The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-09-20


matter. / believed it was right then,
and | believe it was right now. be-
licyed that this Union was not built
M to be dstroyed by traitors that
they never seeded that they never
could seccdc that they never did Sc
cede that the Union, to-day, is as per-
feet and intact, as it was before the
rebellion. You were told so when
you went into the army, from every
school house and stump; and you
were asked to do something-[ Voice,
" TO bring them back.'1 To fight
for the Union. To bring who back Z
Ira voice, "Traitors. You were
told to go and whip them like thun-
der. and we done it, too, like men,
| For the Union you stepped forward
into the ranks, and met them face to
face "a voice, " Met who2' The
Rebs. don't mnce terms. y
voice, "Who DO you call rebs. y Eve
ry man who took up arms against the
lGovernmcnt. Checrs--a voice, And
those who gave aid and comfort. II
Great cheering and applause And
those who gave them did and comfort.
I will tack that on; | didn't think OIL
lit at the time. | mean every man
who opposed this Union, | don't care
whether he was North or South. a
voice, =" They are now."] Well, we
will look at that when we come to it.
But when we have conquered them, it
lis but right that we should show them
some mercy. A voice, Anderson
yillc."1 And every id man who
had anything to do with that should
be hung. You cant get me to go
back on the boys, you know, not a
bit They never went back on me,
aud never did on them. A voice.
|" Well, they are down on you now"
Laughtcr.1 No, they are not; you
are only mistaken. Well, the war
was carried on and on, through rever-
ses and successes, but at the last sue
ccsses, ut.hanked revcrses, and We
succeeded in destroying the armed re-
bcllion.
have never heard it said, and !
don't know whether you have or not,
that VIC could not whip the rebels
ITValandigham said 50. And Val
Iaandigham is as big a d-n fool as
ever was raised in Ohio. lie sup
ports "my policy."] Well, he thinks
he cant do anything better. But be-
cause a man repents, and becomes
converted, and worships the true and
living God, it should bring no dis.
grace upon Religion. We whipped
the rebels, but when we return, We
are told what is not true; that We
could not do it without the help ol
the negroes. | have been told, since
| got home-some nine months ago
that our colorcd soldiers helped US
whip them; and it could not have beer
done without them. Now, the las
part of my enlistment was served il
Brownsville, Texas; l served in tn,
vicinity Of the 25th Army Corps
which was composed of darkics. well
YOU know that the colored soldier
fought we'll. They did fight afte
| they were pushed into it, very we'll
GFrom a colored source-Pushed
| have seen them in battle whel
, they were not pushed in You nev
. er saw negro Regiment 60 into
t battle whose proportion of officer
c killed was not greater than in awhit
t Rcgiment-TGive the reason why2
Q because they did not like to go in
t to such hot place. They went i
r at Nashville, Mobile and Vicksburg.
: They went in, but they went i
: five minutes behind the white troop
d -IThey didn't at Nashville; | wa
= there.
f l will tell you how look at thi
II question of colored soldiers. Th
7, black soldiers of the North wen
i down South, as they ought to do, t
$ free their race from bondage; bu: I
r say that they saved the Union,
/ something that no colored soldie
Q will claim that. 1t is only elaine
: for him on the part Of few whit
n men, who would degrade our soldier
N and say that they did no fight!ui
D. until the colored troops were ordere
10 out; and that is throwing somcthir
ii into our faces that | am not dispose
III to stand. The black race have boo
Id freed by this war. In that We a
1t all agreed; aud being freed, they a
n entitled to life, liberty and the pu
suit of happiness. Thus far, we a
Ie agreed. Then comes in "my policy
o which you do not believe in, and
d which | do believe. What is it?
e 1t is a mere difference of opinic
y between Congress and the Presiden
GU made by Congress, as to whetht
e they shall be admitted now, or wa
y until they have done somethir
l. which Congress requires at the
hands. Andrew johnson, says, {
| the other hand, "lf you send mt
T. who can take the test oath, rs the
ry did in Tennessee, thorc is no reasC
at in the world why they should not |
re admitted, IA voice, l have sec
at men who had three of them in the
OF pockots-Laughter,l You want
IL provoke me into replying, butt
W, not propose to do so. Andrew Jacl
re son, who was considerable Of a ma
H. and crank, as all of us know, and
III devoted friend of the Union, in h
ne action towards South Carolina,
III 1882, proves that President Johl
'S son occupies the self-same positiC
nc to-day, that was occupied by Andre
u jackson, then. He is on the san
T. footing, But he did not endorse Il
a. New Orleans massacre, Now, /
IL me tell you something; in 1886, wh'
T. the Know Nothings had contr'
'l' down .nere, in New Orleans, and
W. never did .ake kindly to them, sa
~ four men stabbed IN the streets
y New Orleans, for simply being fol
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