Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-07-25

made US send Sherman through the South
without gloves. They made us call coli
ored soldiers to the field to help MS save
the country, and 10000 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 obstinacy
and insolence they made us take another
step, and that step was forward, 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 Freed
mans Bureau and the Civil Rights Bills.
They made us give them loyal governors,
mayors and judges in place Of traitors
Pressing right on in this way they at
length made us give the vote to their
former slaves. wonder how they like
1t az far as they have got!
The next step, il they will make US
take it, will make such tracks as old
Thad's right foot always makes, ''broad
az ii is long" If necessary we shall take
that step, for we shall strap them down
and buckle them snugly until they work
kindly in loyal harness. Cavalry Sheri-
dan IL on the ground and is q good hand
at breaking colts. ! have seen him in
the South followed by $1,000 horses in
faultess discipline. And if-mark me
if our modern Moses removes him, the
people of '5S will rush him into the Presi-
Dental Mansion at such rapid rate that
his coat tail wouldn't overtake him in
three days. You NAV turn a leaf down
there to mark that place in history.
But says one to me, Gray, why do
YOU leave the old Democratic platforrn?'
Let us look at the blanks in these old
! platforms on which we 50 laziiy fioated,
until we fioated into a sea of blood.
The Whig plank against the agitation
| of slavery. and the Democratic plank oD-
/ Dosed to the apitation'of slavery. If. Tor
| the sake of Aud Lang Syne, we are 60
! ING to tiubt on blanks rated out of Com
modore Noab's ark. let's have the first
bout on these twin pIanks. Where is
| the slavery pIank forand against Float
| cd out of ali platforma and Off 10 sea. and
! I learn II has washed ashore on the coast
of Rrazil
NV ripht foot was aIyays nailed to the
war nla1k which was nurelv Democratic
and In no other platform. Now If had
kent nv other foot on the Slavery plank
| tilt this time. / should have ruined my
nonts. THE first she'll from a rebel rlln
knocked the low tariff planks, State or
National Rank blanks. and the planks
| ON distribution of the surplus funds in
the treasury into the middle of the next
century When we come mn with those
nlank. If 7 am about I will get on at,ajn.
! The fugitive slave nIanks I shall never
again see for tbe war has knocked them
into nlace not noIite to mention. and
now nv Democratic friends seriously.
if Won are bound to stick to that plank L
aivise Won to take along paIm leaf fan
for If Is very warm down there. The
war plauk. solitary and alone. is left OF
all tile Democratic or any other of anti
secesh date. We Democrats used to ex-
press ourselves on that plank about as
follow: az was for the last war. am fol-
this war, and YOU NAV put me down fol
the next war; WHO is on the plank
now? On this purely Democratic and
only living old Democratic plank proud.
ly stood and nobly died the lamented
Douglas, and you will find still standing
proudly on it, Tod and Logan and Sickies
and Dix and Thomas and Sheridan and
Il host of others who have the same dis,
ease nave, aiia reVerGhtiy ilIaIh M h Sou
the hospital Is llii oi sl!cil anu III. lul'
man can never discharge the patlents.
Now WORD on tnat piece OF poilticai
Ihua rupoer Oh Airicall uescenti Wha'
the Johnnles use9 10 cjIi smoked ian
KEGS. IL is singular What elecI NoIe
IN ones mana mas on nelghnor respect
Foreigners before elley can VoIe mere are |,
oI'ei eaiiou RitI - 49, w ~
VI IoP-eaiu Du.oi, ~ ~ "i!ot' -
nOiu vote, we uiScoNer tilat ricH irisii
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