Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-07-29

and fiIIed the souls OF the Fiamsh niik
deep lhanksRiving to God. = have
been paraphrased in hneof of iAR mss.
seneer who bfonght such bar nesa 70
oppressed and ieEriiied and ! AiEiss
Philadelphia.
.Who won that grea: fighs Who
saved PhlIadeIphia irom Ere "a npsL I
Who drove back l1 enemy AZ saved
u from fate of Aeh the bNFniaK Of
Chamhersburg and Carlisle I'D fhe
forced contributlnns npoa n we're
intended 70 be- tsm prepaFafl a
brave army of patriotic citize hH
flgen usnsa assia G. ID -. ].
Gordon Meade, OE Philadelphia Joha
Fulton Reynolds, oI Lancaster. and
Winfield Scott Hancock, OF Montgom-
cry. Meade and Reynolds are both
gone. Meade died on the 9th of No
vember, 1872, in the house presented
TO his wife by the peoplea'cf Philadel-
phia. aflerwaFd supplemented By con-
tribution of 800, 600 from the same
source. Reynolds was killed ia battle
on the 2nd OF July, and is buried al
Lancaster. Hancock is to-day the de-
mocratic candidate for President of the
United States.
II do NOT stop 20 debate the other
considerations that enter into this vital
issue: the grave considerations that
demand release Of my dear native State
from the desperate men, who in the
past ten years have coldly crushed out
The pride Of our people, and placed
the iron heel of brutal infeTiofity on the
hopes of our youth and manhood,
making Of this fair Commonwealth .
vast political GoIgotha, and Of our
proud city Of Philadelphia an offensive
roost for the most desperate and vulgar
mercensries since the black days of
Tweed and Tammany in New York. /
do not stop to debate these considers
tlons now. II is not the time. But this
is the time to opentu the common mind
our pledged word to the last Of the
great soldiers who placed rs under an
obligation that we hastened to avow.
aud repeated over aud over again. My
own pledge binds me as my own note
Of hand. In law if it had been signed
to the promise 10 pay 6. moneysdebt /
could be held by II and my estate If /
failed 10 pay it.. In morals it is as sol-
emn as if | had gone before magis-
trate and sworn to abide by it. And
what is true OF myself rs equally bind
ing upon others. What my fixed judg-
ment, private and public, is of the men
who saved the American republic, /
have not concealed. It is passion that
grows stronger the more Sc ( SE'-.-
of what has been saved 90 Ourselves
and to all mankind. feel il as the
rescue Of human freedom for the ages
to come. prize il, this overthrow of
the rebellion, as the best blessing to the
South which made that rebellion. /
cherish it because the more ponder the
priceless value of the enormous destiny
SO saved, the more eager / am to con-
vince the South THAI they must aid to
perpetuate it.
''I am only one Of the army OF repub-
licans who will vote for Gen. Hancock
for these reasons; only one Of many Of
the Oldest republicans in this city, who
call upon me 10 say that they would be
ashamed OF themselves If, after all their
words of praise and thanksgiving for
the salvation of Philadelphia from FIRE
and rebel contributions IN 1868, they
should now vote against the man who
did the most ofthe work. Gen. Car
field is a good man. but we owe him
nothing compared to the debt to Han
cock. When told that TO vote for Ham
cock is to vote fer democrat, reply
that the partition between the two par
ties is very thin, The only point on
which we may be said to differ is pro-
lection, and that cannot be avery strong
one when Hancock comes from the
great tarIfcounty Of Montgomery, Penn
sylvania, and all his friends are open
advocates Of protection. while Garfield
was elected member Of the Golden
Club in London, the great free-trade
headquarters in England, because of
his rather bold sympathies with the
Western enemies of Pennsylvania in-
terests."