Year: 1871

: 'hSui. w lIcli lit hepuDlIcdH part
! saw themselves confronted by tbs
gigantic question, they said. we wi
: perish by the side of those blac
5 men, or we will triumph doing ther
, justice. Applause. Now, if yo
have known any braver act in hi:
tory than that by which We espouse
: the cause of the humble and lowly
and dared to die in trying to elevat
him, then / know not where yo
, will go in history to find it. An
when that great triumph wa
achieved, up came the keen, SHARP
knawing tooth of prejudice and sell
interest to destroy US, the theorie


of Pendleton, and similar theories


that told you how to pay your debt


by cheating and deception, and ap


pealing to the pockets and the avar


ice of the American people. Tn


Republican party, weighing victor,


on one side and justice on the other


met the prejudices eye to eye, ant


said to the people, ''Bear the heavy


burden of taxes, and save your hon


or as honest men, and save the hon


or of the Republic, or follow these
people to an easy death and indie


cent burial And when the appea


was made to the great American


conscience, thanks to the God Of


justice and the honor of the Ameri


can name, our people sprang to the


rescue, and stepped on a platform in


which there is not a single plank


left to Pendleton and reputation in


any form. Applause. Aye, fel-


low citizens, every time when we


have been confronted by this gigan-


tic question our party has bravely


met it. and a brave and generous


people have grasped by the hand


and welcomed us, and therefore we


have nothing to do but to move for


ward evermore in the same line, and


meet all new questions in the brave


spirit that has led the party through


in the past.


am rejoiced, fellow citizens, to


see in our platform to-day, that we


have advanced one or two steps, not


in any new departure, for that means


shifting the line of our sailing, but
moving forward in the prolongation
of line that was laid at Sumter,
and has run through all the glories
of the last ten years. Applause.


We have seen grow up in states and
in the nation, a miserable growth
planted by the Democratic party
many years ago, a policy that leaves
the whole official business of the
country to be doled out as political
patronage, to make the political cap
ital of administrations and politi-
clans. and we have seen the evils of
it, and the Republican party, thanks
be to their manhood, have set their
faces toward reform in that direc-
ton, and our platform has nobly
recognize it that hereafter we are
that the duties of the
State shall be first, and the political
interests of person shall be second,
in all instances, and that the State
shall inquire who can do its work,
and not who can eat its plum pud-
ding. Laughter. am glad to
see that introduced into our party.
am glad, rather, to see our party |
on to do the first one Of the
new things that lie exactly in the
line of our old march.


Now, fellow citizens, we have all |
these stirring recollections to come
up and urge us forward in the great |
work we are engaged in. Your SEN
ltor has shown you the character of
our triumphs in the way of finance.
He has shown you the possibility of
our meeting and paying all the debt
Of the Republic, and seeing the last
lollar discharged with honor, and
5he last soldier paid his last bounty
md his last pension claims. All
his is now before us as a possibili-
y, certainty, if we hold on. to
power. Remember the utterances
hat are being made across the line,
1onder. That man, supposed to be
lead and buried under the wreck of
i crushed rebellion, says in his infat-
lation that the cause is not lost, and
hat he hopes to live, to see the re-
,ublic torn asunder, and secession
IN accomplished fact, and what do
he Democrats say to these utter


nces of Jefferson Davis? The
most they say is that he was i'm
prudent. Can you find me anything
Use in their papers than that? He
lad better have kept still, for he is
lnder cloud, and it is imprudent
o have him speak. Robert Toombs
peaks with more boldness still, and
lie don't merely say that the princi-
lies will triumph, that the war will
gain be reused and carried on.
Veil, he is lunatic, he is mad
nan, but nevertheless he is in the
'osom of the Democratic party, an


racle in his own country, a leader
n his own country, and you can't .
gnOre him, Democrats of Ohio, and ,
on can't expel or omit him. Your ,
arty is seamless garment. l beg
ardon for using that sacred figure ,
Or such a purpose, but you are wo- {
en- of one piece from the lakes to
he gulf. Cheers. There is now
nd then golden thread runs
trough the web, but it is all the !
anne general make. Laughter.


Fellow citizens! the Republican =
arty has no secrets to conceal from ,
ne American people. We have no a
reat crowd Of men to be muzzled a
nd kept out of sight while we make '
ur appeal to the people. We are /
sady to show all the doings of the
party. Here they are, l.
all over the Republic, !;
here there are free hearts and brave
mes, and we call your attention to q
lem as worthy of your love and v
lllest confidence. \


l will not detain You longer ex- !
ept to say cries of "Go on! Go
n" that the ticket put in nomina- h
on to-day is worthy of your fullest .
They are mainly young =
len. The ticket is headed by :
oang man that left one leg on the .
attic field of his country, but is
Die with the others to outrun all Il
lat can he put against him. n
cheers. We have ticket, fellow


tizens, for which we have no apol- II