The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-10-25
vs. As,,is,,s Adhrcss.

caslon OF the hepubllcan lolnnchHon over tue
recent victories in Ohio Pennsylvania and
Indiana:
Fr,how CrrlzrNs Ns--Wilh pleasure | re-
spond to your call, and announce that the
Republican cause has again trum phed in this
county, in ths Congressional District and in
the State. (ehecrs.) il is fitting and proper
that so glorious a victory should be common
Grated by blazing bondrcs, torch-lght pro-
cessions md Examinations. On every polite
nj battle field, wherever free speech and free
press are tolerated, and our opponents have
been met, they are vsnquished and we are
triumphant (applause
From the pine clad hills Of Maine, to the
home of the gallant Blair, on the banks of
the Mississippi, in the free soil city Of ST.
Louis from the green ! ills of Vermont, to
the territory of Nebraska from the good
old Key Stone State--( God bless her for her
80 600 majority y CHI, crs for Pennsylvania
from our neghbor Indiana, just redeemed
from the rule of false democracy who fasten-
ed upon the country bogus United States
Senator's and from all over our own broad
and beloved commonwealth, the shoutings
of millions of frecmen greet us tonight with
the welcome tidiugs Of glorious victories won.
The revolution precpitated upon the coun
try in 1884 by the madness of our opponents,
will be complete in November, and we shall
witness the realization of our long cherished
hopes-thc Inauguration Of n true democracy
ip the land Of Washington. We shall see the
national Government in the hands Of men
pledged TO administer il as our fathers admin
isterrd it, so that in every S a'e, and in eve
ry territory, within the limits of the Republic
the rights OF man shall be respected, and
protected by law, (chocrs,)
Since the organization Of the Republican
party, have contemplated this promised day
with rapture. To see it has been my hope
und prayer. That hope and prayer have
buoyed mo up in the darkest hours when
disaster and defeat have overwhelmed us,
and when tho battle seemed lost, ae men csti-
mate results who do not comprehend the
great Truth that no power can make oppression
Just, or eradicate from the heart of man the
love Of libcrty-that aprony cannot be made
rigM by verdict of u majority, and that the
legally constilut' uhority ofno government
on earth may lawfully take away from any
race the rights with which their Creator Ia
vested them. (cheers.) They have male
me firm and unf ,ltcring when many mon have
given up in despair, and when the doubling
the spoils hunters and the camp followers.
have found shelter (as some have herc) in
the ranks OF The cnemy--whcn we have been
betrayed by pretended f,iynds, and our most
generous efforts for humanity have been will
fully misreprcseuted, aud the character of oul
leaders DETAINED with unbecomng mcnda3ity
by our opponents.
My faith has grown stronger and stronger
with every contest, for have always believed
that in the great battle of life we g,ined now
strength at every step by overcoming the OBJ
stacles that bestt our path. | believed that
liberty could not be crushed out in this age
and countly--that truth and all the mora
forces of nature were over working on the
side of right, aud that disasters and defeats
were necessary to test the constancy and cour
age of our men. And now knoiO as | ther
believed, that all the trials through which, rs
men and Ms n party, we have passed, has beer
for the best-ior our ranks are more thar
filed up with good men and true, to supply
the desertion of the weak and the vena, ant
tonight the voices of the timid and doubling
are silenced by the triumphant shouts will
tho new recruits who with US are pushing OF
to victory. Applause
Fellow citizens, when the conspirator whC
abrogated the Missouri restriction and relec'
ted Karsas because sho knocked at the doc
for admission into the Union as u free State
triumphed over the people in 1856, many
good men gave up. Senator Seward said th'
other day in Chicago, that Horace Mann, on,
OF the nobest and best of men, once said tC
him. that he "despaired of the cause OF hu
manity after the passage OF the slavery law
Q! 1850 :" and know from conversation
once had with Mr.. Mann in this city, wher
be was here leoturing before our Young Men
association. that that was the principal caus
Of his retiring from public life-leaving Mas
sachusetts and accepting the Presidency o
Antioch College, ut Yellow Springs in thi
state. confess that heard this declaration
from 30 great man with sorrow; but new
or despaired and trust never sh Ill despai
of the cause of humanity either in Americ
or Europe [cheers, Instead Of despriring
l rejoice rather when the madness of the slave
power drove them to break down the Nilsson
ri Compromise and attempt to force SLAYER
not only upon Kansas, but by decree Of tn
Court and action Of the government, TO max
it national throughout the Republic ; bocaus
/ believe that nothing would more surel
arouse the people 10 sense of the danger
that threatened them. Had been your rep
resentative in Congress then, l would not onl
have voted against these measures, but pre-
tested against them also-as did As a citize
at the time of their enactment, | would nc
do wrong that good might come; but believ
that Providence now often permits bad me
to soourge nation for good and wise purpo
ser, as He permitted Pharaoh OF old TO hard
en- his heart so that he refused to let the op
pressed children of Israel 60. believe tha
these crimes ofthe so called democratic par,
were necessary in order to arouse the Amer
can people from their supincness and lclha,
gy But for those crimes there would hav
been no Republican party in the United State
to-day
Horace Mann, however, was not the onl
leading man who dpspaired of our cause