Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-12-07
lis of yo,tr institutions
man, woman. and child
was not a citizen, and

door, of justice in the
ecause they were poor, de.
sniSs. ...,rs friendless Two hundred
thousand of this prescribed race wore the
uniform and kept step TO the music ofthc
Union. Thirty thousand of them sleep in
soldiers graves. They came to fight the
battles of country from which they nev-
er received aught but stripes and bonds.
When the Rebel at Port Hudson shouted
overiis ra"lparts ''No quarter to the
higSer," he hurled back the cold defiance,
"NO quarter it is" and, butting his mus
ket, laid wv every Rebel within his reach
Uoad applause.) When at the hour of
midnight he scaled the earth wO ks of
Wagner, leaving his Colonel dead in the
ditch, he stood there amid its iron hail,
side by side with biz white companion in
arms till ordered toretreat. (tencwel and
great apIlauSe.) When Payne, at the bat
tie of Chapin's Farm, 6ii the James, or
dcred his black brigade to carry the enc
mys works without firing gun, they mar
ched over the field plowed with shot and
sl'ell, & carried the works the day was
ours, but the field was strcwn with black
heroes. Such are the men against whom
the Republic closed its doors of Justice,
and whom it ohtlawed as American eiti-
zeus \ nation that allows its defenders in
the hour of peril, ever after to wear the
chain, or bruised and MANNED in its de-
fcnSc, ever after TO submit to outrage and
wrong without redress in its courts OF
justice, deserves to die; and will as sure as
there is justice in Heaven or retribution
ON earth. (Applause, and cries of Good
Justice to yourselves, gratitude to the na-
tion's defenders, required that you make
this provision so plain that no judicial
blindness henceforih shall fail to read and
understand it. (Great applause. Your
offers of reconciliation, SO magnanimoEs
in their terms, were spurned by the Reb-
els. Then Congress passed the bill allow
ing the black men to vote. Now ifit be
al evil-to allow the black men to vote,
who is responsible for it but johnson and
his Democratic allies in advising the Rel
els TO reject your proffers? The fruits of the
lolicy of Congress are seen in the resto-
lation of Tennessee; the fruits Of Andrew
Jehnson's policy are the masSacres Of,
Memphis and dNewOrleans, and the blood
of Ucion men all over the South. In re-
ference to finances, and National debt:
He said that the faith of the nation was
pledged to pa yment of its debt, dollar;
for dollar; but any discussion whether it
IS to be paid in gold or paper seemed TO
him of little consequence at the present
time. Before paying any of the funded
debt, the country must Of course resume
specie payment. That would settle how
it is to be paid The scheme to our debts
by taking up our bonds aud giving our
notes he thought was only changing the
name without changing the substance.
The Republican party is the only party
that has vigilantly Investigated the con-
duct ofits own officials, and openly re-
pudiated them if unworthy of trust. The
Republican party was not responsible for
Andrew Johnson's appointments, most Of
whom were Democrats, and could not eX
poet fidelity in men who sold their prin-
ciples for Hbread and butter" daughter
and cheers) The speaker makes an earn
est appeal for ey'ry voter to attend the
polls on Tuesday next; for unless the
Democrats were beaten by 10000 or SO,
They fred guns over Maine, whon a Re
publican Governor WAS elected l'y about
$4,000. They fired guns over Ohio,
where the Republican majority was about
5000, and over Iowa, where it was &c, ,O0O
They were the most thankful for small
f5vots of any party e ever knew. laugh
fer and cheers.) III concluding, he urged
every man to he faithful in attending
the election, so that whatever disaster
might befall the country, each could feel
that He had done his duty. (Applaufe.)