Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-18

below the passion, from which tho great
thoughts OF mighty people are to be meas-
here, In this brilliant oirole, where lb,u0l men /
aud women are gathered, Is the destiny OF this /
Republic TO be settled for the next four years; /
MOI here, where soc the enthusiastic faces OF |
lOl and odd delegates waiting 60 cast their lots /
into the urn and detormino the fate OF the |
Republic; but by A00J,O0l Of Republican fire |
and children about them, with tho calm |
thoughts of home, with the story OF their |
with the history of It's life, with the |
Of tho great men that have lived |
upon II burning down into their |
henrts-there God prepares the destiny that
Chicago in the heat OF June, but in the Re
public, In the quiet, melancholy days OF No
yember, when men think and act In the ST.
lence of their best Judgment, will this ques-
tlon be settled. And now, gentlemen Of the
Convention, what do we Want2 What do we
want2 Bear with me moment; "hear me
for my cause" and for moment "be silent
Twenty-ave years aRo this Republic Of ours
was bearing and wearing the triple chain Of
bodies and souls Of men had paralyzed and on
chained the consciences of a majority of our
people; the narrowing and disintegrating doc
trine OF State-sovereignty had parnlyzed the
noblest and most benehoent powers Of the Nu-
tlonal Government; 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
Republican party was born. II drew its first
GOO has lighted I'm every heart, and which no
power of slavery has Cvec been able wholly
70 extinguish; The Republican party was
born out of this great and GOd-given impulse,
and IL came to deliver and save. u entered
where the beleagured and assailed Territories
were struggling for life, and IL stood beside
them and drew about them the great and sa-
cred circle Of lib rsy. They wer6 forever
siren gthened by thelr victory, and the Re
publicans, 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 II slaves about the Capital, and
threw its rays into the darkest corner Of every
slaVe-pen in WashngtO n.
That party entered into the control Of the
Government, and IL found all its noblest func-
tions in bondage; the great National indus
tries, by an impracticable currency, were
themselves prostitute, 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 unrogulated independent
corporations filling this country with oircu-
latiOn that poisoned the life of business every
where. The Republican party touched all
this, threw It's protecting arms about the great
National industries and they rose I'm their
might aud contributed full Golfers to a CRATE
full Government They iiled 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 was endeds 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 Conguefing Nation, saying to the
rebels who lay PROSTATE at their feet, ave
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" And then returning from
our great questions OF reconstruction TO our
great debt, to our great public obligation, the
Republican party finished Its twenty-five
years of glory and success, and II is here to-
| night TO ask you to launch out on another
/ In frttr NJ uinFv and wiqtOpV How ahu1 w
do it2 You must do II first my friends, by
| assalling no Republican. God forbid that /
should lay one Limitation Of worth upon
/ any distinguished name in the great
| category of our heroes. II we win this
! fght-fOr II Is our Thermopylie this
] year; we stand on the narrow isthmus, and the
! iittle Spartan host must meet ali the Persans
| that NerXes can bring; the stars I'm their
! courses will fight for us; the census that will
! be taken this month will give us the victory;
| therefore, say |, 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-Blaine man, Of every fol
| lower of 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 i have
spoken. We want man who, standing rs il
| were on amOuntain height, beneath his foot all
the achievements and In his heart all the love
for the glorles OF our past, looks forward tC
I meet the QhtlktfH 10 GDults NtMhnL MIN IN mt
spirit of revenge against those that we fought
| in battle. The Republican party goes to the
South with the palms of peace, the olive brancf
| of peace in its hand, and holds II out to every
! admitted forever and fOrevermore that we
/ were right and they were wrong. On that su
preme condition we meet them nv brethren
and ON any other terms we make nc terms for
| overmore.
Now, Pentlemon, not to weary y0u, an
about to present to you nHme for your con
oil iNlNnH NtfaNN Ia. nf aNnnQ
cOmrade, associate, lh3 friend of nearly al
| these persons whose fuces look down upon nj
in this building here tonight; n man who be
gan his career IN the politics of this country
| Twenty-hveyears ago, whose first service wa
done in DAYS of p }ril on the plains of Kansa
when the first rcd drop of tn u b oody shove
began to fail that thicken d finally into the
dclnge of gore of the late Rebellion. He stool
by II in Kansas, Then, returning TO his sea
subsequent years, his pathway has been mark
ed by the labOrs he has performed in every dc
partment of legislation. You ask for hi
monument. point you to twenty-five year
of National statutes. And tell you that no
one great, beneHCtnt statute upon your book
has been placed there without his inteligen
and powerful aid. He aid these men Il
formulate laws that raised our great armie
and navles, and carried us through the war
His hand was in the Workmanship of the stat
utes TINT restored and brought back the unit
and married calm of States His hand was II
all that great legislation that created the grea
War currency, that carried us through, bu
the promise of the Government AM
, | made Il good. And when AZ lust n
passed from the halls of Legislation into
, high Executive influence, he displayed thl
/ experience, intelligence, fairness and pOwe
of balance and pQise through a stormy perio
! of two and a half years Win halt the publ
| bore himself on unswerved by single hal
, from the line of his duty Handling the grea
fiscal forces OF this Government, and the greH
business interests of this country, he carrie
I us through In the execution OF that law, an
effected 1t without 1ac against the fails
= prophecies and the Cassandra5 OF half cont
, fent. He has shown himself able 70 meet 1
! the calmness of state smanship all the greR
] emergencies Of the Government: For twenty
tive years he has trod that peerless height @
! public duty, and against all the shafts ha
! barred his breast unharmed. He has stood 1
) the blaze of that fierce light that beats agans
Z the throne, and its heroest ray has found n
l flaw in his armOr no stain on his shield.
Z not present him as a better Republican or
/ better man than thousands of others that W
, honor and revere, but present him Tor you
/ deliberate consideration. l nominate Jon
E Sherman, Of Ohio. Applause
, GEORGE f. EDMUNDs.
= Mr., Billings, of Vermont, in present
/ ing the name of Senator Edmunds saiC
G tiOn. The State earliest born into the Unio
: after the old thirteen, whose people hay
: always been loyal TO liberty, enthusiastically
5 urges the name of her most distinguished 81
, Us the tittest name TO be inscribed on the Pres
] Dental banner Her delegates bring thi
l message here with joy and pride alike 81
! preme, because they know no state has
! better right TO name a Republican cnndidat
IS and no other State can name a better ma
q For the itrst time In her history, Vernon
q though alwnysin the advance guard Of the X
u publican hosts, comes to the front in
o tional Convention. She thus comes M
> seeking reward for loyalty which has neve
D f0ltered in the years gone by, not asking
4 price for loyalty never to fNlter in years
/ come. Her Repuhlicanism Is not horn
r selhshncss. Ii Is bred in her bone, ana Il ru