Year: 1872

FELLow-C CITIZENS: l came to California, on
this my first visit to the Pacific Coast, to wit
ness the practical commencement of one of the
lour Continental lines of railroad that will soon
connect you with the Atlantic Coast. Every
thing here is SO novel, so unlike the scenes OF
our Ohio life, that when your State Republican
Committee invited me to address you, feareti
tC accept their invitation. You used language
of your own, full of Oriental magnifcence-as
Grand as your mountains, fruitful of rhetoric,
gorgeous as golden dreams Still, you must
have heard so much in praise of California that
you will pardon me if turn directly to topics
of general interest, which affect alike the peo-
pie of California and all the people of the
United States. The duties of President is the
highest duty of American citizenship and what
you wish of me is to state, in plain English,
such reasons as can why the Republican party
ought to be continued in power, and why Grant
and Wilson ought to be elected President and
Vice-President of the United States. iGreat
applause.]


MOTLEY COALITION.


And at the outset the chief difficulty is to
find out what party is opposed to us, of whom
it is composed, and what will it do if it sue
ceeds. Is it the party of disappointed Repub-
hcans-self-elected saints, purer and hoher than
other men, calling themselves Liberal Repub-
hcans, and claiming to be more Republican than
the Republican party? Or is it the old-fash-
Toned Democratic party of free trade, State
rights and strict construction? 1t is the con-
glomeration of these unnatural elements into q
party without name upon which they agree,
with no distinctive principle in common, with
no policy defined or agreed upon, animated only
by the love of Office and hate of Gen. Grant.
1t is this that excites our wonder. Our wonder
increases when we see the old Democratic party
come forward, and on the stool of repentance
surrender all the cherished principles and in
stincts that have been the boast of every Dem
ocrat, even to the hate of the negro. They
promise to love, cherish and protect even him.
They approve all the great and distinctive meas
you intrust them with powers, they will execute
them even to the equal protection and enjoy
ment by every man of the rights conferred by
law. Our wonder increases when we see this
motley coalition rally under the standard of the
sage and philosopher, Horace Greeley, who has
spent his busy life in arraigning the Democratic
party as traitors, thieves, blacklegs and such
RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY


On the other hand, how stands the Republi-
can party2 Its position is well defined on every
issue. Its history is its creed. Born of an in
stinctive aversion to Slavery it has been able in
ten years to overthrow the whole Internal sys-
tenn which has now no mourners- The Repub-
hcan party is instinctively patriotic and ma
tional 1t has been able to preserve, strengthen
and elevate the Union, until now over all this
broad land the authority of the National Gov
ernment on all the great matters submitted to it
by the Constitution is acknowledged to be SUI.
preme. The Republican party is instinctiyely
the representation of the masses of men, of the
laboring industrious classes, in the broadest
sense Of the phrase. 1t has been able to estab-