This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ISSUES OF 1880. CHARACTER OF THE CANDIDATES. Delivered In The Wigwam, At Indianapolis, On The 24TH Of August. The thoroughness and fairness with which this speech dealt with the issues of the canvass made it peculiarly valuable and effective as a campaign document. Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ISSUES OF 1880. CHARACTER OF THE CANDIDATES. Delivered In The Wigwam, At Indianapolis, On The 24TH Of August. The thoroughness and fairness with which this speech dealt with the issues of the canvass made it peculiarly valuable and effective as a campaign document. Mr. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: In entering upon the canvass for Tilden and Hendricks four years ago, I expressly reserved my entire political independence. In doing so I was not inconsistent with my previous record as a politician. Through the influence of early associations I began my political life a Whig, casting my first Presidential ballot for General Harrison, and my second for Henry Clay. In 1848, however, after I had become convinced that my party was radically wrong in its tariff and land policy, and when I found it sacrificing its character and conscience on the altar of slavery, I severed my connection with it, and during the seven or eight years following was an active and zealous member of the old Free Soil party. But in 1856 I was quite ready to join another organization, committed to the same articles of anti-slavery faith, and better fitted to carry forward the grand enterprise in which I had enlisted. I was a Republican of Republicans, and if I sometimes differed with my party associates it was because I espoused the logic of the party creed before they were ready to accept it. During the late war, especially, I was a most thoroughgoing party man, for the obvious reason that in a crisis involving the nation's life I could best serve the great cause by losing myself in the masses with whom I acted. But when the war ended and the great national curse which made the existence of the Republican party a necessity had perished forever, and when, as I said...
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