Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-05-09
RADICALS AND coNsERvATIvEs.

States, and branding nine-tenths of the
men who placed the present Administra-
ton in power as radicals. For more than
thirty years there has been a class of men
in our country who have instinctively
clung to every lingering wrong, and
walled over every rotten institution as it
fell. Have these political Bourbons yet
to learn that for the past thirty years the
patriotism, freedom, justice, humanity,
and the progressive developement of the
Republic have been represented by the
radicals?
Have they forgotten that for thirty
years, on every issue before the country.
the radicals have been vindicated by
events and the verdict of history? Surely
gentlemen who prate of their conserva-
tism cannot have forgotten the glorious
facts, that the radicals never plotted /;
never betrayed the cause of freedom /;
never fired upon the flag of their coun-
try; never murdered the country's de-
tenders. Have these conservative gentle
men forgotten, what the world will al
ways remember. that the radicals never
Imprisoned women for teaching little
children to read Gods holy Word; never
lashed on the bare back laboring white men
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better for working men If slavery did not
exist; never murdered editors, nor hung
ministers of the living God, for question
ing the divinity of slavery; never seized
and stuffed ballot boxes to overrule the
will of free people; never Redeemed the
midnight skies with the sacked and
burning dwellings of harmless people I;
and never gave halls for free discussion,
nor asylums for orphar children, to the
flames. Yes, sir, let it be ever remem-
bered that during the past generation,
the denounced and branded radicals,
moving in harmony with the eternal
forces of nature and God, have achieved
glorious victories, and won enduring tri-
umphs, in all the struggles for country,
for the rights of man, for justice. for hu-
msnity, and for Christian civilization
While timid conservatism has ever re-
treated from one lost battle for old abuses
to another, radicalism has met every de-
mand of slavery, of injustice, and of
treason with a prompt and emphatic
"No," and moved right on to assured
Observation-Disclosures that history will re-
cord and coming generations will remem-
Der. In the struggles of the present and
the future, wherever there is a wrong to
be righted, grievance to be redressed or
a right to be vindicated, conservative
presses and conservative politicians will
find that the radical will go into the con-
test with the light of past victories on
their countenances.
Sir, let conservative gentlemen who
are ever boastfully vaunting of their con-
servatism remember that the crimes
against country, against liberty, against
justice, and against humanity that have
marked the past thirty years in America,
were committed in the name of conser-
vatism. Let conservative gentlemen re-
member that conservatives trampled
down in Congress the sacred right of pc
tition and the freedom of speech; ar
rsigned before the bar of the House of
Representatives the illustrious Adams,
and censured the fearless Gidding-; man
acled seamen on the decks of Massachu.
setts ships, and expelled their counsel,
the aged Samuel Hoar, from South Caro-
lima; annexed Texas to make slavery per-
petual, and opposed the admission of
free California rejected the prohibition
of slavery in New Mexico and Utah, and
enacted the fugitive slave law; repealed
the prohibition of slavery in Kansas, en-
acted slave codes. murdered free-state
settlers, and framed the Lecompton con-
stitution; struck down Senator on the
floor of the Senate, and fred upon the
flag covering bread for the starving gar
rison of SumpIer; organized treason, and
plunged the nation into civil war; plot
ted instructions in the secret councils of
the Knights of the Golden Circle, and
fred Orphan Asylums in the city of New
York; slaughtered the captured garrison
of Fort Pillow. and sacked and burned
defenceless Lawrence starved Uuion
prisoners at Andersonville, and assassin
ated the Chief Magistrate of the United
States. Every crime for a generation
against liberty and the rights of man in
America has been committed by men
who vaunt their conservatism, and de-
nounce the advocates of freedom, justice
and humanity as reckless agitators and
radicals. Conservatism has come to be
s. word in the political vocabulary of
America synomous with cowardice, ,treach-
cry, baseness and crime. 1t is word ev-
cry man in Americs=should blush to use
as descriptive of any decent political Or
ganizstion. Mr.. President. the House,
the Senate, the Cabinet, the President,
each and all should not now forget
to remember that they were clothed with
authority by party inspired by patriot
ism and liberty, party that proclaims
as its living faith the sublime creed of the
equal rights of man and the brotherhood
of all humanity, embodied in the New
Testament and in the Declaration of In
dependence. Let Representatives. SEN
ators, Cabinet ministers, and the Presi
dent, amid the trials and temptations of
the present, fully realize that the great
Republican party, embracing m its ranks
more of moral and intellectual worth
than was ever embodied in any political
organization in any land or in any age,
was created by no man or set of men
that it was brought into being by Al
mighty God to represent higher and bet
ter sentiments of Christian America, to
bear the flag of patriotism and liberty, of
justice and humanity. Brought into be-
ing in 1854 to resist the repeal Of the pro-
hibition of slavery in Kansas and Ne.
braska, the further extension of slavery
into the depths of the continent, and
the longer domination of the slave pow
er, it has for twelve years, in defeat and
in victory, ever been true to the country,
ever faithful to the flag, ever devoted to
the rights of struggling humanity. No
political psrty in any country or in any
age has fought on a plane so lofty, or
achieved so much for country, republican
institutions, the cause of freedom, of
justice and of Christian civilization. If it
should perish now in the pride and
strength of power. by the hand of sui
eide. or by the follies or tIeacheries of
men it has generously trusted, it will
leave to after times a brilliant record of
honor and of glory. The enduring inter-
ests of the regenerated nation. the rights
of man, and the elevation of an emanci-
pated race alike demand that the great
Union Republican party, the out-growth
and deVelopement of advancing civiliza-
ton in America, shall continue to admin
lister the Government it preserved, and to
frame the laws for the nation it saved.
The human body falls asleep by de-
grees, according to Mr.. Cahinis. French
Psychologist. The muscles of the legs
and arms lose their power before those
which support the head, and these last
sooner than the muscles which support the