The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-09-01

people, for the people and by the people, I
must ally myself with that party which in
some way in the near future will restore the
half million of disfranchised citizens to the
rights of suffrage.
In this country two civilizations antagonize
one is progressive, the other retrogressive. The
one looks to higher and better future for
all mankind; the other turns its eyes back
ward and sees good alone in the past The
emblem of the one, and the sign under which
it conquers, is the school house; the emblem
of the other is the shot gun. Maine, Massa-
chusetts and Ohio are States where the former
civilization prevails Kentucky, Louisiana
and Delaware are the result of the opposite
civilization. prefer that civilization which
makes States like Maine (not under fusion
government and Massachusetts,. 1 am OPP
posed to civilization which recognizes the
right of the few to monopolize the intelligence
and government of the State, leaving the
many in ignorance, and without the restraint
of wholesome and equal laws. prefer Ohio
to Delaware because Ohio educates her COM
mon people and developes Garfelds, while Del
aware refuses the bread of education to the
common people and gives them the bread OF
the whipping post. When two such ciyiliza-
tions contest for the control of this govern
ment, /, and every young man born in the
humber walks of life, am bound by sordld
self-interest to sustain that civilization which
affords us the amplest field for the exercise OF
those talents which God has given us. The
Republican party in its history, its efforts, its
achievements, its pledges and aspirations not
only maintains this civilization, but is this
civilization. The Democratic party, by its
history, its traditions, its treason to human
liberty, its revolutionary tendencies, stands
for that retrogressive civilization.
1t may be said that the Democratic leaders
will never again repeat their past record OF
folly, disloyalty and treason-that they will
never again engage in another rebellion, or
oppose the giving of the ballot and manhood
to every human being. This may be true;
but, my friends, prefer to make my political
future with party leaders who have never been
tempted into the course of wrong doing. But
is it true that the Democratic leaders have re-
linquished their revolutionary designs? Are
they in favor of the enforcement Of the laws?
If so, why is it that the officers of the United
States courts have not been paid for many
months? The Democratic Congress has been
in session. 1t has voted millions out of the
Treasury for river and harbor appropriations,
and for Democratic Investigations, and Demo
cratic officials, b 1T not one dollar to pay the
salaries of United States Marshals and Dis
trict Attorneys, and to-day nearly every Fed
eral court in the country is unable to proceed
to the trial of those charged with crimes upon
the high seas robbing of the mails, issuing
counterfeit money, with defrauding the reye-
nue., and like crimes against the public peace,
and against the public security. If this party
has ceased to be revolutionary and obstructive,
will you tell me why it has crippled the courts
of justice? If this is party that believes in
free and fair elections, why have all its men,
bers in Congress voted against every measure
designed to ensure free and fair elections? If
opposed to violence during elections, why has
every Democratic Senator and Representative
in the present Congress voted against propo-
sition to make the bearing of arms at voting
places for the purpose of intimidation fell
ony? If the Democratic party in the several
States are in favor of popular government
based upon fair elections, why is it that they
always oppose all laws relative to registra-
tion and designed to prevent ballot box frauds?
If our Maine Democratic leaders have dis
carded those revolutionary tendencies which
made them the opponents of the Lincoln gov
eminent during the war, and sympathizers
with the cause of Jefferson Davis, why is it
that nearly to man they encouraged the
Garcelon conspirators in their attempt to re-
verse the clearly expressed will of the people
in the last State election by counting out the
Legislature elected by the people and substi-
tuting one of their own? Does this latest at
tempt of our own Democratic leaders to sub
vert popular government and trample under
foot the constitution and the laws tend to per-
suade us that these Democratic leaders are
less revolutionary, less the foes of popular
government than they were in the terrible
days of the war, when they were deadly hos
tile to Abraham Lincoln, the national cause
and the unity of the country?
