Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-18
JOHN SHERMAN,
Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio, in presenting
the name of John Sherman said:

Mr.. Garfield, OF Ohio, in presenting
the name of John Sherman, said:
Mr.. President; ! have witnessed the extraor-
dinnry scenes of this Convention with deep
solicitude. No emotion touches my heart
more quickly than sentiments in honor of a
great and noble character; but have thought
as | sat on these seats and witnessed this DEM
onstraton that II seemed to me you we're the
human ocean gathered in this circle I have
seen the sea lashed In its fury and tossed into
spray, and there is a grandeur that moves the
soul Of man when he looks upon It; but re-
member that II is the calm level of the sea
from which all heights and depths are meas
ured.
When the hour of calm settles on the ocean;
when the sunlight bathes It, then the astrono-
mer and surveyor takes the level and meas
ures all terrestrial heights and depths; and,
gentlemen of the Convention, when the fervor
of our enthusiasm has passed, when the
passion of the moment has subsidized, it is that
calm level of public opinion, below the storm,
below the passion; from which the great
ured and by which they are to be judged. Not
here, in this brilliant circle, where l6,O0l men
and women are gath hered, is the destiny Of this
Republic to be settled for the next four years
Not here, whore ] see the enthusiastic faces OF
70l and odd Delegates waiting to cast their lots
into the urn aud determine the fate of the
Republic; but by 4,00J00l of Republican fire
sides, where 100000 of voters, with wives
thoughts of hOme with the story of their
country, with the history of its life, with tho
Rnowledge OF the great men men that have lived
hearts-there God prepares the destiny that
shall determine this mighty question. Not in
Chicago, in the heat of June, but in the Re
public, in the quiet, melancholy days of No
vember, when men think aud act in the si-
lence of their best Judgment will this ques-
tion he settled. And now, gentlemen of the
Convention, what do we want2 Whit do we
want? Bear with me a moment; "hear me
for my cause, ana FOR moment "be silent
that you may hear"
Twenty-Five years ago this Republic of ours
was bearing and wearing the triple chain of
bondage. Long familiarity with traffic IN the
bodies and souls of men had paralyzcd and en-
chained the oonsctenoes of a majority of our
people; the narrowing and disintegrating doc
| trine of State-sovercignty had paralyZed the
noblest and most beneiicent powers of the Ma
tlOnal Governments and the aggressive power
Of slavery was selling the virgin Territories
! of our West and dragging them into the
den Of eternal slavery. At that crisis the
! inspiration from that fire of liberty which
| God has lighted in every heart and which no
| power of slavery has eve been able wholly
| TO eXtingtish. The Republican party was
| born out of this great and God-given impulse,
| and il came to deliver and save. IT entered
| where the beleagured and assailed Territories
| were struggling for life, and it stood beside
! them and drew about them the great and sa-
| cred circle of lib rty. They were forever
! siren ythened by their victory, and the Re
| publicdns, under the leadership of that great
man who, ON this, spot twenty years ago was
| made their leader entered the National
| Capital and took their high places there. The
| cleaning light from their banners melted away
| the shackles Cf slaves about the Capital, and
| threw its rays into the darkest corner of every
| slave-pen in Washington.
