The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-03-25

AT the Great Union War Meeting of
Hall, Toledo, March rs, 1868. y


only be necessary for me to approve in few words
this movement, and that we should all have the
pleasure of listening exclusively to distinguished
speakers from abroad. The saving of Christ, when
teaching in a synagogue Of Gallilee, that"a pro-
ptc Is not ,citbod honor but ~ has colatry aud
dRioSg his kia aud IN IL. heWss is appo-
site to this occaaion as that which il was first
uttered
Ispoke at the Depot to-day, and will therefore
detain you but for q short time now.
NJ Presidcnt-l need not say that this grand
demonstration of to-day and tonight, tn indorse the
sentiments contained in the patriotic appeal of our
brave brothers in arms, meets the unqualified ap-
proval Of my judgment and my heart. Applause. ]
am not only willing but anxious to unite pot-
cally with all who will uicoadhioRdliy sustain the
Government in this hour Of mingled peril and glory
with all who will sustain il in all its measures, in-
cluding the grcaest and bct; with all who will in
thus sustaining it, give our heroic soldiers an honest
support. am for such Union organization AS
shall know the political antecedents OF no man who
is outspoken and unqualified for the preservation of
the Government, at every hazard. Our soldiers,
who understand from political experience the wants
and necessities Of the hour, have spoken to the
,ion with no unmeaning words. There is not a
| loyal man within the limits of the Republic, who
has heard their eloquent appeal, whose pulse has
not beat quicker and whose heart has not been
stirred with patriotic pride Let every loyal cit
! izen otwhatever former party, who has heard that
noble appeal, give il his generous approval. What
ever may be the course of Others am for the Gov
eIllment Internationally; for vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war; until our cause shall triumph.
NJ. Presideat-ltis is not necessary for me to say
to gallant soldiers that they shall have, in the
future, as they have had in the past, my earnest
support They know that, and 10 night ] say to
! you and TO them that they who are periling life
| for home, kindred and country have the right to
command me, and when they command shall obey
| In whatever path they direct touching the rebel
! lion will eheertully go. Their voice shall be my
voice. their aspirations my aspirations their hopes
my hopes; for | know that their every hope, as
pration and prayer is for our country aud our whole
| country-tOr the preservation OF that Constitution
which is shield, our safety and our defense for
the triumph of that dear old flag, without star OBJ
iteraed or stripe erased; that flag which to day
is the emblem of our national greatness aud national
gOrydearcr at this hour to all patriot hearts than
ever before because of the efforts made by traitors
to destroy 1t. There IL no true man or woman
within the limits of the republic who will not swear
that
"No other flag shall ever float above our homes
or graves -e.
Mr.. PJesidat-llad the voices of the nations
defenders been heard at the ballot box last fall, as
they ought to have been and as urged they should
be, to our members of the Legislature, no such dis
grace would have come upon Ohio as the election
of fourteen members to the next Congress, hostile
to the war policy of the Government and of State
ticket pledged, by the platform upon which it was
elected, to oppn and undsguiscd opposition to the
constituted authorities of the nation.
am for "Uaion Party." party representing
the living present and not the dead pasta party
of principle not of spoils-a party to be called AS
fought to have been from the first, The Free
UhiOn Party "a party pledged to reconstruction
of the Union on basis rs enduring as the
everlasting hills having FORTS corner stones Liberty
and Justice. am for such political organization
and no other, because any other will be cheat and
sham. know that, despite the adroit sophisms
ana petty stratagems of the timid, the scheming
and unprincipled, we shall have such party and
| believe, as time advances, it will overwhelm and |
do oil Ntha tfs ,bol
whether not, intend, by the blessing of God,
to fight slavery and its allies to the bitter end |
Applause, long continued Irepeat that, by the
blessing of God, intend to light slavery and its |
allies to the bitter end because believe the twain
foes Of our country and enemies of the
human race. Applause.
