The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-09-09
Garfleld's Appeal to Young Men.

General Garfield delivered a stump
speech in Cleveland last October. 1t
was magnificent piece of popular ora
tory. Every sentence struck with the
force of trip-hammer. His closing
appeal to young men is here given. 1t
Is full of pathos, humor and stirring
|eaOquence. and just as appropriate now
as when delivered:
"Now, fellow-citizens, word before leave
you, ON the very eve of the holy day Of God
10 the great work of next Tuesday morning. l
see in this great audience tonight a great
s en VINO T dre ao wor s0 Of s9
gcstion and advice. 1 heard a very brilliant
thing said by boy the other day up In one OF
Democratic Ticket That @ was % not n the brilliant
thing: l said to him; 'whyr Why, said he
,over, but / want to be an independent man,
votes the Republican ticket just because his
dad does, and have half mind to vote the
a e ssns S aSe Soy
rested, but did admire the spirit OF the boy
that wanted to have somo Independence Of
"Now, tell you, young man, don't vote the
Republican ticket just because your father
votes T. Don't @ vote vote the democratic nc, ticket,
this one word of advice, As you are about to
pitch your tent in one of the great political
hopes now, ana 1 bog you, when you pitch
your tent, pitch it among the living and not
as ise % a peoe
with that party, let me go with you for mo-
ment while We survey the ground where
young man. for you to put your young life
into. IT is to me far more like a graveyard
than !. LIKE Ss%p M for es With E the L1a at
dead issues. of buried opinions, of exploded
theories, of disgraced doctrines. You can
not live i'm comfort in such place. Laugh
teri Why, look herel Here IS a little dou Bile
mound. Hook down on it and 1 read, Sacred
the Dred scott decision. a million and a half
of Democrats voted for that, but II has been
dead fifteen yearsIdied BY the hand Of Abra-
/" But look little further. Here is another
o%r distinauished S friend said there % towers to to
the sky monument of four million pairs OF
human fctters taken from the arms Of slaves,
and 1 read on its little headstone this: Sacred
TO the memory of human slavery. For forty
years Of its Infamous life the Democratic par
ton They defended it, they stood around it,
they followed it to its grave as mourner. But
here 1t lies, dead by the hand of Abraham Lin
party. Dead by the justice of Almighty God.
Don't camp there, young man.
tomb ana % read "a ACROSS it's yellow face in larid,
bloody lines. these words: Sacred to the
memory of State Sovereignty and Secession
around it in % arms to keep it alive: but here il
lies, shot to death by the million guns of the
es PRndef the Glazing rafssrs % OF tSe burning u, ling
you stay in there a minute, even in this balmy
sBut just before leave It 1 discover a new
made grave, little mound-short. The grass
has hardly sprouted over It, and all around ID It Il
on them, and 1 look down in curiosity, won
dering what the little grave is, and read on
nnrsed nj % in the he brain Of ali the fanaticism 81
the world, rocked by Thomas Ewing, George
H. Pendlcton, Samuel Cary, and few others
of January, 1879, and the one hundred and
forty millions of gold that God made, and not
fiat power lie upon its little CARCASS to keep 1t
.'Oh. young man, come out of thatl That is
no place in which to put your young life.
liberty, of order, of law, of Justice of freedom,
of all that Is glorious under these night stars.
Tnee hanaea Sna tS
soldiers, the noblest band that ever trod the
earth, died to make this camp camp OF
glory and of liberty forever.
But there are no dead issues here. There
are no dead issues here. Hang out our ban
ner from under the blue sky this night until Il Il
the stars the inscription we have written on it,
"Twenty-five years ago the Republican par
ty was married to Liberty, and this is our
silver wedding, fellow-citizens. A worthily-
married pair love each other better on the
day of their silver wedding than on the day of
their first espousals; and we are truer to Lib
erty to-day, and dearcr to God, than we were
when we spoke our first word Of liberty. Read
away up under the sky across our starry ban
years agoI What is 1t? Slavery shall never
extend over another foot of the territories of
the great West Is that dead or alive? Alive,
thank God, for evcrmOrel And truer tonight
than 1t was the hour it was wrtttenl Then IL
was a hope, promise, purpose. Tonight 1t
is equal with the stars-immortal history and
immortal truth
"Come down the glorious steps of our BAN
ner. Every great record we have made we
1t sweeps the ground and il touches the stars.
Come there, young man, and put in your young
life where all Is living. and where nothing Is
dead but the heroes who defended 1t! think
these young men will do that.
"Gentlemen, we are closing this memora-
BILE campaign. We have got our cnemies
on the run everywhere. And all you need
to do in this noble old city, this
capital of the Western Reserve, is to fol-
10y them up and finish 1t by showing the Re-
bellion under once more. We stand on an
isthmus. This year and next is the narrow
isthmus between us and perpetual victory. II
you can win now, and win in 1880, then tho
very stars in their courses will fight for us.
The census will do the work, and will give us
thirty more frecmen of the North in our Con-
gross that will make up for the rebellion OF
the South. We are posted here, as the Greeks
were posted at ThermopylR, to meet this one
great barbarian, Xerxes, on the isthmus.
Stand in your places, men of Ohio! Fight this
l,aftla win this xicfOry and then mora