Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-26
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President.
GOOD WORDS.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a Demo-
cratic paper has the following good
words to say of the nominee of the Re-
publican party for President. Itisquite
in contrast with some of theseffOrtS of
the mud singing" papers of the party.
Not only is it good word for the candi-
date of the Republican party but is a
tribute to the only country on the globe
which admits of such possibilities and
when we think that the great majority
OF the party represented by the Eagle is
composed OF men who tried to destroy
the nation, and that as party they are
labOring to secure by the ballot what
they failed to gain by the sword we can
only wonder how it is that recognizing
as the Eagle does the advantages of this
government it can go hand-in-hand with
those who did all they could to blot it
out of existence. The Eagle of the 9th,
inst. says:
Excluding political rivalries from view for a
moment it must be allowed that there is much
i'm the career of James A. Garfield for every
true American to take pride in. 1t is our boast
that in this land there is no honor or dignity
to which the son of the humblest person may
not by diligence, attain. In that this is moi
an empty defamation appears the pre-eminent
reason why the day labOrer, should, of all 9TH
ers, stand resOlutely by the constitution, and be
the first to repel any demonstration against the
order of the Republic. He must, indeed, have
a churlish soul, who living under institutions
like ours, does not delight to see the equality
affirmed in the fundamental law, proven true
by the achievements of man born in OBSCURE
ty. There is a victory won for humanity every
time frlendless boy, by dint of persevering
self denial, rises to station of honorable COM
mand in the world. A thousand arguments
against the pretentions of casts, or the vanity
OF wealth without wisdom begets, would be
fertile were there not ever recurring illustra-
tons that nature often chooses to cradle heI
real kings and princes in-the abOdeS of power
ty. The candidate before us carries with him
something of this heart warming lustre. Thir-
ty-fve years ago he was barefoot boy driving
a horse on the towpath of canal. Later he
was busy at the carpenters bench tOiling al
day break and far into the night to earn the
means wherewith to purchase knowledge. I'm
aided by any friends save his own willing hands
and ambitious brain, he secured the education
OF the cOllegian, and began the public part OF
his life well equipped in intellect for the battle.
Surely Democrats and Republicans alike may
stop discussion for moment and join in al
least one round of applause for the success
which has thus far attended career so gal
lantly opened. When we point with pride to
Andrew johnson going from the tailor's bench
to study the alphabet, and to Abraham Lincoln,
wear1ed with rail splitting, pOriug over his
books by the Pickering light of a winters fire,
let us also say good word for the flaXen-hair-
ed boy OF the tOw-path, who no less luckily
risen to be leader in the land, the champion
in the great organization, the standard bearer
OF an army that numbers many millions.