New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-29
GARFIELD TO YOUNG MEN
AN APPEAL AS THRILLING AND As APPLICANT,

AN APPEAL AS THRILLING AND AS APPLICABLE -
DAY As 1T WAS FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Ffom Speech at Ctsvefand on ne SATURDAY. ev,n.ua,
| u. OHIO election OF 1873. '''"'
Now, fellow citizens, word before la.
you, on the very eve OF the holy day OF od A, avs
ment to ourselves finally 10 the or ne mo-
OF next Tuesday morning see In this great sn. WORK
tonight great many young men young men WIZ hee
OF suggestion and advice heard very brilliant wot
said by boy the other day. up in Of our sg
ern counties He said TO me, General, have e.s
mind TO vote the Democratic ticket" That VA. great
brilliant thing. said TO him, whyp aWhys ssiS mo
my father Ia Republican and my brothers, arc p ne,
lcans and am Republican all over; but wan, ,po
an independent man, and dont want anybody 10 70
his dad does, and have half mind to vote The Dsase
cratic ticket u.t to prove my Independence" did noe
spirit of the boy that wanted TO have lndepend.s
ticket just because your father votes Don't VOTE "a,
Democratic Ticket even II he does vote It. But lei He
give you this word OF advice, you are abon, e
pitch your tent in OF the great political camns y
life Is full and buoyant with hope now, and beg Won
when you pitch your tent pitch IL among the living anf
not among the dead n you are at all inclined 10 n,J
It among the Democratic people and with that party
lot me 20 with you for moment while survey N.
ground where 1 hope you Will not shortly lie ill.,
sad place. young man, for you 10 put your young ss
into IL Is TO me far more like graveyard than Ike
camp for the living Look at it. II is beloved all oye
with the graves OF dead issues OF buried opinions Of y
plOdcd theories. OF disgraced doctrines You cannot liz.
In comfort In such place Why. look here Herr l.
little double mound. look down IL and read saern
to the memory OF Squatter Sovereignty aud the Drei
Scott Decision" million and half Democrats voted
for that but it has been dead fifteen years-ed By iS
hand or Abraham Lincoln, and here 1t Lies. Young man
that Is not the place Tor you.
But look LITTLE further. Here IS another monument
black tomb and beside Il, distinguished friend
said there towers TO the sky monument OF four million
pafs or human letters taken from the arms OF slaves
and its little hea istone this: Sacred 10 thS
Memory of Human slavery" For forty years ofits in
famous lfs the DEMOCRATIC party taught that wa,
around IT, thew It 10 ia sraye az 'eg TS
But here 1t lies dead by the hand OF Abraham Lincon
Justice of Almighty God. Don't man
But here Is another-a little birthstone tomb-and
words sacred TO the memory of State Sovereignty and
Secession" Twelve millions OF Democrats mustered
around 1t in to keep alive here It lies sho;
TO death by the million guns OF the Republic Here Il
hes ITS shrine burned to ashes under the blazing rate
OF the burning Confederacy II Ia dead | would no,
have you stay in there a minute, even in this bamy
night air to look at slch apace.
a little monnd-short The grass has hardly spron,s6
IT, and all around see torn pieces OF paper with tho
word nat on them and look down in curiosity. non
derng what the little grave is and read on it: sacTsd
20 the memory Of tho Rag Baby; nursed in the brain OF
George II. Pendeton, Samuel Cary, and few Others
throughout the land But 10 died the ls OF January
1879 the one hundred and forty millions Of gold that
Goa made and not nat power, lie uron It's little carcass
to keep It down forever
on; young ont OF that That is place in
into this camp OF liberty OF order. OF law, OF freedom Of
justice OF all that Il glorious under these night stars
Is there any death here in our campi Yes! yes! Three
hundred and fifty thousand soldiers the noblest band
OF glory and Of liberty forever But there dead
issues here There arc no dead ideas here. Hang Out
our banner from under the blue sky this night until Il
shall sweep the green turf under your feet Il HAMS
over our camp Read away up under the stars the in
scupuon we have written on 1t, 10! these twenty-five
years.
Twenty five years ago the Republican parry mar
red 10 liberty, and this u silver wedding fellow
citizens. EOrthiy married couple love each other
better the day OF their silver wedding than the day
OF their first espOus0s; and To liberty to-
day and dearer TO God than we're when spoke orr
first word OF liberty. Read away mp under the sky
across starry banner that first word uttered
twenty five years ago! What was ~ slavery shau
never extend another foot OF the territory OF tho
great West" l. that dead alivet Alive. thank Got
for morel And truer TO night than was the hour
Il written. Then IL was hope. promise. pur-
pose. To night is equal with tho stlrsmm0rta his
tory and n-mortal truth.
Come down he glorious steps of our banner. Every
great record have made have ylndcated with our
blood and with truth II sweeps the ground. and
touches the stars Come here. young man. and putin
your Young lite where all T. living. and where nothing
dead but the heroes that defended IT,