The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-02

hand in hand by the flaming forges
hand in hand by the chimneys filed
with eager fire, raked and grasped by
the hands OF the countless sons of toll. |
This money must be dug out of the
earth. You cannot make it by passing
resolutions in political convention.
The Republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this
Government should protect every citizen
at home or abroad who knows that
any government that will not defend its
defenders, and will not protect its pro-
tectors, is q disgrace to the map of the
world. They demand a man who be-
lieves in the eternal separation and di-
vorcement of church and school. They
demand man whose political reputa-
tlon is as spotless as star; but they
do not demand that their cadidate
shall have certificate of moral char
acter signed by the Confederate con-
gress. The man who has, in full,
complete, and rounded measure, all OF
these splendid qualifications is the
presen: grand aud gallant leader of
the Republican party-James G.
Blaine.
Our country, crowned by the vast
and marvellous achievements OF its
first century, asks for man worthy of
her past and prophetic of her future
asks for a nan who has the audacity
OF genius asks for man who has the
grandest combination of heart, con-
science and brain, tie world ever saw.
That man is James G.. Blaine. For
the Republican hosts, led by this in
trepid man, there can be no such thing
as defeat. This is grand year-a
year filed with the recollections OF
the Revolution filled with proud and
tender memories of the sacred past ];
filled with legends of libeIty-a year
in which the sons of freedom will drink
from the fountain of enthusiasm-a
year in which the people call for the
man who has preserved in Congress
what their soldiers won upon the field
"a year in which they call for the
man who has tern from the throat of
treason the tongue of SANDER the man
who has snatched the mask of Demo.
cracy from the hideous face of the Re-
bellion the man who, like the INTEL
lettual athlete, hath stood in the arena
ct debate challenging all comers, and
who up to the present moment is q
total stranger to defeat. Like an arm
ed warrior, like 8 plumed knight,
James @. Blaine marched down the
halls of the American Congress and
threw his shining lance full and fair
against the brazen forehead of every
traitor to his country and evey malignes
of his fair reputation. For the Re
publican party to desert that gallant
man now is as though an army should
desert their general upon the field OF
battle. James G. Blaine is now and
has been fer years the bearer of the
sacred standard of the Republican
party. / call it sacred because no hu-
man being can stand beneath its folds
without becoming and without remain
ing free.
Gentlemen of the Convention In
the name of the great Republic, the
only Republic that ever existed upon
the face of the earth; in the name OF
all her defenders and of all her suppor-
tcrs in the name OF all her soldiers
living in the name of all her soldiers
that died upon the field of battle, and
in the name of those that perished in
the skeleton clutch of famine al Ander-
sonville and Libby, whose sufferiDgs he
SO vividly remembers, Illinois Illinois
noninates for the next President OF
this country that prince OF parliament
arians, that leader of leaders, James G.
Blaine.
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