AT the close of Mr.. Looney's speech he in
troduced Judge Morrison of Chicago, the father
of the Irish Republican movement. judge
Morrison was received very handsomely, and
he showed himself born orator An imper-
feet abstract of hisspeech is given below. He
scathed a portion of the audience, some fifty in
number, who began to move out as soon as he
began to speak-evidently preconcerted trick
of the evening. The great audience was held
to the close, and at times they cheered him to
the echo. When he spoke of the indignity
heaped upon Gen. Shields by Democratic
caucus, in favor of rebel Gen. Fields, and
said all the Republicans voted for him for
A. Garfield, the audience, were reused to a
tremendous enthusiasm.
JUDGE MoRRIsoN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, The
contest in which the people of the United
States are now engaged Is by no means one of
recent growth The student of history cam
readings however far back into the dim, and
mythical regions OF antiquity ho may have
pressed his researches,) the existence of two
gre at antagonistic principles continually strug-
Cling for the mastery. One of these is clad in
the panoply of eternal truth, God-like mercy
and invinoible love of liberty and men call it
Right The other is clothed In falsehood, cru
city, and deSpotism, and men call it Wrong.
The history Of the earth is but reiteration of
the mighty warfare with which the adherents
of these principles have sustained their respect
i've sides from the beginning. From the day when
imperial Rome fell from her iewelled throne
nnder the rugged feet OF the frec-born barba-
rians of the North downtO our time this con-
test has never ceased. All through the quaint
and classic towns and historic cities of dear
old mother Europe, from the Volga to the
Shannon, this battle has been fought. And
the names which shine out like bright particu-
lar stars in our armament are those of Brutus,
Tell, Bruce, Joan of Arc, Owen Roe, Hugh
ONeil, Lord Edward, Tone, Emmett Wash
ington Montgomery, Grant, Corcoran and all
gods who gave their glorious lives for liberty
and fatherland. Slavery, that blacklist, foul
est stain on the history of our civilization had
its birth ages ago in the midst of pagan dark
ness and superstition. 1t was transplanted to
our shores by the Dutch land English govern,
ments, and when England, conquered and de-
feated, was compelled to fly from the enfran-
chised shores of America, she left that ac-
cursed relic of barbarism behind, to atf1ict and
disunite our newborn Nation 1t will not, it
cannot be denied that the evils which affiict
us to-day are the legitimate offspring of this
DrOlluC mOEu0r Ol WOO duQ WlCk6uu0SS. Every
drop of sacred patriot blood shed in the war
for the Union, every heart-broken widows
moan. every desolate orphans tear, every
grave beneath the cypress and the yew on
Southern battle plains, every hapless mothers
wall for her loved and lost ones, every desc
lated hearthstone, every blighted home from
which the light of love and domestic bliss has
disappeared, every manly form shattered by
rebel shot and shell, aye every dollar of debt
under which the Republic staggers tonight
are parts of the awful struggle which the abo-
lition of that most unholy, most Christ ian
curse of slavery has cost the American In
ion. Out of all those passions of the past the
malignant and baleful spirit of intolerance
has sprang and wherever its unholy influence
has prevailed, there we find heartburning and
domestic feud and it should be our constant
prayer to God to avert from us, all the untold
evils which follow in its train. SANDER false
hood, violence and corruption are its most ia
miliar weapons, and they are used in the most
unjustifable manner upon all who dare op-
pose the unholy schemes of our opponent 1t is
but few years since the Democratic party
condemned whole race of men to perpetual
ignorance to aid in sustaining the institution of
slavery and the mob violence, the contempt of
law, the night riders the red shirts, the Ku
Klux, the wholesale prostitution of the ballot
box the issuing of tens of thousands of fraud
ulent naturalization papers, the recent at
tempts to abolish all the safeguards of free
and honest ballot, the disturbance of peaceful
meetings, the brutal and cowardly assaults on
torchlight professions are all specimens of the
fierce spirit of Democratic intolerance. But
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