Daily Republican., 1882-10-17
Car GleId's Warming Thirteen Years
Ago,

Thirteen years ago the late General
Garfield delivered q stump speech in
Ohio which makes good reading at this
time, and We commend 1t especially to
the SO citizens who have been misusing
his name for bad purpose, and also to
The young mon who have allied them
selves with the so.called Independents
in the interests of Democracy. 81 take
it for granted that every man would
like to hold political opinions that will
live some time, if he could. 1t is a
very awkward thing, indeed, to adopt
o political opinion, and trust to 1t, and
find that it will not live over night.
1t would be an exceedingly awkward
thing to go to bed alone with your po-
litical doctrine, trusting and believing
in it, thinking it is true, aud wake up
in the morning and find it corpse in
your arms. l should be glad for my
part, 7 hold a political doctrine that
would live through all summer, stand
the frost, stand freeze In the winter
and come out alive and true in the
spring should like to adopt political
doctrine that would live longer than my
dog. l should be glad to hold to q pc =
litical doctrine that would live longer
than l shall live, aud that my children
after me might believe in as true, and
say: This doctrine is true tt day, ,and
it was true fifty years ago. when my
lAther adopted IL
II $40 in this great audience great
many yodng men, young men who are
about to cast their first vote, want
to give you W, Of suggestion and
advice as you are about to pitch your
tent in one of the great political camps.
Your life is full aud buoyant with hope
now, and l beg you, when you pitch
your tent, pitch it among the living
and not among the dead. If you are
inclined to pitch 1t among the Demo
cratic people and with that party, le!
me 60 with you for moment while we
survey the ground where hope you
will not shortly lie. 1t is . sad place,
young man for you to put your young
life into. 1t is to me far more like a
graveyard than like camp for the liv.
ing.
Look at it ! 1t is billowed all over
with the graves Of dead issues,o buried
opinions, of exploded theories, Of dis
graced doctrines. You cannot live in
comfort in such a place. Why, look
here Here IL little double mound.
l look down OF it and l read, ''Sa
to the memory of Squatter Sovereignty
and the Dred Scott decision A mil
lion and half of Democrats voted for
that, but it has been dead fifteen years
died by the hand of Abraham Lin
coin, and here 1t lies. Young man, that
is not the place for you.
"But here is-anotheY-a little brim.
stone tomb-and I read across its yell
low face in lurid, bloody lines these
words Sacred to the memory of
State Sovereignty and Secession.
Twelve millions of Democrats mustered
around it in arms to keen 1t alive but
here it lies, shot to death by the millio
guns of the Republic. Here it lies, IL
shrine burnt to ashes under the blazing
rafters of the burning confederaCy. IL
is dead l would Aot have you stay in
there a minute, even in this balmy
night air, to look at such place. Oh,
young man, come out of that That is
no pla , in which TO pvt your young
life. me out, and come over into
this C pof liberty, Of order, of law, of
justice, of freedom, of all that Is glo-
rious under these night stars. Is there
any death here in our camp? Yes
yes Three hundred and fifty thousand
soldiers, the noblest band that ever trod
the earth, died to make this camp
camp of glory and of liberty forever
"But there are no dead issues here.
There are no dead ideas here. Hang out
our banner from under the blue sky this
night until it shall sweep tho green turf
under yOus feet ! 1t hangs over onr
camp. Come down the glorious steps of
our banner. Every great record we have
made we have vindioated with our
blood and with our truth. 1t sweeps the
ground, and it touches the stars. Come
there, young man, and put in your life
where all is living, and where nothing
is dead but the heroes that de Tended it.