Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-22
A speech BIZ General Garfield.


The following ara some extracts from
General Garfeld,s eloquent speech at
HagerstOwn, Maryland, on Thursday
last:
For five years, by every means in their
power, the people of eleven States of this
Union resolved and ~endeaEored to des-
troy this Republic and break down all its
glory. They determined TO break down
the Constitution and destroy the Union,
and ruin and overturn and overwhelm
you and me, every lover of the Unien,
and rule over us and carry everything as
they pleased. If, at any time during that
struggle, they had succeeded, we would
have had no nation except such as they
would have been pleased to set over US.
At a sacrifice that left its dead in every
household, its taxes TO to bear upon every
citizen, its burdens upon every hand, and
its sorrows upon every heart, with all
that before us, OF rather behind us, the
question now comes, who shall rule this
Countryside men that saved it or the
men tha. endeavored to ruin it? And
with you, and with you alone, is the ques-
ton. It is before the people of Mary
land, of Ohio, before the Union people Of
the United States. There is no use to
attempt to cover it up by going for this
man or that man, or By these men or those
men. You must do one of two things.
You must either assert your right to rule
and govern and establish and render glo-
rious the Union which your arms pre-
served, or you must let the men who en-
deavored to ruin it rule it and you.
THE coNTENDING PARTIES.
There are two great parties before the
country. One is the Democratic and the
other IS the Union party. There is no
third party, and what is more, there is not
going to be any third party. There can
not be any other party. Which Of the
two is worthy of your confidence and
your votes? What is this Democratic
party2 1t was the party in power when
this rebellion was organized. It is the
party that made James Buchanan Presi-
dent and under his P~residency.war broke
out. 1t Eas Democrats who inaugurated
the war. It was Democrats who seeded.
it was the Democrats who organized the
rebel Confederacy. Il was the Demo
cratic party who raised the rebel armies
and supported them in the field. It was
the Democratic party who slew in the
field of battle $4,000 Union men.
What did the Democratic party
do in the North? They are the men that
e~ndeavored, by every means in their
power, to stop the progress of the war,
and thus give up the contest to TIE hands
of the rebels. What did they do in
Maryland? In Ohio? In every State Of
the Union, ave TO oppose the war at
every step, v to call you and the sol
diers by opprobrious names, "Lincoln
hirelings,n "Negro worshippers,H and
every other name a~nd,epithet of reproach
that could be heaped upon your
DIFFERENCE BETwEEs EERELs AND COP
PEaHEADs.
What is the difference betweena North
ern Democrat, a Copperhead and q rebel
Just this difference: A rebel may be de-
fined t beaboYe a Cepperhead-a man who
took to his gun and fought all along,
while the Copperhead of the North is a
cowardly rebel who did not dare to go
into their armies. Now the Union party
has to grapple with these two. It fires
its bullets into the rebels in the armies
and it has been firing its ballots into the
Democratic party st the polls.
HOW TO VOTE.
What will a Union man do when he
comes to take his posision in the great
parties this fall Find out how JEFF.
Davis, and Lee, and all those leading
rebels want you to vote and Just vote the
other way, and you will be pretty sure to
be right. Find out what they don't want
you to do and do it.
THE REGISTRY LAW.
l am told tkst in this State they viii
try 10 effect the repeal eff the Registry
law, which keeps rebels from voting. Re
peal that law, and you reinforce your
political enemies by those sympathizers
and rebels. But it viii be enough to put
them into power and put you out of
power. Your duty, then, consists in See
ing that this law is not repealed-that
rebels are not allowed to vote.
THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.
If tie President of the United States
has seen fit to change his policy, that is
not the fault of the Union party. If he
has gone over to the Democratic party, it
is not the fault of the Union party. The
American people are greater than any
one man in this kindergarten than any
or Congress. These are but the
servants of the American people; and if
President, or Congress, or both, under
take to betray the rights and the duties
and the glory of the American Republic,
will md three hundred thousand
men, multiplied by ten, prepared to mete
Justice TO him or them who would betrey
he people. We have started out in the
work Of setting up law and order in those
'ebel States, and by the help of the Amer
can people We propose to continue and
conclude it. We propose that these men,
when they come back into power, shall
'e the loyal and not the disloyal.