Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-10

rapt attention, and al the close was voted the
thanks of the legislature.
Col IDgersoli, in his address ON Conkling
today, said
Roscoe Conkling, a great man, distin.
gu ished citizen Of the republic, i'll the zenith
of his fame and power, has reached his Jour
neys end. We have met here in the city OF
his birth TO pay tribute to his worth. He
stood for independence and his name was
known and honored by many millions of his
fellow men. He was charged with being
proud The charge was true, he was proud,
but he was not vain. This imperious man
entered public life in the dawn of reforma-
ton, at time when the country needed men
of principle and courage. Before the crime
of slavery ambition fell upon its knees. A
real friend 10 man was denounced as an enc
my TO his country, real enemy of the hu-
man race was called statesman and patriot.
At last the conflict came. The question was
presented, shall the republic be slave or
free: The republican party had 'riumphed
at the polls, the greatest mau in our history
was their Presdent-eiecr The victors were ap-
palled they shrank from the great RESPONSE
bility of their success. In the presence of
rebellion they hesitated and offered to return
the fruits of their victory. Hoping 10 avert
war they were willing that slavery should be-
come immortal. An amendment 10 the con-
stitution was proposed that 10 subsequent
amendment should ever be made that Ill any
way should interfere with the right of man
to steal his fellow men. This most marvel
GUS proposition ever sub nitted 10 the con-
gress of civilized country, received an
overwhelming majority and the necessary
two-t irds in the Senate, The republican
party, in the moment of triumph deserted
every principle for which il had 50 galantly
contended. Owen Lovejoy, remembering
his brothers noble blool, refused TO surren-
der, and On the edge of iisunon, in the shad
ow of evil war with the air rilled with the
sounds OF dreadful preparation, Roscoe
Conkling voteI M. This puts Il wreath of
glory on his :omb, and from that vote to the
last moment of his life, he was the champion
otIequal rights, staunch and stalwart From
that moment he stood in the front
rank, and, has never wavered. never
swerved by his devotion to principal, his
courage and splendor and his diction by his
varied and profound knowledge. BY his
conscientious devotion to the great cause,
and by his intellectual scope and grasp he
won and held the admiration of his fellow
men. He battled for the nations life, for
the rights of slaves, the dignity of labor and
the liberty of all. He attacked the savage
statutes of reconstructed States with tor
rent of invectives, scorn and execraton. He
was not satisfied until the freedman was an
American citizen, clothed in every civil
right, until the constitution was his shield
and until the ballot was his sword. Roscoe
Conkling was absolutely an honest man
Honesty is the oak, around which all the
other virtues cling. W .thout that they fall
and groVehng, die IN weeds anu aust. ne
pelleNed that lle halio,i shoula uischarse ts
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government was tne promise OF every ciu-
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