The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-21

that greot mans ssn,otoctiva noI;cv,, and
intense American;sm T had nawhere else
10 90 when The hideonsand batefml monster
of secession stalked in and undertool, the
devilish task of dismemher;ns nur God
given Union than into the great Renubli.
can Marty then nresided over nv
Abraham Lincoln. and later on Nv
that other name not horn IN die. II.
s. Grant. who led our embattled hosts
10 freedom. 10 victory and TO manhood-
that party who made Il possible for Won
and Tor me IN stand today and advocate
s'peace on earth and good will, to every
American citizen. regardless of name. ma.
tivity or complexion But for this much
maligned Republican party we might to-
day have MULTIPLICITY of petty seyen-by-
nine soyereignties within our now broad
united domain, with Z. 600. 600 or s. 600. 600
human chattels TO do their masters bid
ding. The bare contemplation OF these
Democratic possibilities is enough TO make
every broad-minded patriot shudder and
grow pale.
We are about inaupuratinp n movement
grander and more momentous in its future
consequences to Ga. 900. 900 of people than
some of us perhaps NAV now Imagine.
| Our party is about TO set its seal upon the
dangerous and destructive policy OF Cleve-
land and his free trade platform; upon the
narrow, hidebound and un-American
| practice that one small State ia greater
| than the mighty nation of which IL il but
| n comparatiyely triflino and fractional mart.
upon the mischieyous idea of class rule.
| which DISTINGUISHED southern Democratic
senators are now boldly advocating in the
| Congress of the limited States. of the ma.
| n
wages which is the necessary. and must be
| the inevitable result of the success OF the
bourbon free trade marty. These things.
nv dear sir. strike Mt the very yitals OF
our material well-beinp and we cannot,
therefore. afford TO give .'sleep TO our ever
nor slumber 10 our eyelids" until this re.
dictionary marty of free trade. Of class rule
of State Sovereignty. of fraudulent and dis.
honest ballots. Ia buried beneath the
waves of popular Instrumentation. Oul
coming national nominations nj Chicago
should be predicated upon and peryaded
with this central idea.
We must nut In the front of this grand
nation party who relipiously believes IN
II; not A party who Is always seeking fol
methods Ia 6elittle and degrade n like
that which now governs In many of Tho
States. we shonld utterly abbor and re-
nudiate that narrow. proscriptiye. AMI
eircumscribed patriotism which IL hedved
In Inv class color and provincial lines of lati
tude. and we shonld desnise that "Chear
John vand falsely continental and merel,
Theoretical noIitics which wonId legislat,
for onlv a l}m;,od cIass In a o;van iocali,,,
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