The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-27
A SUPERB SPEECH
~ rHt elooUtnrJ.w DANIELS.


Cleveland aud Hendricks juhilatiuu, ni
Richmond fow days since. II was au
able effort, and will be found interesting
in the oNtromo to many oi our readers
IL was several minutes before ho cohld
speak. The wlld0st cheers greeted hin
aud nj times he had To stand for minutes
until the applause suhsidod. lie said;
| With thankiuluess to Almighty God,
who hath given us the victory, with JOY
IN your Joy, and gratitude and JOY OF
all, | hail YOU, brother Virginians,
brother Americans, In This happy hour
| Wherefore "haS tho citv east hur people
out upon herr" Wherefore Is The mai
| dashed into AN ocean of tire? Wherefore
have the streets run flame, and seeming
break into iierv pathways to the skies
Wherefore arc these grand hosannahs
uplit ed to "thG tingling stars
Right has broken the chain of might
Virtue has stricken down corruptio O..
! The onward tread 4 imperialism has
been arrested. Sectloualism is rebuked.
Unioni IN Is triumphant. "Pnhlc oliics
| is public truss" has been proclaimed
as by a trumpats blast
"Tell the truth" as by light flashed
down from heaven, has been bldZoned
upon the ornament in IA rainbow OF
peace.
The nation wears a crown of civic vic
tory, unspotted 10y single drop OF ira
tricidal blood.
The constitution and the Union are
welded. Up from under the fresh two
dollar bills Of Dudley, up from under
the wing wires and prison-bar suits oil
Jay Could, up from under the fierce
grip OF 10000 pldccmen, up from under
tn clubs and BULLDOG reviewers OF the
deputy marshals, up from under Il
mouuiain of lies and threats, the un-
magnetized, unpurchasGble, untcrriiied
Democracy has risen III mighty MAJ
esty.
The people have risOn To their mll
statue aud have come again unto their
own! The spcndthriits and the spoils-
men of the treasury; the rambling recre-
ants from official duty; tho greedy
monopulists; the AMBITIOUS conspira-
tors; Tho "sOap' ballot manipulators
aud the false counters and the plotting
lobbyists; the star-rOute thieves; the
land grabbers; the Vil-serNice debauch-
ers, have heard voice crying through
the Wilderness If Earring factions:
make their way straight; Grover Cleve-
land and Thomas Hendricks are presi-
dent and vice-president OF these United
states! They shall not he counted out"
And IN this saying the voice oil The peo-
plo is the voice OF God!
:. Around the feet divine of Him who says:
My truth shall make you free, forever free
Break, break, and clash and clang, We chorus
Till earth one grand dclivcrance shall see"
Break, burst yc letters! Clashins, changing
Break, grind to shapeless dust your cruel
mass;
Free IecI! Free SOUS! Free hearts are
marching on
70 God and truth! stand back and let
them paSs!"
Ny countrynen, Won celebrate the
greatest event of the nineteenth century
one of the grandest events OF history.
Magnificent is the spectacle-the great
est republic, the very blossom OF the
ages, with 55,000,000 of freemen, chang
ing its rulers ut its own free will with
out a cannon shot or a bayonet thrust.
The contest was between the kepubll-
can party and the republic. Thank God,
the republic has won! This mighty
issue of free thought Will break over
every monarchy of the Old World. Ev-
cry pillar'of the French republic Will be
strengthened. The liberal movement
in England goes forward with incalcu-
liable re reshment and reiniorcement.
The spirit OF jefferson re infuSeS Itself
into every fibre of our national BENG.
Had the result been otherwise, the hand
upon the dial OF time would have been
turned back a century.
Let us take to heart the lessons of this
victory Democracy will never crow
over an honorable foe when he is down.
1t comes not for vengence. 1t had rather
pick up than cast down-that hits hard
where needful. But be it remembered
that the Republican ieader-one of the
most brilliant men of his generation
after q tremendous campaign. has been
beaten by his own record. Had he been
in his public career a public servant in
- coll .iI.h N
self in devious ways, he would now be
president.
Had not Grover Cleveland been an
honest man who dedicated himself to
his public trust, with record rs spot
less AS the driven snow, he would not
now be president.
The pointing of this moral in the
struggle, and the adorning OF TINS taie
in The triumph, is worth all the breath,
and brain, and handwork of the can
vass. 1t is the glory of the Democracy
and of the nation that one who had |
rather De right than president is both
ri Int and president.
All honor to the unfinching old-timo !
to the patient, long-suiief-
ing, long-toiling Democracy, that never I
iickered in faith and never langulshed |
IN labor. |
All honor to the independent Republi-
cans who came to the rescue. But for
their aid our flag had gone down. These
Republicans. led by
Reecher and Schurz and Pound, aud
yurl is and Higginson, and their associ-
ltes have been in this contest true as
steel to conscience aud TO country.
stout of heart, and OF head, and Of hand,
ihey deserve all the good fame that lives
IN the name of patriot.
The hearth-SCone of Democracy IS
warm, and there is light i'll the dwelling
% welcome them. Long may they abide
with us! Let them have an nonored
seat in the councils of the nation.
1t is we'll for the north that This thing
las come to pass. 1t will soon see that
Blaine was false prophet when he de
,lared that the restoration of Democracy
would be like the recoming ofthe eXiled
3tuarts to the English throne anu CT
he deposed dukes to Venice.
The south was solid in this battle only
or such things as all irecmen should be
'olid for. In the government which our
athers founded it wants only what all
should grant: Equal benefit with equal
burden. There is no Bourbon drop in
southern blood. Weseek no supremacy,
nut equality. We want no denial OF
light to any man, but equal rights for
I'll men. We want no universal affixed
policies, no tampering with the constltu-
ional amendments of reconstruction.
We say to federal power what Diogones
aid TO Alexander, "Stand out of our
unshine."
The south says to the north, "Trust
is, honor us, believe us, ana we Will
rive you back equal trust, equal honor,
,qnal faith and equal fidelity"
We take no step backward. We turn
10 wheel of revolution, but under the
tars and stripes. and to the music OF
sHail Columbia" we touch elbows with
III Americans in their glorious onward