Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-22
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VI General eafheld 10 Young Men-Inde-
pendence and Right Judgment Enforced.

VI eenersI eafneld 10 Young Men-Inde-
pendence and Right Judgment Enforced.
Now, fellow. citizens. a word before
leave you, on the very eve of the holy
day OF Coda tit moment to consecrate
ourselves finally to the great work of next
tuesday morning. see in this great audi.
ence TO night great many young men
young men who are about to cast their first
vote. want to give you word of sug-
gestion and advice 1 heard very brilliant
thing said by boy tie other day in one of
cur northwestern counties. He said to me.
General, have great mind to vote the
democratic ticket" That was not the
brilliant thing. Laughter. | said TO him,
Why?' why" said he, 'my father
Is Republican and my brothers are Re.
puoiIcars, and am Republican all over,
but want to be an independent man. and
L don't want any body TO say, THAT fellow
votes the Republican ticket Just because
his dad does, and l have a mind to vote
the Democratic ticket just to prove my in
dependence. | did not like the thing the
boy suggested, but did admire the spirit
OF the boy that wanted to have some indie.
pendence of his own.
NOW, tell you, young mar, don't vote
the fepubllcan ticket just because your
father votes II. Doa't vote the Democratic
ticket, even II ne does vote it. laughter. I
But let me give you this one word OF ad.
wee, as you are about to pitch your tent
INTO one OF the great political camps. Your
lie Is full and bUoyant with hope now, and
l beg you, when you pitch your tent, pitch
1t among the living and not among the dead.
lApplause. II you are at all inclined to
pitch 1t among the Democratic people and
with that party, let me 60 with you for u
moment while we survey the ground where
hope you will not shortly lie. laughter
IL ls SAD place, young man, for you to put
your young life into IL is to me far more
like graveyard than like a camp for the
living. Look at 1t 1t is beloved all
over with the graves Of dead Issues, of bur-
led opinions, OF exploded theories, of dis
graced doctrines. You cannot live in com.
fort in such place. Laughter
Why, look here? Here is little double
mound. l look down on it and | read g..
" Sacred to the memory of suuatter soyer-
eighty and the Dred Scott decision" A
million and half of Democrats voted for
that, but it has been dead fifteen years
died by the hand of Abraham Lincoln.
and here it hes. [Applauss.l Young mar,
that Is not the place for you.
But look little further Here ts an.
other monument, black tomb, and be-.
side it, as our distinguished friend sa,d
there towers to the sky a monument Of
four million pairs of human letters taken
from the arms of slaves, and read on its
little headstone this "Sacred to thu
memory of human slavery" For
forty years of its infamous life the
Democratic party taught that it was
divine-Gods institution. They defended
1T, they stood around it, they followed it to
the grave rs mourner. Bat here it lies.
dead by the hand of Abraham Lincoln.
| Applause. Dead by the power of tho
Republican party. [Appiaase.1 D6Sa
the justice of Almighty God. TGreat an.
Plause and cheers Don't camp there.
young man.
But here IS another. a little briustops
tomb Llaughserl, and I read across liza vel.
low faee In lurid, bloody lines these words
Sacred to the memory of State SOW
ereignty and secession" Twelve millions
OF Democrats mustered around il In arms
to ksep 1t alive; but here it lies, shot to
death by the million guns of the Republic.
Applause. Here 1t lies, its shrine burned
to ashes under the blazing rafters of the
burning Contederacy. [Applause 1t is
dead. would not have you stay IN there
minute, even IN this balmy night air, to
look at such place. Laughter.
But just before | leave it | discover
new-made grave, a little moun6-short.
Ice grass has hardly sproated over 1t, and
all around 1t see torn pieces OF paper with
the word " fiat " on them [iaughtell, and
look down IN curiosity wondering what
the little grave is, and | read on it "Sa-
cred to the memory of the Rag Baty laugh
teri nursed inthe brain Of ali the fanaticisun
OF the world llaugater]; rocked by
Thomas Ewing, George II. Pendleton,
Samuel Cary and a few others throughout
the land" Bat it died on the ist of Janu-
airy, 1879, and the one hundred and FORTY
millions of gold that God made, and not
fiat power, lie upon its little CARCASS to
keepI down forever. Prolonged applause.
On, young man, come out OF that
Laughter. That is no place in which to
put your young life. Come over into this
camp of liberty, OF order, of law, Of jus.
rioe, of freedom r. Amen ~, of all thai is
glorious under these night stars.
Is taere any death here in our camp?
Yes! Yes! Three hundred and fifty
thousand soldiers, the ro5lest band that
ever tTod the earth, died to make this camp
a camp OF glory and liberty fo5ever. Tire.
mendous applause.
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 the green turf
under your feet 1t hangs over our camp.
Read away up under the stars tie insorip.
ton we hagc-wdtten on it, 10 these
years.
Twenty-Five years ago the Republican
parry was married to liberty, and this
is our silver wedding, fellow citizens.
lGreat applause A worthily married
pair love each other better on the day of
their silver wedding than on the day
of their first espousals and we are truer
to liberty to-day and dearer TO God
than we were when we spoke our first word
of liberty. Read away up under the
sky across our starry banner that first
word we uttered twenty-five years
ago. What was it? "Slavery shall never
extend over another foot OF the Ter
ritories of the Great West" [Applause.l
Is that dead or alive? Alive, thank
God, foreyermore [Applause.I and
truer tonight than it was the hour it
was written. [Applause.l Then it was a
hope, promise, purpose. Tonight
1t is equal with the stars-immortal his
tory and immortal truth. Applause
Come down the glorious steps of our
banner. Every great record we have made
we have indicated with our blood and
with our truth. 1t sweeps the ground
and it touches the stars. Come there,
young man, and put in your young life
where all is living, and where nothing is
dead but the heroes that defended it.
[ Applause think these young men will
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