Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-07-08
GARFIELD ON THE DEM
OCRACY.
Extract From One Of His Old
Speeches.

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Speeches.
The following is an extract from
a speech delivered BY General Gar
field, August 4, 1876, in the National
House of Representatives. 1t is
timely and appropriate:
"Mr. Chairman, 1t is now time 10
inquire as to the fitness of this Dem
ocratic party to take control of our
great Nation and its vast and impor-
tant interests for the next four years.
I put the question to the gentleman
from Mississippi. Mr.. Lamar, what
has the Democratic party done to
merit that great trust? He tries to
show in what respect it would not he
dangerous. / ask him to show in
what it would be safe. / affirm, and
1 believe l do not misrepresent the
great Democratic party, that in the
last sixteen years they have not al
vanced one great National IDEA that
Is not to-day exploded and as dead
as julius Caesar. And if any Dem
ocrat here will rise and name a great
National doctrine his party has adj
vanced within that time that is now
alive and believed in, ! will yield to
him. A pause In default of an
answer 1 will attempt to prove my
negative. /
"What were the great central doc
trines of the Democratic party in the
struggle of 1860 The
followers of Breckenridge said slavery |
had right to go wherever the Con-
,titution goes. Do you believe that
Today? And is there man on this
continent that holds that doctrine
,o-day2 Not one. That doctrine is
lead and buried. The other wing Of
The Democracy held that slavery
night be established in the Terri
,ories if the people wanted it. Does
anybody hold hat doctrine to-day?
Dead, absolutely dend!
"Come down to 1864. Your party,
lnder the lead of Tilden and Vallan
ligham, declared the experiment Of
var to save the Union was failure?
Do you believe that doctrine to-day?
That doctrine was shot to death by
he guns Of Farragut at Mobile, and ,
lriven in tempest Of fire from the
yalley of the Shenandoah by Sher-
dan less than month after its birth
t Chicago.
sCome down to 1868. You de-
Jared the constitutional amendment
evolutionary and void. Does any
nan on this floor say so to-day2 If
o, let him rise and declare it.
"Do you believe in the doctrine Of
he Broadhead letter of 1868, that
he so-called constitutional amend
lents should be disregarded? No;
he gentleman from Mississippi ac-
epts the results of the WARP
he Democratic doctrine Of 1853 is
cad.
81 walk across the Democratic ;
as in graveyard.
Tnder my feet resound the hollow {
choes of the dead. There lies slav-
ry, a black marble column at the
lead of its grave, on which l read:
lied in the flames of the Civil War; j
wed in its life, lamented in its
cath; followed to its bier by its only =
,ourner, the Democratic party, but I.
cad. And here is a double grave; /,
icred to the memory of Sqnatter {
overeignty. Died in the campaign /
f 1860. On the reverse side: Sa-
led to the memory of Dred Scott
nd the Breckenridge doctrine. Both =
cad at the hands of Abraham Lin.
oln And here a monument oil.
rimstone: Sacred to the memory of /
lie Rebellion; the war against it is a
lilure; Tilden ct VaUandigAam ,
scerunt, A. D. 1864. Dead on the /
eld of battle; shot to death by the c
lillion guns of the Republic. The g
octrine of Secession; of State Sow
reignty. Dead. Expired in the :
ames of civil War, amid the blazing !
filters of the Confederacy, except q
lat the modern Eneas fleeing
Mt of the flames of that ruin, bears !
a his back another Anchises of !,
tate Sovereignty, and brings it here =
] the person of the honorable gen. l
eman from the Appomattox District !
Virginia (Mr. Tucker) (Laugh- !
~ All else is dead. =
'Now, gentlemen, are you sad, are t
Oh sorry for these deaths2 Are b