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nifty. The hour is pregnant with mighty possibilities
strangng in the surf Of corruption, injustice and
favoritism, and cries aloud for publication
and nd. reform. Applause An assemblage Of
creates, but recently filed this hall with clanor and
it is said to have been too well manufactured to have
been the product of infant industry. Laughter
They have announced their purposes and they claim
the submission of the country if it theirs to
Of this intelligent Peopel Like corporations
which have hourised under their auspices they have
! issued a watered stock Of promises and every
ised redress only of the disorders
they have themselves communicated to the body-po-
ton to the disease They have rendered nothing
adequate worthy the feryent aspirations and high
hopes of this patriotic and progressive people. To
they tender the renewal of sectional strife to nation
which feels the impulse OF mighty growth andyearns
/ spiration of national calamity and misfor-
tune; to a proud and sensitive people, de-
demanding decency in seating and cleanliness in hold
ing their public stations they offer the gded arts of
ambitious to achieve freernan's manhood. they
Proer the elevating sentiments of party machine; to
the men of toll seeking only equal opportunity to
masters, villains, and you shall have bread" Zap
pausel The burden of the campaign is already made
manifest In the shouting, and IN common political
/ parlance it is "soap, which is its insnira-
ton and ammunition Laughter and applause
The boisterous cry of the drill se1eaTtte bIacI st
for the hesitatng rewards to the yving-that is the
politicians share while from tie ranks of those ,bo
aass the fruits Of Others labor the conious streams
of pecuniary profit viii summon the booty of sweet
ened sophistres to the of the weak and ignorant
The air is already filed with the vapors of visionary
schemes addressed to various interests and factions Of
weak and undeserying men; and some are induced to
expect advantage from the chaotic possibilities of
/ a foreign war. Others, relief or gain for
llegahzed lrruptlons Fan the national treasury.
/ No patriot here contemplate contemporaneous
egents without profound eepyetion that The duties
There is one supreme question before us, How
shall we most surely rescue the republicln know
you Wlil pardon me for saying is no time for per-
sonal canvass. No has the slightest claim to our
personal preferences and have no personal prefer
ences. No personal objections win weigh
Of OF such 2 ticket as will certainly unite
animates the expectant hope which is turned to
this convention from every quarter of this Union.
this country, not alone in numbers, in personal and
material eharacteristics but in the minds Of the
We have ceased to fight fratricda war; the sin Of
slavery has been purged the crime of secession has
been punished both are Ct an end and the chained
memory only as safeguards for the national Justice
peace and Union forever [Cheersl The horrors Of
the dreadful hour of internecine conflict must smu-
late suitable honor and reward to the noble men,
whose lives offered then for their countrys sal
pvaton but these people will not go backward either
for animosity springs of action to destroy the
fruits Of their labor and sacrifices. The hour of
peace and concord the embrace of friends after b;t
ing union are their highest honor, the most noble
chaplet that ever crowned soldiers memory Who
tears to bleed again, who fans a
dying spark of enmity strips the tenderes from
that laurel leaf of glory; and douby wicked he who
such ends vain ambition. [Cheersl The day for
such attempts has passed. generation is on the
scene of action, educated and Intelligent genera
ton. They understand institutions, They com
prehend the tremendous growhand capabilities of the
country and they accept the responsibilities which
sense is keen that the welfare and prorress ssa4.
Of this people demand and have long demanded an ut
ter and radical change in the administration Of the
government. EApplause.l
At this stage of Col. Vilass speech, benjamin F.
Butler appeared escorte BY one Of his cid aids, Mr.
Dynkwaler, and was received with uproarious ap.
plause, mingled with some Kisses from people who did
not seem to relish the interruption. After the con-
fusion occasioned BY this episode was over Col Villas
resumed as follows:
They have heard repeated promises of reform with
each recurring election and with disgrace and shame
they witness each administration discover
deeper niquites than those it promised to amend
which will work all others, and is the condition of ALL
is the utter defeat Of the present party in power and
party organization The prosperity and proeress
7 and hope of this republic rest to-day on the
wisdom and patriotism Of the Democracy now here
the great responsibility 1t is the party which brings
down the traditions and represents the principles upon
which this government was founded homestead Of
equality and liberty; it is the party of Thomas Jefcr-
SON. of James Madison and Of Andrew Jackson An
they taught and led it, it stands to-day the party Of
the people, for honesty capaby and Hdelityin pub
lie service for strict principles of political economy in
their public affairs, for encouragement of every art
and industry the development of trade and manfac-
lures, with equal justice to ALL stands as they in
spred it. the party of the people, for the generous
diffusion of knowledge the elevation of cry man,
for common rights and equal opportunt es for all,
the resoiute enemy of monopoly of class favoritism
spration of youth the nursery Of freeuen. II has
shared the vicissudes the raties the faults of hui
manty 1t has proted by the sweet Of adversely
and it stands forth to-day with disciplined patriotism
fitted TO invoke and receive the restoration of that
power which, for half century, it welded to the
than 5, 600 600 of free men, a greater number than
cast the ballots for lincoln, Breckenridge Douglas
and Bell, all combined, compose this patriotic
recruited steadily and constantly from the upright
and fearless who preferring the rewards of selfre
dust from their feet and departed
from the Sodom Of so-called Republicanism
Of its former professors who sought the spos Of
Office where they to be found. 1t has received
come in the same character which we have received
before and there be any who not abide its high
purposes and fortitude and ability to wait for tho
tinue the like exchange It has enlisted and caught
the fire of the young manhood of this nation, and
the spirit Of victory rules its councils and rides in the
front of its BATTLE The fatality Of laundering has
become Republican possession, and the doom the
g9ds award to 70 t tSly et US pray may be theirs
be longer stayed, and confident expectation may be
placed in your wise deliberations We may hope from
your wisdom the first step to be taken and to see
again nation restored to its real station among the
powers of the EARTH to see its again. as of
yore, breast the of every and spread its flag
in every sky We may hope to see the squandering Of
public wealth and justice take her place in
laws, regulating finance and economy. We may hope
to see a Democratic people Of equality
and simplicity and hugality, whose happiness
may best be found And as the millions multiply,
and the subdued earth yields its abundant increase,
while in every form art and industry employ their
cheerful labor, the proudest boast of American cti
zenshp shall rise from the favored sons wealth.
but from the manly freeman who returns with the