Represen-
tatives and has conducted himself with the
greatest honor l have had the honor of sec
ing him go in and out of the House of Repre-
sentatives during the extra session, and l
think l know the man; that he is an honest,
noble American statesman. And if any one
thinks that James A. Garfield ever did any
thing wrong, oil he has got to do is to look
into his honest face and every such idea
will be dispelled. Gen. Garfield is a man
who sprang from the people, who early in
life toiled with his hands, and who has not
only toiled with his hands but with his brain
also He has become one of the most emf
nent American statesmen, one of the great
est men in public life. II would have been
your first choice if our own Senator Edmunds
could have been selected. AS Mr.. Edmunds
has grown to be more national in his charac-
ter, and has become identified with the pub
lie interests, he has become dearer to all Yer
monters, and dearer TO the whole country.
But as we cannot have Edmunds as the stand
ard bearer of the Republican party, I say, in
my judgment, We have the man that stands
next TO him.
Now let us try and sec how large a MAORI
ty Vermont will give her Republican nomin-
ees next September. We have on our east
ern border almost a doubtful State. and we
have one on our western border that is really
doubtful State and is really the key TO the
whole situation--the great State of New
York and it is the opinion of most statesmen
that if Vermont will this year raise her Re
publican majority from 1900 or Is, 900 up
to 20, 900 it will at least put o, 900 Republican
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