Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-29
YOUNG VOTERS OF AsHTABULA
COUNTY.

young tOwn-man, Charles Sherman. young
est son Of the Judge, to General Garfield,
ns the foreman and leaderof the delegation
of young voters from this county, who went
up, in the rain, 300 strong on Friday last.
10 pay their respects and congratulations
to the Sage Of Mentor The effort was u
very creditable one, aud showed something
Of The latent energy and promise Of the
young man. In connection with it is the
happy response of the General, who has
t e reudy iuculty-without forcthought-
of meeting the demands Of the occasion.
Both these efforts are very good reading
for the times. Here theyarc:
Mr.. suERNAM's REMARKS.
General Jane, A. Garfield: have the
great honor and the great pleasure Of cy.
pressing to yOn the esteem which the Young
men Of Ashtubua, Tie young Republican
voters have for you. Owing to the in.
clemency Of the weather our number is
not as large as we had expected, but we
are all here in spirit if not ia body. and
with joy and with pleasure we greet YOU
upon the glorious victory achieved in Ohio
and lndlanaat the recent election, and we
look forward confidently to still greater
pleasure in the near future, when we shall
assemble to congratulate the next Presi.
dent Of the United States, James A. Gar
Held. Applause. We feel proud Of you our
Ieader-u man whose public life has been
one crowded with activities and crowned
with usefulness. We feel proud we have a
leader who has always in public life exhibit
ed those qualities which ever incite the adj
mlrallon OF honest, patriotic and intelligent
men; and we young men who are about to
cast our tirsl Presidential votes feel proud
that we can ctst them for and in honor Of "a
man who, when the nations life was in peril.
went forth aud fought with a noble record.
and when called from the battlefield to the
legislative halls OF the nation, there not
only identified himself with every great
measure enacted for the country's welfare.
but also sustained with the admiration
of the whole United States the high char
acter, reputation and honor Of the old
Nineteenth District so long aud ably rep
resented by that old champion Of freedom.
Joshua r. Giddings. We also feel proud
that we are to join the Republican party.
u party which was founded on freedom as
its bottom, aud which has record that it
can proudly boast Of before all civilized
nations, and whose achievements within
the short period Of twenty years, when re-
corded in the book Of history will coverlts
brightest pages. But what shall we SAY
of the young men who would cast their
lot with that other party, with a party
which by holding and advocating thai
damnubIp and accursed doctrine of State
rights. brought on and encouraged seces-
sion and brought on the civil war, and in
1864, when the Union army had almost
brought the war to victorious close, in ma
tional convention assembled declared that
the war for the union was failure, and
upbrtided the Republican party for tramp
ling upon the liberties of the people; with
party which in 1868, in national cOnyen-
tiOn, declared that the constitutional
amendments were unconstitutional, null
and void, and believe that they hold to
that doctrine today in practice, if not in
theory; with party which would destroy
our national integrity and national honor;
with party which did all in its power to
defeat the resumption Of specie payments; /;
with party which at the dictatiOn of the
free trade South would throw our manu-
featuring and industrial interest in open
competition with the old countries Of Eu-
rope, and finally with a party which knows
rs matter Of history that there are nearly
100000 men in these United States upon
whom this great nation in its awful majes-
ty has conferred the rights of citizenship
and the right of suffrage, but who cannot
exercise those rights on account and be-
cause solely Of the Democratic party?
Yet this Democratic party, which the has eff
frOntery to come before the American peo-
pie and put in their national platform that
''the right to free ballot is right pre-
servatiye Of all rights does not raise its
voice against the great frauds perpetmted
in the South and even in the halls Of Con-
gress they seek to repeal law intended
solely to secure freedom and purity at the
ballot box; and when they could not do
that lawfully, when we found that we had
II President there that would not let them
go any further, they said they would sturve
the Government to death il we would not
succumb to their demands. Oh! how long
can this be, and our Republican institu-
tions not tremble to their foundations !
No, thank God, thank the liberty.loving
people of the North that upon the End Of
November voice will be heard throughout
all the loyal North, speaking in tones as
loud as thunder, that these things cannot,
nust not and shall not be, and we will
elect James A. Garfield President Of the
United States 10y every electoral vote in
the Northern States. [Cheers. | now
have the honor of introducing to you the
young Republican voters OF Ashtabula.
General Garfield responded as follows:
SPEECH OF GENERAL GARFIELD.
Gentlemen: believe you are nearly all,
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