The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-05

general government, and accord to
every citizen, white or black, native
or foreign born, perfect equality
with ourselves in the exercise of all
the privileges of citizenship.
He spoke of it as a matter of con-
graduation that with the late war
had passed away that pestilent school
of politicians whose whole lives were
spent in prODagating in the minds of
the people reasonable sentim ents
under the guise of States rights.
The war and its result taught them
that there was, under the Constitu-
ton, a power in the government to
protect itself and to enforce its laws !;
and that the people, by whom and
for whose happiness and good this
united government was founded, did
not intend that it should be destroy
ed or pulled down.
Our Southern brothers, with a
commendable spirit, have ceased to
proclaim or have actually abandoned
these heretical political dogmas. are
fast unlearnIng their former prin-
ciples and adopting line of conduct
and of opinion that is giving promise
that they will at no distant day cling
closely to the Union, and look once
more with pride and affection upon
that flag which floates over people
not only united in one form of gov
eminent, but whose hearts throb to-.
wards each other as friends and
brothers.
We should cultivate this fraternal
feeling on our part, even here upon
this bloody battle field; we should
be willing to shake hands with the
Confederate soldier if he once more
loves our star.spangled banner and is
willing to keep step with us to the
music of the Union. The rising gem
eration-your young men and your
maidens too-(fOr they are to he
mothers of the next generation)-
should be taught the value of the
Union.
The judge urged that this should
be done in their studies. They should
in geography, be pointed to the great
line of the Miss issippi river, taught
the immense traffic and travel that
is done on its waters, and then told
the destruction of all this commerce
if any of the States through which it
passes belonged to another and per-
haps hostile government. They
should be shown on their maps the
great railroad lines, binding with
their iron bands the Pacific and At
lantic, the Lakes and the Gulf of
Mexico, and then instructed in the
inconvenience and troubles which
would arise if thew passed through
two independent, or, might and
then would be the case, two unfriend-
ly and hostile nations. There should
be put into their hands the great
speeches of Clay and Webster and
Douglass, and they should read the
farewell address of Washington and
walk through the cemeteries of Get
tysburg and Antietam and learn
what it has cost in blood alone to
preserve this Union.
Thus educated and instructed, he
SAID, in conclusion, we shall hear no
more talk of the right of secession
or of disunited people. No terms of
reproach upon either side will be in
dulged in. Yankee" as term of
reproach, will be no more heard, and
"rebel" will be forgotten. We shall
forget that we were once enemies
and think of each other only as
friends and as fellow citizens of a
common government, and each shall
work and pray that the Angel Of
Peace may take the whole nation un-
der the shadow of his wing, and that
love and harmony may everywhere
prevail.
The address was received with ap-
p lause.