Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-06

president OF the United States and make
sure of his election and his peaceful inau
guration. 1t can break the power which
dominates and mildews the south. It can
speed the nation In career of grandeur
eclipsing all past achievements We have
only to listen above the din and look be
yond the dust of an hour to behold the
Republican party advancing to victory.
with its greatest marshal at It's head
JAMES A. GARFIELD.
Speech In the National Republican Con-
vention at Chicago, june. 1880. Nonni-
mating John Sherman for the Presidency.
have witnessed the extraordinary
scenes Of this convention with deep sole.
itude No emotion touches my heart more
quickly than a sentiment in honor OF a
great and noble character Blu. as sat
on these seats and witnessed these dem
onstrations 1t seemed to me you were a
human ocean In a tempest | have seen
the sea lashed into a fury and tossed into
spray, and its grandeur moves the soul
of the dullest man. But remember that
1t Is not the pillows, but the calm level of
the sea, from which all heights and depths
are measured. When the storm has
passed and the hour of calm settles on the
ocean. when sunlight bathes its smooth
surface. then the astronomer and surveyor
takes the level from which he measures
all terrestrial heights and depths. Gen
tlemen of the convention, your present
temper may not mark the healthfuI pulse
of our people When our enthusiasm has
passed. when the emotions of this hour
have subsided, we shall find the calm
level Of public opinion below the storm
from which the thoughts Of mighty
people are to be measured, and by which
their final action will be determined. Not
here, In this brilliant circle, where 15, 900
men and women are assembled, is the
destiny of thesrepublic to be decreed; not
here. where see the enthusiastic faces
OF 100 delegates waiting to cast their
votes into the urn and determine the
choice of their party; but by 600 600
Republican fresioee. where the thought
full fathers. with wives and children about
them. with the calm thoughts inspired by
love of home and love of country, with the
history of the past. the hopes Of the
future, and the knowledge of the great
men who have adorned and blessed our
nation In days gone by-there God pre-
pares the verdict which shall determine
the wisdom of our work tonight Not In
Chicago Ia the heat Of June, but in the
sober quiet that comes between now and
the melancholy days OF November, In the
silence OF deliberate Judgment will this
great question be settled. Let us aid them
tonight
But now, gentlemen of the conven,
tion, what do we wantl Bear with me q
moment. Hear me for this cause, and
for moment be silent. that you may
hear Twenty. five years ago this repub-
lie was wearing q triple chain OF bondage.
Long familiarity with traffic In the body
and souls Of men had paralyzed the con-
science Of a majority of our people. The
balefu doctrine of state sovereignty had
shocked and weakened the noblest and
most beneficient powers off the national
government. and the grasplng power Of
slavery was selling the virgin territoriesof
the west and dragging them into the den
of eternal bondage. At that crisis the
Republican party was born. 1t drew it's
first Inspiration from that fire of libe-t.y
which God has lighted In every mans
heart. and which all the powers Of ignor
ance and tyranny can Gever wholly ex.
tinguish The Republican party came to
deliver and save the republic. 1t entered
the arena when the beleaguered and as
sailed territories were struggling for free
dom, and drew around them the sacred
circle of liberty which the demon Of slav-
cry has never dared to cross. 1t made them
free forever. Strengthened by its victory
on the frontier, the young party, under
the leadership of that great man who, on
this spot, twenty years ago. was made its
leader, entered the national capital and
assumed the high duties OF the govern
ment. The light which shone from its
banner dispelled the darkness In which
slavery had enshreuded the capital and
melted the shackles Of every slave, and
consumed, In the. fire OF liberty, every
slave pen within the shadow of the capi
tL. Our national industries, by an I'm.
poverishing policy. were themselves pros.
trated. and ths streams of revenue flowed
In such feeble currents that the treasury
itself was wellnigh empty The money
OF the people was the wretched notes Of
two Thousand uncontrolled and fr-
responsible state banking corporations,
which was filing the country with q
circulation which poisoned rather than
sustained the life of business The Re
publican party changed all this. It abol-
ished the babel of conf fusion, and gave the
country currency as national as its fiag,
based upon the sacred faith Of the people.
1t threw It's protecting arm around our
great industries. and they stood erect as
with new life. 1t filed with the spirit
OF true nationality all the great functions
of the government. It confronted q re-
bellion OF unexampled magnitude, with
slavery behind it, and. under God, fought
the final battle of liberty until victory was
won. Then, after the storms OF battle,
were heard the sweet. calm words OF peace
uttered by the conqEering patton, and
saying to the conquered foe that lay pros
trate at its feet This Is our only revenge,
that you join us In lifting to the serene
armament OF the constitution, to shine
like. stars forever and ever, the immortal
principles Of truth and justice, that all
men. white or black, shall be free and
stand equal before the law
Than came the questions of reconstruc,
ticn, the pubiic debt and the :snblic faith;
In the settlement Of the questions the Re-
publican party has completed It's twenty
Eve years Of glorious existence. and 1t has
sent US here to prepare 1t for another
shall VIC do this great workf We cannot
hcan brethren God forbid that should
say Say one word to cast a shadow. upon any
name oa the roll of our heroes. This
coming fgb, is our Thermopyl,s We are
standing upon narrow athmns, If our
Spartan hosts are united we car with
stand all the Persians that the Xerxesl of
Democracy can bring against us. Letgus
hold our ground this one year, for the
stars In their course fight for us Ill the
future The censuij taken this year will
bring re-enforcemcnts and continued
power. But In order to win this victory now
~