Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-02
the everlasting rock of independence
beneath her. Applause

Inc trntn Is, my 1ellOW-cltlZens, tnat
no one subject connected with our pub
lie politics is so much misconceived and
maligned by the opposition as this very
idea that | am trying to develop here |
tonight. Let me say in one word |
that secession perished at AppomattOx,
and it went down to its bloody grave |
never more to rise on this continent. |
Applause. There let it sleep, and |
believe, too, that there is not a living |
man to-day who would resurrect its |
corpse. But | can tell you one thing |
more, and that is that this principle |
that am defending here tonight, our
American manhood and our love for |
our state, our home, our family, will |
never perish upon this continent. And
1t will live as long as there is one star |
upon the American flag, as long as
there is one particle of love for huma II |
liberty or one breath of love to defend |
our fresides. [Applause.] Publicists
and politicians on both sides Of the |
Atlantic have wondered for these past |
twenty years at the vitality and life Of
the democratic party. And when look |
over the past history of twenty years l
wonder myself, sometimes, that the
old thing does live. [Applause. How
it has been ridiculed, reviled, cursed
and blasphemed t)r these last twenty
five years. Every grave made for a
soldier who fell in battle and every !
widow in the country has been charged
to the account of the democratic party.
Applause. have seen it year after
year for nearly twenty years after |
presidential elections hung in etfgy.
| have seen 1t cut down and taken into
the public square and funeral fire
built around it and l have seen her
enemies gather around it and dance to
its last requiem. have seer it put in
coffins and carried in republican process
sions and taken out and the old dead
carcass thrown into the pond, the lead
ers of this funeral procession declaring
that the old thing was dead and, like
Lazarus, had begun to stink. Bnt
somehow the thing would materialize
at the next election, ready to vote.
| [Applause and laughter Eloquent
funeral orations have been pronounced
upon it. Knocked down and battered
and abused for twenty years, yet at
every election the old thing has come
up smiling, and ready for another boat,
uutil what do we witness to-day, not
only its flag is seen in every state Of
this union, in every great city, in every
hamlet, but upon every hilltop and
valley from the pineries of Maine to
the golden slope of the Pacific. APP
plause 1t has nearly 4,50O, 900 Amer
lean freemen to-day swearing that
though they slay me will love it still.
Laughter. We have elected the
president OF these United States. We
have got control of the executive de-
partment and we have got control of the
popular branch of the federal legisla-
ture, that branch that is nearest and
dearest to the people, which comes
directly from them. And every time
we can get close to the people we win a
victory, and don't you forget it. Zap
. plause. We are here, and we are
here to stay, and the old party on the
day of Judgment will be found ready
to respond to the last call of the
trumphet to 60 to the poles and chal-
lenge the right of the republican party
to enter
THE NEW JERUSALEM.
When we look at all this, fellow-citi- :
zens. we say in all candor that every
wise and thinking man must concede
that back of and underlying such q
party as this is some great principle of
patriotism,tr truth and justice, or it could
not live. Now, amt it SO?
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers,
While error. wounded. writhes in pain,
And dies amid her wOrshippers."
!, -[Applause. ]
The inspiration of this principle, fell
low-citizens. is the home. There is
where men are bred, cities are builded
and republics are uplifted and glorified.
The great English jurist expressed it
all when he said, wA mans home Is
his castle of Defense" and the greatest
) of British orators and statemen has
glorified it in rhetoric that will while
/ time lasts shed its golden sunlight over
the world in the sentence: "The hum
blest home of the humblest man in
England, though it have its low thach-
ed roof, and though the winds and
rain may howl through its crevices, the
king of Great Britain III all the puts.
t sance of his power dare not cross its
, humble Threshold" [Applause.]
5 There has been great deal oil
ridicule in this country about the
, average love of a great many of our
t people for their native state. l remem.
e Der when was boy there came to nv
$ school district down i'm Boone county q
long legged fellow with a slouch hat
a and long hair. who made application
to teach the district school The
school directors had been agitating the
5 question of having English grammar
e taught in that neighborhood. They
e had made up their minds on the sub
ject of teaching grammar, and wher
/ he met them they asked him if he was
f a grammarian. He arose to the alti
: tude of about 6 feet z, and spreading
: himself out in equal proportions, ht
!. said: "NO, be-gawd; am Virgin.
: IAN" [Great laughter You have al
e read the anecdote that went the rounds
y, of the newspapers during the Gran
e and Greeley campaign of the Ions
z legged kentuckian who was riding il
d the car with an Adve mist, a preacher
o and other gentlemen, who were dis
+ cussing politics. One said that Gran
J, would carry the election, and another
: said that Seymour would, when th'
S Adventist rose up and said: "I bes
: leave to say, gentlemen, that neither o.
= those gentlemen will carry the election
i for the millennium is coming, and the
d man who will carry this country i
;, Jesus of Nazareth" This was to,
Il much for the kentuckian, who got ul
= and says: "I'll bet you $500 he dom
5 carry Kentucky" [Applause ant
e laughter. Now, | read short time
e ago a letter by an English tourist who
Il was commenting on the singularly
d passionate ATTACHMENT of the average
e American for his own state. He saiC
d he was riding in car down in Tennes
It see when IA fellow came in with an ole
g pair of saddlebags crammed full t,
e overtiowing; with slOuched hat pull
ed low down over a shocky head o
halr that stuck mp through the holes il
the hat, and over pair of eye brow
G that interlapped like hedge fence
5 and slapping the bags down on tn,
@ top of a seat, called ont in rougl
/ voice: "ls thar ary man here from
). Tennessee? | perfer one from eas
J. Tennessee, for | was born thar.
G Now, the Englishnan could not un
: dcrstand the passionate attachment o
an American citizen for his own state
h He didn't understand that after all /
=, was
: TIE GREAT SECRET
II OF our power at home and abroad as
c individuals and as nation, and Of our
Y great seif-lmpOrtance among ourselves
= For, my fellow citizens although it is the
= proud boast of England that, beginning
n with the rising of the sun to its setting
n encirCling the earth, the drum beat o