Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30
raE ISSUES SUMMARIZED.
GENERAL Mastery Presentation of the Political Situation
The Democratic in O Living

question to the gentleman from Mississippi Mr. LAMAR
the Democratic party done to merit that great trust He tried to
what respects would not be dangerous ask him show
in what would be SAFE affirm, and believe do not mlsrep
the great Democratic party that in the last sixteen years
they have advanced national idea that not to-day
exploded and dead Julius Caesar And Democrat here
will rise and great national doctrine his party has
advanced within that time that is alive and believed
will yield hear him. pause In default OF an answer VIII
attempt prove my negative.
Presidential struggle of 1862 The followers of Brecn
ridge slavery had right wherever the Constitution
holds that doctrine to-day Not That doctrine is dead and
buried The other wing Democracy held that slavery might
anybody hold that doctrine to-day Dead absolutely dead
down 1864 Your party under the lead of Tden and
was Do you believe that doctrine to-day? That doc
shot death by the guns of Farragu at Mobile and
Sheridan less than month after its birth at Chicago.
Come down 1868 You declared the constitutional amend
revolutionary and void Does this floor say SO
to-day If so, let him rise and declare it,
believe the doctrine of the Broadhad letter OF 1868
that the socaled constitutional amendments should be dse
gaded No. the gentleman from Mississippi accepts the results
war! The Democratic doctrine of 1868 is dead walk
that Democratic ground IN graveyard Under my
hollow echoes othe dead There lies slavery
black marble column the head of its grave which read
Died the flames of the civil loved its life amened in
its death; followed to It's bier by its only mourner the Democratic
party but dead And here double Sacred to the
memory squaer sovereignty Died in the campaign OF 1860
On the de Sacred the memory of the bred Scott and
Breckenridge doctrine Both dead at the hands of Lin
And here of birthstone: Sacred to the mem
DRY of the rebellion; the war against it is failure aden ct Val
gadham eeeru A. d. 1861 Dead on the field OF batle shot
to
secession; sovereignty Dead Expired the flames of
amid the blazing raers of the Conederacy except that
another Achs of State sovereignty and brings here in the
person the honorable gentleman from the Appomattox district
Of Virginia Mr. TUokrR] [Iaughter] All else is dead
gentemen you sad you sorry for these deaths
you glad that secession is dead that slavery is dead
that squatte sovereignty is dead that the doctrine OF the failure
of the dead Then you are glad that you were outvoed IN
1860 1863 and in 1872 If you have to shed
these shed them in the graveyard but not in this House of
living that many Southern reoces that these
issues dead The gentleman from Mississippi has clothed his
JOY with eoquence
Now gentlemen if yourselves glad that you have sui
defeat during the last sixteen years. will you not be equally
glad when you suffer defeat next November Laughter But
Iardon remark | regret would bravado.
Now gentlemen, with for moment into the OF
Republican party and review its Our central doctrine
1860 that slavery should never extend itself over another
of American SOIL Is that doctrine dead 1t is folded away
like victorious banner truth is alive oevemore this
In 1864 declared that would down the rebellion
And that doctrine lives and will live when the
second Centennial arrived Freedom national UNIVERSAL and
pepetuaOur great constitutional amendments they alive
dead Alive thank the God that shields both liberty and Union
national credit saved from the assaults Of Pendeon
saved from the assaults of those who struck later rising higher
and higher home and abroad and only doubt lest It's
chief its only enemy the Democracy should triumph in Novem
ber
Mr. Chairman ought Republican party its
cheon of command the Democracy The gentleman from Mis-
sppi says this England the Ministry would go in
twenty hours with such state of things have here
All yes that is ordinary of change of
n this were England what would she have done at the end of
England made such the gentleman asks
this country make when she threw the achievements of
the grndest man that ever rod her highway power
Cromwell had the throne dspoc power and had
lifted his country place of master greatness among the
earth and when, after his DEATH his great ceper
transferred weak though unnea hand his country
of eactonary blindness brought back the Stuart Eng
land from that folly until $685. the Prince of
Orange drove from her island the last that weak and wicked line
Did She aferward repeat the bunder?
For than fifty years pretende seeking the throne
and the her in Scotland and in Ireland threatened
the overthrow of the dynasty and the disruption of the EN-
pre- But the solid phegm the magnificent pluck the roune
about of Engshmen steaded the throne till the
the Suar dead They did change as the
battle and let the Stuarts come back to power
nd how N
umphed in the of the Revolution? When the victory
did they open their the oyast they called them
selves tories fathers called them Did they invite
Not They conscated their lands The State
passed DEGREES that tory should live soil And when
they poor take themselves away fathers bur-
dened young nation with debt raised the money
transport tories beyond the the Canada border
They England France Nova Scotia New Bruins
wick and especially Halifax; and that town such resort
for became the swearword of boyhood eco to
Halifax substitute for mpiou but not oppro
bous expression The presence of tories made it opprobous
Now do refer this example which ought to
follow Oh We live in milder in age soened by
genial influence of Christian civilization Witness the
sxone who fought against the late war; and who
sitting this and the other Chambero Congress Every
of them here because magnanmous nation freely voted that
they might and they welcome Only please do not
that you especially fitted rule the Republic and to
be the apostles of liberty and of blessings the cooed
Gentlemen the North has been asked these many years.