Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-10-23
\ From the OHIO State Journal
Rack.ROue & Political Grit.

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eve must 90 back on the 'nigger,'
or up goes the Union party" Those
bonds must be taxed, or over goes the
Canada vote to the regulators"
So say men who a fortnight ago were
bowling for manhood suffrage, and bet
ting high at forty thousand" for Hayes
and the State ticket. Now, IN candor,
if manhood suffrage and a determine
ton to redeem the national obligations
were stricken from the platform of the
Union Republican party, what is there
left in it? Not so much as sounding
brass or tinkling cymbal."
Because Mahomet has more followers
then Jesus, shall we give up Dur faith
in the efficacy of the atonement, our
belief in the resurrection of the dead e?
Because Virginia and South Carolina
deny intelligence to their children,
shall Ohio give up her system of free
schools? Because Abraham Lincoln
persisted at the hands of ignorance,
despotism, and treason, shall we give
up our choicest weapons, fall back from
the bastions of our strongest fort, and
strike the colors from the pinnacle of
our ~loftiest towers? Never, never,
never.
1--WE are going back to those camps"
and if we have to throw away our bag
gage our offices, aye, and our political
pre- eminence for the next decade, in
the name of God and humanity, away
with them. Deserters there have been,
and camp followers there have been in
every army in history.
The great Republican Union party
of Ohio was cursed with these cormo-
rants from the day it came into power
until the evening of October Sth, 1867.
If history chronicles the fact that it
was clear of them from thence forward,
thank God for history.
Is it because we have been so unac-
customed to defeat that we cannot en-
dure the pangs of one slight reverse?
Do we forget that Tappan was dragged
by the neck through the streets of radi-
cal Boston less than forty years ago.
Has it passed into oblivion that Bailey
very nearly followed his press, a Free
Press, into the dark bosom of the Ohio
river, scarce a score of years gone by ?
Was not Lovejoy murderedin a free"
State for daring to exercise the right
of free speech within the memory of
some of our middle aged inhabitants?
Those were the days which tried
mems souls, and shall we, their chill
dren, now stink back from the work
which they began, and left for us to
consumate? Shall we continue to tear
the laurels from the brow Of the illus
trious dead? No, no, no!
"We are going back to those camps"
and if, to-day there be any in our
who would fain lick the sores of
the carcass of the Copperhead, in view
of the remote possibility of eventually
seeing the "trail of the serpent over us
all, /" let him 60 to his kennel, for we
want no hungry jackals bowling around
those glorious camp-fires.
The Nations credit must be preserv-
ed-the National honor must not be
compromised. The "Rights of Man"
be asserted, maintained and al
l0ped.
With these notices, side by side,
encircled by the name of Stanton, or
Thomas, or Chase, or Sheridan, or any
other man who will eight it out on
line" the Union Republican party
will go into the next Presidential con-
test, snatch victory from the jaws of
defeat, and rear a temple wherein all
mankind may worship, on the ruins of
the temple of American Democratic
We began with a quotation from de-
morslized authority. We conclude
with an axiom: &c od's errands never
Constitutional Amendment-Yes.