River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-26

character OF representatives OF the soldiers and
sailors q our your visit becomes feature
insensibly leading 10 a train of most interesting
reflections. Your Rssemblage Is composed of
men who gave mp the pursuits of peace relin-
friendship and yielded the gentle and loving So
cety OF family TO brave the dangers OF the tented
field, OF crested waves, to run the gauntlet of
sickness in climates different from vour own
and probably to yield uplife itself in the service
Of your country; Twenty-thr years ago. gen
tlenen 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 lite OF peace and ease,
but few Of you had passed the period OF young
manhood. or advanced TO the opening scene of
middle life At the call, however, OF your en-
dangcred country YOU did not hesitate to leave
ANYTHING for which We strove in this world, to
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 an outlet TO am
bition and assent to power lCheers.l me
its territorial integrity preserved YOU sheathod
the sword, unfiXed the bayonct laid away the
nIusket housed the cannon doned youf 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
10 rehablitate the waste places and cultivate the
arts OF peace until our reunited country should
be greater, prouder and grandCr than ever before,
Those wears have glid6d ineo the retrearlng per-
spective of the past since Won responded to Your
country's call, and mighty changes In the event.
full march of nations nave taken place. mis-
passing time has made itself manifest upon the
heads Of many Of you who shOuidered your mus
kets before your first beard was grown. But
however lightly, or however heavily Il has dealt
with YOU your soldiers and sailors organiza-
tions that have been kept prove that the heart
has been untouched and that your love
for country has but been intensified.
saw the light Of day under the name OF Repub-
lcan, its birth announced the conception OF
higher. broader principle OF human government
than had been entertained by our foretathers
Part few of us, perhaps none, took The full dl-
mene'ons OF the coming fact at chat early day.
IL broke upon US all gradually ike the l1ght OF
the morning sun. AT length il came IN full blaze
and for the first time in the history
Of our republic we began TO give gGen9a-
that "all men are created equally and entitled
to the inalienahle rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit OF happiness The Republican party was
the unauesttonahle agency which bore these
gifts 10 the waiting age ana IL was the Demo-
cratic idea which disputed their status first
upon the field Of battle, and subsequently aud
mp TO this moment at the polls The Repub-
lean party, then, represents the latest ruiton OF
governmental progress, and Is destined to sur
principles still more advanced shall compel II
to measure its step with the march
an instrument which has fulfilled its
destiny. So long as the Democratic party shall
traditions and policy belonging 90 the expired
era Of orr development, just so long Will the Re
publican party be charged with the adnnistra-
tiOn OF our government In making this arralgn-
ment of the Democracy, my friends, appeal TO
no passion nor reopen settled questions. but
utter the calm sober words Of truth. | say, that
until every state in this broad and beneficial
Union shall give free recognition to the civil and
political rights of the humblest Of its citizens,
whatever his color, until protection 10 American
citizens follows the flag at home and abroad; un-
til the admirable monetary system esta blished
by the Republican party shall be placed beyond
the danger of subversion: until American labor
and industry shall be protected by wide and
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 civilizations; until we shall have
WISE AMERICAN POLICY,
that viii not only preserve the place with other
nations, but viii 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 American ideal
which Will preserve and foster their interests,
uniniuenced by English theories or Golden
clubs, and, until 10 ia conceded beyond sub
sequCnt revocation that the government exists
upon the basis of a self-sustaining, selt-presorv
ing nation, and the fatal doctrine OF independent
state sovereignty, upon which the civil war was
founded, shall be stamped as political heresy,
out of which continued revolution is born, and
wholly incompatible with the idea Of tho rcpub-
lie the Republican party will have much work
to do and an unfulfillcd mission to perform.
The standard bearer party in the ensuing cam
palg1 Is lion. James e. Blaine, known through
ont the land as one of It's truest and ablcst
representatives He has been called to this
position by the voice of the people in rocogn-
ton of his especial fitness for the trust and IN
admiration of the surprising combination OF
hrillancy, courage, faithfulness, persistency and
rlarkable figures which have appeared upon the
forum of statecraft in my period. That such n
man should have enemies and detIactors
is as natural that our best fruits should
be infested with parasites or that there
should exist small and cnyious minds which seek
to belittle 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 tho seasons or the rolling of the spheres
in their courses Gentlemen, again | thank
you for this visit of congratulation, and extend
TO You and all my grateful acknowledg-
monts.
The speakers who followed Gen. Logan
were heartily cheered They included Sena-
tors Plumb and Harrison and Congressman
Cutcheon of Michigan, Golf o. West Virginia,
A. H. Pettibone of Tennessc 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.