Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-11

government, inaugurated its President,
matured lin its Congressl an act cal
ling out one hundred thousand militia,
surrendered our army in Texas, and
our forts, arsenals, navy yards and 9th
eT public property to the rebellion, and
the conspirators had taken final leave
of this Government in contemptuo1s
defiance Of the Government and re-
lection of all compromise, and were
IN the act Of organizing their armies to
march them on the capitals to over
throw the Government and to assassi-
nate the President of the United States,
and to seize upon the seat Of his and
of this Governments power.
Contemplate Mr.. Lincoln, then, IN
his inaugural, there upon the East
porch of the Capitol, as he stands the
strsngest, the grandest character Of
modern historyl
A conspiracy against his eouniry's
life, their first fully known in all its
horrid detail. The nation, appalled,
and dumb at this first revelation of the
huge wickednesss of the prepared plot,
and without plans to meet the conspi-
racy-a conspiracy embracing the ma
TONS death. A nation with every
proffer of compromise-eVen that in
famous one making slavery eternal by
the econstitution-dashed, by the rebels,
back in its face-a nation with no es-
cape from wsr except in assenting to
its own dissolution and death. A ma
tion whose arm, as have said, had
been surrendered to the rebellion, and
whose military commanders had join
ed it. 1t was on such day-nay night
-as this-a night whose very air was
hot and sulphurous with the fires in
which the national fabric was consul
ming, and when every cloud was fright
ed with the chosen instruments of the
hideous and universal treaSon-instru-
ments who were bearing to every part
of our burning temple their pitiless
torch --
Such was the night on which the
Republican party received from the
traitors, the Government Of the Uni-
ted States and such the time when
Mr.. Lincoln stood there on that East
porch of the Capitol to be endowed
with the awful work Of seeing that
the Republic came to no harm"
He stood there grand and solitary BY
reason of the mightiness Of his intel.
lect, the purity of his patriotism, and
the force and sublimity with which he
uttered his purposes to save the Repub-
lie.
The hour had come when the cleo
ton must be made for the nation, by
its Executive. Shall the Government's
life be preserved through blood, war,
public debt and taxation, or shall il
perishY He made the election in i'm.
mortal words when he said he would
keep "the oath he had registered in
Heaven to preserve, protect and de-
fend the Government"
Thus it was the Union party and
their President received from Its enc
mics their Government, and required
to save the State; and thus began the
war debt of the Republici He who
would have decided hsR. otherwise
than Mr.. Lincoln did-Would have
been all that is ment by coward, /"
william, (" TRAITOR And men in Ohio
are tonight asking the peoples votes
for very high Office who did decide 70
do otherwise than Mr.. Lincoln deci-
dedl
WHAT THE NATIONS LITE IS WORTH.
Lincoln and the loyal men of the na-
ton decided then and there, in the
name of the country and of its children
in the name of Liberty and of God,
come what would, perish what might,
the nations life should be saved
though all besides should be lost And
that hte vos saved! There it is to-day
saved-sQUed SAVED. Americans gaze
upon that life, and contemplate what
is included in thar, "THE LIFE or THE
NATION" Does it include no more
than lands, goods honors, emolu-
menst and dignities, these comDo-
sing all the combined wealth and ca
pabilities of all the nations indiyidu-
ais, and of each individual of the ma
tionl Did our nations life saved"
include the salvation of nothing be-
sides thesef Was freedom thenceforth
to have among men no government,
Republics to be failure, Slavery to be
the cornerstone of all government,
the poor TO be chAttels or to perish
from the earth. Yes, these were to be
if that great life of the republic were
to be lost.
And Peace-peace for the poor, the
slave-for all-Peace along with hber-
ty, safety and honor-Peace, not that
found IN making country, freedom,
honor, law, religion, virtue, Hsea-all
an unalleVisted wreck, ruin. and then
calling tkOt Peace. but the peace which
preserves and makes all these eternal
that peace was saved too in the safety
of the nations life. And now l ask
you, Shylocks of the nation-you men
who deem Gold better than virtue
silver purer than honor-rubies more pre-
cious than free spirit--I appeal to you.
Will you make the barter? Exchange
the nations life saved for the dollars COW
cred by the public debit viii you let
the Republic die so that the Republics
debt may die alsol If you would, it is
fit that youshould be the companion and
partner of Thurman and his party, who
made the public debt.
WHO MADE TIE PUBLIC DEBT.
+. In what have now salad it appears
that the making of the public debt was
a choice between the nations death
with the destruction Of q nations lib
critics, and the saving Of the nations
life by war in its defense. Italso appears
that it was this Democratic party North
and South who planned and executed
the war for the nations death, and
who so forced it upon the county,
Who, then, need I inquire. made
the public debit Who are the assas-
sins that along with the public debt,
made for the nation fifty thousand wild
ows, half Q million graves, million Of
children fatheriess, and a sea of the Re
public's best blood sea 50 deep, 30
wide, and so long that. you could al
most host the naVies therel History,
inexorable in its truth, has written 1t
down already and forever that Thur
man, Vallandigham and their partizans
and supporters are the architects of
this ruin. They made the public debt
because they made the war, in which
the debt grew up, necessary TO save the
nations life. And for the same reason
they are the men who made the sepul.
ehres, the widows, the orphans, and
the broken hearts, and the desolated
lands which the war inevitably brought
in its frightful train.
WHO PROLONGED THE WAR AND HOW.
Countrymen, suppose me wrong,
and that these promises, made BY
these Northern traitors, to aid the re-
bellion, should it begin. did not cause
that haoinninO than lat me aslc Of men