The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-08-05

have been rendered fruitless. Not only that;
had they succeeded, reputation would have
fastened its inefaceable stain of dishonor upon
our national name, and the reputation of our
national obligations would have been the sure
and certain result. Had they succeeded in
1872, results equally disastrous would have fol-
lowed. Had they succeeded in 1876, with the
whisperer of Gramercy Park as the executive
head OF this great nation, to-day We would have
been struggling under a deprecated currency.
all the barriers which a loyal Congress had
erected for the preservation of purity at the
thrown down and we would have been back
again further even than we are to-day in the
hands Of our old adyersaries. r.
The story Of our achievements cannot too
often be told. No people can become too IA
1niliar with the great deeds of their history for
If history is philosophy teaching by example this
worlds history furnishes no grander examples
than that which the career Of the Republican
party supplies since 1860. Itsaved all our Terrific
ries from the blight of slavery and dedicated
them to freedom. It met gigantic rebellion
and saved this nation. 1t made 4, 000, 900 slaves
citizens, and transformed them from chattels
into men, furnished them with schools, and
from violence and fraud. It declared the
equality of the citizen, it protected his rights as
such, against invasion, by his own State, or by
the nation itself. Under its policy the national
honor and integrity were indicated, and the
national debt paid with q rapidity unexampled
in the history of the world. Passing through
the EXTREMIST financial distress, it has yet been
true to itself, until it has reached the solid
foundation Of specie resumption. It has de-
creased the public expenditures it has de-
creased the interest on the public debt it has
lifted burdens from labor; and to-day the
result is seen in a prosperity more wide
ly spread and more substantial than
the country has ever before witnessed. It has
kept all its promises It has fulfilled all its en-
gagements. It has made the name of the
United States of America respected and honored
all around the globe. Moreover, it has made
ton with power to protect you and me in the
enjoyment of all the higher privileges of that
great citizenship. So when we consider that
there is no slave throughout the boundaries of
the great republic, we did it. And when we re-
member that great rebellion in the interests
of slavery was crushed, we did it. And when
we remember that the United States of America
is not mere league of States, but is great ma
tionality, we did it. Such history needs no
aids from rhetoric for no rhetoric, however
glowing, can heighten its glories. These great
achievements constitute our patrimony, and,
however poor IN all other respects We may be
we may well say, These are our possessions,
and with them we are rich indeed" -
The demand to withdraw confidence from
such party, with such long line of splendid
and illustrious achievements, coming from the
will not, I am certain, DO received with any
more favor to-day than ii has been received in
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