. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. ostracism, andalmost of personal martyrdom, he had led in the anti-slavery movement,and was one of the most prominent founders and leaders of the Repub-lican party. Mary A. Livermore says of him: Through obloquy and misrepresentation, defamed by men in hisown native city, hounded by the press, mobbed by intolerant opponents, de-nounced by the pulpit and the politicians equally, for forty years he stoodunflinchingly as the friend of the black race and worked for its emanci-pation till the
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. ostracism, andalmost of personal martyrdom, he had led in the anti-slavery movement,and was one of the most prominent founders and leaders of the Repub-lican party. Mary A. Livermore says of him: Through obloquy and misrepresentation, defamed by men in hisown native city, hounded by the press, mobbed by intolerant opponents, de-nounced by the pulpit and the politicians equally, for forty years he stoodunflinchingly as the friend of the black race and worked for its emanci-pation till the war accomplished it. When the war ended and the armywas mustered out, Wendell Phillips said the last orders were, Close theranks and go forward to new reforms! He was the first to obey. In 1870, he was the nominee for Governor of Massachusetts of theLabor Reform as well as the Prohibition party. In his letter of accept-ance to the latter he defined his position as follows: As temperance men you were bound to quit the Republican party,since it has deceived you more than once. Any Prohibitionist who ad-. PRESIDEN1 I \l. C WDM) VI EProhibition Party. THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION PARTY. 167 heres to it proclaims beforehand his willingness to be cheated, and, so faras political action is concerned, betrays his principles. The Republicanparty deserves our gratitude. It has achieved great results. It will de-serve our support whenever it grapples with our present living difficultiesA party must live on present living service, not on laurels, however wellearned. . The only bulwark against the dangers of intemperanceis prohibition. More than thirty years of experience have convinced me,and as wide an experience has taught you, that this can only be securedby means of a distinct political organization. This was his position, and he never wavered from it. What he saidof the Republican party, and of the necessity for a distinct political Pro-hibition party, is just thirty-eight years truer in
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