The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-11-30
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grond affair The address OF welcome Ns,s
delivered by Judge CARrER, of Ohio, which
was responded to by Hon. ScuuYLER CoLrAS
~ ore ot tho. pgbFst kPyeclfes yet pre-
nounced by any Union statesman. we
make no apology Rbr giving his address 81
full 1t will be road with thrilling interest
One of his grynd poi6ts j., tllNkaS Col ro
fused us victory during the war until We
resolved 10 ossrtith tue Sdehrsed f6sfit6
ton of slavery, SO now lIo soems resolved
not to grant us fun and lasting peace until
we make every citizen of .our, vast Republic
equal before the lav. Such is our settled
conviction. He said: q 81"
FEhr.9w GrWgNss 9ply eOur noHtw have
passed away since the first session. Of tile
Congress closed, aud tho members whom
you now greet with such generous and
earnest welcome returned to their homes 10
I give an account of their Stewardship to Ii q
people, aud to discuss before that tribunal,
! from Which there is no rightlul appeal, the
greatest Issues ever submitted on the battl, :
ield to which treason iurite, the nation.
| Our heroic defenders. amid thc Storm of Shot
and shell aud ilatiie, on sea as we'll as on
shore, had triumphantly decided that our
Tstar,gnilded banner SHOULD never become
the winding sheet of the worlds best hopes.
But after their eo4flictsl laad theirsaarf6ce
it remained for the people at the ballo.b1x,
and the peopk's Representatives. and 'Sen.
atorS in theso halls of legislation, to guard
the Republic effectuolly against apoterlre.
bellon drenching the land in blood, and
after this terrible contest for national exist.
enco, to reconstruct un such an enduring
corner stone, that pUsterity should realize
to the latest syllable Of recorded time, that
our fallen heroes had not rtied in vain.
But four mouths ago we left the Capitol,
and yet how orowtled With events. , The
bloody, wicked Wassacf0 at, New Orleans
the very week after our adioprnment and
the extraordinary speech OF the President
at st. Louis, pnliatiny the gnilt OF the muir
derers, and charging the grave responsible
ity on the Congress of the United States
The two great Philadelphia Conventions.
one memorable for the frauk, ackuo wledg.
m3nt that those who denounced Congress
-really were arm ia arm with the men who
trampling on brelpn datlls, had sought to
destroy tho nations life, and the other hou.
oredby the presence 0fthefaithfhl loyalists
who, wheh the storm of treason swept over
their, States, refused 10 bow the knee to
Balaan. The expulsion fromoffice of thou
sands trusted aud commissioned by ous
martyred President ttoiwhom more than any
OTHER equal number of men the present Ad!
ministraton was indebted for the. power it
welded, their crime being iHhexible fidelity
to the principles protested by the success.
ful candidate for Vice Presideutin the cam.
vass of 1864. The hundreds Of speeches OF
this Presidential tour throughout the land :,
and their republication in m lions of copies
of all our prominent press bringing the
issues to the helrthstone OF every voter.7
The magnificent response OF the people
from ocean to ocean, condemning, the policy
ofwhieh they lad heard so mNch, andattes
ing their unshakon contiaehce,in Congress
which had stood so faithful ", so fearle isly,
and so immovablo in the pathway of duty
and right.
How rapidly have VIC been making histery
in the, past few mouths Thank God, in
this land the people are the only rulers!
Every two years they iresnme their SOY.
ereiguty, and 10y the lallot-box they make
aud unmake Congress, 'aa,li theyiapprdvenr
C lndemn- Administrations. -They command
us in Congress ana the President mu t
obey.
We return, them TO those halls to carry
out and enforce the decision of the rulers
of the1 natiel1tlre people. Norman can
IN sunderland tIieifw1l. ~F6nf points have
been settled by them beyond controversy.
Eirst-1hat the work, of, RECONSTRUCTION
must besin the hatNis Of those VINO havt'
been the friends, not the euemies, of the
nation.
Second-That it must be based on the
granite of LOYALTY, aud mt tho auicllsands
Of disloyalty, hhf fIfE wirI Cthe'priEileIss
and inmunities of the liberty granted by
the whole nation to all the people.
Third-Phat no person shall be disrran.
chised in this Repnblic on account of their
race and vet have their number counted to
confer Increased politicaI powef~ in those
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