The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-13
a EnIOgy on the RepubIican Party.
In opening the Republican canvass in
Maine few days ago Ex-senator Blaine

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This country tonight, from ocean to ocean,
from lake to gulf, presents a degree of pros
perity widespread, moro general, more firmly
basel and founded than ever before in its his
tory. Now, do not say that legislation has
brought about alfthat, but legislation has aided
it, and It certainly has not hindered it. II you
ton or to forge iron and steel you wait for a
long time, but if you feel that the law is be-
hind you and above you and around you, pro
tectfng and encouraging you, you raise crops
and spin cotton and forge the steel with a good
deal more assurance of good prices and a fair
market, and all that the law could do, and all
that wise administration of law has been able
10 effect can be claimed by the Republican
party without a division of the honor with any
other party OF the country. loud applause ]
For twenty-one years past last March the
destiny of ths. United States of America, in
political party, has been in the keeping of the
Republican party of the United States, and
written in the annals of human kind ID / wsald
like Governor Plaisted or any other gentleman
supporting him to be kind enough to point it
which human progress has been so rapid, IN
which human rights have been guaranteed so
firmly and enlarged so grandly as within that
period. lam ignorant of where to look for 1t or
where to find il, and now at the end of these
twenty-one years, in this blessed year of 1882,
we find an opposition made up of two or three
parties. What do they propose to do? Moth
ing. The positive measures, the aggressive
policies. the definition of the line, and the
meets and bounds of legislation have all been
taken and prescribed by the Republican party.
and outside of 1t we have had objection. and
cav1l, and Qu1bble, and SANDER, and all man
nerof dishonorable and mean critics follow
ing as camp-followers after great procession
that has gone ahead; but challenge any gen.
tleman to show that in the whole of the twen-
ty-One years the Democratic party and its vari-
Gus side issues, like Greenback and labor
and other organizations has ever proposed a
measure that was able to be materialiZed in
the form of bill or resolve of the Congress of
the United states for the amelioration Of any
public good. lApplausel Whatever may be
said of the Republican party, and that party
could be in power twenty-one years and not
make mistakes would be absurd-that party
could have millions of people and not a dis
honest man among them would be absurd
but whatever can be said of the Republican
party, there Is one thing that never can be
trnthfully said: it never can be said that 1t was
not a brave party. 1t never can be said that it
had a drop of towards blood in its whole or
-Iapplause1-never. When that in
s6tution which represented s., 600, 600, en-
cased in the prejudices of two centuries and
representing the labor element of fifteen
in the way of the Union; the Republic
can party met it with the sword of
and never from that hour to this, never in any
crisis that in these full twenty-one years of
the Republican partys majority. never in one
case has it been unwilling, or unable, or afraid
to take the responsibility; and, gentlemen, you
pirate of the South, and the wrongs done to it;
why, since Maine was State-aye, identically
since Maine was a State-the date serves me
precisely, coming in on top of the great Mis-
souri, compromise, that first wide and deep ag-
itation of the slavery question-never from
that hour TO this in the sixty-two years that
have interviewed has the feeling between the
North and South been as cordial and fraternal
as it is to-night-Iapplausel-n has the
time been before when, in every county and
district and settlement of the South, the YER
lest abolitionist and blackest Republican and
duskiest African could come and go, under
the guarantee of this great Constitutional
Amendment which the Republican party en-
grated on the organic law, and we have held