Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-08-19
MisfeIIansous. M
GARFIELD.
A IaaIllius APPEAL 10 youns ME-.

EtoQrENcE WRIrH SrlEN Llkr rHE sorSa
orA TErKFEr
General Garfield delivered a stump speech
m Cleveland .asi October Il was q mAgulh-
cen, piece Of popular orai5ry. Ever, sen
icucc struck with the forcr Of a trip hammer.
We ,uhJo.n 1t, o!o,iag appcl! 10 Young men.
We DO no, know " here to look for ANYTHING
equal, effective N touching pA;ho,. iTTc,.,,-
.b.e humor and stirring c!olucnce
A. ArrEtL TO I'm YuUNo MN
"Now. fellow citizens. a word before
leave You. ou th, yer, eve OF the holy dAy
Of God-a fl moment 10 consccraie ourselves
finally to the great work uf next TUESDAY
morning. see IN this great audience to-
night a great many Young men. Young men
vho are about 10 cast their first vote. |
want to give YOU u word Of suggestion and
advice | heard q very brilliant thing said
b, boy the other day up III one of our
NORTHEASTERN counties. He said 10 mc.
General. | have a grea, mind TO vote the
Democratic ticket That va, not the bTiI-
liant thing. Laughter said 10 HIM
WHY WHY. said he. my father i l Re
publican. and my brother, are Republicans.
and am a Republican all over. but ! want
10 be an independent man. and don't want
ANYBODY to say That fellow votes the Re
publican ticket Jusi because hls dad does
and | have half l mind 10 vote the Demo
cratic ticket just 10 prove nv independence.
did not ike the thing the boy suggested.
but did admire the spir.; Of the boy that
wanted to have some independence Of his
own.
~ I'll 80, ,.,..t,., mos, l.,,s, ,,., H..
Republican ticket jasi because your father
votes it. Don't vote the Democratic ticket
even if be does vote ii. Laughter. Bat
let me give YOU this one word Of advice. a,
YOU are about 10 pitch Your tent in one Of
the great political camps. Your life Is full
and buoyani with hope nov, and beg YOU,
when YOU pitch Your tent. pitch ii
among the living and not among
the dead Applau>e.] If you are at all
inclined TO pitch It among the Democratic
people and with tina; party. let me 20 with
you for a moment while we survey the
ground where hope YOU will not shortly lie
Laughter Il is a sad place, Young man,
for YOU to put your youn. life into. 1t is 10
me far more like a graveyard than like q
camp for the living. Look at it Il is bill
lowed all over with the graves of dead issues,
of buried opinions, of exploded theories, Of
disgraced doctrines. You cannot live in
comfort in such place. Laughter. Why,
look here Here is little double mound.
| look down on il and read. Sacred to the
memory Of Squatter Sovereignty and the
Dred Scott decision A million and half
Democrats voted for that, but it has been
dead fifteen years-died BY the hand of Abra
ham Lincoln and here it lies. Applause. !
Young man, that is not the place for you.
But look little farther. Here is another
monument-a black tomb-aDd beside ii, a.
our distinguished friend said.there towers to
the sky monument Of four million pairs Of
human fetters taken from the arms of slaves,
and read on its little headstone this: .Sa-
cred to the memory of human slavery For
forty years Of its Infamous life the Demo
cratic party taught that II was divine-God's
institution. They defended, they stood
around it. they followed il to its grave as
mourner But here il lies, dead by the hand
of Abraham Lincoln. [Applause.l Dead by
the power OF the Republican party. ZAP
piau,e.l Dead by the justice of Almighty
God. [Great applause and cheers. Don't
camp there, young man.
But here is another-a little birthstone
tomb laughter and | read across its yell
low face in lurid, bloody lines. these words ::
Sacred to the memory Of State Sovereignty
and Secession Twelve millions of Demo
crats mustered around it in arms TO keep it
alive; but here i lies. shot to death by the
million guns of the Republic. Applause.
Here it lies, its shrine burnt to ssEes under
the blazing rafters Of the burning Confeder
acy. Applause 1t is dead, would
not have YOU stay in there a minute, even in
this balmy night air, to look at such place
[Laughter.]
But Just before leave ii discover a new
made grave g little mound-short. The
grass has hardly sproHted over it, and all
around it see torn pieces Of paper with the
word fiat on them [laughterl, and | look
down in curiosity, wondering what the little
grave is, and read on it: Sacred to the
memory of the Rag Baby [laughterl, nursed
in the brain of all the fanatioism Of the
world [laughter], rocked by Thomas Ewing,
George II. Pendleton. Samuel Cary, and a
few others throughout the land But it
died on the lst 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. PRO
longed applause.