FELLOW-CITIZENS,--The trumpet of victory is now sounding through the land, “Glory, Hallelujah!” [_Loud cheers._] It is the silver trumpet of an archangel, echoing in valleys, traversing mountains, and filling the whole country with immortal melodies, destined to awaken other echoes in the most distant places [_cheers_], as it proclaims “Liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.” [_Great applause._] Such is the victory we celebrate, marking an epoch in our history and in the history of the world. But beyond immediate victory are two things not usually occurring together,--a funeral and a birth. [_Great laughter and applause._] The funeral we celebrate is of the Democratic party, which we bury to-night with all the dishonors that belong to it. Loathsome with corruption while still above ground, let it be hurried out of sight, where it will no longer be a nuisance. [_Tremendous cheering._] The Democratic party had ceased to be patriotic. It was in sympathy with the Rebellion, so much so as to be its _Northern wing_. Such a party could not exist in a country that had determined to exist. It was an outrage and a shame, and hereafter it can never be mentioned except with judgment. [_Cries of “That’s so!” and cheers._] The extent of its degradation is seen in the frauds it has perpetrated to influence this election. Nothing so mean as these. Fraud is always odious; but it becomes more so in proportion to the occasion on which it is employed. It is odious in small things,--doubly odious in greater things. To cheat one man is crime; to cheat a whole class of men is greater far. But if these men be citizen soldiers fighting for their country, and it is proposed to cheat them of their votes by barefaced fraud, I know no language to depict the despicable and most intolerable enormity of the offence. And yet this is the fraud attempted,--happily the last and dying fraud of the Democratic party. [_Applause._] Do you inquire the origin of this fraud, and its vicious energy? I answer, It is Slavery. Men who make up their minds to sustain Slavery stick at nothing. If willing to forge chains, they will not hesitate to forge votes. If ready to enslave their fellow-men, they will not hesitate to cheat soldiers. Therefore all these recent frauds are derived naturally out of that baseness and insensibility to right bred of Slavery. [_Applause._] But these frauds testify against the Democratic party, that undertook to perpetrate them. There was an English monarch, whose head, as it dropped from the block, was held up to the people, while a voice cried, “This is the head of a traitor!” Thus do I hold up the head of the Democratic party, and say, “This is the head of a traitor!” Let it be buried out of sight, and let the people dance at its funeral. [_Tremendous applause._]