Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-07

heights and depths are measured, applause.
When the storm has passed and the hour OF
calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight
bathes ita smooth surface, then the astronomer
and surveyor takes the level from which he
measures all terrestrial heights and depths.
(Applause.)
Gentlemen of the convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthful pulse OF
our people. When our enthusiasm has passed
when the emotions of this hour have subsided
we shall find that calm level of public opinion
below the storm tom which the thoughts of a
mighty people have to be measured at, and by
which their final action will be determined.
(Applause.) Not here in this brilliant circle,
where fifteen thousand Hmen and women are
assembled, is the destiny of the Republican
party to be decreed. Not here where 1 see
the enthusiastic faces of seven hundred and
| hfty,slx delegates waiting to cast their votes
into the urn and determine the choice of the
republic (applause), but by four million Re-
publican friends, where the thoughtful voter,
with wives and % children about
them, with the calm thoughts
inspsired by love of country and love
of home; with the history of the past the
hopes of the future, aud knowledge of the
great men who have adorned and blessed our
nation in days gone by, there God prepares the
verdict that shall determine the wisdom of our
work o-night. Not in Chicago in the heats of
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between now and November, in the. silence of
deliberate Judgment will this great question be
settled (cries of good. Let us aid them to-
night great appluse).
But now, gentlemen of the convention, what
do we want?(A voice, ,EGarfeld. followed by ap-
plause.) Bear with me moment. Hear me
for this cause and for a moment be silent
that you may hear (cries of good). Twenty
hve years ago this republic was Wear
ing triple chain of bond
age; long familiarity with traffic
in the bodies and souls of men had paralyzed
the consciences of a majority of our people.
The baleful doctrine of State sovereignty had
| shocked and weakened the noblest and most
benehcent powers of the national government,
and the grasping power of slavery was
| seizing the virgin territories of the
west, and dragging them unto the den of
eternal bondage. At that crisis the Republican
party was born and drew its first inspiration
| from that fire of liberty which God had lighted
| in every human heart, and which all the pow
ers of ignorance and tyranny can never wholly
extinguish, (applause.) The Republican party
came to deliver and save the republic. 1t entered
| the arena where the beleaguered and assaied
territories were struggling for freedom, and
drew around them a sacred circle of liberty
| which the demon of slavery has aever dared to
cross. 1t made them free forever. loud ap-
plause and cries of good.) Strengthened by
it's victory on the frontier the young party, un-
der the leadership of that great man who, on
this spot twenty years ago, was made its lead
er, it entered the national capitol and assumed
the high duties of the government (applause),
The light which shone from Its banner dispelled
the darkness in which slavery had enshrouded
the capitol, and to that melted the shackeis of
every slave and consumed in the fire of liberty
every slave pen within the shadow of the capi-
tol.
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tceted policy were themselves Frustrated and
the streams of revenue flowed in, such feeble
currents that the treasury itself was Will nigh
empty, the money of people was the wretched
notes of two thousand uncontrolled irresponsi-
BILE State banking corporations which were
filling the country with circulation that
poisoned rather than sustained the life of
business. cloud applause.)
The Republican party changed all this, abol-
ished the babel of confusion and gave the
country currency as national as it's flag, based
upon the sacred faith OF the people. IAp-
plausel. 1t threw its protection around our
great industries, and they stood erect as with
new life. 1t filed with the spirit of nation
ality of the great functions of the government.
Ii confronted rebellion of unexampled
magnitude with slavery behind it, and under
God fought the final battle Of liberty until the
battle was won, (Applause.) Then after the
storms of battle were heard the sweet calm
words of peace spoken by the conquering ma
ton, and saying to the conquered foe that lay
PROSTATE at its feet, this is our only revenge
that you join us, lifting into the serene frma-
ment of the constitution to shine like stars
forever and ever the immortal principle of
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
lie faith in the settlement of these questions.
The Republican party has completed its
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 assailing our Republican brethren.
(Great applause and cries of, good.)
God forbid that I should say one word to
cast shadow on any name on the roll of our
heroes. This coming fight is our Thermoplye.
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. Let 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-
tinued power. (Applause.) But in order to
win this victory now, we want the vote of every
Republican, every Grant Republican and every
ant-Grant Republican in America. Great
applause) fevery Blaine man and every
Of every candidate is needed to make our sue
cess certain. (Applause.) Therefore, l say,
gentlemen and brethren, we are here to take
calm counsel together and enquire what we
shall do? (Nominate Garfield, a voice said.
Great applause.
We want man whose life and opinion en-
body all the achievement of which I have
spoke. We want man who, standing on mon
tain height see all the achievements of our past
history and carries in his heart the memory of
all its 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 as brethren and no other. We ask them
to share with US the blessings of the great re-
public (applause). Now gentlemen, not to weary
you am about to present to you a name for
your consideration, the name of a man who
was the comrsde and associate, and friend of
nearly all these noble dead, whose faces look
down on us from these walls to- night (cheers).
Referring to the portraits of
Giddings. Lincoln, Sumner, Wade,
Ohandler and other eminent Americans hanging
in the hall among whom he began his career of
public service se' ecal years ago, whose first duty
was courageously 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 and 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
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legislation. You ask for his monuments.
point you to twenty-five years of national stat
utes. (Cheers.) Not one great beneficent 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
us through the war. His hand was seen in the
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