The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-27
Established 1925.

an equality with the man who
made you lay your muskot down. -
( [Cheers.
Here is loyal man who won't from
the city of indianapolis 10 put down
this rebellion. He drives one of those
South. .Carolinians into his hole, makes
him give up his musket, and The South
Caroinian says that he will not come
out except upon the condition that he
has twice the political power Of the
man who drove him in. Then, | say,
stop up the hole. Long and contin-
ued applause.] The members of the
Democratic party are very fearful Of
being put upon an equality with the
negro, but they have no conscientious
scruples about making reconstructed
rebel twice as good, politically, as Il
Union man. We say that shall not be
done. We cay that Union men shall
represent the people Of the South, and
no other rCheera.1 We say that no
man shall walk the halls Of Congress
who won the title Of Colonel or Cen
eral in tho work of murder and star.
vati9n. [Applause. We tell those
gentlemen: "You stay back If you
want to be represented send to this
Congress loyal men, who never be-
trayed their country, and never swore
lie before their Cod fAppause. I
When a man has betrayed his country,
and added perjury TO treason when
he lies to whole nation and lies to
God-we don't propose TO let him have
any more political rights upon credit.
/ [Cheers Now, then. that is the
clause Of the constitutional amend.
ment which is the platform Of the Un.
ion party.
The speaker then further discussed
the constitutional amendment, say
ing that every man should be disposed
TO give to every other man his just
rights.
We ssyri if we can not be jus. 10 the
loyal men of the south, let us have
separation forever rather than union
based upon ingratitudc If the walls
Of the temple of liberty have to be
cemented by blood shed by rebel hands,
with the flag of our country at the top,
| pray God that temple may never be
built. Applause l would rather
see the flag torn into fragments, be-
cause those fragments would be hon
Orable. If We can not reconstruct
this Government upon the principles
of eternal justice, better not recon-
struct If at all, because it will not
stand. We have tried the experiment
of serving God and maumon. We
have tried the experiment Of having
a free Government, with all itH stars
upon its flag cleaning liberty to our
white men, and the same flag keeping
four millions of people in chains
This terrible war Of ours, with its five
hundred thousand corpses, filed ev-
cry house in the land with mourning.
That Was the resdlt Of going into part
nership with the devil to run a free
government [Applause.] l implore,
| beseech you, do not endeavor to re-
peat that cruel experiment. Let us
build firmly the foundations of the
new Government; let US dig deep; lei
us get, for the head of the corner, that
stone which has been rejected by al
the builders of governments in this
world-universa human liberty anG
equality before the law. AppIause.
What moro do we say in this magnifi
cent platform ?-because there is not q
proposition there which is not self.evi-
dent We say: "If you want to send
members to Congress, send them on 9
basis of representation made by quail
fed voters, for we don't propose L
pay premium on unsuccessful re
r bellion."
a But they say: "Do you want to dis
D grace these Southern brethren?" No
Q sir; we want them honorable enough
9 to live upon the labor of their owl
! hands, and not upon the sweat of 9th
er men. We don't want to disgrac,
, them, but to dignity them to such al
: extent that they would scorn to livt
t upon robbery; and we have sworn, il
our loyal wrath, that Southern idlenes
, and treason shall never live upor
! Southora labor and loyalty. Ap
plause.
In that same platform wo say tina
, the debt of our nation shall be paid
:. that the debt incurred to destroy thi
Government shall not be paidj an(
I that the South shall nod be paid TO
3 her emancipated slaves. Why? BE
cause, God knows, they never ownet
them. [Applauscl
Now that is our platform. Are W
. going through the South to hang ant
murder? No, sir. We do not pro
pose bloodshed, or murder. or massa
ere; but we say to those people of tn
! South who raised this rebellion, "Husl
, your mouth; just be still, and let loya
: men do your talking for you" ZAP
rlause,
q That, then, is what we propose, an
= it seems to me that it is the most mag
. unanimous proposition ever made by
!. victorious government to rebels in thi
:. world. 1 challange any one to rea
history and find where victoriou
government was ever as magnanimou
as ours, when we merely ask the rel
d els to come back upon an equality wit
n us. Why, then, does the Democrat
u party object to it2 Because, if the
a can represent their negroes in Cor
IT gross, they can get in the North enoug
!, Democrats, or National Union men, c
k Johnson men, or political hybrids,
y 90 in partnership with them and ovel
J sIaugh us, they think, the Union me
l. of this country. They can not do i