Year: 1872

want Sood government, see it. feel it, realize it,


With all its faults, they believe we have the most


reformatory, progressive, and best Administers


ton the country has seen for forty years and


they are right in their convictions. But he is
followed by obloquy and reproach Again he is


passing through the wilderness; " it is dark
ened, not with the smoke of battle, but the
storms OF insinuatiOn and accusation, detraetion
and denuncation. But he will not call retreat.


The spirit that uttered, when the fame of battle
opposed his march to the rebel capital, the in
spring words, =" will fight it out on this line if
1t takes all SUMNER" is yet unbroken, and exut-
ant foes may yet find that another Appomattox
lies before him. Applause.


In all the struggles of the last sixteen years
New Hampshire has been on the side of the
country and of liberty. Forgetting that "yictory
clings to unity" you Republicans of New Hamp-
shire allowed your banners last year to trail in
the dust. You have tasted the wholesome dis
cipline of defeat. Now you have the power to
rise again. Forgetting personal interests and
| petty differences, and standing shoulder to
shoulder, you can redeem your State and thrill
the hearts of your friends throughout the land.
To you Republicans of my native State, appeal
for unity and victory. | ask you, who maintained
the right oil petition when it was cloven down
under the lead of Charles G. Atherton you who
stood by John Z. Hale when smtten by Demo-





opposed the wicked compromises of 1850; YOU
who resisted the repeal of the Missouri compro
mise when sustained by Franklin Pierce; YOU
who were true to Kansas when its skies were
Illumned by the midnight fires of burning cabins,
and its virgin soil REDEEMED with blood YOU who
helped make Abraham Lincoln President; YOU
who followed the old flag of the Republic over
many battle-felds you who sustained by voice
and vote that grand series Of measures by which
slavery annihilated and the slave power
broken forever; you who helped extirpate caste
enfranchise the black man, and give equality to
all conditions of men; | implore you, one and
all, to sustain now that sacred cause for which
you have toiled and prayed, voted and fought
Stand by the Republican party; stand by l
pray you, that great political organization until it
accomplIshes the task assigned it by the needs of
the country and the providence of God Make
safe the benehcent deeds of the past and secure
in their full fruition the fruits of the seeds
planted in faith and nurtured by devotion and
valor.


Listen not to the seductive voices which pro-
claim that the work of the Republican party of
the United States has been achieved The re-
forms of the past are not only to be assured but
other reforms of magnitude are pressing for, ac-
compllshment. At any rate, it has great, if
not its greatest work yet to do. That work is to
humanize, convict and convert the Democratic
party of the United States. Applause. Men
cannot be wrong all the time for forty years and
be convicted of their folly in an hour Until
that political organization has been convicted of
its wickedness, repents of its sins, and brings
forth the fruits Of repentance, the Government of
the United States cannot be safe in its control.
Its history and the elements of which it is COM
posed alike forbid that it should be again intrust-
ed with power. The Democratic party has at
loo nUa he yhn
against their country with ballot and bullet men
who only sorry that they fought against their
native land because they failed. You must
breathe into their souls the spirit of patriotism
and the spirit of liberty, justice, humanity, and
Christian civilization.


There are a million and a half of voters we
call copperheads" will not call them " cop
perheads :" | will call them what they love so
much to be called conservatives" Laug ghter.
These men always sneered at the cause of liberty,
always took the side of the old slave masters,
stood up for privilege and caste, and rejoiced,
or if they did not rejoice did not manifest sorrow,
when our armies were defeated To convert these
men is great work | think it will take US a
dozen years at least. If in that time we can
change the hearts of the old rebels of the South
and these conservatives here in the North, and
get them to accept the vital and animating prin-
ciples of Christian civilization, and go for the
elevation and protection of the poor and the
lOwly the black men Of the South and the poor
white men of the whole country--if we can do
this grand work in twelve years, the world will
say we have achieved quite as much as we did
when we put down the rebellion, made four and
a half million men free and gave them citizenship
and equal rights. The war Democrats, the men
who by voice, or vote or bullet, stood by their
country in time of war will be utterly helpless if
the Democratic party comes into power. The
old rebel leaders will be the head, the conserva-
tives will be the body, and these loyal war De-
mocrats will be only the tail of the Admnistra-
ton Applause.l


In the past sixteen years we Republicans have
taken from the Democratic party more than
million of its best men-taken the cream right
off oft Applause. We want the war Demo-
Gratis, some OF. these conservative Democrats and
some of the rebel Democrats, too. They are our
mistaken erring countrymen. We want their
influence and all they have to give on the side
of Republican ideas, principles, and policies; on
the side of education and development, and the
inspiring influences that elevate and lift up the
masses of our countrymen. Never till the masses
of the Democratic party accept the vital ideas
of patriotism, of equality for all and protection
to ALL will it be safe to intrust the mighty inter-
ests of the nation to that political organization
Its new departure is delusion; its passive
pOncy is snare. Neither the one nor the other
will be adopted, because it is right. If either be
adopted at all it will be in the hope to win power,
to defeat the full fruition of the great work
achieved by the Republican party. The accept-
ance of the "new departure" and the passive
policy may be an advance for the torpid con-
servatism of the Democracy, but the adoption of
either by the nation will be a lowering down, a
reaction, an ignominious retreat.


/ Republicans of New Hampshire, of New Eng
land of the Republic, cling then with deathless
tenacity to your grand organization, that now
embodies three and a half million men in its
ranks Stand by the Republican colors. They
symbolic patriotism and liberty, justice and hu-
manity, development and progress Trust your
+, selves, correct your own errors, move right on
ward abreast of the advancing currents of a
progressive Republicanism Look to your history;
do not blur nor blot that immortal record. Let
it be an inspiration, perennial source of faith
and hope, in sunshine and in storm. In the years
to come, when the passions and prejudices of
these days of conflict shall have sunk to rest with
us in the bright hereafter, the record of the last
! twelve years will be a brilliant chapter in the
history of human progress. The world will note
it, and mankind will read it with beaming eye
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