Year: 1871

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ocratic party of this country
has done, in the last twelve
years, to.maintain, and hold in
its place and glorify this Re-
public of ours, then that man
knows a chapter of our history
that | have never yet read


Laughter and applause.l


Bat, fellow citizens, l can't
look upon this scene without
feeling pride and gratilica,
ton at the great work that has
been accomplished that sur~
passes all my powers to de-
scribe. Allow me to digreSs,
for a moment, on what may
not be politics, but which is
nevertheless a part Of the
country'S pride. l recollect, in
1861, when ] stood in the city
Of Paris and saw the great work
OF that one>man power that
tore down the dirty, tumble
down houses OF Paris, and built
up beautiful avenues and
magnificent palaces; that after
all there was something splen.
did in the power that could
thus create a city, and per


haps there was a good side
to the thing called despotism.
But when | landed in New
York, and saw that magnificent
marble palace wherein the
merchant prince holds his
court, and when I saw, on one
side Of it, q little dingy house,
butting right into the side OF
the marble palace, and learned
that a little plucky willow wo


man owned that house, and
that there was not money
enough in New York to buy
it of her, and not power enough
in the Republic to take it away
from her, 1 praised God for the
pluck Of that little widow and
tho beauty Of our city, and
said to the world, let her little
brick tenement stand forever
more, uniess she wills to tear
it down. And we have seen,
in the terrible bloody days of
Paris, what became Of the one.
man power. Here follow-cit.
izens, is the revolution we
have leen making to day over
in the Opera house. That Is
The way we reyolutionlze.
These silent ballots, these in,
Vulnerable voices, this thunder
that shakes down no Justice but
that which upholds the hope
and glory Of the Republic.
That is our answer to Europe,
this is our example to the
world, follow>cltlAens.


AS | said a moment ago, all
these or the salvation of all
these, follow as the legitimate
glory of the Republican party
of the United States. Fellow
citizens, what does our Demo.
cratic party say on this ques.
tion. how do they behave on
this question; how do they be.
have on it! | will not go over
their record. Your distinguish
ed Senator has dono that so
thoroughly that it leaves moth.
ing to do but to pick up here
and there a sheaf Of wheat that
may have fallen from his load.
But let me call your attention
to one single fact. Every tri,
umph that the Republican par


ty has achieved in The last
twelve years has been grum-
blingly and hesitatingly adopt


cd by the Democratic party,
about five years alter it was
done. There is not an element
of power or strength, or man.
hood, or decency, IN that party
to day that they did not borrow
from us. Taken little way
back now, all you need do to
trace their history is TO read
our struggles five years before,
and what they denounced and
cursed, they afterward adopted,
silently or in some crafty way
put into their platform. Well
now, the new departure, TO
which you have listened, and
so we'll styled by our Senator,
is only another specimen Of
this kind Of work. They have
tried three kinds Of platforms
and candidates in the last six
years. They first tried q regu'
lar out-and. out platform; and a
regular out and out Democracy
on it; and we answered then,
you remember, by one hun
dred thousand majority against
them. That is when they got
farthest away from the Repub-
lican party. You remember
that two years ago they tried a
second time. They got a
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