Year: 1879

/ stand here, Mr.. Logan said, to


warn the men who attempted to de-


stroy the government, that in tam


pering with 1t they must not GO to


far. Loyal men have not forgotten


the perils they endured and the sac


rifices they made to save the country


and protect free citizens. They are


slow to believe what they do not wish


to believe, but if the democrats force


the issue on the country the people


will be compelled to raise and save


their rights from destruction. There


will be no half way then. A spirit


of kindness is passing into another


feeling. 1 tell them they are going


too far and are troubling the people.


The sore once occasioned will be re-


moved only by radical means. 1t will


be cut beyond that wound to make


the sore complete. In common with


thousands of others sincerely hoped


and expected that the democracy of


both the noath and the south would


interpret the desire of the country for


peace; but to-day l must confess !
have been mistaken. The extreme


conciliation extended to them has


not been met in similar spirit, but


with an aggressiveness which fills the


country with alarm and apprehen-


sions. Duty commands that we should


speak plainly. / make open charge


that the democrats are tampering


with the interests of the country, and


to this the people are awake. /
charge the democratic party while
exercising a desire for peace and harm
ony with making attacks on the prin-
ciples purchased with blood and
treasure. They are not sincere in
their professions of protecting the
constitution and they are engaged in
its destruction. l make the charge
that eulogies are pronounced here up
on the arch traitor Davis as a patriot
in the presence of representatives of
the American people and government
he undertook to destroy. I charge
that the debt resting upon the coun-
try growing out of the late war is
to the democratic party.
I arraign the democratic party as re-
spOnsible for whatever discord may
exist. The republican party wants
peace and have always desired it.
They not only desired peace but have
shown it by every concession which
honor and dignity would permit, and
they would still make sacrifices to
secure permanent peace; but the
democracy may as well learn now as
later that republicans will do nothing
to give peace that is dishonorable to
them or to the country. They will
not beg on their knees for reconcilia-
ton. They will not relinquish the
which Injured to the peo-
pie, gained by the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth amendments
to the constitution. They will not
permit any modification of the rights
of four millions of people Of the south,
who have been liberated from slavery
and admitted TO the rights of citizen
ship. They shall not be remanded to
a condition of serfdom or peonage.
Let me invite them to peace which
is honorable, and which will make
us a model for all people for centuries
to oome-a peace which must be
built in the high respect of the citi-
zens of a common country. 1t must
rest on concession of equal rights to
all citizens of the republic, black or
white, native or foreign born-a
peace that knows no state lines for ab-
rogating the rights of Americans-a
peace which would enable all people
10 cluster around the American flag
as an emblem of their sovereignty,
patriotism and virtue; people strong
enough to defy the power of the world
and who will protect the citizens in
all their constitutional rights on land |
and sea, at home and abroad, elevat-
ing the great future of our country |
clear and full in the blazing sulight |
Of our hope.