The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-11-15
thoy denounce a rebellion which they
have never confronted. IApplause.l

nave never coHHOu.cG lAPPiause
Ny friends and fellow citizens, look at
The leaders of the radical partyl Behold
theml Did any one of them, probably
with one exception, ,and he not very dis
tinguished one, having fallen early in the
action-did any one of them ever de more
than commando regiment of home guards?
+ laughter And they ceased to COM
mand them just as soon as they could get
their regiments to vote them into Con-
gress or the Legislature. Laughter. J.
That is the truth, and you can always
account for the animosity of these people
upon that hypothesis.
Now you know among uncivifized peo
pie like the Indians when the war parties
go out, put their paint Oh. and capture
prisoners from the enemy they bring them
home to the squaws to torment them, and
they make them run the gauntlet. They
infict every injury possible and all the
insults that they can heap upon these
victims of the prowess of their husbands s
arms. Thank God that civilization has
made our ladies different from the Indian
squaws-that it has left them touched
with refinement, and brought them to
know that those who suffer are not to be
scorned-t that those who have been de-
feated and are lying down in the dust, are
not to be tfatnpled upon.
But in lieu of the squaws Of these un-
civilized Indians, we have class of men
who never go to war, Laughter Who
art at once devoid of the manliness of
warriors and the tenderness of women,
but who make amends for their peltreon-
cry by the yigor with they persecute the
down -trodden.
1 am opposed to this system which has
been gotten up by the radicals for the de-
struction of our own race at the South. -
I am opposed to their Wholesale system Of
robbery and plunder for the benefit Of
provost marshals and attorneys, and am
equally opposed to this little, petty sys
tenn of tyranny and oppression with which
they would still persecute the men who
have not only been distinguished in battle
front, in their efforts to establish cause
which they at least were devoted to, bu
who have, by their acts, been robbed Q
property as we'll as of civil rights, and
therefore, are incapable of vindicatins
themselves of the most malicious ant
and malignant of their own party
I am opposed to it on general principles
I oppose it, as said in the beginning 0
the few remarks which I have made, be
cause when the war is over I desire to Sc
peace. I am opposed to it because itwil
be the fruitful source OF other wars.
am opposed to it because it is in no sens
/ measure which commends itself to
. civilized and humane community. ! al
/ opposed oft because am in favor of m
own race in preference to any other race
| Applause.
! I saw the other day little return fror
the State of Connecticut, where they yo
ted down negro suffrage in that State AN
4 about the some time we had TELEGRAM
from the new State of Colorado, where
was voted down FIVE to one, and so frol
the east, and from the west, and from th
center, it seems that negro suffrage is nc
SO popular after all. Now, the true nae
tive why these gentlemen want negro SUI
frage is sand will explain: New Er
J gland has had a very good time durin
this war with high tariffs. They laid th
! tariff on US, while. the manufacturers |
| New England have been coming the MOI
ley. They do not want the South to CON
!, back in the shape of white men, who hay
4 always been against the protective sy
tenn, but they want them to come bac
with the negroes under the guidance {
; these New England men, SO that they ca
: maintain their political possession of Il
government of the United States, and a
so that they may be able to pass the
tariff laws, which make us of the We
the ahewers Of wood and the drawers
water for these lords of the loom. The
Yankees, my friends, there is one thiI
peculiar about them, they have always g
: an eye to the main chance. Laughter
9 They will talk very prettily-fne SEN
= ments-yery pious, and all that sort
:, thing, but they never forget-it is r
} lligious duty with them never to forget
an eye to the main chance. They a
now rolling in wealth, at period of til
T. when we in the West have been sufferi
y from every sort of distress. They a
u rolling in wealth throughout New e
- gland, which has been amassed duri
= this war, and they want the privilege
e continuing that same aggrandizement
: : obtaining political power. Their prin,
- = pal men want the negro to be made '
!. ter in the South, because they think n
- England will control the vote of the l
= gro, and SO their ambitious men are str
y ing to accomplish their object by decl
y ing that the negroes are the only 10.
2. men in the South, and therefore sho,
81 be allowed to vote, while the white m
70 who are all rebels, should be deprived
? the right.
Vbe yIemory Of n Mother.