Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-11-17
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New York recently. Hspoints were tell
ing excellent The following is especially
worthy Of. reading isnd orefectionE 4 the
present:
1t is sometimes said the Republican
Party has done It's work and had better
be resolved back to its original elements.
If ii were possible, it Is desirsbleg Whith-
er shall those brave and loyal old Wings
return Shall we send back thoss brave
and patriotic War Democrats to eOHsort
with Vallandighams, SeymOuTs, Woods
and Longs! The vast host Of intelligent
young men who have connected them
selves with liberty and justice, where else
do Ghey belong, but Just where they are,
in the Republican Party Let me rapidly
sketch its achievements. IL came into be-
ing ii years ago to maintain the cause Of
American and universal liberty, to resist
the encrOachnents of Slavery whiehelainI-
ed more thanfise hundred Thousand square
miles of the public lands. 1t denounced
the infamous declaration Of Judge fancy
that .'the negro had no rights white man
was bound TO respect In Kansas it 10
PEELED the bloody rufisns intent sen en-
slavement; in Congress- it rebuked the Lee
compton swindle. 1t chose for its stsud
ard bearer the sainted Abraham Lincoln.
TApplause. 1t received the Government
from the hands of the corrupt Democratic
party, with its army scattered and de-
bauehed, its navy crippled. With three
little vessels and few skeleton regiments
Of Regulars to begin upon. 1t raised two
millions of men, six hundred ships of war,
three thousand millions of money, to meet
the most colossal rebellion the world ever
saw. Its every individual was fred with
loxe of liberty and a love of Union
[Cheers. No Republican was ever found
firing at his flag or shooting down its de-
tenders, Of all the swarms IL rebel gray,
most of them were Democrats; their lead
ers were the leaders of the Democrats par
ty, and the men who clung to the party
were the ones to demand a cessation OF
hostiGties, and proclaimed the war in be-
half of the Union failure. All the $780,
600 who now sleep in untimely graves ON
fields red with their blood, are the victims
of the treaehery, the dishonesty, and the
folly OF Democrats, sO-ealled.' Well, the
Republican Party has saved the Union,
defeated its enemies, and they are now
crawling up the steps of the White House
for pardon. 1t has made the nation fear
ed, respected and admired as it never Was
before. 1t has, done for America what
Cromwell did for England. Is this a re-
cord that it should be ashamed off What
has it done that it should die! What has
the Democratic party done that it should
live! ICheers, No, gentlemen, it has
bright and glorious future, 1t has wrought
more good to the world, and in less time,
too, than any other organization that ever
existed. You have reason to be proud of
it 1t viii continue the work. It viii
protect all men, Of whatever race, in their
lives, their labor, their homes and their
persons. 1t viii care for the widows and
families Of its fallen heroes. It win secure
the sacred fuifllment Of that debt incurred
for the safety Of the country as religious
obligation. Do you think you can trust
these men, who are in favor of taxing the
national bonds, to combine with the late
rebels, who are in favor of repudiating the
whole or else adding their own to it o. 1t
viii reorgsnize, or reconstruct, or restore
the States; but it should be done on such
a basis that the peace Of the natiOnacan
never again be disturbed by the same
causes. Indemnity for the past we cannot
have. We cannot revive the slain darlings
of our fire-side, nor bring back the lament
ed patriots. But We can demand security
for the future, and this, after all we have
passed through, We ought to do. = gE,--
I That was well said. What glorious
record does it make up for the Republican
party! Yet We have men among us who
can see nothing in this array of splendid
results worthy of sdmirstion, and who are
calling for and seeking to inaagurats new
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