Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-09-27
S P E E G II
HON. SAMUEL. s1ELLANBARGER
Delivered at Columbus Ohio.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10Th, 1867.

PAST OF DEMOCRACY.
There arc two considerations which make it
crime in the citizen not to scrutinize the
past Of these parties, before he unites in ac-
tion with either. One of these considerations
is that no man lives who can afford to infict
on himself and child the consequence Of being
one Of that band who contrived the plot, and
set the guns, and brewed the poisons, and
whet and struck the knife, which were meant
to take away the nations life. Since the
Christian civilization began TO be the controll-
ing moral force Of the world, there has not
been man who could afford to have been par
ty to such crime any more than he can af-
ford to be Arnold in the betrayal Of West Poiut
or Booth in the plot for Lincoln's murder, or
Iscariot in that scene at Gethsemane.
These moral pollu.ions kill, and kill, down
through the ages. Who can afford now to be
the descendan, Of Tory of the Revolution
The man who has become an enemy Of his
country, his race, or of human liberty, taints
his own and tants his child's blood with n
virus terrible Is the mark Of Cain, the leprosy
Of Naaman, and the worms Of Herod.
May say to you, men and women of the
Republic, that neither one Of you can afford to
belong, or approach near to, either that band
of men who planned and wrought for your
country's murder, or that other and meaner
because more cowardly, one 1t the North, who
held their garments who did the murder. Al
ready the scorn Of the nations-a scorn which
the centuries shall augment forever as they
60 slowly by-has traced the black, deep, inef-
taeeable dead hne around these bands of GRIM
nails, whose meant guilt was to perpetually
overthrow Liberty amongst men, and to found
governments upon the enslavement and chat
telisatien Of the souls Of Gods poor. Guided
by the common conscience Of the civilized
world, and cut by the inexorable pen Of iron
and point Of diamond, with which history en-
graves the imperishable DEGREES Of ages, that
fatal dead line has been drawn to stand forever.
Out from it's fearful enclosure none will ever
60 and be alive, and into it none will ever
pass and not be dead. Young men Of Ameri.
cal may pray you by your coantry's love,
by your love Of Liberty, fchild, Of self, Of God
do neither pass within nor approach near that
dead liMe.-
First Of all, let all living men remember
now, as history will forever, that it was in-
side the Democratic party, and by the brains
and hands Of its known and recognized lea
ders, who controlled the party, that this huge
crime was contrived in all its parts, and thai
it's bloody work 'wss begun. There, in the
Congress, and at the capitol Of
The nation, and at the agreed points, day by
day, night by night, the whole nation and the
world saw these arch conspirators, in the name.
md in the bowels Of this party, complete the
plan and begin tho work Of the nations de-
.truction! And what plan and what
worki said Of it before, what repeat now.
The appalling events Of the war they then con-
rived, ito causless origin, its strange cruel
les, the hendish malignity Of ito prosecution
he four years Of its relentless struggle for
he destruction Of the nation, and tho sullen /
md unyielding spirit in which the rebellion
received its crushing defeat, are all to fresh
. the agonised heart Of the nation to permit
heir force being hightsned BY any recital Of
which spsach 10 capable A. ) criss against
liberty, this people rebellion stands in his
ory unmatched. Az ; conspiracy against
Republican goverpment contriyed through
hirty years, il is wholly witkoat> pasSllsd or
'roximate. As crime against al free gov
rnment, it, wickednessis wholly unspproAch-
blA 70 erect a empire Of slavery apea its
ouatryl I, ruin, It laughed to scofn AL tho rs-
traints of religion, humanity, government, !