The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-06-24

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| It, my friends, by assaiIing cur Re
publican brethren. IGreat applause
and cries of "Good!"1 God forbid
that 1 should say one word to cast a
shadow upon any name on the roll Of
our heroes. This coming fight is our
ThermOpyl@. We are standing up
on q narrow isthmus. If our Spar
tan hosts are united, we can with
stand all the Greeks that the Xerxes
OF Democracy can bring against us.
Let US hold our ground this one
year, for ''the stars In their
courses" fight for us in the future.
The census to be taken this year will
bring reinforeements and continued
power, Eapplause, but in order to
win this victory now, we want the
vote of every Republican, of every
Grant Republican and every anti
Grant Republican in America, Cgreat
applause, of every Blaine man and
every anti-Blaine man; the vote of
every follower Of every candidate is /
needed to make our success certain. |
Applause ] Therefore, I say, gen
tlemen and brethren, we are here to
take calm counsel together, and in
quire what we shall do. A voice:
Nominate Garfield. We want
man whose life and opinions embody
all the achievements Of which I have
spoken. We want a man who, stand
ing on a mountain height, sees al !
the achievements Of our Dast his
tory, and carries in his heart the
memory Of all its glorious deeds, and |
who, looking forward, prepares to |
meet the labor and the dangers to |
come. We want one who will act In
no spirit Of unkindness toward those |
we lately met in battle.
The Republican party offers to our
brethren of the South the olive
branch Of peace, and invites them to
renewed brotherhood on this condi-
ton: that it shall be admitted for
ever more, that in the war for the
Union, we were right and they were
wrong. TCheers. On that supreme
condition We meet them as brethren,
and on no other do we ask them to
share with us the blessings and hon
ors of this great Republic Zap
plause. Now, gentlemen, not to
weary you, I am about to present a |
name for your consideration, the
name of man who was the eOmrade,
and associate and friend ofnearly all
these noble dead, whose faces look
down upon US from these walls to-
night, Echeers, (refeEring to the pOr-
traits Of Giddings, Lincoln, Sumner,
Wade, Chandler and other eminent
Americans, hanging in the hall,) 8
man who began his career Of public
service twenty-five years ago, whose
first duty was cOurageOusly done in
the days of peril on the plains Of
Kansas, when the first red drops Of
that bloody shower began to fall,
which finally swelled into the deluge
of war oheersl; he bravely stood by
young Kansas then, and returned to
his seat in the National Legislature;
through all the subsequent years his
pathway has been marked by labOrs
performed in every department Of
Legislation. You ask for his mOnu-
ments-I point you to twenty-five
years of National statutes. (Cheers.)
Not one great benefeent statute has
been placed upon our statute books
without his intelligent hand and
powerful aid (Cheers.) He aided
these men to formulate the laws that
raised our great armies and naVies
that carried US through the war. His
hand was in all that great legislation
that created the war currency, but
in a greater work, that redeemed the
promises of the Government, and
made the currency equal to gold;
and when at last he passed from the
halls of legislation into a high exec
utive Office, he displayed that expe-
rience, intelligence, irmnesb and
poise of character which has carried
US through a stormy period of three
years, with one-half of the public
press crying "CrUcify him. and
hostile Congress seeking to prevent
success. In all this he remained
unmoved, until victory crowned him.
(Applause) The great fiscal affairs
of the Nation and the great business
interests of the country hehas guard |
ed and preserved while executing the |
law of resumption, and effected its
object without a jar, and against the
false prophesies Of one-helf Of the
press and all the Democracy of this
continent. (Applause.) He has
shown himself able to meet, with |
calmness, the great emergencies Of
the Government. For twenty-five
wears he has trodden the perilOus /
heights of public duty, and against /
all the shafts OF malice has barred his /
breast unharmed. He has stood in the /
blaze of 'that fierce light that beats /
against a throne" but its iercest /
ray has found no flaw in his armOr, |
no stain on his shield. I do not |
present him as q better Republican /
or a better man than thousands Of |
others that we honor, but present |
him for your deliberate cOnsidera-
ton. I nominate John Sherman, OF
Ohio.