The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-22
| RINGING SPEECH
kDDRESS OF GENERAL JOSEPH r,
HAWLEY.
{hy the Republican Party Ought 10 be
Sustained in November Its War
and Financial RecOrd-The
SOliu South.

*+'NPh W. iA""iSg at large anu tnlnC-
sI<stic meeting in Brooklyn:
Nh. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLE.
MES: am amazed. thought l should
ptobably address a thousand people to-
night. | take it with encouragement-veiy y
little for myself, for it only frightens me
but as an encouragement to the high hopes
we have begun to entertain Of the success
Of the Republican party in the coming
election. (Applause.) | come to ask you
to vote the Republican ticket this fall and
yet every time l ask the question feel
that il would be enough to refer you to
the history of the country f twenty years
past. (Applause.) That is our argument
but il ia not the argument OF the other side.
As ssoon as a Republican speaker turns
backward for few moments, as he is ire
sistibly compelled to do, the Democratic
editor approaches him with stirring up the
dead issues of the past. (Laughter.) 1t
is Impossible for a Republican 10 speak
without boasting of his record, without
glorifying in the past; and as time passes
all this will become more and more worthy
OF the orator and the poet. (Applause.)
No man is reproachel with reading again
and again the Iliad. No schoolboy is re :
proached because he declaims for the twen-
tietb time the orations OF Webster. Those
things will occupy a part in history which
4Il men will be proud to rehearse.
II you were to 20 into a strange town,
aud, turning around corner should hear
man speaking to a crowd saying, az be,
long to great party, which overthrow the
most gigantic rebellion the world ever saw,
and re-established the Union," you would
ssy In moment, d have got into a Re
publican meeting" daughter and ap-
plause.) For no Democrat ever thinks Of
opening with that. And if you should pass
same place, and hear a man say with efiu-
sion, " thank God that my party struck
tie last chain from human being in this
land, and made him truly free forever"
you would say, That is not a Democratic
meeting.' (Great laughter and applause.)
one sentence is enough. And again if a
speaker should, sayi: Mine is the party
which believes in republican government,
and did not stop short of making every in
telligent, honest man voter in the land"
(Applause.) You know again what party
could say that (Applause.) Again hear
ng ) man say az belong to a party that
took every human being in the land, with
out prejudice of race or nationality, and
made him equal to any other man in the
witness-box, in the jury-box nd before the
udge'T You know what party claims
hat (Applause.) And you shall hear
him rehearse long line OF glorious deeds
while The n an upon the other side is com
peiIed to tell how he and his friends per-
sistently opposed it all, and uniformly
failed. Loud applause.)
THE MEANING OF TRUE DEMOCRACY.
I an surprised often and more grieved,
to see how many men, coming here and
becoming our adopted fellow-citizens, are
misIead by the name Democracy What
ever there is good in that word, whatever
Of generosity or humanity or Christianity
there ID in it belongs to us. What is de-
noeracy? What has been the work of a
Democratic government? What has been
ils work in the last twenty-five years? To
hare permitted this land to be divided, to
b tWo republics, one boasting of slavery
and one of freedom-an eternal gulf be.
tween them; it would have been to put back
The cause of free government a century
{es, more than century it would have
takenlto regain the confidence of the world
The nat ons OF Europe, now and to come
had stake in the struggle. All the enemies
Of fepublican government looked on ant
expreesed the wish that we might fail
They said "These people cannot taz
ih<lnselves; you will not see a popular gov
efnment meet gigantic load of debt ant
aeeriGce hundreds of thousands of lives il
I'D Tits only concentrated power
'Ia semi- despotie government that would d.
kH4}F Yet we were to offer for future gen
eralzons the spectacle OF a free people carry
lux on a long war, subjecting themselves +
izllaanse burdens, and expending from tn
lrsasury millions and millions OF dollar
App1ause.) We laid in their graves, firt
q. md last, half million of our best an
krayest boys, and all for great and goo
e6izee. Was not this true democracy
III not democratic work to set fire
s Ifee .millions of slaves. (Applause,)
Gfe anything more democratic in u
46fId?
~ it not a democratic thing to max
f1efa all equal in their political rights
q 8 take an unlimited number Of acres
land. and not to peddle them out in deta
bJif ID treat them as great public trui
iaAd]ng directly TO encourage the poor ms
Il mako himself land owner and farmt
ard 10 bring to cur shores the citizens
tdn World-was not that democracy? "a
rIaase) Our party, hope everywhere,
tHe arlent friend of universal educatio
Z fpt that democracy? (Applause)
ne PARTY's FINANCIAL RECORD
6nd there was another act as great
zssIpzesaing the rebellion it was the pa
liipf the public debt. (Applause) 4