Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-15

you cannot Gust thomt but between this hun
gry horde and the American people prom e.
20 throw the shield Of my veto" He Says;
=, Ladies and gentlemen, ! will protect you
from this party. Al / want VI these men ia
70 make me President, ana then will protect
you and let them 10 10 the Devil" General
Hancock might DIE; death might veto him.
FROM the grave he could not carry out his
promise, aud who comes Ia theuf Mr. English.
Death never yet made n good President
in the Unitei states yet death has always
made frightiul mistake. Read tho letter Of
acceptance made BY Mr.. English and tell me
whether you are willing 20 trust that man.
READ his histOry,-a man VINO has done
nothing nut loan money, take deeds Of trust
on me 'liie, liberty, and pursuit Of hnppiness'
OF the people, and then f1rclose the deed and
yet after nominating that man the Democrat
lc party passes resolution that they Will save
the people from the cOrmOrants. had rather
trust pal " than any man; you had rather
tru9l the Republican party than simply Cen
eral Hancock He says: II am a shepherd:
followers are wolves" Well. say rather than
nave the wolves, we will dispense with you.
What are tho ideas Of this soldlcrl
Hancock? / say he f. for hard money. and
yet when n Greenbacker carried Maine he
congratulated him. Why should be DO that II
he Is believer IN hard money! Maybe he
was not so glad that the Grcenbackers carried
the state as that the Republicans lost n.
IDlt9,es D9es he believe ~ free trader don't know.
What kind Of tarlif does he wantt don't know.
What Is his opinion about things Of interest
10 eyCry muu hereY I don't know. You do
not know. would Ike 20 hear from him.
wish we had heard from him years and years
ago. In 1868 he was opposed to all legislation
that has made the negro a citizen. In 1868 he
was opposed 70 all the legislation grow
ago he was In favor Of soft
money; only a little while ago he said
that we never could redeem; only a little
while ago be was g Democrat Of that school;
and now we are told he Is a harl-money man.
Now we are told he Is In favor of the COusttu.
tlonai amendments. Now we are told he IS in
favor of an honest vote everywhere.
On the other hand we have % man who Is a
trained statesman. who has discussed these
questions time and time again, and whose
opinions are well known 70 all the intelligent
people Of this Union. He was as good a soldier
as Hancock was. The man who makes up his
mind IN a time Of profound peace TO make war
the business Of his life; the man who Is adopt
ed by the Government; tho man who makes
war his profession, is, In my Judgment no bet
ter than the man who In time Of peace would
rather follow the ayuputiuus of peace, and who
when war comes, when the blast Of conflict
blows in his ears, buckles on his sword and
lights for his native land, aud, when the war is
over, goes back to the ayOC8tiOns of peace.
say that Garfield was as gOOda soldier as Han
cock, and say that Garfield took away from
the teld OF Chickamauga as much honor as one
man can carry. Heis a trained statesman. He
knows What he ts talking about and he talks
about II we'll have known him for years. /
know him as well as | know any other man,
and tell you that he has more brains, more
education, wider and more splendid views
than any Otherma who has been nominated
born.
General Garfield is an honest man every way;
intellectual every way. He is poor man; he
is rich in honor, In integrity he Is wealthy, and
in brains he is a millionaire. know him, and
II the people of Illinois knew him as well as
do he would not lose 100 votes in this State.
He Is great, good, broad, kind. tender man,
and he will do, II elected President what he
believes to be right. like him. too, because
he is certificate Of the splendid form of our
GONernment. like him because, under our
institutions, he came from abteCt poverty to
occupy the position he now does before the
American people. He will make Hope the
tailor of every ragged boy. He will make ev-
cry boy think it possible, no matter how poor
he Is, no matter how hungry he may be, he
will make every one of those boys be
lieve that there Is in their horizon some
one beckoning them to glory and 70 honor.
Ihat Is the reason like this cpun-
try, because everybody has a chance. I like il
because the poorest man can live hoping his
boy may occupy the highestplacc. That Is the
reason like this country. That IS one of the
reasons want to see General Garfield elected.
He believes in honor, he believes in liberty, he
believes in an honest ballot, he believes in col
lecung the revenues, he believes in good
money, he believes in a Government Of law,
he believes that this is absolutely a Nation,
and not cOntederacy, and believe in him.
Throwing aside, throwing 10 the winds, all
prejudice, all partisanship, all hatreds. / beg
Of every one who hears me 10 cOnscientiously
decide each for himself what, under the cir
Cumstances as a man, as a patriot, as a lover
of Justice, he ought TO do. Do not be led away
by the appeals of gentlemen who once belonged
to the Republican party. Vote to sustain the
greatest possible cause, human liberty. We
are reaplng to-day the benefits of the suffer
ings of every hero who ever died. We are
to-day enjoying the benefits conferred upon
US by our heroic dead We are to-day a
great n united und splendid people. simply
because somebody was great and grand enough
to die that we might live. Now, do you
believe If the dead could rise from their
graves-the men fallen on all the battlehelds
Of the war-coul1 they rise from the unknown
graves that made this continent sacred, how
would they vote hext November? Think of 1t .
Let us be true to the memory Of every man
that ever died for us.
Let me ask you another question: How do
the men who wished to destroy this Govern.
ment wish you to vote now? How would
every rebel in the South, could he have
come to the North, have voted in 1864? How
would every rebel in the South, # he could
voted in 1888, in 1872, in 1876? How would JEFF
ferson Davis vote If he were in the North to-
day2 How would the men that starved our
prisoners at Andersonville and Libby-aud An
dersonvile and Libby are the mighty. mighty
wings that will bear the memory Of the Con-
federacy to eternal tnfamy-how would the
men who starved our brave boys there vote If
they were in Illinois now? Every one of them
would hurrah for Hancock.
Let us be honest. We are reaping the re-
ward of all these great and glorious actions,
and every good man who has ever lived in
the country, no matter whether he has been
persecuted or not, has made the world bet
ter.
The other night happened to notice sun
set. The sun went down, and the west was
full of light and fire, and said: "There, there
Is the perfect death of a great man; that sun,
dying, leaves a legacy of glory TO the very
clouds that ObstruCt its path. That sun, like
great man, dying, leaves legacy of glory
even to the ones who prosecuted him, and the
world is glorious only because there have been
men great enough and grand enough to die for
the right" viii any man. can any man, afford
TO die for this country? Then he can afford TO
vote for IL If afford tD fight for IL
and die for II, ] can afford to speak for it.
And now beg Of you, every man and wom-
an, no matter in what country bOrn-if you
are an Lshman, recolleot that this country
has done more for your race than all other
countries under Heaven; If you are a Ger
man, recolGct that this country is kinder to
you than your own fatherland-no matter
what country you come from, remember that
this country is an asylum, and vote as in your
conscience you believe you ought TO vote to
keep this flag i'm Heaven. 1 beg every Amer
lean to stand with that part of the country
that believes in law, in freedom of speech, in
an honest vote, in civilization, in progress, in
human liberty, and in universal justice.
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BS@ Business men agree that the
uncertainty of the outlook" has seri-
ously injured business already. They
noticed nothing of this kind till after
the glorious result in Maine. The
possibility of the election of Hancock
with an initiation, anti-resumption, re-
pudiation party behind him is what
makes the uncertainty. There would
be nothing of the kind were Garfield 5
election assured. His election means
the continuation of Secretary Sherman
in the Treasury Department, the con-
tinuation of sound money views in the
White House-in short, the continue.
tion of all that has made the present
Administration so popular and the
country so prosperous. The business
men know this perfectly well, and they
are not going to vote against their own
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