Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1879 — THE VALOROUS BLACKBURN. [ARTICLE]

THE VALOROUS BLACKBURN.

Now that the retreat has been begun it is a good time to recall some of the gifted and valorous Blackburn’s remarns concerning the weakness of yielding. In liis famous “wiping out” speech he declared that the Democratic side of the Chamber would “ never yield or surrender unless this Congress shall have died by virtuo of its limitation. A principle cannot be compromised. It may be surrendered, but that cau only be done by its advocates giving proofs to the world that they are cravens aud cowards. We cannot yield and we will not yield. Wo are planted on our convictions. There we will stand. Ho who dallies is a dastard, and he who doubts is damned.” Whether Blackburn has “dajhed” or “doubted” is not revealed, but there is no doubt that the whole party is •• damned,”