Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-05

edged. He sketehed the history and progress
of the country during the twenty years of
Republican administration. He considered
the legislation of the party and pointed
out the great landmarks in the statute
books which will stand forever
as. monuments to its wisdom, patrl-
| otism and devotion to the cause of hui
manity. He sketched the increase Of the
country in population, the ratio of advance
in numbers, the great public works accom-
plished. the new States admitted to the fold
of this indissoluble Union, the linking of the
| States together by a marvellous railway sys-
TEN, the new methods and charges OF trans
portation compared to those of 1860. the ad-
vance in education, the broadening OF terri
| tory, the settlement of the far west, the
steady reduction of the national debt, the
rise of the public credit to point at
tanned never before by that OF any
other nation, the progress toward
| higher civilization, and so on throughout
| review brilliant as only 'oratory can be brill
| iant mastery, as only logical statement can
| be; powerful, only as earnest and moving
elceuenee can be /; and embellished by as
beautiful word painting as only such an
orator can accomplish. be then took up the
career of
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
And ran the gamut of its history with
thrilling sweep, that at times brought forth
storms of applause From the early history
of the marty to the present, nearly every
great issue was touched upon, every great and
notable act of legislation was reviewed, and
every step taken by the organization IN the
| interest Of human slavery, against the dig
nifty of free labor, and tending to the
domination of one section OF the coun-
try over the other, was held up Tor the
public judgment beginning with the doctrine
of State rights, the declaration OF the night OF
the chattelization of human souls, the repeal
of the Missouri compromise, the effort to
make California withered appendage OF
slave-owning section; the capture OF the Su-
preme Court and its marvellous decision that
had so much to do with shaping the history
of the republic, the Reputation OF public
| debts which has been marked and constant
historical fact in all the career of the party,
| the secession of States as the legitimate fruit
of Democratic doctrine; the rebellion, its
suppression, and now the appeal of the De-
| clarations that it was never disloyal,
never stole the Government goods, nor
aided rebellious States in the effort
TO destroy the Union. In fact, said
Mr.. Edgerton, this Democratic party tells US
it fought the rebels and saved the nation, and
to believe some of the leaders, one would
think that the Republicans fired on Fort
Sumter that JEFF Davis issued the emalicipa-
ton proclamation, and that Grant surren-
dered to Lee at Appomattox Courthouse:
He then considered the purposes and aims OF
the Democracy and the solid South, and said
that he feared no armed force to trample out
the peoples rights, but the cunning and
INsIDIoUs LEGISLATION
And the artful trickery by which the threat
of the solid South to overthrow all the enact
| 10 x1rbich ohpayinpc RI II drrInR and
subsequent to the rebellion shall be over
thrown. He quoted the expressions of men
and papers of the South to sustain this view.
Coming down then to California, he consid-
cred some of the statements of Governor Ir.
win, w. B. q. Brown, and Judge Wallace as
representative Democrats, and with incisiye
wit and terrible invective he scourged them
without mercy, amidst the applause and I'M
restrained laughter of the multitude. He
then compared the candidates
GARFIELD AND HANCOCK,
And after glowing tribute to the worth,
craftsmanship and honesty of the former, he
called up as witnesses in his behalf the decla-
rations of Senator Thurman, Senator Beck
Henry Watterson and other leading men of
the Democracy, who rebuke the California
calumniators of Garfield, and despising them
for attempting to shower mud upon him, pro-
nounce Garfield an honest man, and that
they will not consent to the kind of attack
which is made upon him by the California
| Democracy. He declared that when such
men as Edgerton, Tom Clunie and Bob Glas-
cock iii that is his name) are dessert forworms
and forgotten, the name of James a. Gar
| field will live in history an honest man, who
has left the impress of his high character
upon every page of bis country's legislation
during the decades of his splendid public
career. As to General Hancock he was will
| ing to admit him to be a fighting soldier-he
ought to be, for his sword is dripping with
the blood of Democrats, but he was not going
to Join in the laudations of some Republi-
cans. Why all this sham, he asked, why not
out with the truth, Hancock did not do
his duty, he plainly disregarded it and
| left his post as no soldier should do.
He then proceeded to review the facts and
show that General Hancock deliberately set
about to thwart the expressed will of this
| great nation, relative to its policy toward the
| South, which it had for over two years left to
itself, and only extended over it the hand of
martial law when the people of that now
solid South began to enact laws that were
surely bringing the black man again into
slavery, and were riding rough-shod over
every guaranteed right of Union citizens.
IN CONCLUSION,
Mr.. Edgerton stated that he had intended
| to touch upon the Election bills, the Chinese
and other questions, but he found that dis
use of this kind of speaking had led him to
miscalculate. In that wise distribution
every speaker should make of his time and
his matter, was to touch upon all the topics
necessary to his discourse. He concluded
with brilliant peroration, in which he
grasped the whole address as if in single
sentence, and once more presented the
claims of the Republican party to continu'
ance in power.
The three most eloquent and striking pas.
sages in Mr.. Edgerton's mastery Grafton
were his citation from the expressions OF
English statesmen in passing judgment upon
the American republic under Republican adj
ministrations the splendid tribute to Cali
fornia when describing her entry into the
Union clad in the white robes of freedom
and his eloquent appeal to history to justify
him in what he had claimed for the party he
presented.
At the conclusion of the Grafton one of tbs
gentlemen on the stage, in the enthusiasm Of
the moment, called for three cheers fol
Edgerton, the orator Of the Pacific coast,
and they were given with hearty will, mos
of the auditors standing and cheering. Their
three cheers were given for Garfield and Ar
thur, and the meeting was adjourned. Hosts
of people crowded around Mr.. Edgerton anc
congratulated him, and many seized hi
hands and greeted him with warmest praise
By these manifestations he was Fisiby moved
and by his remarks, broken by emotion, gave
his friends to understand that he felt now a:
if he could go out and do battle for the party
with greater energy than ever before.
The enthusiasm aroused by the orator ano
the applause he received during the delivery
of his address were Of the most hearty char
acter. The Grafton itself moved upon thu
highest plane Of oratory, and was clothed II
language that was poetic from beginning t.
end.
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err; w. A. Il G. S. Houghton, l box states.
) boxes paper; Adams, Mcneil & Co.. 20 bun
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hats Huntington, Hopkins & Co., DO,
hardware, piece machinery, 200 kegs nails
! Weinstock & Lubin, 8 cases paper; Hall
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! bundles paper; G. III. Gilman, boxes mats
, NoTARIEs.-The Governor appointed tn
following as Notaries Public yesterday