The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-10-12
HE STILL SPEAKS.
Garfeld's Advice to Young Voters Dc
not Cast Your Lot With Dead
Party.
Cast Your Lot Where All is Living
and Nothing Dead but the He
roes Of Liberty.
IRON speech delivered by General Garfield
in Cleveland, October II, 1871

trrom speech delivered by General GarfieId
| In Cleveland, October II. 1871
| snow fellow citizens, a word before leave
you, on the very eve OF the holy day OF God
iit moment TO coDsecrate oursely. finally "a
the great work of next Tuesday morning. ]
see In the audience tonight a great many
youhg men, young men who are about to cast
'heir urst vote. want to give you word of
suRRestioh ana advice. heard very bril-.
'iant lhing said by boy the other day 10 In
he Oh our northwestern counties. He saja 10
me- GENERAL have great mind 10 vote the
oemocrauc ticket That was not the briir.
ant ming Laughter L said TO him: WHY
why SAID ne. my father IL a Republican. and
am Republican all over. but 1 want 10 he
IN independent man, and l don't want any.
oody TO say, That fellow votes the Republican
ticket Just because his dad does, and I have
naii mind to vote the Democratic ticket inst
TO prove my independence / did not Ike the
tninR the boy suggested, but did admire the
spirit OF the boy that wanted to have some I'm.
dependence of his own.
NOW, tell you, young man, don't vo,e tho
Republican ticket just because your father
Votes IL. Don't vote the Democratic ticker
even II he does vote it. [Laughter.I Rut no,
me give you this one word Of advice as yo,,
are about to pitch your tent in one of m.
great political camps. Your life IA ruu ana
buoyant with hope now, and beg Won who,
you pitch your tent pitch 1t among the living
and not among the dead. [Applause.1 II vo,,
are at an inclined to pitch it among the Demo
cratic people and with that party, let me %
win you Tor moment, while we survey the
ground where hope you will not shortly lie
snau u IL Is sad place young man, for
you 10 put your young life into Ii is To mo
far more like a graveyard than eamn for th he
living. Look at it! 1t is beloved ali o, .ne
Win graves OF dead issues. OF buried Opinions.
Yon eaopai in ve OF disgraced doctrines
Laughter Why, look herei Here is a iiftia
a Sanpd mound nc look down On II and read,
and the bred Scott decision A million and
half OF Democrats voted for that, but IL has
been dead fifteen years-died by the hand az
ADranam Lincoln, and here it lies. (Ap-
plause) Young men, that is not the place for
you. ioi
But look little further. Here is another
monuments black tomb-and beside it there
towers to the SKY a monument of four mil
lion pairs OF human letters taken from the
arms of slaves, and read on its heads,one
this; Sacred to the memory of human sIay.
infamous life the Democratic party taught
that IL was divine, Gods institution. They De.
tended IT, they stood around it at its grave as
mourners. But here il lies, dead by The hand
of Abraham Lincoln. ILong applause. Dead
by the power of the Republican, party. Ian.
plause. Dead by the justice OF Aimighfy
God. Great applause and cheers.l Don't
camp there, young man. But there is an.
other, a little birthstone tomb llaughterl and
read across its yellow face In lurid. bloody
lines these words: Sacred to the memory of
state sovereignty and Secession Twelve
millions OF Democrats mustered around in i'm
arms to keep it alive, but here IL lies. shof IN
death by the million-gun of the Republic. IAp-
plause.J Here IL hes lis shrine burnt to ashes
under the blazing raftprS h,..
iederacy. lApplause.l II Is deadI i would
not have You stay in there minute, even in
TINS oaimy night ar, to look at such a place. |
lLaughterI But just before leave It I dis |
cover a new-made grave, little mount-short. |
The grass has hardly sprouted over IL, and ali |
around L see torn pieces of paper with the |
down in curiosity, wondering what the LITTLE
grave is, and read on it: Sacred TO the mem
DRY OF the rag baby tlaughterl, nursed in the |
liaughterl, rocked by Thomas Ewing. George
II. Pendleton, Samuel Cary, and few Others
throughout the land But 1t died on the list of /
January, 1873, and the s1i0.0Oo,ooo of gold that
little carcass to keep it down forever. PRO |
longed applause.l
''oh, young man, come out of that! (Laugh |
teri That is no place in which to put your
young life. Come out, and come over to this |
camp of liberty, of order, of law, of Justice of |
freedom, lamenl, of all that is glorious under |
these night stars,
rs there any death here in our camp? Yes.
yesl Three hundred and fffty thousand SOL |
diers, the noblest band that ever trod the
EARTH died to make this camp camp of glory
and liberty forey eri Tremendous applause |
But there are no dead issues here. There
are no dead ideas here. Hang out our banner /
from under the blue sky this night until it |
shall sweep the green turf under your feeti 1t |
hangs over our camp. Read, away up under |
the stars, the inscriptions we have written on /
1t. loi these twenty-five years. Twenty-Five |
years ago the Republican party was married |
TO Liberty, and this is our silver wedding fell |
low citizens. (Great applause.) A worthily |
married pair love each other better on the day |
Of their silver wedding than on the first day of |
their espousal; and we are truer to Liberty |
to-day and dearer to God than we were when |
we spoke our first word of liberty Read, /
away up in the sky, across our starry banner, |
that first word we uttered twenty-five years
ago. What was 1t? Slavery shall never ex- |
tend over another foot of the Territories of |
the great West! (Applause.) Is that dead or |
alivel Alive, thank God, forevermore zap /
plause.) And truer tonight than 1t was the |
hour 1t was written. (Appause.) Thenit was |
q nope, promise, a purpose; tonight il is /
equal with the stars-immortal history and |
truth. (Appause.)
Come down the glorious steps of our BAN
ner. Every great record we have made we |
have yindicated with our blood and with our |
truth. 1t sweeps the ground and it touches |
the stars. Come then, young man, where all is /
living, and where nothing is dead but the
heroes that defended 1t. (Applause.) think |
these young men will do that. Voices 'of |
course they Wild