Year: 1871

ton that was laid at Sumpter,
and has run by that line
through all the glories Of tlle
last ten years. (Applause.) We
have seen growing up.in States
and in the nation, a remarkable
growth, planted by the Demo,
cratic party many yearS ago
a policy that leaves Tie
whole official business of this
country to be doled out as
political patronage, to make
the political capital Of admins
stratiOns aud politicians; and
we have seen the evils Of it,
and the Republican party,
thanks be to their manhood,
have set their faces towards
reform in that objection, and
our platform has recognized
that hereafter we arc determin,
ed that the duties OF the State
shall be first, and the political
interest of persons shall DO
second in all instances, and
that the State shall inquire
who can do its work, and not
who can eat It's plum pudding.


Laughter. am glad to see
that introduced into our party;
am glad rather, to see our party
moving into it, the first one of
the new things that lie exactly
in the line of our old march.


Now, fellow citizsns,we have
all these stirring recollections
to come up and urge us forward
in the great work We are en-
gagged in. Your Senator has
shown you the character of our
triumphs in the way Of finance.
He has shown you the posi-
bility of our meeting and pay
ing all the debt Of the Repub-
lie, and seeing the last dollar
discharged with honor, and the
last soldier paid his last bounty
and his last pension CLAIM: All
this is now before us as a posi-
bility; a certainty if we hold Oh
to power. Remember the ut.
teranoes that are being made
aCr SIS the line yonder; that
man, supposed dead and buried
under the ground of a broken
rebellion, says in his inratuation
that the Lost Cause is not lost;
that he hopes to live and be-
lieves he will live TO see the
Republic torn asunder, and
secession an accomplished fact.
And what do the Democrats
say to these utterances Of JEFF
ferson Davis? The most they
say is that he was imprudent.
Can you find me anything elso
in their papers than that he
had better have kept still, for
he was under a cloud, and it is
imprudent to have him speak?
Robert Toombs speaks with
moro boldness still, and he
don't merely say that the prin-
ciples will triumph, but that
the war will again be aroused,
and carried on as we'll. lie is q
lunatic; he Is a madman, but
nevertheless he is IN the bosom.
of the Democratic party, ah
oracle III his own country, and
you can't cxpel him Or omit
him. Your party is a seamless
garment. | beg pardon tor
using that sacred figure, for
such a purpose, but you are
woven of one piece from the
Lakes to the Gulf ICheers.l
There is now aud then gold
en- thread runs through tho
web, but it is all the same
general make. Laughter.l


Fellow citizens, the Repub-
lican party has no secrets to-
conceal from the American
people. We have no great
crowd Of men. to be muzzlel
and kept out Of sight while we
make appeals to the people,
We are ready to show all the
doings Of the Republican party
Here they are scattered all
over the Republic, where there
are full hearts and brave ones,
and we call your attention to
them as worthy Of your love-
and confidence.


| will not detain You longer,
except to say [cries of $50 on"
Go on that the ticket put in
nomination to day is worthy Of
your fullest confidence. They
are mainly young men. The
ticket is headed by young
man who left one leg on tho
battlefield of his country, but
is able with the other to outrun
all that can be put against him,
[Cheers.l We have a ticket
fellow. citizens, for which we
have no apologies to make, and
we want but one simple word to
| load uS on In victory and that;