Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-08-10


speech in Cleveland last October. Ii
was magnificent piece of popular
oratory. Every sentence struck with
the force of trip-hammer. We sub
join its closing appeal to young tnen.
We do not know where to look for
anything equally effective In touching
pathos, Irresistible humor aud stirring
eloquence: IS %\\<&\N~-< X
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN \
Nov, fellow>citizens, q word before
[ leave you, on the eve of the holy
day Of Coda fit moment to conses
crate ourselves finally to the great
work OF next Tuesday morning. I see
In this great audiences tonight e feat
many young men, young men who
are about TO cast their first vote.
want to give you word of suggestion
and advice. l heard a very brilliant
thing said by boy the other day up
in one'of our northwestern counties.
He said TO me, General, I have a
great mind 10 vote the democratic
| ticket That was not the brilliant
thing. Laughter / said to him,
'Why?' Why SAID he, my father is
republican, and my brothers are re-
publicans. and I am republican all
| over, but [ want to be an Independent
man, and / don't wan. any body 10
say, "That fellow votes the republican
| ticket just because his dad dotsp and
have half mind vote the demo.
cratic ticket just to prove my indie
pendence.' l did not like the thing
the boy suggested, bat i did admire
the spirit OF the boy that wanted to
have some independence OF his own
NOW. l tell you, young man, don't
vote the republican ticket Just because
your father votes il. Don't vote the
democratic ticket even if he does vote
it. Laughter. 81 But let me give you
this one wOro of advice rs you are
about to pitch your tent in one of the
great political camps. Your life is full
and buoyant with hopenow, andI beg
you, when you pitch your. tent, pitch
it among the living nd not among the
dead [Applause.1 Ifyou are st al
inclined 10 pitch il among the demo.
cratic people and with that party, let
me go with you fora moment while
We survey the ground where I hope
you will not shortly lie. ILsughter.]
1t is a sad place, young man, sfor you
to put your young life into. 1t il to
me far more like a graveyard than a
camp for the living. Look at i'll Tits
beloved all over with the graves OF
dead issues, of buried opinions, of ex-
plOded theories, Of disgraced doctrines.
You cannot live in comfort in such a
place. Laughter ] Why, look here
Here is a little double mound. [ look
down on it, and L read, Sacred to the
memory of Squatter Sovereignty and
the Dread Scott Deeision.' A million
and halfOf democrats voted for that.
but it has been dead. fifteen years
died by the hand OF Abraham Lincoln,
and here it lies. Applause Young
man, ghat is not the place for you.
but look little farther. Here ia
another monuments black tomb
and beside las our distinguished friend
said, there towers to the sky monu.
ment Of four million pairs of human
letters taken 'from the arms of sIaves,
and read on it's little headstone this
Sacred to the memory ofhuman slave
ry.' For forty years OF it's infamous
life the democratic party taught that it
was di7ine-G0d's institution. They
defended it, they stood around it, they
followed it TO is grave as mourner.
But here it lies, dead by the hand of
Abraham Lincoln. [AppIause ] Dead
by the power OF the republican party
LAppause. Dead by the justice of
Almighty God. LGreat applause and
cheers.l Don't camp there, young
man. -s-= f' 800.
but here is another-a little brim-
stone tomb [isughterl--and / read
across its yellow face in lurid, bloody
lines these words: Sacred to the
memory Of State Sovereignty aud Sc.
cession.' Twelve millions of dem oefats
mustered around 1t in arms to keep it
alive: but here it lies, shot to death by
the million guns of the republic. Ap>
plause.I Here it lies, its Shrine burnt
to ashes under the blszing rsfters Of
the burning confederacy. TApplause
1t is dead. would not have YOU stay
in there q minute, even in this balmv
night air, to look at such place.
Laughter. a-~ t~
But just before leave it discover
a new made grave, a little mound
short. The grass has hardly sprouted
over it, and all around it I see torn
pieces of paper with the word fl at on
them laughter l. and look down in
curiosity, wondering what the little
grave is, and | read on it., Sacred to
the memory OF the Rag Baby lIaughterl
nursed in the braip1of all the fanati-
cisn of the world laughter I, rocked
by Thomas Ewing, George Ii. Pendle-
ton, Samuel Cary, and few others
throughout the 1and.' Built died on
the 1st of January, 1879, and the one
hundred and forty millions Of gold
that God made, and not fiat power, lie
upon its little CARCASS TO keep it down
forever. Prolonged applause. I s
On, youpg man, come out of that
Laughter That is no place la hich
TO put your young life. Come out, and
come over into this camp of liberty, OF
order, of law, of Justice, of freedom
| Amen of all that ia glorious under
these night stars. .G
us there any death here 10 our
CANT? Yes yes! Three hundred
and fifty thousand soldiers, the nobIest
band that ever trod the earth, died TO
make this camp camp OF glory and of /
liberty forever. Tremendous ap-
plsuse.l
bat there are DO dead issues here.
There are no dead issues here Hsng
out our banner. from under the bIueI
SKY this nightuntil it shall sweep the
green turf under your feet! 1t hangs
over our camp. Read away up un der
the stars the inscripfions We have |
written on it, 10 these twenty-five
years. so. Gs-',4
twenty-five years ago the repu bH. |
can party was married to liberty, and |
TINS is our silver Wedding, feIlow-t
citlzens. CGreat applause. A worth |
ny married pair love each other better |
on the day OF their silver Wedding
than on the day of their frst eononss