Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-06
AsHTABULA OHIO, S ATU 3 D. AY, PRIL 6, 1867.

sumo your place in the family circle, but
not before. z Applause. We presented
the Amendment to the rebel States
Tennessee accepted it and come in cloth
! ed in her right mind and the moment the
news OF her acceptance was tele graphed
to- Nv ashington, her representative were
admitted into Congress thus showing the
good faith of Congress. But now we
say to the other States, eff you will not
cooperate with us we viii. do it ourselves.
IF tire are, not enough: loyal white men
among yon, we shall ask the loyal black
men to help them. Applause Look
ing beyond the white rebels, we see
1000, 900 ofmen who were never rebels,
whose only crime is a black skin, and
thank God, we now say, "a mans q man
for "a that !" Great applause.1 give
my voice for the blackest loyal man that
ever lived, rather than the whitest Jtrai-
tor who goes unhanged! Cheering.
| We tried three years to save slavery, and
and were beaten as we deserved to be-.
By gradual and cowardly steps we at
last made soldiers of the blacks, and rec
ognized that God had immutably Joined,
their fate with ours; and when we did
this we achieved victory. The question.
of social equality has nothing to do with
the natter-it is a question of Right Is
there man so black that you will not
grant him justice? What Connecticut
Republican could walk through the
South and aFow his sentiments in safety?
InTexas alone there were roo murders
in nine months, and in not one instance
was the murderer punished. The rebels
are still at par in the South, land it is con-
sidered disgrace to be a loyal man, If
you gave them power in Congress, what
would become of our National Debt and
our tariff especially when they had the
Northern Democrats to cooperate with
them? Who are the parties asking you
to vote for them on the first Monday of
April? One is the Union party, born
when the flag went down at Sumter Ap-
plause, and formed by. the uniting of all
patriots, Democrats as well Republicans
who cordially agreed to sink old names
and differences. That Union party put
down the Rebellion, destroyed every
Rebel host, and struck off the shackles
from 3,oO0,000 slaves; that party is in
power to-day, and that party will be in
power on and after the first Monday in
April Great. applause. The Demo
Gratis, who oppose us, are the party that
resisted the draft and assisted the rebels.
1t is a mere waste of breath to reiterate
the charge. All Southern leaders, rulers.
legislators, generals, colonies, knights of
the Golden Circle ETC., all Democrats and
belonging to the party that opposes us in
the present issue. Ask JEFF. Davis, the
State prisoner at Fortress Monroe, how
he would have you vote, aud he will tell
you to vote the Democratic ticket How
will the soldiers vote? IF there is one
here who has doubt IN his mind, let
him take his Springfield rifle and put the
question to that; and the echo OF every
bullet which rang from its deadly tube
viii tell him Vote with the Union par
ty Put the question to. the blood-rusted
saber, and to the old x-pounder, and
thereby viii be the same, in tones ofring-
ing-steel or echoing thunder .[Great
cheering. ave fought the rebels and
you fought u.s." [Applause. Gen, Gar
field concluded his eloquent speech by
glancing at the present Reform agitation
in England and the insurrection in Ire
land, appealing to all laboring men to
vote with the Union party, as the only
real literal Democratic party in existance;
and confidently predicted the success of
the Union ticket, with Gov. joseph r.
Hawley at its head. At the close ofhis
remarks, he was greeted with thunders
ofapplause. '.4s r ea