The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-08-10
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The Hon. John a. logon. In speech do.
livered At Salem, IlllHois, en- the ath Of Jaly,
in advocating tha constitutional amendment,
stated that the ceelion comforting the righls
Of citizbpship npon freshmen did not con.
for the right OF suffrage, but only protection
of great natural righls, being equivalent to
declaration that every Iisn is : human
being and that " you have no right 10 go
out and murder him, you have 10 righ. to
take his propertyi you have no right to take
his work without paying him wages; you
have no right to abuse that man or triae
with his rights aud priSilegoS.' HO ex.
plaiued why he. a Douglas Democrat of 1860,
advocated this provision, in the, following
emphatic and eloquent language;
Sir, wlien you ask ms how become such
great advocate Of universal oitisenohip,
can answer the question, | have had
my preiudices, hist &C other mon in this
! land, but when marched with the columns
of loyal men in Southern soil, aud saw tho
| llag OF treason defanty Haunted in our faces;
when looked round me and asked for
| friends, | appealed 20 the white man IN vain;
ne was a friend of the traitor the sympd.
thiser with rebellion; no owed allegiance,
he thought, to treason, aud not TO tho gov.
| crnment or tho United States. But ut the
deep dark hour of night, tho poor oulored
man, bowed down by the chains of slavery,
would crawl through tue marshes. through
thickets, wado rivers and oome iuto our
| picket linos, into our camps, and tell you
whore tho rebol forces lay, and how you
might attack treason aud destroy it.
| nhnA 10 ha xs.l, Il
not when found man that was my friend
"a friend TO my country, though his skin
was black, | could trust him sooner than |
could white traitor. rrhat's ao."l .f.
Hence want him to have the protection
of the law; am in favor of hia having it,
and ever siall be until he gets it. | ask
you, my countrymeu, | ask you mothers
who are sitting around Ia this little group,
that have foud sous TINT lie away Ear off be.
meath tho hot sapls of Georgia, whose faces
you viii see no mere on earthg whose graves
you can never visil perhaps, aud the old
fathers, too and the little, prAttlmg babe
that often asks his mothor, Mother, when
willlather again return 10 me 10 have
the laws Of this lApd so modified, that
while wicked red-hanied traitors in the
\ South have their gatherings, day after day
to strow gsrlands OF Eow 0rs upou the graves
of rebel soldiers. that they m0y live in theil
menory rs long as lie shall last, il some
poor, old deeropit negro, Who has gained
his liberty by the march aud prowess o
American arms, shall como along with lit
tie basket of flowers to strew upon thr
grave Of some poor loyal soldier, that h,
shall have the right to do it, and that NJ
person shall have right to Interfere, ant
that he is to be protected. Emotion
4 | I'll, -. L.,
to be willing to give them to every human
) being on top of Gods earth, hlpe this il
r not treason-at least don't believe il ia
laughter. believe it is but doing jus,
, ice to those people and 20 ourselves 1t il
- Christian act on our part, and we shoulC
not fail to perform it. If we do, we fail t
, tperrorin duty that is incumbent npon III
toward mon who have saved tho Govern
meht, and wrenohed it from tho hands o
tressOu when they were fastened Gpoa it
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