Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-09-25

Senator eBOOth, of California, made a
great speech on the 18th, i'm San Fran
cisco. He opened with this richness:
us it necessary to call the Democrat
lie party into power to administer the
government on Republican principles?
The effrontry of claim like this would
be sublime if it were not ridiculous.
IL have heard an illustration which
son, when he had returned to his fathers
house and eaten the fatted calf. should
turn the old gentleman out of doors, de-
mand deed to the farm, insist that
nothing less would reconcile him and
make him forget the past unpleasant
ness!
Il have been trying to find an histori-
cal parallel. l have failed, history is Of
ten absurd, but never, / think, so absurd
as that. l can imagine one: During the
war of the American revolution there
was large number of men in this cOun-
try who were sincerely opposed to the
independence of the United States. In
some sections they were in a majority.
They were called Tories, from their SYM
pathy with the then governing party in
Great Britain. They held themselves to
be subjects of George III, just as much
as the great body of people in the southern
states from 81 to '65 held themselves
citizens of the cOnfederacy. They resist
ed drafts, impeded the execution of the
laws, fought with the red-cOats, and
made the revolution civil war--a war
that divided neighbOrs and families.
Suppose the Tories had maintained a
distinct political organization after the
war closed, and met in convention, re-
solved that they stood by their princi-
pies, were proud of their traditions, and
that they were of right entitled to the
possession and control of the govern
ment of the United States. Suppose they
had nominated for President Gen. Gates,
a soldier by profession, distinguished
for his services in the Patriot army, and
had said: accept this as an olive
branc admit the United States are
independent-give us the control of gov
eminent to sOOthe our feelings; do it, or
we shall be mad so long as we live, and
the longer we live the madden we'll get
and you shall be responsible for the
animOsitiss which have grown out of
the war;
"Would that proposition be more alb
surd, prepOsterOus, than that of the DEM
Ocratic party tO-day?"
The senator concluded as follows:
"The Democratic party to-day bases its
hope of success on the assurance that it
will receive the support of every state
that Joined in the cOnfedracy-a support
secured and made certain by the same
means which carried their secession. If
it ought to succeed, if it deserves sue
cess, the preservation of the Union was
blunder, emancipation a crime, the
war for the Union gigantic murder, and
the Republican party monster of ini-
guilty. 1t will not succeed; the stars in
their courses fight against it; the time
has not come when American people
will cOncede that on those great ques-
tiOns of government, humanity, liberty,
which in our generation were cham
piOned on the one hand by Abraham
Lincoln, and on the other by jefferson
Davis, the right is in doubt. They are
not questions of day or an age, but of
all time. They are part of a conflict
which in some form is old as history. 1t
has come down by the pyramids of the
Nile, by the fountains of Judea, by the
| temples of Greece, by the amphitheaters
of Rome, by the schools of the Middle
Ages. by the palaces and cities of modern
art, and it will continue in some form
until the right shall be OverthrOwn or
established, until anarchy shall come
down like night, or liberty and order
shall become the peaceful heritage of
all the nations of the whole EARTH