North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-25
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Wade's Cleveland Spe ech.

Wade's Cleveland Speech. ro,f7o1s1
On Tuesday, Senator Wade made q
speech in Cleveland, in which he, said -
I" But for the aid and comfort afforded the
southern leaders by the democracy Of the
north, there would have been no war
charge upon this great organized party
the responsibility Of 5000 of the flow
er Of our youth lying in their graves"
When it is considered that Mr.. Wade
and the majority Of the leaders Of the rul-
ing party repeatedly and explicitly express
sed a Willingness to permit the withdrawal
of the southern states from the union, and
while expressing such a willingness, ridi-
culed the democracy as =" union savers, 2
the impudence and falsity Of the above
charge may be estimated. ., It is an unde-
niable fact that the, democratic party, for
| years before the election of Mr.. Lincoln,
charged; that The election ofia sectional
|, president, on an issue which committed
him to, make war upon an institution in
the southern states in which was involved
thousands of millions Of PROPERTY and the
labor system of those states, would lead to
secession and civil WAR; bna 90 ,a1giam
The charge Of Senator I, Wade against
the democratic party is in TACT an assertion
that the war might have been avoided, and
that 1905, 600 of ths1tlowsr; Of our youth I
Were sacrificed in aieiyil war, which might
have been averted BY craftsmanship and II
patriotic and just policy. It is also an as
sertion that the south woula 'hothavc made
war had she not confidently relied upon
help from the north. oseqaaf ea;lfsa.,-..,
Had the party now in possession OF the
government chosen to accept the Critten-
| den compromise, extending the Missouri
compromise linenthrough to othe Pacific
there would have been no war. ,The'south-
ern delegation in congress agreed to accept
such compromise as settlement, and
earnestly wished that such an adjustment
of the controversy then pending might be
made. The radical party rejected the pro-
position, knowing that the rejection would
| lead to the withdrawal Of the southern
states from the union. The leaders OF
that party at that time had not, however,
determined upon fighting for the union.
Mr.. Chase said " it was not worth fighting
for The New York Tribune said that
'any attempt to compel the southern states
to remain by force would be contrary to
the principles cnunciated in the immortal
declaration of Independence
to the fundamental ideas on which hd-
'man liberty is based" qz The Chicago
Tribune took substantially the same ground
President Lincoln had proclaimed the same
doctrine during the Mexican war, and, up
to the time Of his accession to the presi-
dency, had never receded from the posi-
ton then, taken by him., The venemous
denunciations of the constitution and the
union by, Garrison, and Phillips, and the
New York Independent, are familiar to ev-
cry intelligent person in the country. Sum-
hner mathematical the, union as " a lie,
seething with smothered curses" and
Senator Wade himself, in speech made
by him in the senate, said You cannot
| : fbrcibly hold men in this union for the
attempt to do so, it seems to me, would
subyert the first principle, Of the govern
ment under which we liveh
What else could the confederate leaders
have inferred from the declarations VIC
have quoted from the most prominent
newspapers and leaders in the radical par
ty than that they would he permitted pea
cably to secede The rebels were given
aid and comfort by such declarations and
it was the union, spirit in the democratic
party, led by Douglas, and standing firmly
by president Lincoln while the war was
urged for that preservation of the union
under the constitution, which reused the
nation for the reclaiming of the southern
states.
Mr.. Wade, in making the charge to which
we have referred, exhibited inexpressible
impudence. He and the men who stood
Nth him assured the south that, should
their party obtain possession of the govern
ment, she might secede at pleasure, and
that no effort would be made to detain heI
by force. Now the ghosts Of hundreds oi
thousands of the best and bravest men in
the country crowd before the imagination
Of this old-time disunionist, and taunt him
with the pledges he repudiated, and which
largely helped to precipitate our bloody
and disastrous civil war. 1t is not strange
that he should try by falsehood and calum-
ny to escape the awful responsibility thus
fastened upon him Chicago Times.
Black Congressmen.
The radicals do not like to have the fact
kept before the people, that the colored
brethren, whom they are bringing up to
the surface Of society, down south, are de-
termined to be of6ce-holders, as well as
voters for the white trash, who, likewise,
want Office. Whether they like it or not,
however, the fact is there-and they can
not get over it, or under it, try how, they
will.
We published very excellent address
the other y,--it will be remembered -
from a very respectable colored gentleman
named, James p. Fickling, who is running
for Congress down in the second district,
Georgia, on the ground that, to quote his
own words '' If a colored man is worthy
Of and entitled to the elective franchise, it
is very clear that he is also entitled to a
place in politics in proportion to the num-
Der he brings to the support of the party
The radicals pooh -poo-ed that address, and
turned up their nasal organs at the man.
They said he was g bogus,p and that his
address had been written for him by some
rebel or copperhead politician. Anyhow,
they were sure that Fickling was not a
radical, but democrat.
: But even if the imputations were las
they are not true, We would like to know
what these radical ,wire-pnllers are going
to do with that other dusky politician, the
Rev. James V. Givens, who, in speech
at the City Hall, Norfolk, the other day,
expressed himself in favor Of negroes for
Congress? They cannot say that Givens
is a rebel, or a eopperhead, or anything of
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