The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-06-30

1AIhAC1s FROM ONE OF HIS OLD SPEECHES
WALKING ABOUT IN THE pEnocRATrc
GRAVEYARD.
4 The following is an extract from a speech
delivered by Gen. Garfield, Aug. 4, 1876, in
the National House of Representative.
Mr.. Chairman, IL Is now time to inquire as
to the fitness of this Democratic party to take
control of our great Nation and its vast and
important interests for the next four years
put the question to the gentleman from Mis-
sissipi, Mr.. Lamar, what has the Democratic
party done to merit that great trust ? He
tries to show In what respect It would be
dangerous. I ask him to show in what it
would be safe. affirm, and believe do
not misrepresent the great Democratic party,
that in the last sixteen years they have not
advanced one great National idea that is not
to-day exploded aud as dead as julius Cesar.
And If any Democrat here will rise aud name
great National doctrine his party has adj
vanced within that time, that is now alive
aud believed in, I win yield to him. Zap
plause.] In default of an answer will
attempt to prove my negative.
What were the great central doctrines of
the Democratic party In the Presidential
struggle of 1850? The followers of Brock
inbridge said slavery had right to 90 where
ever the Consultation goes. Do you believe
that to-day And is there a man on this
continent that holds that doctrine to-day p
Not one. That doctrine Is dead and buried
The other wing of the Democracy held that
slavery might be established in the TerIitor-
les If the people wanted 1t. Does anybody
hold that doctrine to-day? Dead, absolutely
dead
"Come down to 1854. Your party, under
the lead of Tilden and Vallandigham, declar-
ed the experiment of war to save the Union
was failure. Do you believe that doctrine
to-day That doctrine was shot to death by
the guns of Farragut at Mobile, and driven
in tempest of fire from the Valley of the
Shenandoah by Sheridan less than a month
after its birth at Chicago.
"Come down to 1858. You declared the
constitutional amendments revolutionary and
void. Does any man on this floor say so to.
day. If so, let him rise aud declare It.
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Broadhead letter of 1868, that the so.called
constitutional amendments should be dsre-
garded No the gentleman from Mississippi
accepts the results Of the War The Demo-
cratic doctrine of 1868 is dead
/ walk across that Democratic camping
ground as in a graveyard. Under my feet re-
ftnnd tha hnllaw echoes NJ Aha .lAa.i-- 1,i-----
lies slavery, a black marble column at the
head of its grave ON which read Died in
the flames of the Civil War loved in its
life; lamented In its death followed to It's
bier by its only mourner, the Democratic
party, but dead = And here is double
grave sacred to the memory of Squatter
Sovereignty. Died in the campaign of 1880.
On the reverse side Sacred to the memory
of bred Scott and the Breckenridge doctrine.
Both dead at the hands of Abraham Lincoln
And here monument of birthstone Sacred
to the memory Of the Rebellion the war
against it is a failure TvIden ct Valsandig-
ham Jscerunt, A. d. 1854. Dead on the field
of battle shot to death by the million guns
of the Republic. The doctrine of Secession
of State sovereignty. Dead. Expired in the
flames of civil war amid the blazing rafteis
of the Confederacy, except that the modern
Eneas, fleeing out of the flames of that ruin.
bears on his back another Anchises of State
sovereignty, and brings it here in the person
of the honorable gentleman from Appomat-
tox District of Virginia, (Mr. Tucker.) y
daughter. Ali else is dead.
Now, gentlemen, are you sad, are you
sorry for these deaths Are you not glad
that secession Is dead that slavery is dead ;
that squatter sovereignty is dead ? that the
doctrine of the failure of the War is dead p
Then you are glad that you were outvoted 10
1850. In 1854, in 1858 and In 1879. If you
have tears to shed over these losses, shed them
in the graveyard but not in this House Of
living mon. know that many Southern
man rejoices that these issues are dead. The
gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Lamar) has
clothed his joy with eloquence.
"Now, gentlemen, II you yourselves are
glad that you have suffered defeat during tn,
last sixteen years, will you not be equal,
glad when you suffer defeat next November
[Laughter] But pardon that remark re.
greet 1T should use no bravado.
Now, gentlemen, come with me for mo
ment into the camp Of the Republican part.
and review its career. Our central doctrin,
In 1860 was that slavery should never extern,
itself over another foot of American soil. Il
that doctrine dead ? II Is folded away like
victorious banner It's truth is alive forever
more on this continent. In 1864 we declare,
we wouli put down the Rebellion and seces
sion. And that doctrine lives and will liv
when the second Centennial has arrived
Freedom, National, universal aud perpetua
| --our great constitutional amendments, ar
! they alive or dead Alive, thank the Go,
) that shields both liberty and Union. Ant
) our National credit saved from the assault
of Pendleton; saved from the assaults o
those who struck 1t later, rising higher an
8 higher at homo and abroad and only now II
, doubt lest its chief, its only enemy, the De
mocracy, should triumph In November.
Mr.. Chairman, ought the Republica
party to surrender it's truncheon OF comman
to the Democracy? Tho gentleman fror
n