Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-09-12

ton. Who does not know that the Presi-
dent who vetoed, and his Democratic allies
who voted against the bill, will hasten to re-
peal it if they ever regain the power in Con-
press? We will accept no securities which
are based solely on the promises of perjured
traitors. We will accept no mere acts or re-
solves of rebel conventions or rebel legisla-
lures as the basis of our future peace. The
guarantees which the loyal millions Of the
republic demand as conditions of restoration
must be lifted above the reach of traitors
and rebel States, and imbedded forever IN
! the imperishable bulwarks of the Constitu-
ton. Therefore the loyal representative in
the 39th Congress proposed amendments to
the Constitution, which, adopted by three
fourths Of the States, will make liberty n
union secure for the future. They have pro-
posed that it shall be a part of the COnstitu-
ton
LIST. That no State shall deny any person
within its Jurisdiction the equal protection
of the laws.
ID. That representation shall be based up
on the ratio of voters to the whole popula-
ton. So that just in proportion as the right
of suffrage is extended or restricted in any
State, its representative power shall be in
creased or diminished.
Sd. That no person that has ever held a
Federal Office, or taken an oath to support
the Constitution of the United States, and
afterward engaged in rebellion against the
same, or gave aid and comfort to the enc
mics thereof, shall hold any Office, civil or
military, under the United State; but vote
of two-thirds of each House may remove
such disability.
al III ILL ILL r. Al T-,.4nl CAaAor
shall never be repudiated, and the rebel debt
shall never be paid.
9Th. Congress shall have power to enforce
these provisions by Appropriate legislation.
These propositions appeal to the moral and
common sense of the nation as every way
worthy to become a part of the fundamental
law Of a free government. They are condi-
tons with which any State lately in REBEL
ion can comply without humiliation or dis
grace, which no State, if sincere in its pro-
LESSONS of returning loyalty, would hesitate
to adopt. These conditions were cheerfuIy
adopted by the loyal men of tennessee,
though the President, seconded by the rebels
in the State, made every possible effort to
prevent it, and Congress Immediately de-
cIared that State entitled to representation,
and the members elect were admitted to
their seats. These conditions embraced in
the constitutional amendment, and proposed
to the late rebel State, form the Compression
al policy. Whenever any other of the sin
full eleven comply with the same conditions,
it can come in as did Tennessee.
H UNION PARTY VS. THE DEMOCRATIC.
And now, fellow citizens, the two policies
are before you. It is for you to determine
which shall be adopted as the basis of resto-
ration and peace. In the settlement of the
great issues You must vote with one of two
parties, for there can be no third party
The President has Joined the Democratic
party, and it has joined with the rebels of
the South. The great Union party and its
glorious army kept them apart for four years
and a half. We fired bullets TO the front
and ballots to the rear; we conquered them
both in the field and at the polls. But, now
that our army is withdrawn, the two wings
are reunited. They Joined at Philadelphia,
and Andrew johnson is their leader. The
great Union party now stands face to face
with the motley crew. With which will you
cast your lot, fellow citizens? Remember
the noble history of the Union party. No
party ever had so proud a record. The IN
ion party saved the Republic against the
most powerful and bloody conspiracy ever
formed since Satan fell from heaven. It
broke the shackles from the limbs of four
million slaves, and redeemed the fair fame
of the nation. It led its armies to victory
on foul thousand battleields. 1t won every
victory and scattered every army that bore
a rebel banner. 1t has enrolled among its
members the old Republican party of free
dom; all the loyal Democrats who followed
Douglas or loved their country were their
party-all the soldiers who suffered and con
quered-the 100000 heroes who fell on the
field of honor were Union men, and could
they rise from their bloody graves to-day
would vote with the Union party.
The Democratic party is composed of all
who conspired to destroy the Republic, ana
of all those who fought to make treason trl-
umphant. 1t broke ten thousand oaths, and
to its perjury added murder, starvation and
assassination. 1t declared through the State
of Ohio in 1861, that if the I'm
ion men of Ohio should ever attempt to en-
ter a Southern State to suppress the rebellion
by arms, they must first pass over the dead
bodies of 200, 900 Ohio Democrats. In the
mid fury of the struggle it declared the war
a failure and demanded a cessation Of hos
In the Democratic party is enrolled
every man who led a rebel army or ~volunta-
riiy carried a rebel mnsket, every man who
the draft, who called the Union SOL
diers "Lincoln hirelings,' ''negro worship
ers," or any vile name. Booth, Wirz, Har-
old and Payne were Democrats. Every reb-
el guerrilla and jayhawker, every man who
ran to Canada to avoid the draft, every boun-
ty jumper, every deserter, every cowardly
sneak that ran from danger and disgraced
his flag, every mar who loves slavery and
hates liberty, every nan who helped massa-
ere loyal negroes at Fort Pillow, or loyal
whites at New Orleans, every knight of the
Golden Circle, every incendlary who helped
burn Northern steamboats, and Northern no.
tells, and every william of whatever name or
crime, who loves power more than justice,
slavery more than freedom, is a Democrat
and an indorser of Andrew johnson. Fell
low citizens, 1 cannet doubt the issue of such
a contest 1 have boundless faith in the 10y
al people, and I beseech them by all the
proud achievement of the past five years,
by the immortal memories of the heroic
dead, by the love they bore to the starved and
slaughtered thousands who persisted for their
country and are sleeping in unknown graves,
by all the high and holy considerations of
justice and truth, to pause not in
the work you have begun till the Union,
crowned with victory and established in JUS
tice, shall enter upon its high career of free
dom and peace.