Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-09

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5 sumption; and the third was to hol
S the South firm for five or seve
+ years until new ideas take root
} The last was the natural and prope
= mode ofreconstruct;on. No North
$ ern man could walk Southern sol
| with safety to-day There were tel
' millions ofdollars in Boston to-da,
| that were in the South in 1860
Why was it not there now? BE
t cause capitalists dare not trust i
} there, Capital was the most deli
: cate thermometer. If capital wer,
flowing South it would show tina
there was safety there-that ther,
was civilization and a State. Show
the man from Alabama or Florid'
or Mississippi or Georgia that coulC
come to Wall street and borrow
dollar So long as this cannot bC
done there was no State, no safety
no civilization there. The South
knows this we'll They want capital
There is an immense cry from the
South for money. "Give us mon
ey," they say, "but bar out the
Yankee" and by Yankee they mean
the idea of the nineteenth century.
Why does not Philadelphia and
New York, both of which are gorg-
ed with capital, send it tSouth p? Be-
cause no capitalist will give dollar
where he knows he will not get it
back again no patriot will trust his
capital to men whom he thinks are
his enemies. The South still cries
for money, but are not willing to
take the ideas of the nineteenth
century. And this brings me to
the johnson policy. l say Andrew
johnson is a traitor, Laughter and
applause.
The speaker here digressed by
making some structures on Horace
Greely, after which he recurred to
johnson, and said he did not intend
by calling him traitor to say that
he would betray the flag to the Brit
ish, but he had been a traitor to the
idea he espoused when he took
sides with the North in the late CON
flict. As soon as he came into
power he sought to restore the oil
garchy of the South; he did this
knowingly and Intentionally. The
speaker then referred to the nation
al debt, and said that if the South
were allowed to come back to Con-
gress with their present ideas they
would say to the North: "You told
us in 1865 that the constitution could
not be amended without our help
now, if you could not do that you
could not contract a debt, and the
national debt is invalid unless we
ratify it. There is the Confederate
debt; if you will ratify that we will
ratify yours" &c, After a few
words about the Fortieth Congress,
which, he said, was not composed |
of saints, and a word in favor of
the impeachment of the President,
Mr. Phillips came down to the Pres
idential election of 1868, which, he
said, was the great danger ahead.
took the helm of State in
1868 would decide the fate of this
country for the next fifty years. If
the Democrats succeeded we lose
two thirds of the fruits of the war;
if the compromising Republicans
succeeded we would loose one half;
but if Thaddeus Stevens was elect
ed we would save 99per cent Pub
lie opinion drifted strongly toward
General Grant Mr.. Phillips here
in some animadversions
On General Grants course, after
which he closed by warning his all
Hence, as they remembered the
graves of 100000 Union soldiers,
10 be vigilant, and watchful, and
zee to it that no one was allowed
% take the helm of State who was
lot true in every drop of his blood
20 the principles which inspired the
oyal men of the North in the late {
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