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Day
17
Month
September
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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lf yon were to o into a straoge town, and fumino arouud a corner, should hear a man speulDg to a crowd, sayinir, "I leloog to a graat party, which overthrew the in i.-t gigantic rebellion the world eyersaw. and reestablished the Union," you would gay in a moment, "I have got into a republican meetÍDg." Lau'h-ter and applause. For no democrat ever thinks of Opening with thiit. And if you should to another town, or another part of uuc placo, and hear a man say witli effusioa, "I tliank (jrod tliat my party struck the last chain f'rom a human boing n lan, and made hini trnly froc forever," you would say, "Thai is not a democratie iiieetinj;." [Great laughter and applaase.] One sentenpa is cnough. And tgain fa speaker should way, ''.Mine is the party whieli believes in republican government, and did not stop short of niaking wery intellii;eiil , honest man a voter in the land." Applau.se. You know auain what party alone e uld say that. [Applaoae.] Again hearing a man say, 'i beJong to tlie party that took evory human beiog in the land, without projudice of race or natiooality, and made him equal to any othor man in the witnoss box, in the, jury box and befora th judii," you know wh;it party claims that. Applause.] And you shall hear him reinarse a long line of gbrioiei deeds; while tho man upon the other 8lO8 is oompelled to teil how lic and hisfriends peiilently opposed it all, and unil'onnly failed. [Loud applause

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News