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

How many and much OF these were |
made by the fact that everywhere at !
the North this party and its Thurmans
gave feasts to rebel prisoners and con-
oealed their spies, shot Union soldiers
and recruiting officers, wrote letters ia
Voring desertion, concealed deserters,
cried down the nations currency,
bonds and credit, and refused to aid in
raising troops or money, rejoiced at
our defeat, and wept at our victories,
piloted the rebel armies through our
land, and disclosed our military move
ments to the enemyl How much pub
lie debt and how many murders were
caused by the arming for the rebellion,
and for the sack of Northern cities.
three hundred thousand conspirators-
Sons of Liberty.
How much of these was caused by
Vallandigham's assurance, made to
the rebellion, at Richmond, that the
Northen Democracy would come to the
rebellion's aid if the traitors would
protract the war little longerl
How much of these were caused by
the declaration at the very crisis of the
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ty, that the war for the Union was un-
just, failure and must stop.
In the name of truth, of mathemat-
les, which is the exact truth, implore
these men, so skilled in the mathemat-
les of our national debt, these Pendle-
tons, Thurnlsns and Ranneys, to try
their mathematics on these problems
which | submit, and give the results
to the country. .t-.
Why, fellow-citizens, that presump-
tion-that arrogance-that inexpressi-
bic audacity of these men is unpsral-
leled in the history of man. or devil,
which impels them, the very authors
of the rebelhon's untold crimes, and
the source Of our public debt, to
reproaeh them who defended and saw
ed the nations life from their meant
murder, with having made the debt
which saved that life. Sirs, this cant
Of theirs about the public debt being
the crime of the Union party. is, in
part, the unmitigated tWsddle with
which knaEes sometimes deceive the
ignorant; and it is, in the residue, the
tactics Of the thief, who runs foremost
in the company which hunts him and
shouts loudest the cry stop thiefw-
These tactics may do for Democrats,
but viii not deceive thai nation which
long ago found out who made the pub.
lie debt, and long ago decided, as FOL
example in Ohio, BY 100000 in 1865,
S0h0 and tghers was the thief.
A RECORD.
Tell me. feIlow-citizens, where in his
tory do you find such miracles of patri-
otism, endurance, suffering, wisdom,
courage, power and achievements a
you find in the history of the Union
party during the last six years. In
that story you find crowded together
in multitudes the grandest, most mo
mentous and most iilustrious affairs Of
human history. At the begin,
ming Of these years, the Un,
ion party, made up from loyal men
from all the parties in the government,
new, undiseiplined in war, at the same
instant took the governments control
and began the struggle for the nations
life. And the contest was against the
thoroughly eontriVed and firmly uni
ted treason Of the Southern traitor and
his Northern ally and dupe-the Cop
perhead. And when they received il
the country was as have described it
s0ithola armies, n&Yies, money, credit,
officers, arms, experience in war, plans
for defense, and with this huge and
thoroughly prepared treason in posses
sion of one-half the Republic, and al
most of its capital 1t was then, and
when events stood thus, that theloyal
people loaned to their imperilled
country three billions Of dollars made
for it the best navy on the globe; or
ganized, armed and drilled an ar
my Of two millions Of men-by far the
mightiest that ever shook continents
under their tread-crushed, in uniYer.
sal and overwhelming defeat the ar
mics of the rebellion, only less mighty
than our own I; encountered, baffied
and overcame the concerted efforts Of
the Northern Democrat in every way
to destroy the credit Of his government
and to embarrass, weaken aud defeat
its armies discovered and defeated
the secretly arranged treason Of nearly
half million of "Sons Of Liberty" /"
and SAVED THE LIFE OF THE NATION I
And then in the year of the wars end
ing, raised revenue Of five hundred
millions dollars began to pay the ma
tional debt at the rate of one hundred
millions per annum; is increasing the
sinking fund, applicable TO that pay
ment, Is lessening the rates and lists of
taxation, has already put upon the
free lists most of the great sonrces
of wealth and implements of produc-
ton; expects, as l was told By the Sec
retary of the Treasury few days ago,
further to reduce the taxes next year,
and designs to extinguish the public
debt in less than thirty years q
MoDEsTY.
And we are tonight demanded by
traitors and are here debating, whether it
would not be wisest, 70 turn this Govern
ment over from the control of them who
saved it thus, into the keeping Of them
who struggle for it S death as ] have des-
eribedl
May assure you fel.ow-citizens. that
it will be fatal to make this surrender!
Far better that our Government had gone
down as went down our gallant ship st
Hampton Roads, smitten by the bolts and
blasts Of an overwhelming treason, than
to surrender now the unstaiaed honor,
the untarnished faith, the undimmed glo-
~ of the redeemed Republic into the
hands Of the pirates now demanding Of
YOU the surrender; and who declare the
purpose 70 repudiate that faith and honor
in the same breath in which they demand
the surrender.
Here l leave of my illusions to public
debt by reminding my eountrymen that
q Nation whose faith is in the sigh est
thing unkept, is q nation dishonored- q
nation dead, except only as it shall be
to live on as lives Carthage
now, immortal only in its infamy. Sur
render the custody of the Nations faith to
them now demanding the repudiation Ofa
Nations promise, and then, in that same
sad hour Of the surrender. you burn upon
every column, entablature and stone of
your national ediAce, in letters of infer
nal FIRE, the words "PUNIc FAITH" and
your Nation starts, like Carthage, in
career of death immortal in its infamy
RECONSTRUCTION.
l turn now. my countrymen, for . few
moments, to smother element Of this falls
discussions. mean the duty of the peo-
pie toward them lately in rebellion, and
TO their States. The rebellion, and its
grest northern ally mean to resist and de-
faat the boysa ft1s execution of all recon-