Year: 1877

| STIRRING ADDRESS BY CONGRESSMAN


BLAIR, OF NEw-HAMPsHIRE-HAY


AND WHEELER ELECTED AND MUST BE


INAUGURATED.


Hon. Henry W. Blair, of the Third
District of New Hampshire, was introduced
IN the Republican Convention at Concord
on Wednesday, after his nomination for
reelection, and made speech of acceptance,
In the course of which he forcibly said:
| We do not know the events Of the next
two months. We hope for peace. Our
recent history, the threats, Vaccinations
and secret REASONABLE organizations and
preparations Of infatuated and turbulent
demagogues among the Democracy, ad-
monish us that insurrection is not impossi-
bic. We must preserve the Constitution
and the laws, the right of suffrage in It's
| integrity for all men, black and white, and
| enforce acquiescence in the DEGREES Of the
popular will when fairly ascertained, what
ever may be the nature of the resistance
which we encounter. This is the first duty
OF patriotic conservatism, and that duty we
shall perform. Let it be so understood
There should be no room for misappre-
henslon by any person or party. Let there
be no fatal mistake. We shall preserve
peace, peaceaby if possible, but we shall
conquer peace if necessary. The calmness
of the Republican Party is born of its
conscious strength, the justice of its cause,
and the lofty patriotism of its purposes
The party is not simply the support of
Hayes and Wheeler 1t is the country's
only champion of order and law. Let not
those whose capital has been bluster council,
ferocity on the platform, fraud and cruelty
| toward the ignorant and delenseless, and
pusiilanimity in the presence Of stern sac
ritces, which great eXigencies Of their own
creation required Of the American people
-.et not such men mistake the loyal quiet
Of the Republican Party for Indifference or
cowardice. Three months Of intri cue and
! stealth and secret practice in the haunts Of
treason are not necessary to prepare the
Republican Party-aye, the loyal men Of
! this whole nation without distinction of
party-for the crusade ofliberty if fmadmen
and demagogues choose to precipitate blood


Forty millions Of people would be armed
and phalanxed in a day, and in the end an
! indignant nation would vindicate the uses
/ Of the gallows, and ornament its hideous
! tlmbers with these conspirators against the
! public peace The Democratic Party.
I through the State Committee, tender to
US in substance Tilden or revolution. We
tender to them, as We propose to ourselves,
! submission to the Cons /, ution and the laws.
or TO the severest penalties Of their viola
| ton. When the crisis comes upon that
issue, 1t must be, and it will be, sternly
met. And it Is a source of unfading con-
| fidence and hope that God has placed at
| the head Of our affairs chief magistrate
firm, sagacious, reSolute, incorruptibie, and
! patriotic, who has done as much for his
country and mankind as any man in any
! land who ever drew the sword or controlled
the helm Of the ship of State.


Patriotic men Of all parties-and the
masses Of ali parties are patriotic-must be
cool because there is danger. Let us fol-
| low the counsels, and we shall reach the
solutions, Of peace Methods known to
! the law are a!l-suficient. Let US hope
that time and the presence of real danger
will clog the tongues Of these blatant con
! querors and mollify the horrid- front of this
paper and platform war. But this is no
case for compromise There is nothing to
compromise Either Hayes or Tilden is
| elected-and one of them should be in
! augurated, and will be inaugurated, while
the other must not be inaugurated be-
cause, as his opponent has been so he
| has not been, aud cannot be, elected either
by the people or by the House. | firmly
believe that justice and the unimpeached
| forms Of law now demonstrate the election
Of Mr.. Hayes; and | see nothing but sue
cessful treason, which is revolution, that
can prevent his triumphant succession to
the Presidency of the United States.
What may be hoped by the whole country
from that event. may be inferred from his
dignifed bearing ever since, as well as
before, his election, and from the elevated
sentiments and broad patriotism which are
exhibited in every act and utterance of his
public life To elect a President, and then
to compromise away his Inauguration under
threats of revolution or Of violence or for
plunder any cause whatever-is
destruction Of constitutional government.
1t is the establishment Of a president
which will abolish elections-because in all
future time, fraud and violence before,
coupled with noise and threatening after,
the decision Of the ballot-bot, will have
only to follow that precedent in order to
reverse the decrees of the people at the
polls whenever it is more pleasant to
threaten rebellion than to acquiesce in the
result of the laws Of the land.





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