The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-13
GARFIELD ON THE STUMP

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GENERAL GARFIELD ON THE sTUME
A Thrilling Appeal 10 Young Men-Elt
quenee which SiirS Like the sound q
aTrumpet.
General Garfield delivered a stun
speech in Cleveland last October. 1t wa
a magnificent piece OF popular oratory
Every sentence struck with the force Of
nnp.hammer. We subjoin It's closing ap
peal to young men. We do not know
where to look for anything equally effect
ivein touching pathos, irresistible hume
and stirring eloquence.
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN.
Now, fellow.citizens, a word before
leave you, on the eve OF the holy day o
Coda fit moment to consecrate ourselves
finally to the great work OF next Tuesday
morning. see in this great audience to
night great many young men, younl
men who are about to cast their first vote
| want 10 give you word OF suggestion
and advice. heard very brillian
thing said by boy the other day up II
one OF our northwestern counties. He
said to me, General have a great minC
to vote the Democratic ticket That was
not the brilliant thing. Laughterl
said to him, 'WhyP why, said he, my
father is Republican. and my brothers
are Republicans, and am Republican
all over, but want to be an independent
man, and don't want anybody to say,
| all kn hi lob az
Just because his dad docs" and have
half mind to vote the Democratic ticket
Just to prove my independence l did
not like the thing the boy suggested, but
did admire the spirit OF the boy that
wanted to have some independence oil his
own.
"Now, I tell You, young man, don't vote
the Republican ticket just because your
father votesit Don't vote the Democratic
ticket, even II he does vote it. Laughter. ]
But let me give you this one word OF
advice, as you are about TO pitch your tent
in one OF the great political camps. Your
life is full and .buoyant with hope now,
and beg you, when you pitch your tent,
pitch 1t among the living and not among
the dead. Applause Ityou are at all
inclined to pitch 1t among the Democratic
people and with that party Jet me go with
YOU for a moment while we survey the
ground where l hope you will not shortly
lie. II is sad place, young man,
for You to put your young life into. 1t is
10 me far more Ike a graveyard than a
camp Tor the living. Look at il! It is
biilowed all over with the graves OF dead
issues, Of buried opinions, OF exploded
theories, OF disgraced doctrines. You can
not live in comfort in such place.
Laughter. Why. look here! Here is a
little doubled mound. l look down on 1t
and ! read, Sacred to the memory Of
SQuatter Sovereignty and the bred Scott
Decision A million and half Demo.
Gratis voted for that, but it has been dead
fifteen years-died by the hand Of
Abraham Lincoln, and here it lies. [Ap-
plause. Young men, that % not the place
for you.
"But look a little farther. Here Is an.
other monumental black tomb-and be-
side It,. as our distinguished friend said,
there towers to tho sky monument OF
four million pairs OF human letters, taken
from the arms OF slaves, and read on Its
little hesdstone this: l'Sacred to the men,
oryof human slavery For forty years OF
its infamous life the Democratic party
taught that it was divine-G0d's institu-
ton. They defended it, they stood around
il, theyfoiloVed 1t to It's grave as mourn.
er. But here it lies dead by the hand Of
Abraham Lincoln, ApplaGse.l Dead
by the power Of the Republican party.
[Applause.1 Dead by the Justice OF Al:
mighty God. [Great applause and cheers
Don't camp there, young man.
"But here is another--a little birthstone
tomb laughter -aud read across its, yell
low lace in lurid, bloody lines, these
words: Sacred to the memory OF State
Sovereignty and Secession Twelve mil
lions OF Democrats mustered around it in
arms to keep it alivei buthere It lies, shot
to death by the million guns OF the Re-
public. Applause. Here 1t lies, its
shrine burnt to ashes under the blazing
raiters OF the burning Coniederacy. APP
plause. 1t is dead. would not have
YOU stay in there minute, even in this
baImy night air, TO look at such place.
Laughter.
"But Just before l leave it discover q
new made grave, little mound-short:
The grass has hardly sprouted over 1t, and
ali around it see torn pieces. Of paper
with the word fiat on them laughter,
and look down in curiosity, wondering
what the little grave is, and | read on 1t,
Sacred to the memory OF the Rag Baby
rIaughter1, nursed in the brain Of all the
ianaticism OF the world laughter, rocked
by Thomas Ewing, George FL. Pendleton,
Samuel Cary, and few others throughout
the landl But II died on the LIST OF jan
uary, 1879, and the one hundred and forty
millions OF gold that God made, and not
fat power, lie upon its little carcass to
keep it down forever. Prolonged ap'
plause, -
[Laughter.l That is no place in which to
put your young life. Come out, and come
over into this CAMP OF liberty, OF order,
OF law, OF Justice. Of freedomt 'Amen' ],
| of all that is glorious under these night
stars.
ais there any deaths here in our camp
Yes! Yes! Three hundred and fifty thous'
and soldiers, the noblest band that ever
trod the earth, died 10 make this camp a
camp Of glory and OF liberty forever. Ire
mendous applause.]
There are are no dead Issues here
Hang out our banner from under the
blue sky this night until it shall SWEEP
the green turf under your feet! 1t hangs
over our camp. Read away up under the
stars the inscription we have written on 1t
10 these twenty-five years.
"lwenty.tive years ago the Republican
party was married to Liberty, and this 1
our silver wedding, fellow-citizens. LGrea
applause. A worthily married pair Low,
each other better on the day OF thei
silver wedding than on the day OF thei
first espousals, and we are truer to Llbert.
I.,.inu mi hnnrar IN God than wa Wer