| I1Nt party entered INTO the control OF the
| Government, and it found all its noblcst func-
| tiOns in bondage; the great National indus
| tries, by nm impracticable currency, were
themselves prostrate, and the streams were
| so sickly that the Treasury itself was empty,
| or nearly empty, and the dregs that were in
! the Treasury were the rags of two thousand
| uncontrolled and unregulated independent
| corporations filling this country with circu-
Eation that poisoned the life of business every
| where. The Republican party touched all
this threw its protecting arms about the great
| National industries, ana they rose in their
| ful Government They filled with the genius
| of nationality all the great functions of the
| Government and made them live again. More
| than that, they confronted revolution with
splendid armies that fought until the mighty
contest ended but above the storm of
battle, and above the roar of the guns, we
| hear the sweet, calm words of peace that came
| from the conquering Nation, saying to the
| rebels who lay PROSTATE At their feet, 1--WE
take this as our only revenge; we ask you to
join us in lifting into the forum of the Consti-
tuition, to shine forever and ever like the star
of God the simple doctrine of equality OF all
men before the law" Aud then returning from
our great questions OF reconstruction to our
great debt, to our great public obligation, tho
Republican party finished its twenty-five
years of glory and success and it is here to-
night to ask you tO launch out on another
lustrum of glory and victory. How shall you
assailing no Republican. God forbid that L
should lay one Limitation of worth upon
any distinguished name in the great
category of our heroes. If we win this
iight-for it is our Thermopylie this
year; we stand on the narrow isthmus, and the
little Spartan host must meet all the Perslans
that XcrNes can bring; the stars in their
courses Will fight for us; the census that will
be taken this month win give us the victory;
therefore say l. to win this victory now we
want every vote of every Grant Republican in
America and every anti-Grant Republican in
America. We want the vote of every Blaine
man and every anti-Baine man, of every fol-
lowerof every candidate, or we dare not hope
for success. Therefore, say |, gentlemen,
brethren we are here to take calm counsel to-
gether and inquire what we shall do.
We want man whose life and opinions en-
body all these achievements of which have
spoken. We want man who, standing rs it
were ON a mountain height, beneath his foot all
the achievements and in his heart all the love
for the glories of our past, looks forward to
meet the dangers to come. We want him in no
spirit of revenge against those that we fought
in battle. The Republican party goes to the
South with the palms of peace, the olive branch
of peace in its hand, and holds it out to every
one on this supreme condition; that il shall be
admitted forever and forevermOre that we
were right and they were wrong. On that SUI
preme condition we meet them as brethren,
and ON any other terms we make no terms for
cvermore.
Now, gentlemen, not to weary you, am
about to present tn you name for your con-
sideratiOn-the name of man who was the
, cDmrnde, associate, th3 friend of nearly all
! these persons whose faces look down upon us
, in this building here tom ght; a man who be-
gan his career IN the politics of this country
twenty-five years ago, whose first service was
done in days of p ril ON the plains of Kansas
r when the first red drop of that oOdy shower
began to fail that thtcken d finally into the
! deluge of gore of the late Rebellion. He stood
: 10y il in Kansas Then, returning TO his seat
in the National Legislature, through all the
: subsequent years, his pathway has been mark
ed by the lahors he has performed in every de
partment of legislation. You ask for his
! monument. point you TO Twenty-Five years
| of National statutes. And tell you that moi
! one great, 6onelct mt statute upon your books
! has been placed there without his intelligent
! and powerful aid. lie d these men tC
! formulate law that raj el our great armies
und nuves, aud clrrt I'd MS through the war
| His hand was in the workmanship OF the stat
utes that restored and brought back the unity
: aud married calm of States. His hand was In
! all that great legislation that created the greai
war currency, that carried us through, bu
7 in the still greater work that Tedeeme
the promise of the Government anC
r made il 20 d. And when Mt last ht
7 hlrh Executive influence, he displayed that
Z eALeriencc, intelligence, fairness and power
Z of two and half years. With malt the public
; press howling and crying "Crucify him!' hi
Z bore himse on unswervcd by u single hail
: from the Inc of his duty. Hlndling the grea
s fiscal forces of this Government, an the grea
II business interests of this country, he carried
/ us through in the execution of that law, an'
/ effected il without ja against the falls,
. prophecies and the Cassandras OF half CONT
: nent lie has shown himself able q meet il
= the calmness of stat IN tnship all the groa
u emergencies of the q iNernment. For twenty
: i've years he has od that peerless height o
= public duty, aud against all the shafts ha
y hared his breast uuharmed. lie has stood II
tue blaze of that herce light that beats agains
u the throne, and It's tie cest ray has blund M
haw in his urmor, no stain ON ms shield d
u not present MIN as a better Republican or
I better man than thousands of others that w
honor and revere, but present him for you
e deliberate consideration. 1 nominate JOIN
y , Sherman, of Ohio. Applause
n WILLIAM WINDOW.
!! Mr.. Drake, of Minnesota, in present
e ing the name ofMr. Window. said;