Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19

Ooo oPpiouocsI We Wdut y NAL
whose lie and opinions embOdy all the
achlevnents of which / have spoken.
we want man who, standing on a
mountain height, sees all the achieve
ments of our past history, and carries in
his heart the memory of all its glorious
deeds, and who, looking forward, pre-
pareS 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 our brethren of the south
the olive branch of peace, and wishes
them to return to brotherhood, on this
supreme condition, that it shall be ad-
mitted, forever 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 on no other. We ask
them to share with us the blessings
and hOnOrs of this great republic. APP
plause.] Now gentlemen, not to weary
yOu, am about to present a name for
your c0nsideratiOn-th name of man
who was the cOmrade and associate and
friend of nearly all those noble dead
whose faces look down upon us from
these walls tonight [cheers], man who
began his public career of service %
years ago, whose first duty was courage
ously 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 into the deluge
of war. [Cheer. He bravely stood by
young Kansas then, and, returning to
his duty in the national legislature,
through all subsequent time his path
way has been marked by labOrs perform
ed in every department of legislation.
You ask for his monuments. l point
you to % years of national statutes.
[Cheer. Not one great beneficient
statute has been placed in our statute
books without his intelligent and power
full aid. [Cheers.] He aided these men
to formulate the laws that raised our
great armies and carried us through
the war. His hand was seen in the
workmanship of those statutes that re-
stored and brought back the unity and
married calm of the states. His hand
wasin all that great legislation that
created the war currency, and in a still
greater work that redeemed the prOmiS
es of the government, and made the cur
rency equal to gold. And when at last
called from the halls0f legislation into
a high executive Office, he displayed that
experience, intelligence, firmness and
pOise of character which has carried us
through a stormy period of three years.
With One-half the public press crying
cruelty him." and hostile Congress
seeking to prevent success, in all this
he remained unmOved until victory
crowned HIM. Applause. The great
fiscal affairs of the nation and the great
business interests of the country he has
guarded and preserved, while executing
the law of resumption and effecting its
object without jar and against the
false prophecies of one half of the press
and all the Democracy of this continent.
.[Applause.] He has shown himself able
to meet with calmness the great emer-
gencies of the government for 25 years.
He has trOdden the perilOus heights of
public duty and against all the shafts
of malice has borne his breast unharm-
ed. He has stood in the blaze of 'that
fierce light that beats against the
throne" but its fercest ray has found
no flaw in his armOr, no stain on his
shield. l do not present him as better
Republican or as a better man than
thousands of others we honor, but / pre-
sent him for your deliberate cOnsidera-
ton. / nominate John Sherman, of
Ohio. [Great applause.]
OF this speech the Chicago Inter Ocean
(strOng Grant, said:
.Wheu Ohio is called a form, which
probably comes nearer the peoples ideal
type of statesman than any other in
the convention, arises near the center of
the middle isle and moves toward the
stage amid the sharp clapping of thOus-
ands of hands which increases, as Gen.
eral Garfield mounts the same table up
on which Senator COnkling stood, to a
roar of voices mingled with the noise of
stamping feet. 1t is noticeable that in
this ovation large number of delegates
and alternates have Joined. To the at
tenti0n which Garfield always attracts
is now added the
ROMANCE OF POSSIBILITY
that is in everyOne's mind and when
ever he has moved into sight of the gal
leries during this convention he has
been warmly greeted. AS he stands now
on the table where COnkling but few
moments ago stood, many thousands are
doubtless comparing the two men who
among many great men have almost
mOnOpOlized and about equally shared
the attention of the people. There is
much of similarity, and, at the same
time GREAT disSimilaritv hatwaan tho