Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-07-26

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happy to adopt his dreadfal measures
If we do, the South may thank them
selves for it. They have made US do g
great many things dreadfully against
our wishes. They made US take arms
They made us quit guarding their prop
erty and destroy It.. They made us
4 send Sherman through the South with
out gloves. They made us call cOlOred
/ soldiers to the field to help US save the
country, and 100000 came at the call
They made US free the slaves, and when
we gave them easy terms by which to
/ recover their forfeited rights, by Obsti-
| macy and insOlence they made US take
another step, and that step was for
/ ward, not backward, as they hoped.
/ Refusing to give freedmen their rights
and protect loyal lives, they made us
do it. Their ObstinaCy made us give
them the Freedman's Bureau and the
/ Civil Rights Bills. They made US give
/ them loyal governors, mayors and
judges in place of traitors. Pressing
/ right on this way they at length made
US give the vote to their former slaves.
I wonder how they like it as far as they
have got
/ take it, viii make such tracks as old
/ Thad's right foot always makes, "brOad
as it is long" If necessary we shall
/ take that step, for we shall strap
| them down and buckle them snugly
I
/ ness. Cavalry Sheridan is on the
ground and is a good hand al breaking
/ colts. have seen him in the South fol-
/ lowed by 10000 horse in faultless dis
cipline And if-mark me-if our
] modern Moses removes him, the peO-
pie of '68 will rush him into the Presi-
Dental Mansion at such rapid rate
| that his coat tail wouldn't Overtake
! him in three days. You may turn
leaf down there to mark that place in
history.
But says one to me, "Gray, why do
you leave the old Democratic PLATFORM
Let us look at the planks in these old
platforms on which we SO lazily fiOated,
until we tlOated into a sea of blood.
The Wing plank against the agitation
of slavery, and the Democratic plank
opposed to the agitation of slavery. If,
for ths.sake of Aud Lang Syne, we are
going to fight on planks rOtted out of
Commodore NOah's ark, let's have the
first bout on these twin planks. Where
is the slavery plank for and against?
Floated out of all platforms and off to
sea, and I learn it bas washed ashore
on the coast of Brazil
Nv right foot was always nailed to the
war plank which was purely Democrat
ic and in no other platform. Now if I
had kept my other foot on the slavery
plank till this time, I should have ruin
ed my pants. The first shell from a reb-
State or National Bank planks, and the
planks on the distribution of the surplus
funds in the treasury, into the middle of
the next century. When we come up
with those planlzs, if I am about, I win
get on again. The fugitive slave planIzs
I shall never again see, for the war has
knocked them into place not polite to
mention, and now, my Democratic
friends, seriously, if you are bound to
stick to that plank I advise you to take
along a palm leaf fan, for it is very
warm down there. The war plank, sol
itary and alone, is. left of all the Demo
cratic or any other antI-SeCessiOn date.
We Democrats used to express ourselves
on that plank about as follows: sI was
for the last war, am for this war, and
you may put me down for the next
war; Who is on that plank nOW2 On
this purely Democratic and only living
old Democratic plank proudly stood and
nobIy died the lamented Douglas, and
YOU viii find still standing proudly on
it, Tod, Logan, SickIes, Dix, Thomas,
Sheridan and host Of others who have
the same disease [ have, and reverent-
ly thank God the hospital is full of such
and DIR. Thurman can never discharge
the patients
Now a word on that piece of political
India rubber of African descent, what
the JOhnnies used to call smoked Yam
KEGS. It is singular what effect a vote
spect. Foreigners, before they can vote
here are often called ''hannel-mouthed
paddies," or tslOp-eared Dutch, +" but
when they hold a vote, we discover that
'frich Irish brOgue and sweet German
accent So a vote has converted a
''nigger" into "Our colOred fellow -citi-
zen.'f Strange metamOrphOsis which
the South compelled us to make But
to the franchise amendment; four mil
lions Of blacks on our border have been
set free and givea the vote by our Con-
gressmen, whom we endorse by a re-
election. By our Constitution as it is,
about half Of the cOlOred class of Ohio
have a vote. Now I ask what danger is /
there in giving 1t to the little balance,
and what consistency in Withholding it
from them.
I made a speech in Wilmington, N. c.,
to a coIored regiment, who, by consent 4
of their Colonel, had marched to the
front Of my tent, as was about to leave
the service, and startled me with lusty
cheers. Among other things, 1 said;
"Black boys, / go home to tell the peO- |
ple that I have seen your valOr tested
and found you ever reliable, as half your
number left on rebel breastwOrks viii
testify. I have seen you, cOlOred sol |
diers, mount and carry at the point of
the bayonet, rebel breastwOrks as gal
Iautly as did the 600 at Balalzlavat of
whom TennYson wrote, and like them
you fel it was
Not yours to make reply
Not yours to reason why
Yours but to do and die
Though some one had blundered;
still into the jaws Of DEATH
Into the gates of he'll
Rushed the six hundred,
Again, I said would advocate giving |
a vote to four classes Of cOlOred men:
First would give it to all who had
borne arms in putting down this aecurs-
second@To all who could read and
write.
Third-To all who had the thrift and
energy to accumulate sufficient to take
care Of themselves and friends.
Fourth and last-To the balance.
Those are my sentiments to-day. As
to DISTINGUISHING white men, not one is
disfranchised by the amendment, but
bona 5ide, absolute, voluntary deserters, |
who fled before the war was over. Our
opponents, on whom the cut-oT falls, |
viii charge that it disfranchises all 10y |
al boys who happened not to be with
their commands, and were marked on /
the rolls, "absent without leaves" but |
when the amendment is adopted they /
Will change front like Johnson on the |
powers of Sheridan, and go on the 9TH |
er extreme. johnson asks, Where un- |
der the sun does Sheridan get authority 4
for removing civil officers? Sheridan |
answers, In your veto message, Mr.. |
Johnson.
A word or two about our opponents |
who are floating off to sea on those |
planzs in the old platform which have |
decayed or been Knocked out by rebel |
shells. Those persons who can T under /
stand how a new platform can be made /
with the old live oak war plank in the I
center, surl ounded by new planks from |
the tree OF liberty, all fastened with the |
bolts of progress. It is said that some |
of those Johnny rebs. who so desire the /
success of ''our fciend, Thurman" " |
when in Camp Chase, were asked;
Unions-'What are you JOhunies /
fighting for?''
. Reb. II (Pompously) 'For our rights" |
U.-"But what rights?"
R.-"Our Southern rights"
U.-''Yes, but what Southern rights" |
R-"Our rights in the territories" "
U.-'Wel, but what rights in the
shaw no matter, you don't understand /
me; I'll ask you question you do un-
derstand. Did you know J---s Ct |
was dead2"
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