Abstract
This chapter highlights the speech delivered by Bishop Henry McNeal Turner at the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati on June 15, 1876. It talks about the opportunity for Turner to second the presidential nomination of James G. Blaine, a US senator and former House Speaker from Maine. It also mentions how Turner extolled Blaine's virtues, arguing that he stood as the champion of Republican principles and had originated the spirit of the fourteenth amendment. The chapter recounts how Blaine had stood by Abraham Lincoln during the great struggle America was passing through for freedom and justice and equality to all mankind. Although Blaine lost the nomination to Rutherford B. Hayes, he served two terms as secretary of state.
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