Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-08

ie pcrpetrating public outrages, tha
It, the Constitution, the Union, ant
N liberty were in danger then? VII,
10 does the gentleman wait until tn
re war is over, the Constitution is NJ
is longer in peril, and those who stooc
G. fast and firm near it and by it, whel
r. its banner was streaming on TIN
/ breeze Of battle, are attempting t.
1t devise the most practicable and po
| litic means to restore at the earlics
t. moment to this whole land penma
n nent and healthful tranquility anC
n prosperity ? Why does he wait fol
r, such a moment to announce tho
It startling discovery that our Consti-
a tuition is threatened and liberty is
). in peril?
: Is it not strange, | repeat, that
/, the same gentlemen who are so cas-
= lily alarmed now about the pcrils
d that compass about the Constitu-
!, ton Of the country and the liberties
a of the people, while peace is benign
S y smiling upon us, saw no terror
nor threat in the glitter of bayonets
; or the frOwn Of batteries when our
+ beloved land was swarming with
= millions Of o. en- enemies and the
earth was trembling under the mar
= tial tread of aerried hosts and the
loud roar Of angry artillery? Then
= when there was war-was no peace
they could raise the cry Of 'peace,
peace" and when peace has at last
come they aver it has not come, but
that we are still in the midst of
bloody war, war upon the Con
stitution we fought to save, war
upon the liberties we bled to pre-
serve. "Treat your Southern breth-
rem kindly, win them by Affection"
is the cry of the Democracy. "Rath-
er," said one of them, that jeff
Davis and his coadjutors had sue
ceeded than that the President Of
/ the United States should be impeach- .
/ ed" Such language is worthy on
Il ly of a representative of South Car
olina, OF some other rebel whose .
hands are red with loyal blood. No
wonder that in a party boasting Of
such types of patriotism there
should be many, very many, enthu-
siastic followers, who saw nothing
rephensible in the conduct of the
open, ayowed, defiant and belligcr- .
cnt enemies Of the Republic, but who
do find much to deplore and de
nounce in the adhesion now to prin-
ciplc of those who stood like n wall
of adamant around our flag while
the waves of secession threatened
to deluge with blood the eternal
rock upon which our fathers and
their fathers had planted it. Our
dead, | suppose, are to sleep in for
COTTON graves, while the rebel slain
must be apotheosized, and we who
fought with and survive the brave
boys in blue
" Who fighting fell, and falling fought"
Are to be stigmatized with oppro-
brious epethets, while the traitors
who thirsted for our blood are to
be mecllly and sweetly called "our
brethren |,
GROUND OF CHARGES AGAINST TIE
REPUBLICAN PARTY. t
What l am anxious to learn, Mr. t
Speaker, is, upon what foundation c
rests this fippant and gratuitous {
charge repeatedly made against the |
Republican party on this floor, to t
the effect that we are trampling lib t
erty under foot and destroying the S
rights and privileges of portion f
of the American people? Wherein t
have VIC violated the CONSTITUTIONS
Was it crushing the rebellion / e
have no doubt every Copperheadin in i
the North would say yes. We did s
carry the emblem of our national p
glory and greatness from the rivers o
and lakes of the West to the bays II
md gulfs of the South, where it n
waves to-day, and will wave forcv- c;
,r; but in doing so we innocently o
hought hoped and believe that We b
ire erecting around the Constitu- o
ion impregnable bulwarks, and lay W
ng for liberty deeper and a broad e.
II foundation in the gratitude, CON o
ldence, and affections of our peo- p
lie. We never dreampt that for
very rebel we killed in the South we e.
we're to make an eternal enemy in iC
he North; and we do think it ei
mounts to a riddle beyond the b
CT mortal wits how eli
is that very many of the brave c;
nen who fought us, and whom we b,
ad to literally overwhelm before 81
re could conquer, yet now that al
hey are conquered are much more he
eady to ask forgiveness and forget ly
he past and be friends, as We all W
ught to be again, than are their pf
lilies, who however deep their sym
athies with them may have been es
yhile the war was raging, took spec ta
il pains to let the danger pass be- pa
ore they gave it an airing. God OF
orbid that the day shall ever dawn We
pom this Rebublic when the pa tn
lots whose patriotism won them tic
rutches and wooden limbs shall M
ave apologies and explanations to ha
lake for their public conduct, to tn
atriots who boast of and abuse the tn
rivileger of eulogising as their no
rethren the men whose sabers wi
rank loyal blood and whose bull its
ts shot away lOvol limbs. The M