The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-09-17
NEWTON BOOTHS SPEECH.

call the DcmoCTAtic party lnlO power tp hu- minister ihe government on Republican
 principles! The effron'ery of a claim like
 this would be sublime if it were noJ riuicu-
 .oGs. l have heard of un illustration which seems to me apt ' is a- ii the prudi-al
 son. when he returned to his father, house
 and eaten the fattcu cali should turn the old gentleman ont of doaTs, demand deed to the farm, insist that nothing else would reconcile hlm and make ham forget the past
 unpleasantness. l have been trying to
 find an historical parallel. haze failed History is ofJen absurd-but never, think, so absurd as that
 After likening the Democratic party to the tories of the Revolution and tire n"min- alton of Hancock to a supposed case in which the torres might have found Union General willing to serve thelr purposes and demanded his election by the Revolutionary patriots to soOthe tbelr wounded feelings at the defeat of the British armies, he contin- ued:
 II repeat, and enlarge the statement | that we have a Government of the United States of America; that we have a great Republic-the first great Republic in kIs- 1 IDIN Nutft nO man NhilS duOlICi is due, under Providence, to that organi- zation which will be
 KNOWN AND HoNORED IN HISTORY
 Forever as the Republican party
 In answer to the oft repeated assertion that both parties fought ana put down the Rebellion, he said;
 If there had been DO Democratic party. the rebellion would not have lasted year, If il had ever risen. If no Republican | party had sto, behind Lincoln the rebels would have dictsted terms at Washington without Bull Run. Mere physical cour- l age Is an attribute which We share with the animals. If the war had been mere eXhi 1 bition of brute force, a trial of strength, field for the display of military skill, il would have been the stupenduus crime Of | history. IL was only as part Cf ihc con- | fl ct Ol ideas necessary tO the salvation of the republic. that il is redeemed from mur- der 10 sacrifice, and takes it's place in | heroic annals. From the humblest soldier who fell in battle to the martyred Lincoln, | il was the awful issues at stake; the great ideas involved. that sanctifed il all. These | ideas, interests, issues, were formulated. plOuto anu dNANhAIh AiIS puDli- can party"
 He then showed that the true inward ness of the Democratic party had been re vealed
 And the highest boon it can rightfnlly ask is the charity of oblivion
 We are nauon j0,0OO,OOO strong That we shall remain q nation. one undIvi- ded, indivIsible, there can be no doubt. No Englisnman doubts there will always be an England for the English; no German doubts there will always be q Germany foF the Germans; there will always be q France for the French. That there will always be an America for Americans that this fact has been accomplished, estab- lIshed-is due To ihe Republican party. "No DisINTEREsTED MAN, If there be such, will seriously contend thfn the Government would be better ad- ministered under Democratic than un0er Republican control; that iis dealings with foreign nations would be more just and en- frightened; that its credit would be better maintained; that its debt would ne more rapidly uaid: that Il wou q be better pro- NSNNHh rum AhiN @-ANi vast t4't' hAI'uo mass Of Southern war claims which hang over il like cloud. Surely Do one will claim, whether dIs.ntercsted or not, that the spirit of the DemoCIsIc party IS more in harmony with social order aud that orderly l progress oi society which comes of eyolu- l ton, not revolution, than the Repubica ! No one, however prejudiced, will claim that those personal rights which all govern f. .l.fp i equality before the jaw, the security of each in the enjoyment of hIs own-are ! safer under Democratic than Republican ] control. No one, whatever his condition may be, will dare to assert that the Amer- ! can idea of government, personal liberty | and national union, center and clrcumfe- | renee, is safer under Democratic than Re | publican control The splendid achieve- | ments of the Republican party since the | close of the war will be only less famous in | history than the suppression of the rebel | lion. Pause for q moment! Go back in ! your memories to the sad, bitter day when the joy of victory WAS turned to tears, and | the sweet dawn of peace was clouded by | the death of Lincoln. Did ever a nation | confront graver problems, more cOmplica | ted difficulties, more serious dangers than |
  met in the establishment or a government, | after the achievement of independence. | were far less difficult The war of the l revolution itself welded the people into one: the war of the rebellion dissolved | them.'
 In rccounting the causes that lei to the | rebellion he reviewed the action of the with ! driving Senators, and then turned 10 Sena- ] tors Baker and Broderlck, paying glowing eulogy t, the former, he dwelt on the i noble patriotism of the latter, feelingly aI- l luding to his murder, aud that his murderer, ! David $. Ferry, Is now a candidate for Flee ] tor on the Democratic tcket of California, he said:
 'In this stormy session Broderick was not ! in the Senate The term for which he had . been chosen had not expired, but the seat 10 which he had been chosen was filled by | another Would he had been there, can fancy him rising from hIs seat and saying: "Some of the seats in ihls chamber are Va cant, and others will be vacant soon. Some Senators remain because they can serve the reuellon here better than elsewhere. Gentle men stand not upon the order of your gO- ing, but go at once. An open enemy IS bet ter than deceitful friend. You took part in an election and will not abide the result. That is iufamOusi l have no need 10 parse the CopstItuton to tell me have coun- try. l need not g4 tO state trials for dcti- nitIon of treason Go, geniletucn' Your conspiracy may sUccccd-fOr l know not what vial of wrath heaven may have in stote iOr mankInd-Out Ii you do not Suc