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Show SECRETARY HAY'S SPEECH. It was a brilliant speech which Secretary Secre-tary John Hay delivered yesterday at Jackson, Michigan, on tho occasion of the celebration of tho seml-ccntennlal of tho organization of the Republican party. At that place, on July 6, 1854, the first general convention in the country coun-try took squarely tho namo Republican for Its organization. .Every other nnti-Democratlc nnti-Democratlc convention was ready to do the same, but Michigan's was first, and there was no dissent among the other States: all fell naturally into the way of using the name, and there were Republicans Re-publicans by the hundred thousands before any Republican organization had been formally effected In their respective respec-tive States. Secretary Hay reviewed the disintegration disinte-gration of tho Whig party, the ferment of the country on the aggressions of the Blave power and its disregard of tho compromises which both sides to the sla'ery controversy had agreed to; he referred to the indignation which this caused, and to the determination of tho North that this should be a free and not a slave country; that the assumed right of slaveowners to establish slavery In all parts of the unoccupied dominion of the Nation must be put down. The result re-sult of that determination, the resistance resist-ance of the slave-owners, the creat Re bellion, the reconstruction, the settlement settle-ment of the Issues Involved, nre reviewed re-viewed by Mr. Hay with a sympathy, candor, and patriotic fervor that must capture the public mind. Following the events of the war and the occurrences Immediately growing out of them, Mr. Hay traces the work of the Republican party In guiding the Nation, in preserving Its high fame, In fostering Its development and economic strength, In maintaining its credit, providing pro-viding resources for Its needs, advancing advanc-ing its standing among the nations of the earth, and establishing It aa a protector pro-tector of the weak and oppressed on this continent and on the borders of Asia, and In every right and practical way putting the country in the position, of self-help and of neighbor-help all this Is the glorious record of the Republican party. In all that has been done In preserving preserv-ing the Nation as a unit; In all that has been - done in the protection, the advancement, ad-vancement, the fostering of the welfare of the people, the guiding hand has been Republican; the policies adopted and enforced have been Republican, the responsibility re-sponsibility has been Republican, while the advantage has been for all. With such a glorious record, with such mighty achievements, with such1 high purposes and brilliant results properly accredlated to the Republican party, Mr. Hay had a theme worthy iof the highest flights of oratory. That ho delivered de-livered an address of such eloquence and power as has seldom been heard In the history of the world, and wholly fitting fit-ting to the great theme, Is sure. Happy those who heard him deliver It, and happy those who are able to read It while It is yet warm from the lips of the eloquent speaker. Senator Fairbanksfollowed Secretary Hay In a brief address, yet one finely eloquent. He referred briefly to tho fifty years' governments of the Republican Republi-can party as "the golden age of the Republic:" Re-public:" and paid a snlendld- tribute In y the services of that party and its illustrious illus-trious leaders. In the administration of this party the Nation has rested secure in advancement and power. No finer tribute to the tremendous and beneficent benefi-cent work of the Republican party has ever been rendered than- this from Senator Sen-ator Fairbanks. His tribute to President Presi-dent Roosevelt was both great and fit; and his conclusion was a guide of conduct con-duct in itself, for every voter, viz.: "Let us take hence new Inspiration from this hallowed spot, and prove ourselves worthy of the virtue and courage of our fathers." It was a great day and occasion, celebrated cele-brated gloriously. |