Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-09-06

have seen husbands pleading for wives,
fathers for children, and children for parents,
hut never saw mortal kneel to mortal. :
Yet when I was 10 New Orleans, it vas an
every day occurrence that women, splendid.
ly dressed in silks and satins, would come
into my Office and ask favors on their bend
ed knees. The cause, | suppose, was that
having always been accustomed to extra
obedience, and have favors asked upon the
knees, when the positions became changed,
and new masters appeared. they assumed
the position they had once taught as proper,
and therefore | say, talk not to mo that
these people cannot be su6dued.
Therefore it becomes the duty Of every
man to sustain Congress, in sustaining first
the Civil Rights bill, which gives to every
body their rights in every State; and sus-
tain Congress in giving protection to the
negro, in holding these States where they
are, aud insisting that free speech, a free
press, civil and religious liberty, shall be
guaranteed until change can be made
Sustain the loyal men Of the South: Sus-
tain them though but ten honest men can
be found in State, for ten men would
have saved Sodom, and these States are
not much worse than Sodom, and let these
ten righteous men save them. Let US have
a Republican party in the South. Let us
have party where free speech can be
heard, and when loya representative Of a
loyal constituency comes to the doors Of
Congress we will admit him.
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
Born 10 Democratic State, and reared
Democrat-taught it from my very youth
up-I felt myself obliged to uphold the
South in all its claims and all its exactions
so long as it should remain under the Con-
stitutien. To do that [ sacrificed every
thing that had OF political prefermont. l
stood almost in very small minority with
my fellow citizons because the Constitution
of the fathers seemed to me to give them
certain rights, and therefore stood by
those rights of the South up to the hour
that they repudiated their obligations ulder
the Constitution, and attempted to secede
from the Union. And when they sat aside
the Constitution, they released me from
my obligations to them, they became my
enemies in war and my friends in peace,
when they returned to the true princi piles
of republican liberty and law. Therefore,
my friends, my old Democratic friends, be
not afraid of any idea that you will be charg'
ed with any change Of your parties. We
have fought together in the old Democratic
party for many years; we will light -four
wears more, it necessary, to save the true
! Democratic Government. where every man
shall have right to equality in every State
He who swerves from that principle swerve'
| from il because he has not seen the course
of vents. Tie true demotr tic principle IL
equal rights to every man, and there is ne
such thing as having an exception in favol
of or against the negro-cqual rights to al
men.
And one of the most remarkable events in
political life, which has struck my observa
tion, is the action of our democratic Irish
| friends. They come from land of oppres
sion TO land Of liberty; having been almost
enslaved themselves. why should they want
to crush down, and join marty that seeks
TO crush down the negro? Il that true dem
ocracyP Is that the liberty which you desire
IN establish for Ireland-that one man lit.
tie lower than another shall be kept under
still? That is the liberty that Ireland now
enjoys. Therefore, my democratic friends,
| propose to speak to you rs an old Demo
crat, who mover has swervcd from the path
who stands by every shibboleth of the
party-who stands by every right ofthe low
est man. as well as the highest, and demands
equal justice for all-be not deceived by
party ties.
Come back to the true principl of justice
for all-eaual rights for all men-away with
the idea that This is q white mans Govern
ment-it is Gods Government. 1t is made
for white men, black men, or gray men-.all
men, and all men with perfect equality.
and any man who claims to bo Democrat
must subscribe to that. or he claims name
without the substance. Be not diffident, but
come up to the true standard Of the country:
Stand by the country, stand by the flag. stand
by the principles of the fathers, and see to
it that this thing shall be so settled, that
every man, from Maine to Texas, upon every
part Of American soil, shall be free to ex-
press his sentiments, and he protected in life.
liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness, and
then we shall indeed have free. united, and
glorious country, Great applause.