Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-07-25

which 10 recover their foritilo
rights, BY obstinucy and insolcng
they made as take another step, an
that step was forward, moi backward
as they hoped Refusing to Civ
freedmen their rights and protec
loyal lives, they made us do il. -
Their obstmacy made us give then
the Freedman's Bureau and the Civ
il Rights Bills. They made us civ,
them loyal governors, mayors and
Judges in place Of traitors. Press
ing right on in this way thoy at
length made us give the vote to
their former slaves. ! wonder how
they like it as far as they have got
The next step, If they will make
us take it, will make such tracks as
old Thad's right foot always makes,
"broad as it is long" Unnecessary
we shall take that step, for we shall
strap them down and buckle them
snugly until they work kindly In
loyal harness. Cavalry Sheridan is
on the ground and is a good hand
at breaking colts. nj have seen him
in the South followed by $1,000
horse in faultless discipline. And
if-mark me--if our modern Moses
removes him, the people of ,6s will
rush him into the Presidential Man,
sion at such rapid rate that his
coat tail wouldn't overtake him in
three days. You may turn a leaf
down there to mark that place in
history.
But says one to me, "Gray, why
do you leave the old Democratic
platform
Let us look at the pIanks
in these old platforms on which wo
so lazily foated, until we aoated in.
to a sea Of blood.
The Whig plank against the agt-
tation Of slavery, and the Democrat
ic plank opposed to the sgitatian of
slavery If, for tho sake Of Aud
Lang Syne, we are going to fight
on planks ratified out of Commodore
Noall's ark, let's have the FIRST bout
on these twin planks. Where is the
slavery plank for and against p
Floated out of all platforms and off
to sea, and / learn it has washed
ashore on the coast Of Brazil.
My right foot was always nailed
to the war plank Which was purely
Democratic and in no other plat
form. Now if had kept my other
foot on the slavery plank till this
time, ] should have ruined my pants,
The first shell from a rebel gun
knocked the low tariff planks, State
or National Bank planks, and the
planks on the distribution of the
surplus funds in the treasury, into
the midele of the next century.
When we come up with those planks,
if l am about, I viii get on again.
The fugitive slave planks l shall
never again see, for the war has
knocked them into place not polite
to mention, and now, my Democrat
ic friends, seriously, if you are
bound to stick to that plank l ad-
wise you to take along a palm leaf
fan, for it is very warm down there.
The war plank, solitary and alone,
is left of all the Democratic or any
other of anti -secesh date. We DEM
ocrats used to express ourselves on
that plank about as follows II was
for the last war, l am for this war,
and you may put me down for the
next war" Who is on that plank
now? On this purely Democratic
and only living old Democratic
plaAk proudly stood and nobly died
the lamented Douglas, and you will
find still standing proudly on it,
Todd, and Logan and Sickles and
Dix and Thomas and Sheridan and
a host of others who have the same
disease l have, and / reverently
thank God the hospital is full of such
and DIR. Thurman can never dis
charge the patients.
Now word ON that piece Of po-
Iitical India rubber of African de-
Scent, what the Johnnies used to
all smoked Yankees. tits singular
what effect a vote in ones hand
las on a neighbor's respect. For
,igners, before they can vote here.
ire often called "fannel-mouthed
or '.lop-earcd Dutch but
when they hold a vote, we discover
hat erich Irish brogue and sweet
German accent" So a vote las
a ''nigger" into "our col
,red fellow citizen" Strange meta
which the South compell-
ID us to make! But to the fran
,hise amendment; four millions of
blacks on our border have been set
rec and given the vote by our Con- !
gressmen, whom we endorse by n
re election. BY our Constitution as
t is, about half of the colored class
If Ohio have vote. Now l ask
What danger there is in giving it to
he little balance, and what consist
ency ia Withholding it from them.
I made a speech in Wilmington,
\. c., to a colored regiment, who,
With the consent of their Colonel,
lad marched to the front ofmy tent,
Is / was abont to leave the service,
md startled me with lusty cheers.
AMONG other things, / said;
''Black boys, l go home to tell the
,eople that 1 have seen your vafor