Year: 1870

b. GRATz BRowN.-The Democracy of
st. Louis, assisted by the Liberal Repub-
licans, serenaded the Governor elect,
Hon. b. GRAFT BRowN, on the Nth inst
and in response, he said:


| Fellow-citizcns and Democrats of the
State of Missouri-ior presume that
can SO speak of all your number within
my hcaring-l say to you that thank
| you, from the bottom of my heart, for
the support you have given me in this
canvass, which has ended in such mag
nidccnt triumph. say to you, moreover,
that | do not take that triumph to my


self personally, but only to the principles
/ that have been SO heartily indorsed by
me-of equal freedom for every man in
this Union by right of his birthright.
We have made no discrimination
against men, and yet we have made dis


tlnct appeal to the common sentiment of
the common county in behalf of freemen
to exercise the rights Of freemen
! Cheers. We have won upon that prin-
ciple. Cheersl, say have TO thank
the Democratic party OF the State of Mis-
souri, for the cordial support that they
have given me in that position. And
say, furthermore, that no party has ever
shown more perfect command of itself,
more perfect disregard of past traditions,
more perfect devotion to the common
welfare Of the common country than has
the Democratic party in the last election
in the State of Missouri Loud cheers


| can state frankly, my fellow citizens,


that am the last man in this Union to
disregard the obligations under which |
stand, and in this election ] regard that
my obligations are largely due to the
Democratic party of the State Of Nilsson
ri. Cheers Now, my friends, let me
tell you another thing, and that is, | re


cognze the tact that the Democratic par
ty Of the State of Missouri has, in doing
this thing, elevated itself upon higher
| platform than it ever occupied before,
and in so doing it has made step that
will 90 through all the States Of this I'm
ion 1t has made a platform where it
can stand dismembered of all its antecc


dents, and where it can move forward in


the spirit and in the light Of q pure De


mocracy advancing to the conquest of the
| future.


Fellow-citizens SO far as this qucs-
ton concerns our own State, desire TO
say to you, that | recognize this as the
! triumph Of new ideas. | recognize this
as the initiation of a reconstruction of
| our State from its bottom upwards. | re-
cognize it as the initiation of the con.
ycntion to reOrganize our Fundamental
law. | wish you all good cheer in the fu-
ture, hoping that the election which has
just gone to the nation at large, will be n
lesson that will be received and accepted
And | hope that the national representa-
tives who have been sent from this W est
ern country, when they understand the
force and consequences ofyour votes,
will understand that it is necessary for
them to coalcscc and consort with any
body who will reduce the immense tax
which is now placed upon the people un-
der the guise Of revenue tariff. Cheers
| have only to say to you, in conclusion,
that as | have the honor to be your Gov
ernOr elect for the State of Missouri,
will promise You an honest and a faith
full administration of that office. | will
promise, furthermore, that | will permit
no rings around the State house, or out
of it, SO far as | can help it, to suck the
wealth out Of the community. Cheers |.
And in making that administration, will
endcavor to predicate it upon live issues,
and | will cndeavor to call young men to
the support Of it. Cheers