Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-09-15
= ASHrABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY SEPT. Is, 1866.

and misrepresented their holy cause In
t he midst OF that contest, when the ma
ton was bleeding at every pore, when her
brave defenders fell thick and fast in the
deadly camp, by the rifle of the ambush
ed assassin, on the picket line, and in the
open, manly strife of the battlefield.
there was great cry went up from them
for aid-aid in men and money-forthe
endangered cause in its darkest hour.
From Chicago came then the response of
the Democracy to that cry. 1t was the
Chicago platform. Loyal hearts asked
them for bread, and they gave them q
stone; and when our soldiers turned from
the angui h and darkness of the battle
field, and looked to see how they wore
sustained whDe they were periling their
lives for US in ,toilsome march, maIarious
bivouac, aud daily stiiie--whilc they were
rotting amid the filth and starvation of
rebel prison pens, or while their glaring
eyes turned hcayenward from the death
couch i'll the hospital-when they asked,
"What news from the North ~ there
arose to their ears the hiss Of the Chica-
go platform, "your war is failure-we
demand an immediate cessation of hosti-
lities." But now, suddenly they mani
fest great love for the soldiers votes.
We must remain true to those great
principles for which those great sacrifices
were made. We cannot but remember
those three hundred thousand graves, rid
ged all over the South, where the war
rior sleeps waiting the morn of the re-
surrection; we. remember, too, how will
lmgly they went forth to perish for their
country, and with these things we also
remember how their memories are revil-
ed and their graves insulted in that trait
orous land. There flowers are strewn by
fair hands upon the graves of the rebel
dead, but the gates of the cemeteries in
which sleep Union heroes are barred.
that no lowly colored man, or the loyal
Union man of the South, may enter to
lay his humble tribute upon the nameless
grave Of the dispised dead. Who thus
dishonor our dead but the men who now
strike hands with the Democracy of the
North, and who sat in council with them
in the Philadelphia Convention. IF we
forget all, these things weare dastards and
towards worse even than the traitors who
lifted their hands against our nations
life. We cannot, the people cannot, the
brave returned soldiers cannot, and they
will pronounce such a verdict against
them as never was pronounced against
any party. 1s -.e.., ...... "a. ..
... THE HEROIC DEAD. .t-t
A few Sundays ago / went over to
Arlington Heights, to the former home
of the traitor Lee, and saw there the
long lines of graves of Union soldiers
1t was sad to look upon them, especially
upon those which covered tile unknown
dead, and to think 'here lies one who has
given his all, his life for his country, and
not even his name could be known, that
it might live in the greatful remember
ance of posterity." As l gazed upon
those eleven thousand graves, which over
the undplating hillside lay regular as a
line of battle, as if the dead had been
moved down by the destroying angel
from their places in the line, heard from
the Superintendent of the cemetery that
Mrs. Lee declared she would have hen
own again, but she would not come back
to live there until every Yankee bone
was taken away, and swore then that il
ever my voice and power could keep that
traitor family from treading on that sa-
cred soil, hallowed by the graves of the
patriotdead, my voice should always be
against it. Applause. Il saw and copi-
ed from one of the head-boards, near the
grave of an unknown soldier, the follow
ing beautiful tribute: "rlr' r.'.s q aas
'Rest on, embaln1ed and sainted dead
i Dear as the blood ye gave, = aH8 ii
nr No traitors footsteps e'er shall tread, 9fil
20 The hefbage 0 er your grave .-s ,,r5r.
T., Nor shall your glory be forgot ,..,, a.
While fame her record keeps, -''''."
For Honor nnourns the hallowed spot st'
Where loyal valor sleeps, |" o ~ rl7b
The silent adinoniti6ns from the Quart
er million graves Of Union dead come to
us never to surrender the, interest of this
great land to the hands of the men against
whom they varied, and who shot them
down. It seens'to me that argument is
useless in a case Iike this This treason
tore from you your husbands, fathers,
brothers, sons-it tortured them with
even fiendish cruelty-immured them in
the filth of prison pens starved them to
skeletons; consigned them to uutimely
| graves, and yet these men, the leaders of
that treason, come back to us and clarnor
about their rights. Every religions creed
in the civilized world declares three
things essential to forgiveness for SIN u
t;lith, repentance, hearty and sincere: Sc,
cond, faith and fidelity to prove that
repentance; and, third, good works as an
evidence of that repentance When see
these, my arms will welcome back these
men from the South but while see the
spirit of hate still existing, and while !
see this naughty arroganceand irnpudent,
unrelen,ing disl6yalty, / say, when were,
construct, let us build on the immortal
principles of the Declaration of Inde,
pendence, on the solid granite of indisput-
able loyalty, rather than the treacherous
quicksands of unrepentant loyalty, and all
will be well. - .i" '' .'.'i "
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