Delivered at a Republican Mass Meeting at Sacramento
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Delivered at a Republican Mass Meeting at Sacramento: On Friday Evening, September 7th, 1860 But let this meeting, so considerable in numbers and so enthusiastic in spirit, called at such a brief and imperfect notice, having the single attraction of such a plain talk as your humble servant can afford, on matters political, be recorded in unimpeachable evidence of the growing favor of our cause and the definite prosperity of our party. And I rejoice exceedingly in this certain indication of our numerically increasing force. I rejoice for the sake of our cause and for the sake of the people. It is a most comfortable reflection, that after years of service in a political organization, after undergoing much of positive toil and loss, and struggling with vexation of spirit under the cloud of popular reproach, we are enabled to feel the power of the general voice in our behalf. I am glad of this, since I know that there are many among the floating classes of our population who cannot recognize and appreciate and who will not practically acknowledge the truth of our principles unless they are inscribed upon banners borne by an army having the prestige and promise of victory. And, fellow-citizens, that promise is now with us; and we may hope for and expect daily valuable accessions to our ranks. And be our proclamation - Let the recruits come in! on the one hand, unawed by threats of political proscription, and, on the other hand, welcomed by the most unaffected and sincere expressions of a desire for future political fellowship. Let there be no article illegitimately interpolated in our national creed which shall not comport with the characteristic our platform of Faith now holds, above that of any other party in the land - that of an impartial and strict regard for the rights and the welfare of all citizens, irrespective of their nationalities, trades, professions and abilities. Mr. President and fellow-citizens: The day in which indifference to our political condition was excusable on the part of any citizen - if, indeed, such a period can be proven ever to have existed in the history of our country - has, assuredly, passed away. The whole mind of the people has been aroused by the wicked accomplishments and the still more infamous tendencies of our present administered Federal Government, now, we rejoice to re member, in the closing year of its existence. If the deeds actually done in the body and by the authority of this administration have not been of such a nature and magnitude as in themselves to startle and shock the universal sentiment of truth, justice and decency, its bold and base though fruitless endeavors, its flagrant omissions, its promises, flauntingly held out for itself and its possible successor, adopting the same line of policy, ought to have touched every citizen who loves his country with a fear for the perpetuity of its institutions, inspired the heart and nerved the arm of every patriot with an unalterable determination to secure a decided and immediate change in the conduct of Federal affairs. It is a safe and certain appeal, then, which a citizen may make at this time in addressing a promiscuous assemblage on matters political, to a general, although in degree very unequal and in quality, perhaps very dissimilar sense and appreciation of the corrupting and destroying elements which have been cautiously and secretly introduced, but which have in recent years been shamelessly exhibited in our National Rule. I assume then that the members of the Republican party stand, at the outset, not so much the advocates of precise and normal progress, as the averters of impending ruin and overwhelming catastrophe. Or, if it be "progress" which the platform of our political organization declares we are seeking - if that term, with its blessed significations and associations of old, and its sad perversions by the moral and po
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