Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-12

of the world. A volce-'Amen.' l am Republican because the Republican party says: "We will protect the rights of Ameri- can citizens at home, and if necessary to march an army into any State to protect the rights of the humblest American citizens in that State. :" (Cheers.)
 I am a Repubhcan-(lau laughter )-because that party allows me to be free-allows me to do my thinking in my own way. (Cheers.) I am Republican because it is party grand enough to invite every human being in favor of liberty and progress to fight shoulder to shoulder for the advancement of mankind (Cheers.) It invites the Methodists it invites the Catholics it invites the Presbyte- rian and every kind of sectarian it invites the free-thinker; it invites the infidel, pro- vided he is in favor of giving to every other human being every chance and every right that he claims for himself. (Cheers.) I am a Republican tell you. Gaughter.) There is room in the Republican air for every wing; there is room on the Republican sea for eve- ry sail. Repubicanism says to every man
 ''Let your soul be like an eagle; fly out in the great dome of thought, and question the stars for yourself" (Cheers. ''Thats so.' D But the Democratic party says: 'tBe blind owls sit on the dry limbs of 8 dead tree, and only boot when Tilden & Go. tell you to-" Daughter In the Republican party there are no followers We are all leaders. " is not party lash. Any man that does not love this country, any man that does notlove liberty, any man that is not in favor of hu- man progress, that is not in favor of giving to others all he claims for himself we don't ask him to vote the Republican ticket. (Cheers.) You can vote if you please, and if there is any Democrat within hearing who expects to die before next election, we are willing that he should vote one Republican ticket, simply as 8 consolation upon his death bed. Great laughter.) What more? am Republican because that party believes in free labor. It believes that free labor will give us wealth. It believes in free thought, because it believes that free thought will give us truth. CA voice-''That's so.") You don't know what grand party you belong to. I never want any holier or grander title of nobility than that belong to the Repub
 ican party and have fought for the liberty of man (Cheers.) The Republican party, I say, believes in free labor. The Republi- can party also believes in slavery. What kind of slavery? In enslaving the forces of nature We believe that free labor, that free thought, have enslaved the forces of na- ture and made them work for man. We make old attraction of gravitation work for us !; we make the lightning do our errands; make steam hammer and fashion what we need: The forces of nature are the slaves of the Republican party. (Cheers.) They have got no backs to be whipped; they have got no hearts to be torn-no hearts to be broken they cannot be separated from their wives they cannot be dragged from the bosoms of their husbands; they work night and day and they never tire You cannot whip them, you cannot starve them, and a Democrat even can be trusted with one of them. Gaughter.) I tell you am Re publican. Oaughter.) I believe as I told you, that free labor will give us these slaves. Free labor will produce all these things, and hos
 duced by free labor, nothing by slave labor. Slavery never invented but one machine, and that was a threshing machine in the shape of a whip. Gaughter.). Free labor has in- vented all the machines. We want to come down to the philosophy of these things. The problem of free labor, when a man works for the wife he loves, when he works for the lit tie children he adores- problem is to do the most work in the shortest space of time. The problem of slavery is to do the least in the longest space of time. This is the differ ence. Free labor, love, affection-they have invented everything of use in this world. (Cheers.) I am g Repubi- is getting better every day. See the advancement we have made in a few years see what we have done. We have covered this nation with wealth and glory and with liberty. This is the first free government iu the world. The Republican DdrGy GudG WdS uOI IOuuu6u OH SOuG compromise with thedevil. Laughter. ) It is the first party of pure, square, honest principle; the first one. And we have got the first free country that ever existed. And right here want to thank every soldier that fought to make it free (cries of Good, Good" and cheers ), every one livng and dead. I want to thank you again and again. You made the first free government in the world (cheers) and we must not forget the dead heroes. If they were here they would vote the Republican ticket. every one of them, tell you we must not forget thcm.s
 I am opposed to the Democratic party, and I will tell you why. Every State that seeded from the United States was Q Democratic State. Every ordinance of secession that was drawn was drawn by Democrat. Every man that endeavored to tear the old flag from the heaven that it enriches was Democrat GA voice-"Give 1t to them.'') Every man that tried to destroy this nation Demo- crat. Every enemy this great republic has had for 20 years has been a Democrat (Cheers-ftThat's so." Every man that starved Union soldiers and refused them in the extremity of death crust was Demo- crat. (Renewed cheering Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was Dem ocrat. The man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was Democrat. Every man that sympathized with the assassin-every man glad that the noblest President ever elected was assassinated, was a Democrat. Every man that wanted the privilege of whipping another man to make him work for him for nothing and pay him with lashes on his nak- ed back was Democrat (Cheers.) Every man that raised blood hounds to pursue hu- man beings was Democrat. Every man that clutched from shrieking shuddering, crouching mothers babes from their breasts and sold them into slavery was a Democrat. (Cheera.) Every man that impaired the cred it of the United States; every man that swore would never pay the bonds every man that swore we would never redeem the greenbacks every maigner of his country's credit, every calumniator of his country's honor, was a Democrat. (Cheers.) Every man that resisted the draft, every man that hid in the bushes, and shot at Union men simply because they were endeavoring to en- force the laws of their country, was Demo crat. (Cheers.) Every man that wept over the corpse of slavery was a Democrat. Every man that cursed Lincoln because he issued the proclamation of emancip ipation-the grand est paper since the declaration of Indepen- dence-every one of them was Democrat. (Cheers.) Every man that denounced the soldiers that barred their bosoms to the storm of shot and shell for the honor of America and for the sacred rights of man was Dem ocrat. (Gheers.) Every man that wanted an uprising in the North, that wanted to release the rebel prisoners that they might burn down the homes of Union soldiers above the heads of their wives and children. while the brave husbands, the heroic fathers, were in the front fighting for the honor of the old flag, every of them was Democrat. (Cheers.) I am not through yet. Daughter and cheers.) Every man that believes this glorious nation of ours is a confederacy, every man that believes the old banner carried by our fathers through the Revolution, through the war of 1872, carried by our brothers over the plains of Mexico, carried by our brothers over the fields of the rebellion simply stood for a contract, simply stood for an agree ment, was a Democrat. (Cheers.) Every man who believed that any State could go out of the Union at its pleasure, every man that believed the grand fabric of the American government could be made to crumble in- stant1y into dust at the touch of treason, was a Democrat. (Cheers.) Every man that helped to burn orphan asylums in New York was Democrat; every man that tried to fire the city of New York, although he knew that thousands would perish, and knew that the great serpents ofhame leaping from buildings would clutch children from their mothers arms-every wretch that did it was Demo- crat. (Cheers.) Recollect it! Every man that tried to spread small -pox and yellow few CT in the North, the instrumentalities or civilized war, was a Democrat. Soldiers, every scar you have got on your heroic bod