Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-28

the future. The census to be taken this
year will bring reinforcements and con-
tinued power. But in order to win this
victory now, we want the vote of every |
Republican, Of every Grant Republican
and every anti-G Grant Republican in Amer |
lea, of every Blaine man and every anti |
Blaine man. The vote of every follower |
of every candidate is needed to make our
success certain; therefore, l say gentle |
men and brethren, we are here to take
calm counsel together, and inquire what
we shall do. We,want a man whose life
and opinions embody all the achieve
ments of which I have spoken. We want
man who, standing on mountain
height, sees all the achievements of our
past history, and carries in his heart the
memory of all its. glorious deeds, and
who, looking forward, is prepared to
meet the labor and the dangers to come.
We want cne who will act in no spirit of
unkindness toward those whom we lately
met in battle. The Republican party of
fers to our brethren of the south the
| olive branch of peace, and wishes them to
return to brotherhood, on this supreme
condition, that it shall be admitted, for
| ever and forever more, that, in the war
| for the union, we were right and they
were wrong. On that supreme condi-
ton we meet them as brethren, and on no
other. We ask them to share with US
the blessings and honors Of this great re-
public.
| Now, gentlemen, not to weary you, /
| am about to present name for your con-
sideration-the name Of a man who was
the comrade and associate and friend of
nearly all those noble dead whose faces
look down upon us from these walls to-
public service twenty-five years ago,
whose first duty was courageously done
in the days of peril on the plains of Kan
sas, when the first red drops of that
bloody shower began to fall which finally
swelled into the deluge of war. He
bravely stood by the young Kansas then,
and, returning to his duty in the nation
al legislature, through all subsequent
time his pathway has been marked by
labors performed in every department of
legislation. You ask for his monuments.
I point you to twenty-five years of ma
tional statutes. Not one great beneicent
statute has been placed in our statute
books without his intelligent and power
full aid. He aided these men to formu-
late the laws that raised our great armies
and carried us through the war. His
hand was seen in the workmanship of
those statutes that restored and brought
: back the unity and married calm of the
states. His hand was in all that great
legislation that created the war currency,
and in a still greater work that redeemed
the promises of the government, and
made the currency equal to gold. And
when at last called from the halls of leg
fslatiQn ISL il INTO high executive ofieea he
firmness and poise of character which
has carried US through a stormy period
of three years. With one-half the public
press crying ''crucify him. and hostile
congress seeking to prevent success, in
all this he remained unmoved until yicto-
ry crowned him. The great fiscal affairs
of the nation and the great business in
terests of the country he has guarded and
preserved, while executing the law of
} assumption and effecting its object with
out jar and against the false prophecies
Of one-half of the press and all the De
: mocracy of this continent. He has shown
: himself able to meet with calmness the
l great emergencies of the government fol
twenty-five years. He has trodden the
perilous heights of public duty, anC
: against all the shafts of malice has borne
his breast unharmed. He has stood il
t the blaze of ''that fierce light that beats
against the throne" but it's fiercest ray
has found no flaw in his armor, no stair
on hisrshield do not present him as
+ better Republican or as better man thai
7 thousands of others we honor, but pre-
/ sent him for your deliberate considera
: tion I nominate John Sherman O
4 Ohio.
In the time of Elizebeth, when /;
/ guest accepted an invitation to dine, h
4 brought his knife with him. Fork