Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-09-24
The National Republican Club COnVen
tiOn's Address.

A National Convention of the Repub-
lican Clubs of the country met in In.
dianapolis on the 18th of September
and elected a National Committee, of
which Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago,
was made President, and L. NJ. Nichol,
of Racine, Wis, Secretary. The Con-
vention also issued the following ad-
dress:
To the Republicans of the Union:
We, delegates of the Republican Clubs
throughout the United States, in convention
assembled to promote by due organization the
purpose announced at Chicago in June last by
a Republican platform, and by the nomination
thereon of General james A. Garfield and
Chester a. Arthur, solemnly invoke all citi-
Zens who hallow the Government which we
have received from its fathers, to muster at
this critical Juncture as political militia in
its defense. You are admonished that Rich
mond Congress has crossed the Potomac and
occupies your National Capitol; that the same
unholy purpose which sought to destroy your
Government in war is now sapptng and min
ing that Government in politics; that treason
is wearing a mask in order to accomplish what
it failed to compass during bloody period of
four years without a mask; that 1t has sought
to starVc the Government as it starved sum-
ter; that it has withheld support from your
soldiers which it could not dsarm in the field;
that il has sought to repeal in Congress Elec-
tion laws so as TO enfecble the National au-
thOrity, and the guarantees to the citizen. so
as to challenge anew the anxious and patriotic
determination which distinguished you in 1851.
1t is not enough that you are paying the war
debt of those conspiratorSi You must apologize
TO them in cash in the form of war claims
for having pounded their rebellion TO pieces;
you must permit an increase OF the number of
Judges of the supreme Bench of the United
States in order that the two last amendments
10 the Constitution may be declared null and
void by reason of never having received due
measure of legislative sanction from the sew
erRl States; you must permit the whole re-
suits of the war and the re-established credit
of the Government to be overturned and a
Punishment from power of the party by which
the Nation, every man on its soil, and every
dollar ia his pocket, paper or com, has been
Zealously defended and guaranteed. Four
years alone of Democra ic rule would prove to
your cost and shame for half century. 1t is
easier 10 arrest an enemy in his efforts to
grasp power than to dispossess that enemy of
power, as was shown between 1861 and 1855.
Now is the time to declare that the National
House of Representatives shall not be a
wanton spendthrift of the sacred moneys of
the Governments to declare that the consent
of the governed TO the administration of the
Government shall be zelousy maintained
through the agency of the free ballot, and
thut murder and fraud for political ends are u
front TO the God of justice, without whose
countenance we cannot hope 10 insure pros
porous and beneficial political system. A
republican government can only exist and be
maintained by the free expression OF all its
citizens, openly declared and honorably count
ed. Without these factors there is no free
government They do not exist to-day in the
sixteen States of the Solid South. II is the
duty of the Republican party, the duty of all
men who believe in free government, who be-
lieve that this is a Nation TO unite for the pur-
pose of securing to the people, the whole people
of the South, the rights of free speech, free
thought and an untram meed ballot This can
only be done through tle success of the Re-
publican party, through Sol d North, as de-
termined in 1889 10 assure the future TO the
Republic as it was in 1850 to preserve it. A
house divided against itself cannot stand; a
Nation profesSedly free cannot exist with a
despotism in its midst. There is despotism in
the south more absolute than any other in the
world That despOtlsm N dep ives a million and
a half of free American citizens OF all that
our Constitution was intended TO assure. IL
arrOgates aud assumes sovereignty. Now IL
attacks the North, 1t advances in serried
ranks, an army with banners, upon the free
institutions of the Northern States. In its
insDlence and pride it ptoelaims that you, the
freedom-loving people of the North, must
bow TO the MOloch II has enthroned. 1t threat
ems by fraud TO deprive YOU OF your Just con-
troll in Governmental affairs. IL demands a
reversal of the verdict finally rendered at
AppOmattuX. Not only are you called upon
TO resto O freedom an1 Nationality in the
South, but to protect them in the North. A
Democratic victory means the triumph of the
principles of the rebellion; II means the over
throw OF all results Obtained b the war; tt
means the unqueStiOned rule OF the rebel Briga-
diers; it means confusion resulting in anarchy
and ruin, There is but one way 90 avert the
threatened evils. The success or tho Repub-
lican party means the supremacy of law and
order; il means a Nation powerful to protect
its people at home and aIrOud; IL means equal
rights for ALL equal laws justly administered.
Success can only be obtained by organization,
by unremitting labor, Organize, then. Pre-
pare yourself for the impending conflict. Or
gani2e rs you did in 1861, when no greater
evils threatened YOU. See TO II that every
man does his duty. March to the battle aud
let your Republican ballots of 1880 supplement
and secure what your Republican bullets
gained in 1875. We appeal to the old men,
whose sons went forth 10 battle for the Repub-
lie; TO the mddle-aged who held aloft the BAN
ner of their count v in its darkest hours; TO
the young men who are entering upon the
stage of action; 10 all who value the liberty
and prosperity of their country, to unite In
keeping step 10 the music of the Union. Res
cue the country from Democratic control with
its attendiu evils. The enemy, relying upon
no instrumentality save the rifles 10 kill men,
money 10 bribe men, aud frauds to cheat men,
he enemy, with u wicked past and shameless
future, now conlront5 YOU. Touch elbows all
over the Unl1n. Save il, do your utmost for H.,
and remember II is never well defended, un-
less defended i'm every part by every man.
1ay~ Bob Toombs is perfect embod-
iment of the true inwardness of the
"Solid South, or rather OF the shotgun
Democratic element that makes it solid.
He wrote letter the other day saying
that as a matter Of course if Hancock
were elected President he would be in
the hands of his Southern friends and
would be run by the South. There can
be no doubt of that. The following is
one of Mr.. Toombs' latter-day public
utterances;
ATLANTA, Ga, L., l0:tG Il. m, Reed at Chca.
go Nov. H. lsll.-kd or LdtB NeuS: Your tel
egram rec d. ! decline Il answer except a.
say; Present my congratulations 10 General
Grant on his safe arrival 10 his country. He
| fought for his country honorably and won.
fought for mine ana lost, am ready 10 Try u
I as "a Nun HaNa