The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-04

past bury its dead The Republican longs and
hope whsn In spirit and In truth. Mason and
Dixon's line Will be blotted out forever when
fraternal ties and common interests unite us
all when tho whole people are found rejoicing
together that the holy bonds OF union could not
be severed. hopeful together for a magnificent
national destiny, loyal together To common
country and its uncOnquered flag.
But when that glad time comes black and
white must mnrca side by side I'm tho broad sun
shine OF safety, and lie down TO peaceful sium,
Der I'm the untroubied shadows OF unprotected
homes. The Republican party leans 10 tho now
South with v lido open arms IL offers loyal as
sstance in the development OF It's agriculture,
the opening OF its mines, the building up CT LIS
manufactures IL proposes 10 break down the
barriers OF unpleasant memories with the nope
OF n new prosperity.
campaign is the issue of the tariff. To the sup
port OF n protective tariff there Will rise up an
overwhelming army OF Intelligent, thougntful,
and practical men, and the East and the West
and the North and the South Will Join hands to-
gether TO forever exterminate in this republic
the pernicious doctrine OF free trade.
AS we gather here remember the other
great convention held In this city in 1860. We re-
member how IL was inspired with the wisdom
and courage to select that great man OF the peo-
pie that Moses who led us through the partei
waters of the sea, past the wilderness of battle
over the Jordan OF safety into the promised land
In 1884 were driven back into the Wilderness
again. God give us the wisdom TO find another
Moses who can limit our wandering 70 four years
instead of forty.
The mighty past - with us mere To-Day. III
fills with that same spirit OF freedom. patriot
ISM and devotion which breathei into the COM
mon dust OF ordinary humanity the sublime in
SEPARATION of heroic deeds. Let as read it's les
sons rightly and hold its precepts dear.
when Robert Bruce, King OF Scotland, lay
upon his dying bed no requested that his heart
should DO taken from his inanima,e BODY
Tors sepulcher. After his death James, Earl
of Douglas, undertook the sacred mission, and
with the heart encased in golden casket
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On their way thithsr, himself and comrades
were set upon by great host OF Moorish war.
riors. Though they fought with ali the valor OF
mortal men. they were born backw ard by sheer
force OF numbers and their overthrow seemed
certain.
priceless casket, cast it far out into the midst OF
the oncoming host and cried out: Lead on, heart
OF Bruce, we follow thee, and the knights OF
Scotland, never defeated while following a
Bruce, pushed forward and won the day.
Let this convention find a Douglas for our
Bruce. He will take the soul of our great leader
into the golden casket OF his love and with it
lead us on TO certain and splendid victory.
Mr.. SWEET.
Hon. Leonard SWEET, of Chicago, in presenting
TO the convention the name of Judge Gresham
as candidate for President, said:
-MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF rHE
CoNvENTIoN-This presence recalls n scene en-
acted in this city twenty-eight years ago. That
was the second national Republican convention
and the first nomination of Abraham Lincoln.
At his Inauguration the Republican party first
assumed the reins of governmental control.
With unimportant Interruptions the Democratic
party had controlled our national policy for
thirty years. The country in 1851 stood upon
the verge Of political and financial ruin, and the
sharpest and most deadly conflict of arms ever
known succeeded. We have had OF Republican
rule since then four years OF war and twenty
years of peace. The four years OF war produced
heroes, sacrifices. and suffering without parallel
and reunited country. The twenty years OF
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provements, manufactures, useful inventions,
comforts in homes and the general development
OF all classes with a rapidity unequaled in the
history of the world within the time named. In
the language OF Daniel Webster, we may say OF
this Republican rule, the suffering and the fruits
OF the war and the unparalleled prosperity Of
this peace The past IL at least secure.
We have assembled again to select Presi-
dent for 60 000, 900 of free people. Who most in
character Is the very essence OF these people
Who, of all the names suggested, will draw sup
port mo 81 largely from all classes? Who can
best bring together and reunite tho broken
fragments OF our own party? Who. by personal
courage and sublime confidence in his own con-
yictions, is an ideal leader OF the American
people? Who most strikingy stands for CO.'S
mopolitan American character? These the
questions of the hour addressed TO US all.
Il suggest the name OF Walter O. Gresham OF
Indiana and Illinois, and invite thoughtful
consideration of some OF the reasons why he
should be nominated:
He was born OF sturdy and rugged parents In
Harrison County, Indiana, ffty-seven years ago,
and has spent one-third OF his life in labor
upon a farm. He acquired, by nature and edu-
catioh, a profound belief in the fundamental
doctrines of government and the union Of the
States, one and inseparable, as taught by the
lives and example OF Washington and Hamil-
ton. Clay and Webster, Lincoln and Thad Ste
vens, and disbelief in and aversion for the
political heresies Of John G. Calhoun, Breckin-
ridge, Jefferson Davis, and Lamar-of property
in man and the right OF secession He has always
been an unwavering and inhexible Republican
One-third OF century ago he organized the
party OF Fremont and Dayton in his native
county, which consisted, all told of four people
In 1860, then at the age Of %, he was elected 10
the State Legislature at the same time Mr. Lin
coin elected President, from n strong Demo-
cratic county and by the aid OF German votes
There he originated and passed u law which
authorized Oliver Z. Morton, greatest war
Governor TO organize and ann at the expense OF
the State, any regiment anywhere in the State
We owe the peace and loyalty of Indiana at this
critical period TO the admirable working OF this
law and the fact that she was not behind the call
OF the President one moment in furnishing her
quota OF men.
After performing this service OF great value TO
his State he selected 900 young neighbors and
friends and marched az their head into Kentucky
with Gen. Sherman at the very beginning of the
war. These forces aided the loyal element there
in holding true TO the Union the northern part
OF that State, while the southern part broke
of and went with the rebellion. But for tho
presence OF these troops the Ohio River would
have probably been the dividing line, and south
ern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois would have been
the first battle-ground. He served with Grant
ut Shiloh and VicksburG and was u distinguish
ed figure with Sherman in his march upon At
lanta in 1864
He was frequently promoted for gallant con-
duct on the battlefield, and was called upon
when sharp work was 10 be done, and finally
fell, pierced by mimic ball, while leading his
division into the shot and shell of the enemy ut
the bloody fight OF Leggett's HILL in the suburbs
of Atlanta.
Carried to the rear he met Col Richard s. Tut
hill, whose presence now adorns the judicial
bench of this State, and who was then COM
way TO the front. The scene one of con-
fusion, of the tramping Of horses hoofs, and the
rafting Of artillery and caissons dashing into
battle. Col Tuthill turned aside a moment TO
Gen. Gresham, then bleeding on a stretcher, and
said, inquiringly Are you hurt badly? The
night not all out of him yet, and turning his
pale face TO who made the inquiry, re-
piled You had better hurry your bat
teries TO the front. They needed
there He was placed in freight-car and
hurried TO the North. The next day he
awoke from morphine sleep in dezed condi-
tion and said 10 a soldier in attendance: Whose
body is that 2 pointing TO n coffin in the same car
mander, Gen. McPherson. Thus the COM
mander of the army and the division commander
had mingled their blood upon the'red field OF
Leggett's hill Wherever in all the war the bat
tie 5 wreck lay thickest there the manly
form OF Gen. Gresham a type of enthusiastic
heroism and an inspiration TO the soldier who
followed him.
But it is not in his military career dashing
and brilliant il is, that find the browning
reasons for his nomination. For him Peace
hath her victories, no less renowned tan war.
After his relations with the army wese volun-
tarily severed he called by President Ar
thur into his cabinet TO the Office Of Postmaster