Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesHarrison, Benjamin
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; United States -- Politics and government
To these young men who will, for the first time this year, take part
as citizens in determining a presidential election, I suggest that
you have become members of a party of precious memories. There has
been nothing in the history of the Republican party, nothing in the
platform of principles that it has proclaimed, that is not calculated
to stir the high impulses of your young hearts. The Republican party
has walked upon high paths. It has set before it ever the maintenance
of the Union, the honor of its flag, and the prosperity of our people.
It has been an American party [great cheering] in that it has set
American interests always to the front.
My friends of the colored organization, I greet you as Republicans
to-day. I recall the time when you were disfranchised; when your race
were slaves; when the doors of our institutions of learning were
closed against you, and even admittance to many of our Northern States
was denied you. You have read the story of your disfranchisement, of
the restoration to you of the common rights of men. Read it again;
read the story of the bitter and bigoted opposition that every statute
and constitutional amendment framed for your benefit encountered. What
party befriended you when you needed friends? What party has stood
always as an obstruction to the development and enlargement of your
rights as citizens? When you have studied these questions well you
will be able to determine not only where your gratitude is due, but
where the hopes of your race lie. [Cheers.]
INDIANAPOLIS, JULY 26.
From Clay County, Indiana, came three thousand coal-miners and others,
this day, under the auspices of the Harrison Miners' Club of Brazil.
Their parade, with dozens of unique banners and devices, was one of
the most imposing of the campaign. Prominent in the delegation were
Dr. Joseph C. Gifford, L. A. Wolfe, Jacob Herr, P. H. Penna, John F.
Perry, C. P. Eppert, E. C. Callihan, W. H. Lowery, Rev. John Cox, A. F.
Bridges, William Sporr, Carl Thomas, Geo. F. Fuller, John Gibbons, Sam'l
Blair, Thomas Washington, and Judge Coffey of Brazil. Major William
Carter and Edward Wilton, a miner, delivered addresses; Rob't L. McCowan
spoke for the colored members of the delegation. General Harrison, in
response, said:
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