Year: 1870

with all our pclity. The Repubh-
cans should continue to rule until
all classes of men, no matter of what party,
no matter of what they believe or disbe-
ieve. no matter what they admit OF deny,
will all concede the great principle OF equal
rights to all men, as doctrine that may not
be gainsayed, that lies at the foundation OF
all just government.
70 make the great principles of universal
human liberty practically effective, is the
task that the Republican party has before
it. Much as it has done already, much to
be done remains. We must stand shoulder
to shoulder; we must never faint, never
falter, never pause, until the just and
righteous principles that constitute the plat
form and doctrine of the Republican party
become the doctrine Of every man who
wields the ballot.


And as "coming events cast their shadows
BEFORE" SO can We see that the principles Of
our party have already met such acquies-
cence and such recognition as to indicate
Enthusiastically that the end is near.


Look! Reflect? Only four years ago the
expOnents ct Democratic doctrine held and
taught, rs a principle that could never be
abrOgated, that colOred men must have no
share in the government OF the country.
Yet, within the last month, thirteen colored
delegates s:st and voted in the Democratic
State Nominating Convention. Is this not
giving away the whole subject! If the
Democrats acknowledge the colored voter
to the extent of admitting thirteen dele
gates, how can he blame the Republi-
cans for admitting twice that many
for admitting fifty, a hundred, any
number you please. Whether these thlr-
teen delegates spoke, were shaken by the
hand, or countenanced by courteous atten-
tion-whether or not is nothing to the ar
gument. They were admitted, they sat
there, sat by the deliberate, the extremely
deliberate vote Of those who no long time
ago decried their race as incapable OF taking
share in the functions Of government.
So they have conceded this great point.
But have they done it in good faith, and
with honest intentions No; it is done for
the object of dividing the Republican party,
so that the Republican party can be con-
qucred. and then Republican principles, and
the fruit OF Republican principles and Re
publican strug gles will be cast abroad to the
winds, never more to spread comfort and
happiness over thousands Of hOmes-never
more to develop the rich resources OF the
country, by stimulating honest toll with the
reward their labor earns. Fellow Repub-
licans, will you permit this! viii you see
the fruits of glorious struggle, crowned
with full success-will you see these disaap-
Won have now the power! Voices in the
crOwd-"No! no! NO. NO.l


Then stand firm. Your duty is as easy
as it is clear. You have only to do what
you did in previous campalgns-keep to-
gether; avoid all divisions; vote united
ticket Listen not to the voice of any man,
white or black, who would persuade you
that your interest is separate from the
party that has given you all you possess
that has lifted you from the depths Of alb
ject, hopeless slavery, and placed you
where you are, in the front rank of freemen.
You are asked to forsake the Republican
party. to enroll yourselves in the ranks OF
your best friends, the Democrats. Those
best friends who said you were tit only for
servile, unrcwarded labor. Those best
friends who denied your capacity for any
instruction beyond that given to the beast
of burden, that it may obey the rein. Those
best friends whose religion it was that God
had created YOU to be their bOndsmen, as
He has given the domestic animal for the
service of man. Those best friends who
fought bloody fight for four long years
that your chains Of slavery might continue
forever and ever! Your best friends!


Where would you have been tonight had
it not been for the Republican party
Where YOU would have been-whether III
the cane or cotton field laboring without
reward. or whether in the slave mart wait
ing for purchaser-nOne can tell. But
any one can tell where you would not have
been. You would not have been here
tonight, exercising the rights of freemen in
this mass meeting! You would have been
covering in your squalid cabins, before
"gun fire." because you we'll knew that
cruel stripes would attend the transgres-
sion of the iron rule which denied to the
black man the liberty allowed to every
NANCY cur that roved the streets at night
in search of carrion. Think of this Think
of what you were and what you are, and
then reckon up your Indebtedness to the Re-
publican party.


Governor Warmoth then addressed the
Democratic spectators standing on the
edge of the vast mass of Republicans. He
spoke of the sympathy with Republican
well as by the greatest minds in the present
era. He appealed to them to say whether
the direful spectres conjured by the tainted
ina ginatiOns Of Democratic declaimers had
come to pass. Whether the peace invoked
by the President of the United States
was not firmly settling all over the
Southern country: prosperity acceleratlng;
industry multiplying comfort; every man
earnestly adding to the nations wealth by
his endeavOrs to better his own condition.
The public debt constantly decreasing.
The nation more and more respected
abroad because liberty had been vindicated,
and that unclean thing, slavery, put far
away. All these things tending to the COM
mon prosperity were the fruit OF the rational
principles that actuatef the Republican
party.


The Governor concluded his address to
every man present, of whatever party, to
go peaceably to the polls: and to the Re
publicans to remember how much depended
on promptness or vigilance, and devotion to
Republican principles: suffering none to
turn them aside and divide them to their
destruction.


At the conclusion of the Governors adj
dress he retired amid loud cheers, in which
all present joined.


The stand was then taken by A. f. Bar
Der, who spoke with great force. He dweit
at length upon the necessity OF union, and
pointed to the mischievOus effects of u few
mischief-m making boilers, whose only result
| would be to exhibit their own despicable
! treason. without etfecting the interest OF the
Republican party. He gave an instance OF
| a fellow, lately from Ohio, whose character


and antecedents being SO utterly bad that
| no one would trust him: SO this cOlOred
| patriot took up the trade of making colored
Democrats. He had not finished any yet.
When he had succeeded in making Demo
| crat of any honest cOlOred man, he (the


speaker) would let the audience know. We


regret that We have not space to do justice


to Mr.. Barber's address.


| And now Sandy Packer took the stand.


His speech was long, but rich, and rs full


Of fun as it could possibly be. He told his


hearers that when Davis fired the first gun


on Sumlter, He bent his bow to shoot a


crow, but killed the cat in the window


Instead of perpetuating slavery, he had
| given it its death blow. He told his brethren


not to let the Democrats pull wool over


their eyes-keep it i'll its place. In fact


honest Sandy clothed a deal Of homely sense


in funny language, full of funny illustra