The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-21

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Then Europe said: "That government
will perish !; it has not strength" Lord
Russell hastened to publish through
out all Europe that the Great Republic
was in its death agony. The toiling masses
looked ON with profound solicitude, and
their anxiety was expressed in the re-
language Of Victor Hugo: !" II
liberty fails in America there will be a
frightful deluge, q shipwreck Of hu-
mainly" We looked on with intense in
terest We shall never forget when the
President, without regiment, with no
visible power to meet that formidable
array, made his appeal directly to the in
visible, the almighty power Of our gov
ernment-the love Of the people. And
how that love rose to meet every ext
gency, laying the accumulative and pros
pective wealth Of the nation on its altar,
sending forth to the hazards of war its
noblest men, until that sentiment EN-
bodied itself in the grandest array that
was ever led to the field Of battle, which,
relentless and resistless as the fiat Of
God, did march, restoring the union,
and saying to the civilized world:
Il is safe to rest the government
of intelligent people on their hearts.
Applause.
While in that grand undertaking these
men seized upon their opportunity, and
while they have kept the people heated
over that issue for eighteen years nearly,
since it was settled, they have steadily
gone on and completed their purpose.
Now, moment on this heating up Of our
passions every year. / look upon that
with most supreme disgust. Every SEN
timent Of patriotism and Christianity
commanded the burial of that issue when
the war closed; and but for the infamous
designs and purposes Of this power which
has enslaved MS, that issue would have
been buried and never had resurrec-
ton. Applause. / want to call your
attention q moment to the persons who
have been instrumental in keeping mp
that strife. While in Alabama, I was
told by the people that the men who
we're appealing to their passions
heard the Bourbon leaders make their
appeals just as you hear the stalwart
leaders Of the North-simply to the old
war passions, the people told me: these
are the men who crowded us into the
war against our will and then lodged
behind twenty slaves and stayed at home
themselves" And that class Of men 81
the North who sent their wives relations
to do the fighting, are the men who an
keeping up the issue still. Applause.
Mr.. Blaine boasts that he has met the
Rebel Brigadiers in Congress. He wa,
very careful not to meet them when they
were throwing shot and shell. Loui
applause. My opponent, the Hon. j
II. Hanna, in the Congressional struggl,
three years ago, in his opening speech
three hours long, devoted one hour :,
that business. He weighs more than tw,
hundred and forty pounds. He has ,
voice like lion and he roars like will
bull. He shook the opera house from
centre to circumference. He foamed a
the mouth. He shook his massive lock
terribly like lion at bay. / held m,
watch, and for one solid hour he stirres
up that old matter. / stepped on to tn
same rostrum week later and answere,
the whole hours speech In about tire
sentences. / remarked to tho thronl
that the difference between my frien,
Hanna and myself was this; that / ha,
some French blood in my veins and wa
a little quicker than he; that I 60
wrought up to fighting fury sixteen year
ago when Father Abraham called TO
three hundred thousand more. TAR
plause. left my pulpit where / wa
more pleasantly situated than had eve
been before, enlisted as q private, the
helped to enlist three thousand mer
went in and fought it out and got coole
off. He was at home in . provost maj
shal's Office arresting Democrats. maxim
money, and keeping his magnificent ply
sique at very respectful distance
several hundred miles from any danger
You will find that it is that class of me
generally that have kept up that issue
! Now / appeal to you, men-I suppos
largely business men, merchants, MANI
facturers, laborers, farmers, it may be-
how much have you added to your cap
tai within the last ten years? You hay
been at work like slaves. Your familie
, have worked. Take the farmers all ovt
this land and they have toiled the last 81
or eight years more ardently than slave
ever worked. Their wives and daughter
have worked. God has been smiling o
, us all the time. Immense crops hay
been reaped year after year. Europe hs
demanded them; sent us gold for then
We ought to have more than quadruple
our wealth. Every industrious man hi
, created wealth enough during those yea
with all the advantages We have, to hay
, more than quadrupled his wealth. Nov
/ ask the laboring men-havc you bee
able to get homes? Have you paid Il
them? Have you surrounded them wit
comforts? You farmers-haye You in
proved much, favored Is you have been
, Merchants, have you increased 70,
.. wealth very largely? Take the who
, people together, we have scarcely il
; creased our wealth Mt all with all Il
increased powers to create wealth, NJ
having had perpetual benedictions fro
, heaven upon us.
!, l win not stop there. The little '
> have enjoyed and the little we now ha,
. do not constitute the darkest phas