The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-06-26

character or REPRESENTATIVES or the soldiers and
es9e g o
reflections. Your assemblage IL composed o.
men who gave up The pursuits Of peace, felin:
hgishsd the eomf9rts tS Of home severed the
cdety of family to brave the dangers Of the tented
field. or crested waves, to run the gauntlet OF
sickness IN climates different from your own,
and probably to yield up life itself in the service
OF your country: Twentv-three years ago, gen
| tlemen, many Of you were standing with one foot
upon the portal of manhood, eager for conflict
| with world which promised to bring you honor,
riches and friends, and life Of peace and ease
| but few Of you had passed the period Of young
dde or inc f the ssnfg
anything fl whieh We We stro9e Ii this world; Is
BECOME DEFENDERS OF THE UNION
without the incentive which has inspired men OF
other nations to adopt a military career as a
permanent occupation and as an outlet to am
bition and assent to power. [Cheers.] The
safety Of our country having been assured and
its territorial integrity preserved YOU isheathed
the sword, unfixed the: bayonet, laid away the
musket, housed the cannon, dotfed your uni;
forms, donned the garments of civil life, buried
hatred toward our brothers Of the South, and
shook hands in testimony Of a mutual resolve
to rehabilitate the waste places and cultivate the
arts of peace, until our reunited country should
be greater, prOuder and grander than ever before.
Those years have glided intorthe retrearfng per-
spective of the past since you responded to your
country's CALI and mighty changes in the event.
full march of nations have taken place. This
passing time has made itself manifest upon the
heads Of many of you who shouldered your mus
kets before your first beard was grown. But
however lightly, OF however heavily it has dealt
with you, your soldiers and sailors organiza-
lions that have been kept prove that the heart
for country has but been intensified.
saw the light Of day under the name Of Repub-
lican, it's birth announced the conception OF a
than had been entertained by our forefathers.
Part few of-us, perhaps none, took the full di-
mansions of the coming fact at that early day:
the morning sun. At length it came in full blaze
and for the first time in the history
of Of our republic We began to give ge gna
that AL men are created equally and entitled
to the inalienable rights Of life liberty, and the
pursuit Pun Of haRpinsss The Republican party was
gifts to the waiting: age; and it was the De. :
cratic idea which disputed their status, IL -
upon the field Of battle; and subsequently I'd
g aae es Fh 4u Rp
pfacpiss Rs1sss saa j. assssaen s i 81
measure 1Ss " step VIA The he ma as'
IN instrument whicn has fulfilled its
destiny, so long IS the Democratic party shall
traditions and policy Se,ongne e the espred
era Of our Development just go long will the Re:
publican party be charged with the administra-
ment of the Democracy, my friends, appeal to
no passion nor reopen settled questions i but
utter the calm, sober words of truth. Isay. that
until every state in this broad and beneficial
Union shall give free recognition to the civil and
political rights of the hu1nblest of it's citizens
whatever his color, until protection to American
citizens follows the flag at home and abroad; I'M
til the admirable monetary system established
by the Republican party shall be placed beyond
the danger of subversion; until American labor
equitable laws as to give full scope to our i'm
mense resources and place every man upon the
plane to which he is entitled by reason of his
capacity and worth; until education shall be as
general as our civilization; until we shall have
established
WISE AMERICAN POLICY,
that will not only preserve the place with other
nations, but will cause every American citizen to
honor his government at home, and every civil
lied nation to respect our flag; until the Amer
lean people shall permanently establish thor
oughly economic system upon an American ideal
winch will preserve and foster their interests,
u 1t; by English theories or Golden
sequent revocation that the government exists
upon the basis of selfsustaining, self -preserv-
ing nation, and the fatal doctrine Of independent
founded, shall be stamped as political heresy,
out of which continued revolution is born, and
wholly incompatible with the idea of the repub-
to do and an unfulflled mission to perform.
| The standard bearer party in the ensuing cam
paign is Hon. James q. Blaine, known through
out the land as one of its truest and ablest
|
position by the voice Of the people in recogni-
ton of his especial fitness for the trust and in
| admiration Of the surprising combination Of
briliancy, courage, faithfulness, persistency and
research that has made him one Of the most re-
markable figures which have appeared upon tho
forum of statecraft in my period. That such a
man should have enemies and detractors
| is as natural that our best fruits should
! be infested with parasites, or that there
/ should exist small and cnvious minds which seek
| to bclittle that which they can never hope to
initiate or equal, and that he shall triumph over
these, and lead the Republican hosts to another
victory in November, is as certain as the success
sion of the seasons or the rolling Of the spheres
in their courses. Gentlemen, again I thank
you for this visit of congrn, uation, and extend
to you one and all my grateful acknowledge
| mentS
The speakers WHO followed Gen. Logan
were heartily cheered. They included Sena-
tors Plumb and Harrison and Congressman
! Cutcheon of Michigan, Golf Of West Virginia,
A. H. Pettibone of Tennessee and Bayne of
Pennsylvania For two hours the street
along the entire block was densely crowded
with the shouting, sweltering crowd. Such
an intensity of enthusiasm and good feeling
is rarely seen.