The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10
TAKE YOUR CHOICE.
Garaela 20 Young Voters

lnta. III the course OF the speech he
said:
Now, fellow-citizens, word before
leave you on the very eve of the holy day
of Coda fit moment to consecraie our
selves finally to the great work of next
Tuesday morning. | see in this great au-
dlence tonight . great many young men
who are about TO cast their first vote. |
want to give you word of suggestion
and advice. | heard very brilliant
thing said the other day up in one of onr
northwestern counties. 4 man said 10
me. General L have great mind TO
vote the Democratic ticket" That was
nos the brilliant thing. (Laugkter) /
said TO him, why = Why" said he,
'my father Is Republican, and my
brothers are Republicans, and | am II
Republican all over, but | want TO be. an
independent man, and don't want any
body to say, That fellow votes the Re.
publican ticket just because his dad
does and / have half mind 10 vote the
Democratic ticket just 10 prove nv in
dependence" l did not like the thing
the boy suggested, but did admire the
spirit of the boy, that wanted to have
some independence of his own.
Now. | tell you, young man, don't
vote the Republican ticket just because
your father votes it. Don't vote the
it. Laughter But let me give you one
word of advice, as you are about to pitch
your tent in one of the political camps
Your life is full and buoyant with hope
now, and beg you, when you pitch your
tent, pitch it among the living and not
among the dead. Applause. If you
are at all inclined TO pitch it among the
Democratic people and with that party
let me go with you for a moment while
we survey the ground where
HOPE YOU WILL NOT SHORTLY LIE.
1t is sad place, young man, for you to
put your young life into. II is TO me far
more like a graveyard than like a camp
for the living. Look at it! 1t is billow-
ed all over with the graves of dead is
sues, of buried opinions, of exploded
theories, of disgraced doctrines You
cannot live in comfort in such u place.
Laughter. Why, look herel Here is
little double mound. 1 look down on
it and read, Sacred to the memory of
Squatter SOveignity and bred Scott de-
cision.' A million and a half voted for
that, but it has been dead fifteen years
died by the hand of Abraham Lincoln,
and here it lies. [Applause.l Young
man, that is not the place for you.
But look little farther. Here is
| another monument-a black tomb-and
beside it, as our distinguished friend
said, there towers to the sky monu-
ment of four million pairs of human
fetters taken from the arms of slaves,
and l read on its headstone this: Sac
red to the memory of human slavery
For forty years of its infamous life the
Democratic party taught that it was di.
vine-God's institution. They defend.
ed it, they stood around it, they follow.
ed it to its grave as a mourner. But
here it lies dead by the hand of abraham
Lincoln. (Applause.) Dead by the
power of the Republican party ZAP
| plause.) Dead by the justice of the Al
mighty God. (Great applause and
cheers) Don't camp there young man.
But here is another
LITTLE PRIMROSE TOMB
CLaughter)-and I read across its vel
low face in lurid, bloody lines these
word: Sacred to the memory of STATE
Sovereignty and Secession Twelve
millions of Democrats mustered around
it in arms to keep it alive; but it lies
shot to death by a million guns of thu
Republic. (Applause.) Here it lies, it!
shrine burnt to ashes under the blazing
rafters of the burning Confederacy
(Applause) 1t is deadl l would no
have you stay in there a minute, ever
in this balmy night air, to look at sucl
place. Oaughter)
s'But just before | leave it | discoye
a new-made grave, little mound-shor,
The grass has hardly sprouted over il
and all around it l see torn pieces of pa
per with the word fiat" on them
Qaughter)-and l look down IN curiosity
wondering what the little grave is, an,
read on it: Sacred to the memory @
the rag baby aughter)-nursed in til
brain of the fanaticism of the world
Qaughter)-rOcked by Thomas Ewin
George II. Pendleton, and few other
throughout the land" But it died o.
the LIST of January, 1879, and the on
!. hundred and forty millions of gold tina
God made, and not fiat power, lie upol
its little carcass to keep it down forever
prolonged applause)
"Oh, young man come out of thai
Uaughter) That is no place to pu
) your young life Come out, and com
oyer into this camp of liberty, of order
of law, of justice, of freedom. CAmen'
of all that is glorious under these nigh
: stars.
} "Is there any death here in our camp
Yes, yes! Three hundred and fifty so
diers, the noblest band that ever trod tn
earth, died to make this a camp of glor
and of liberty forever. Tremendous aI
plause)
DuL tIlerC arc no uC;iu ISSUES hefI
There are no dead issues here Han
out our banner from under the blue SIX
this night until it shall sweep the gree
turf under your feet II hangs owe
our camp. Read away up under th
stars the inscription we have write
on 1t, lOi these twenty five years.
twenty-five years ago the Republ
I can party was
MARRIED TO LIBERTY
: and this is our silver wedding. tGre;
applause.) A worthy married pair low
each other better on the day of thei
] silver wedding than on the day of thei
, first espousals; and we are truer to libel
r ty to-day, and dearer to God than W
I spoke our first word of liberty. Rea
away up under the sky across our starr
banner that first word we uttered twenty
five years agol What is it? Shaver
+ shall never extend over another foot {
T the territories of the great west Cal
I plause) Is that dead or alive? Aliv
{ thank God, for evermorei applause
: And truer tonight than it was the hoU
I it was written. (Applause) Then
was hope, promise, purpose. T
e night it is equal with the stars-immo
F.? tai history and immortal truth. CA
} plause)
Come down the glorious steps of OF
n.
r made we have vindicated with our bloc
n and our truth. 1t sweeps the ground ar
il touches the stars. Come there, your
: man, and put in your young life whe
all is living, and where nothing is def
n but the heroes who defended it, IA
y plause.l l think these young men wi
t do that. E'Of course they willp1
s Gentlemen, we are closing this Her
II orable campaign. We have got our e
e emies on the run everywhere. Laug
a ter And all you need to do in this n
!, Bile city, this capital of the Westel
e Reserve, is to follow them up al
l. finish it by showing the rcbellie
lie under once more. We stand on an list
v mus. This year and next is the mario
l isthmus between us and perpetual vi
tory. If you can win now, and win,
lie 1880, then the very stars IN their cours
e. will fight for us. (Appiause.) The &C
sus will do the work, and viii give
thirty more freemen of the north in o.
" congress that will make up for the
Y bellion of the south. Great appiaus'
a We are posted here, as the Greeks we
If posted at Thermopyie, to meet this o
ut great barbarian, Xerxes OF the isthIn'
10 Stand in your places, men of Obi
n Fight the battle, win this victory, n
ID then one more puts you in safety Fl
D. everf'
l. THE PATRIARCH OF RATTLESNAKI
es Washington Star
is The largest rattlesnake probably Il
Of has ever been seen II this city arriy
=, at the Smithsonian Institute on Sat
y, day from Florida, forwarded BY /
re James Bell, who is in that State on s.
in cial duty from the Interior DEPARTING
Or The snake belongs to the Crotalns al
is mantus, or diamond rattle family. Ii
40 about eight feet long, viii measi
er twelve inches around the body, and
is twelve rattles and button on the end
its tail 1t came in close woven G
vas bag, and was at once dropped int
T; large wooden box with wirework siS
Oh and sliding cover, prepared for 1
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