Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-20

one variation-the Democratic party has
dressed up in 5lue clothes, borrowed for the
occasion. Gen. Hancock, who hurled shot
and shell at the Democratic party when it
sought the life of the Nation on the fiery
heights of Gettysburg. now leads that party
in its assault upon the ballot box, through
which if proposes TO control the Government
it could not destroy And this party which
in National convention at Chicago, a month
after the turn of the tide at Gettysburg, de
nounced the war rs failure, and said it
ought to cease and which, during the war,
made no concealment Of its joy at every
disaster to the Union arms, now rends the
air with its shouts for the man who aided III
putting down their rebellion. OH could
these shouts have followed the victory at
Gettysburg, how grateful would they have
been in the ears of our brave, scar-worn.
weary armies. They would, as many a
Southern man has told me, have ended that
war nearly year sooner. My friends, there
is a great mistake in this business someachere !;
and YOU, Yankees, who are in the habit of
looking close, will find no difficulty in dis
GOV ring the old Democratic cat under all
this Cretentious meal
{ | forbid that ! say aught in unjust de-
ROC ion of the gallant soElier, now the NOM
ineo If the Democratic party, who when the
fou. lations Of the Government were rocking
in g wild tempest of the rebellion, when
wal ploughed its channels deep in our lives,
our homes and our hearts and hung its black
banner over thousands of our hearth-stones,
unsoiled with the slaughter of our loved
ones God forbid, repeat, that say aught
in unjust derogation of thc gallant soldier
who followed the starry banner through that
long, wesry struggle for the Nations life and
| led h1c fn ha -pinp Of
fathers with the impress of his own blood
But as the stream cannot rise higher than its
fountain, so no President ever did or ever
can rise above his party. And the man who
seeks its suffrages and accepts its positions of
trust is bound by every consideration TO car
ry out its views and principles The fo,In-
tain Of power in the Democratic party is in
the 1873 votes furnished by the solid South
As 1873 is TO AZ, so is the centrolling power
in the Democratic party, IS between the
North and the South. In all Your corpora
tions, manufacturing and financial, major
ity of the stock controls. That, in the event
of success, the South will control the Demo
cratic party absolutely, results as well ma
dramatically as from its conduct before the
war, when it dominated the Government in
every department, as Mr.. Stephens proved
conclusively in his speech a. Milledgeville,
/
by secession. No, Republicans of Vermont,
the issue has not changed. The question
which confronts us is, What shall be the
makeup, character, political and moral, and
real purposes of the party which shall control
the Government Of this country for the COM
ing four years? Shall it be the Democratic
party, whose citadel of power is manned by
those who barely fifteen years ago were
clutching at the Nations life, saying ''One
of us must die the party ever hostile TO
free popular Government; bred in hatred
of New England and the Union which de-
Tended to the last the barbarism of slavery
and which, down to this hour, protests
against every act of the National Govern
ment in the South except the distribution of
its largesses
VIII you permit this unregenerate South
ern Democratic party yet tainted with the
aristocratic caste of slavery, State rights and
shameless reputation yet smarting under
the bitterness, hatreds and revenges growing
ont of their fruitless attempt to overthrow
the Government, will you permit this party
10 assume power in this country?
Or do you still cling to the Republican
party, which now as ever emblazons on its
banner, "All men up in the state of free
dom, progress, education and equality be-
fore the law?
know well your answer You will follow
the banner borne by Garfield and Arthur re-
splendent with such triumphs as were never
inscribed on other earthly banner. have
known Gen. Garfield intimately for the last
decade. In daily association with him for
years, upon one of the leading committees of
the House of Representatives and in the
walks of private life, know well the ms
and outs of his character His broad, man
ly, generous, honest nature lifts him to a
plane far above the arts of the knave or the
demagogue. Like Pope's Man OF Ross. lie
is
Statesman, yet friend 10 truth, OF soul sincere
In action faithful and in honor clear7
Without the early aids of wealth or sta
ton, by the innate forces Of his intellect and
m,uiincss he las propellcd himself TO his
present high position, never losing his SYM
pathy with the masses of his countrymen in
their struggles for the blessings which this
good government of ours Lolds out to all who
diligently and honestly seek them, and to this
great hearted sympathy the heart of this
Nation is now responding in full
measure, ard in November next, we
will furnish General Garfield, the schol-
ar, the soldier, and the statesman, with such
patent OF nobility as none out millions of
kings acting in concert at the ballot box can
confer l know equally well Gen Arthur
In fidelity to the principles Of the Republi-
can party and in action to maintain them he
is the peer of any man in the party In ex-
ecutive ability he equals. Differing with the
President upon modes of administration. that
high official never 10y implication reflected
upon his personal integrity. Gen. Arthur is
entitled TO the hearty support of every Re-
publican in the country, and only wish the
position which he is 10 occupy in the Govern
ment was more commensurate with his abil-
ity and capacity for high usefulness. But, my
fellow Republicans, ! weary YOU You have
here a New Yorker, whose fame transcends
the limits of the great Empire State, who has
never been struck by the dry rot of the Vice
Presidency and who has locked horns with
the Democratic party on Southern battle
fields, and in many hard fought politl-
cal contest. And he is still ready 10
gore that party anywhere within the limits
of the thirty-cight States Of the Union upon
the slightest provocation; will no longer
stay yon from such viands. On the night of
the first Tuesday Of September next, on the
other side ni the Lake We shall look for ''the
star that never sets little higher up in the
political heavens tlan usual, and don't You
disappoint us.
AT the conclusion OF the speech, which
was frequently and warmly applauslcd, there
was music hy the Band and Glec Club; and
General Woodford was introduced in very
, complimentary terms by Gov. Smith, and
made IL splendid address about an hour long,
which captlvaied the audience and produced
IN excellent impression.