The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1880-09-16
THE YOUNG MANS FIRST VOTE.
GENERAL GARFIELD,s AD-
VICE TO YOUNG MEN.
CLOSING SPEECH OF THE
OHIO CAMPAIGN OF 1879.
WORDS MORE Apostle NOW
THAN THEN.

The following is an extract from
one of Gen. Garfeld's speeches in
the Ohio Gubernatorial campaign
of last year. 1t is admirable, and
we commend it to all young citizens:
Young man, don't vote the Re
publican ticket Just because your
father votes it. Don't vote the
Democratic ticket, even if be does
vote it. TLaughter. But let me
give me this one word of advice, as
you are about to pitch your tent in
one of the great political camps.
Your life is full and buoyant with
hope now, and I beg you when you
pitch your tent, pitch it among the
living and not among the dead. Zap
plause. If you are at all inclined
to pitch it among the Democratic
people and with that party, let me go
with you for a moment while we sur
vey the ground where I hope you
will not shortly lie Laughter. It
is a sad place, young man, for you
to put your young life into. 1t is
far more like a graveyard than a
camp for the living. Look at it! It
is billowed all over with the graves
Of dead issues, Of buried opinions,
of exploded theories, of disgraeed
doctrines. You cannot live in such
a place. Laughter. Why, look
here! Hereis a little double mound.
[ look down on it and read, "Sacred
to the memory of Squatter Sow
and the bred Scott De
2isiOn." A million and half of
Democrats voted for that, but it has
been dead fifteen years-died by the
hand of Abraham Lincoln, and here
It lies. [Applause. Young man,
his is not the place for you.
But look little further. Here is
1 monument-a black tomb-and be-
side it, as our distinguished friend
said, there towers to the sky a monu-
nent of 100000 pairs of human
letters taken from the arms of slaves,
md I read on it's little headstone
his Sacred to the Memory of
Human Slavery" For forty years
IF its infamous life the Democratic
party taught that it was divine
Gods Institution. They defended
t, they stood around it, they follow
ID tito its grave as a mourner, But
acre it lies, dead by the hand of
Abraham Lincoln. TApplause. T..
Dead by the power of the Repubi-
,an party. [Applause.I Dead by
he justice of Almighty God. Zap
olause and cheers Don't camp
here, young man.
But here is another-a little brim-
stone tomb Tlaughterl-and across
is yellow face in lurid, bloody lines,
these words; Sacred to the Memory
of State Sovereignty and Secession" "
Millions of Democrats mustered
around it in arms to keep it alive
shot to death by the guns of the
Republic. Applause. Here it lies,
is shrine burnt to ashes under the
blazing rafters of the burning Con
ederacy. [Applause.1 It is dead.
would not have you stay in there
minute, even in this baImy night
III, to look at such place, Laugh
er
But Just as I leave I discover a
lew-made grave-a little mound
hort. The grass has hardly sprout |
ID over it, and all around it, I see
orn pieces of paper with the word
fiat on them laughter, and I look
Iown in curiosity, wondering what
he little grave is, and I read on it |
to the Memory of the Rag
Baby laughter, nursed in the brain
If the fanaticism of the world
laughter, rocked by Thomas Ew-
ng, George H. Pendleton, Samuel
Gary, and few others throughout
the land But it died on the 1st of
January, 1879, and the S14O,OOO,OOO
If gold that God made, and not fat
power, lie upon its little carcass to
Keep it down forever. prolonged
applause
Oh, young man, come out Of that
Laughter. That is no place in