Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-30
UNION MEETING IN MARYLAND,
Speech of Gen. Garfield.

at dagerstoWn, Nd, on SATURDAY, May
18th, on which occasion speeches were
made by Ex-Gov. Thomas, Gen. Garfield,
Horace Maynard and others. We ex-
tract from the report as follows:
In the course of Gov. Thomas speech,
he narrated the following incident as IL
Illustrative Of the inception of the rebel
lion: 'il.E
l was serving upon a committee in 1887
to determine upon a rule for adoption in
! the House of Representative We were
six in number, and met at Mrs. Peasants
boarding house, in Washington. Thomas
W. Pickens and R. B. Rhett, of South
Carolina, with Mr.. Lews, of Alabama, all
of the Calhoun principle, made their ap-
pearance in our committee room upon
one occasion, and said, Gentlemen, your
party has not gone fare enough on this
subject of the Abolition petitions. 1t is
true the Democratic party has declared
that they will not read them, or refer
them to committee" That Is not
enough 1t will not justify US before our
constituents in cooperating with the
Democratic party to give it the ascen-
dancy in Congress, which it had not with
out their aid. Said they, "give US one
i further assurance, and declare by resolu-
ton that the Congress has no power to
interfere with slavery in the Territories.
This was an insidious attempt, as then
believed, and now believe, prompted by
Mr.. Calhoun, to throw an apple of dis
cord, in the form of resolution deny
ing to Congress a power to prevent the
extension of slavery, into the party pol
itics of the country, foreseeing clearly
that it would lead to sectional organiza-
ton, and hoping that it would result in
| developing a Government which the
South could no longer control. Seeing
the artful purpose and dangerous ten
dency of such proposition, l made the
issue myself on the instant and said ''I
will never agree to reopen the old gues-
tions of slavery in the Territories" That
was the first attempt TO pledge the DEM
pcratic party to that new and suicidal
policy afterward adopted by that party,
which has led to its humiliation, and to
our terrible war. bi t-
II .g GEN. GARFIELD's SPEECH.
Gen. Garfield made an eloquent speech,
which was received with much applause.
He said:
For five years, by every means in their
power, the people of eleven States of this
Union resolved and endeayored to de-
stroy this Republic and break down all
its glory. They determined to break
down the Constitution and destroy the
/ Union, and ruin and overturn and over
whelm you and me, every lover of the
| Union, and rule over us and carry every
thing as they pleased. If, at any time
during that struggle, they had succeeded,
we would have no nation except such as
they would have been pleased to set over
us.
At sacrifice that left its dead in every
household, its taxes to bear upon every
citizen, its burdens upon every hand, and
its sorrows upon every heart, with all that
before US, or rather behind US, the ques-
4 ton now comes, who shall rule this coun-
/ try-the men that saved it or the men
that endeavored to ruin it? And with
you, and with you alone, is the question.
1t is before the people of Maryland, of
Ohio, before the Union people of the
| United States. There is no use of deny
ing the issue. There is no use to attempt
to cover it up 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 glorious
the Union which your arms preserved, or
! you must let the men who endeavored 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
I cannot be any other party. Which of
| your votes? What is this Democratic
party? 1t was the party in power when
the rebellion was organized. 1t is the
party that made James Buchanan Pres
ident and under his Presidency war broke
out. II was Democrats who inaugurated
the war. 1t was the Democrats who Sc
ceded. 1t was the Democrats Who organ
lied the rebel Confederacy. 1t was the
Democratic party who raised the rebel
armies and supported them in the field.
1t was the Democratic party who slew in
the field of battle three hundred and
| fifty thousand Union men. What did
the Democratic party do in the North
They are the men that endeaVored, by
every means in their power, to stop the
progress of the war, and thus give up the
contest to the hands of the rebels
What did they do in Maryland? In
Ohio I In every State of the Union, save
to oppose the war at every step, save to
call you and the soldiers by opprobrious
names, "Lincoln hirelings," NEGRO wor-
shippers" and every other name and ep-
tibet of reproach, that could be heaped
upon you?
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REBELS AND COPPER
HEADS.
What is the difference between North
ern Democrat, Copperhead and a reb-
ell Just this difference A rebel may be
defined to be above a Copperhead-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 in
to their armies. Now the Union party
/ has to grapple with these two. 1t fires
its bullets into the rebels in the armies
and it has been firing its ballots into the
Democratic party at the polls.
HOW TO VOTE.
What will Union man do when he
comes to take his position in the great
parties that fall? Find out how jeff
Davis, and Lee and all those leading reb-
els 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. b..
THE REGISTER LAW.
Q am told that in this State they will
try to effect the repeal of the Registry
law, which keeps rebels from voting
Repeal hatlaw, and you reinforce your po-
litical enemies by these sympathizers and
rebels. But it will be enough toput them
into power and put you out of power
Your duty, then, consists in seeing that
this law is not pealed-that rebels are
not allowed to vote.
THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.
If the 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