Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-08-13

e,gles were followed by half the world,
Increasing both taxes and loans, she raised
aud expended for that year $3.50, 600, 900.
She filed her navy 70 1875 600 men. and
before the year ended Gas. .00e men wese
arreyed under banners Seconded by the
indomtable spirit of her people, her armies
emerged from the gloom of that nineteenth
year OF the war, and marching with unfalt'
ering steps through three more bloody
years aud the carnage Of Waterloo, she
planted her victorious standards on the bat
Elements of Paris, and gave peace TO
Europe. h,t ,.f- ssT ,-..ts ~, see ,.
And eau we, the descendants Of such q
people, with such history and such an ex-
ample before US, can VIC, dare we falter 10
day like this Dare we doubt2 Should
we not rather say as Bolingbroke said TO
bis people in their hour Of peril: i}qa iad
"Oh woe to thee when doubt comes; II blows
like wind from the north and makes all thy
joints 10 quake. Woe, indeed, be to the states
men who doubt the strength of their courtry
aud stand in awe Of the enemy with whom it is
engaged" 37 5ll .o a 4ed 40
'g AT that same period one of the greatest
minds of England declared the three things
necessary TO her success:
/. To listen to no terms OF peace till
freedom aud order were established in Eu.
rope. '' ii9 D- 0eil- o
g. To Gil up her army and perfect its
organization. ~ n) aiaaI0H a19ls.
g. 10 secure the favor of Heaven by
putting away forever the crime of slavery
and the slave trade. t --
Han k1tt
Britain in that same period began the
work which ended 10 breaking the letters
Of all her bondmen. She did maintain her
armies and her finances and she did triumph
We have begun to secure the approval Of
Heaven by doing justice, though. long de-
layed, and securing to every human being
in this Republic freedom henceforth aud
forever.
Mr.. Speaker, it has long been my settled
conviction that it was pert of the divine
purpose to keep US under the pressure and
grief Of this war until the conscience of the
nation should be aroused to the enormity
of its great crime against the black man,
aid full reparstion should be made. We
entered the struggle, large majority in
sistiug that that should be let alone, With
u defnce almost blasphemous.
Every movement towards the Recognition
of the negro's manhood was resisted.
Slowly aud at frightful cost of precious
lives the nation has yielded its wicked and
stubborn prejudces against him, till at last
the blue coats cover more than one hundred
thousand swartby breasts, aud the national
banner is borne in the smoke of battle by
men lately loaded with chains and now
bearing the honors and emolumeDts Of
American soldiers Dare we hope for final
success till we give them the full protection
Of soldiers? Like the sins of mankind
against God, the sin of slavery was at great
that without the shedding of blood there
was no remission" Shall we not secure
the favor of Heaven by putting il com
pietely away? Shall We not fll up our
armies Shall we not also triumph Was
there in the condition Of England in 1912
q single clement essential to success which
we do not possess to-day.
| Observe the contrast Her population
was less than seventeen millions. Ours to-
day is twenty i've millions in the loya
States alone. Her debt was more thar
$4, 900, 600, 600, its annual interest $l6l
900 900; ours $,I,720.000, 900, and its an
nual interest $7l, 900, 900. a- ... .
The balance Of imports was $65, 900
600, against her. In 1868, the belanc'
was $40 62l ,872 10 our favor. - le
She bought grain from foreign nations
to feed her people We feed our own an'
send an immense surplus to foreign maj
kets. tts-E -.tr. t.,-
Her mines yielded from twelve to fiftce
millions of bullion aunuallyj ours are no
! yielding $i2O, coo, 600 year. More tha
half of all her payments we're made in col
. purchased at heavy preminm; We pa
no thing in coin but $50 900. 900 of our in
te-est and the salaries of our ministers an
consuls abroad. I'D --. ...,. -,a-.--l, Z,
She crossed the sea to meet her enem.
on foreign soil, aud 10 country that ha
: been ours since the foundation of the Re
public. as isd3 s4i mu 1 "o
: She fought 10 maintain her rank among
the nations of Europej we Fight to main
tain our rank among the nations OF the earll
aud to preserve liberty and union for our
selves and our children's children,
If-the example Of England fails to in
spire us, let us not, l beSeech you. forge
4 our fathers of the Revolution. We hav
seen no captures Of Philadelphia, no win
. ter quarters at Morristown, no blood
stained SHOWS a, Valley Forge: Out of
J population of three millions, one quarter Q
whom adhered TO the enemy, they sent
the field three handred ard ninety thousan
} eight hundred and nineiy-two men :
one for every seven women and children
the colonies. Were we so double our a
mics today we should still fall far behiu
} that proportion. eaA t-..- 2
Who can compare their resources Wit
! ours and not blush at the mention of fai
ure, the suggestion of defeat ! Do W.
with power almost unlimited. with resoul
! ces as yet untouched, the balance Of trad
in our favor, and everything in its prope
, place except the Congress of the Unite
States. do we talk gloomily of the issue
this contest
I 1 believe. sir, that the wealth and mar
hood of nation must be tried by the sam
: standard that tests the worth and manhoo
' of individual men. We can never kno'
what stuff man is made of until we Sc
n hirs brought face 10 face with some desPei
:. - ;as,,o aor.a sr;sis of his life In which h