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Republican party determined to sooner go down to defeat than to violate
the third term yet.

Gentlemen of the jury, the third termer had license to create a new
party and be the power behind the throne and perhaps lead his party to
victory. But having been deceived by the selection of his successor and
having removed the mask he determined to insist on a third term. Had we
lived in a time of panic, general disorder, strikes with armies of
unemployed, most likely the third termer would have an easy walkin. He
was anxious waiting for the government at Washington to start military
intervention in Mexico, but the leaders of the Republican party feared
that the third termer would muster an army of volunteer rough riders
and return at election as the conquering hero.

Gentlemen of the jury, the danger of the third termer was less in his
probable election than in his sure but close defeat. The man who cried
of the theft at Chicago would never submit to the verdict on November
5, however honest it may be; he would again yell robbery, and if he
carried a solid west as was then expected, he would give way to his
fighting nature and try to take the presidency on the battlefield and
so invite civil war, yet, Ab. Lincoln said that war is hell, and that
he who wilfully invites war deserves death. Do we realize the horrors
of civil war; are we willing to wash out the sin of violating the third
term with the blood of our sons imagine torn from home, family and
parents, from prosperity to dire want in order to place a man to the
presidency he is legitimately not entitled to? Yet, gentlemen of the
jury, the United States may still be able to subdue the rebels the
danger the more grave than even civil war is the possibility of
intervention by foreign powers, who may help the third termer in order
to keep the union disunited and separated for we must know that our
strength is not in our army and navy, money power, our strength is in
our union, we would at once realize that we are surrounded by a pack of
hungry wolves ready to destroy this hated republic, ready to destroy
Monroe doctrine, ready to annex the Panama canal and the great land of
the brave and free, the home many millions free people, the dream of
all heroes and martyrs for political freedom to 1848 would have ceased
to be owing to the ambitions of one man and one man's rule.

I hope that the shot at Milwaukee has awakened the patriotism of the
American nation, that it ha