Ifit shall be, that in this terrible and bitter
contest the of freedom must fail which |
do not believe, let the enemies of the Government
rest assured that the opponents of the twin mon
sers, SlayYry and Rebellion, will go down, if 90
down they must, with their faces the toe and the |
stars and stripes streaming over their heads,
And leaving in battle no blot ON their name,
Look proudly to Heaven, from the deathbed of
fame"
lL. Presiae,t-The most important Congress
which ever assembled since the Organization ofour
Government, has Just closed its abors. | need not
enter into discussion of the merits Of the or
the measures of that body. Time will devlope
those measures, and posterity will do them and
were passed. by men legally and constitution
ally elected for the enlorgcncy--an emergency
without any parallel in our former history.
Whatever mistakes that Congress may have
made, whatever it may have left undone
which it ought to have done, however short
it may have come of my own expectations, or
the expectations of others, the record is made up
no human hand can alter it intend to stand by
it, and by it ask to be Judged. One thing Is GER
tain--the day Of halfway measures is over; the
time for compromising with the South has for
ever passed, and our patriotic soldiers have told
you what now greattully repeat, that voluntary
submission to the rebels will not be tolerated
Never more will there be any Legislative sympathy
with rebellion. All patriotic are beginning to
and feel the necessity Of this and from the At
antic to the Pacific, every loyal citizen is standing
in readiness to respond to the appeal of our brave
soldiers, for the creation and support of
party which shall have for its first and highest
object, the viudicaton of the Government, the
maintenance of the Union, the preservation of con-
sttutional liberty-aparty that shall declare open
and undisguised hostility to all attempts at inter-
vention or mediation i'll our affairs by foreign gov
On such platform let all the free ,
Union men unite, and present to the world party,
which at home and abroad, shall know no law but
justice, which will ask for Smoothing that IL not yiyhL
anRshbnh to aothiug that is wrong." Such party
the politicians and demagogucs will hate, but with
an intelligent liberty loving people it will be in
vincble. In the triumph of such party the
honor of our country will remain undimmed, and
Il
was dreamed by enthusiastic poet or orator :
M. President-One of the greatest crises through
which the nation ever passed, was passed during I
the recent session of Congress. Comparatively a
quiet, twas nevertheless most dangerous. Less =
than three months ago, well grounded fears, grow
ing out of the secret plottings of Northern rebel
sympathizers, We're entertained of a rebellion in l
the North. Traitors grew bold at the result of o
last falls elections, not only III but out of Con /
gress, and secret meetings were held all over the
North having for their object surrender of every
patriotic principle to purchase an inglorious peace
from the rebels. The intamy of this cowardly 6
proposition requires notice from me in this loyal
assembage; nevertheless, the Government was ser.
Ously threatened. Secret emssaries were sent with
propositions of peace to Jeff. Davis,
who, arch traitor that he is, was more honorable i
than they, and saved the complications they had
woven, by Indignantly spurning them from his
presence During this dreary period, men looked a
into each others faces with fear and trembling-and
as was the case in the French revolution, began -
to distrust each other. The turning point at last
came. When, the secret clubs in New York City 4
proposed to inaugurated their revolution, by tax
ng from the banks of that city, by force, what II
money they required; the rebuff our Northern ene-
mics received from tho rebo Government at Rich
nond the voices Of our soldiers from the battlefield
md the kindly response of the friends of freedom
n Europe to the Presidents Proclamation of Eman-
,ipaton, headed by that champion of freedom, John
Bright, arrested them in their mad of infa-
ny and treason, and some of their most reckless W
eaders sought the earliest moment 10 repair their
mischief and publicly atone for what they had r
lone; and to-day our noble ship, which many be-
,an TO fear had become unmanagable, and might
Dunder, after having passed through raking fire
nd 1etied the fury OF the storm for nearly two p
ears, is at last slowly but surely rghting hersef fir
md begins 10 answer to the ,0M of the helmsman, II
abraham Lincoln, God bless and preserve him. "
Long and continued applausel Yes, his arm has W
cen strengthened, and his heart cheered by the S
lanly appeal of our patriotic soldiers, and once b,