The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-03
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+. The disoousolate Copperheads keep mur.
muring, "Give us the Union as il was I"
Let. the answer of patriots be. "Give us
back our dead J. Into the electric life that
shone when he led tho heroic charge Re.
store TO Ellsworth his young life aud manly
beauty. Give yigOr TO the wasted limbs OF
kcarney. Bring back the orr veteran
Sumner, Revive the McCooks, twin.broth.
ers OF val0r. Heal the savage wounds of
Dahlgreen. Reanimato the commanding
form of Eliot. Call Sedgwick from his
grave, and Wadsworth from the silent re.
public of tue dead. Breathe the breath of
life into the nostrils of the gentle Lander.
Return new strength to the siuewy arm of
Reno. Give back ts musical cadeuces to
the tongue of Baker aud cleanse his gray
hair from tho gore which your fellow Dem.
ocrats shed upon it, Restore the oniven
lug smile Of humanity to the care-worn face
OF Lincoln, now pallid under the bloody
hand Of the Democratic assassin, aud bring
back daylight to those CLASSY eyes that
were so sleepless for Uuion and Freedom
Take down tho sables of bereavement that
hang in the sorrowml dwelling of the peo.
pie along the Saoo, the Susquehanna, the
Des Moiues, the Ohio, aud tue thousand les
sor stroAms whose exultaut voices mock ut
the despoudency of the widow aud tho
loneliness OF the chillless. DO this, . thou
thrice damned spirit'ot Slavery, aud thou
mayest again havo the Union as it wus
Then, agaiu, the (roihiug blNod.houuds may
bay on tho track Of tue parting lugitives
the white slave may be again chained to
tho auclion.block, the lrail woman he tied
to tue whippiug.pOst the lustrul adultover
may revel in the hsrem of his slaves, while
the hypocrltical soas Of BclMl preach the
| efficacy Of saving grace 10 congregation
of mau-stealers, adultorers, aud sellers of
their own flesh and hloOd, Then may the
| Democratic party again rule this nation, fill
tue halls OF Congress with southern des.
peradoes tue Presidential chair with an
other Buchanan to betray the nation, an
other Floyd TO steal lis armament, another
Taney-to misiuterprot it's justice, But not till
theu-not till the glo,uy company Of the
murdered part tho shrouds of the Invisible,
aud stand forth fully restored 10 the Vigor
and beauty of their manhood and youth
not until the grand march Of Freedom shall
have been stayed by the outstrotched hand
of Jehovah, can these treacherous Copper.
heads again have tho Union as it was"
"Givesus back our dead y is the awful
acclamalion, not ouly from tue North States
! i'll America, but from every spot animated
by freedom loving, desput.hatng soul in
the world. The oppressed of all tho earth
have common proprietary interest in the
sacred dust. From every famine.strickon
howell OF Ireland, every ruin of Italy, every
sspulcher of Poland's heroisui, every for
tress rock Of the Caucasus, every cave
where human liberty listens for the footballs
Of tho pursuer, deep.toned voices laurcI
the accusation of their brothers murder
on the Democratic party Of the United
! States. The churches OF Christendom hurl
their anathemas upon it; Humanity shrinks
from its touch with loathiug, Civilization
scowls upon it; Heaven abaudous il, aud
! He'll yawns for the last intorcessor in be-
half of savage barbarsm. We may call
Give us back our dead" but the appeal
will be to the insensale ears of a loathosome
corpse, Democracy is itself very dead. Its
continued movements are only tho horrid
convulsions of lifeless CARCASS, whose
pGlsied nerves are disturbed by some
electric sympathy with treason at the South.
Whenever Freedom takes auoIhor stop in
advancement, tue bloated carrion starts
upright, opens its sunkeu eyes, and with
| the Getid breath of the charuel mumbles
! its execratious. But, wheu the unity of the
! Republic shall have been restored, and each
wandering planet drawn back to it's orbit by
the central sun of Freedom, tho cold hearted
sexton will shovel dirt upon tue disgusting
putresceuce aud set up over it a sinister
cross not the emblem OF holy religion, but
the rectangular sigu of the alphabet. Judi
eating the infamous grave of uaitor.-E.c.