Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-17

victory. How shall we do this great
work? We can not DO it, my friends, by
assailing our Republican brethren
Great applause and cries of Good. !
God forbid that ! should say one word.
east a shadow upon any name on the roll
of our heroes. The coming fight is our
TherInopylR. We are standing upon a
narrow isthmus. If our Spartan hosts
are united we can withstand 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 course fight for US. Inthe future
the census to be taken this year will
bring greinforcements and continued pow
er. [Applause.l But in order to win
this victory now we want the vote of ev-
ary Republican, and Of every Grant Re
publican and every anti-Grant Republi-
can in America [great applausel of eve
~ Blaine man and every anti-Blalne
man; the vote of every follower of every
candidate is needed to make our success
certain. Applause. Therefore, l say,
gentlemen and brethren, we are here to
take calm counsel together and inquire
what We shall do. A Ayoice-"Nominate
Garfield" Great applause.l We want a
man whose life and opinions embody all
the achievements of which | have spO-
ken. We want a man who,
STANDING ON A MOUNTAIN HEIGHT,
Sees all the achievements Of our past
history, and carries in his heart the mem
ory of all its glorious deeds, and when
looking forward prepares to meet the
danger to come. We want one who will
act in no spirit Of urkindness toward
those we lately met in battle.
The Republican party offers to oul
brethren of the South the olive branch
of peace, and invites them to renewed
brotherhood on this supreme condition
that it shall be admitted forever and for
eyermore, that in the war for the Union
we were right and they were wrong
Cheers On that supreme condition We
meet them, as brethren, and on no other
We ask them to share with us the bless
ings and honors of this great Republic
Applause
Now, gentlemen, not to weary you.
am about to present name for your con-
sderatiOn-the name Of man who was
the comrade, and associate, and friend OF
nearly all these noble. dead whose faces
look down upon Us frcn these walls to
night. (Cheers.) (Referring to the por-
traits of Giddings, Lincoln, Chandler
Sumner. Wade and otner eminent Amer
leans hanging in the hall.) a man who
began his career of public service twen
ty-five wears ago; whose first duty was
cOurageOUsly done in the days of peri
on the plains of Kansas, when the first
red drops Of that bloody shower begar
to fall, which finally swelled into The
deluge of war. (Cheers.) He bravel!
stood by young Kansas then, and return
ing to his seat in the National Legisla
ture through all the subsequent years hi.
pathway has been marked by labors per
formed in every department of legisla
ton.
You ask for his monuments. / point
you to twenty-five years of national stat
utes. (Cheers.) Not one great, benefi
cent statute has been placed on our stat
ute books without his intelligent anC
powerful aid (Choers.) He aided thes,
men to formulate the laws that raiseC
cur great armies and navies, and carried
us through the war. HIS hard was seel
in the workmanship of those statute
that restored and brought back "the uni
| ty and married calm of States" Hi
hand was in all that great Legislation
| that
CREATED THE WAR CURRENCY,
But in still greater work, that redeem
ed the promises of the Government ant
made the currency equal to gold. Ant
when at last he passed from the halls o
legislation into high executive office
he displayed that experience, intelli
gence, firmness and noise of characte
| which has carried us through a storm,
I period of three years, with one-half TIN
public press crying, Cruelty him." ant
a hostile Congress seeking to prevent sue
coss. In all this he remained unmoved
until victory crowned him. applause.
The great fiscal affairs of the Nation ant
| the great business interests of the cOun
try he had guarded and preserved whil
executing the law Of resumption, and of
fected its object without, jar, ant
against the false prophecies of one-hal
of the press and all the Democracy o
this continent. (Applause) He ha
shown himself able to meet with calm
ness the great emergencies of the Gov
ernment. For twenty-five years he ha
trodden the perilous heights of publi
duty and against all the shafts of malic,
has borne his breast unharmed. He ha
stood in the blake of "that fierce ligh
that beats against the throne" but it
flercest ray has found nc flaw in his hon
OF, no stain on his shield. l do not pre-
sent him as better Qepublican or bet
ter man than thousands of others tha
we honor, but l present him for your de
liberate consideration. l nominate JOIN
Sherman, of Ohio.