Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-29


war, and I found 10 sanctioned and prac<
ticed In the Revolutionary war, and i'm
/ the war Of 1912. If this law of retalia~
! ton had been adopted have no doubt
l il would have saved the lives of thous-
ands. What | wish to say Is that the
men who assisted in prolonging this war
and bringing all this misery upon our
/ soldiers, had the impudence to come be-
/ fore you, the peopleof Ohio, and canvass
I for your votes. Boys IN blue, will they
! get your votesp No, sir; they will not get
one. He would be a sorry soldier who
| would 20 to their side, after knowing
what they had done. want TO say word
to you who have been with US through
all those triumphs,. and encouraging
words, IN regard to the success of these
great and glorious principles We have
/, held so long. Such q spectacle never was
presented to this world before. What
has this party done that has caused us
to bc branded as Radicals and Abolition
lists? Have we not grown from a cloud
not bigger than mans hand into pow
er that now predOminates IN this land
for good? 1t is the great spirit Of right
eousness permeating the great iarty that
you have stood by so gloriously. We
have never flinched. Except one year,
I since the Republican party was organ
ized it has met with nothing but victory.
But these men don't understand why the
/ Democratic party, which they say was
once SO strong, has fallen under the ban,
and become a Kissing and by-word
among men. 1t is because they departed
from every principle of republicanism.
! Why, brother Thurman, on the principles
! you advocate to-day, if you gain VIC
tory, you must plant your batteries very
high. You must storm the Sebastopol
of the Almighty, and shell Him from
His throne, before your principles can
predominate. [Great applause.l He
will give you no help. You are warning
against Omnipotence, and the benevolent
designs of the Almighty: as to this ma
tion, and your puny principles or par
tiality viii be trampled under foot, and
be more scoffed and jeered at, in future
generations, than you are now. While
you, my Republican friends, you that
have stood so like a rock against all those
j inundations of slavery and wrong, and
in good report and evil report have never
! swerved from your integrity, in future
history ydu will he praise to the name
of the nation, and your children and
your grandchildren hereafter will rise up
and call you blessed. You must look at
these great revolutions, and see to what
end they tepd-whether there was ever
more glorious contamination of any
great political controversy than that
which shall eventuate in striking the
shackles from five millions OF enslaved
people? You have taken by the hand
the poor and the needy you have en-
couraged them to labor, have taught
them their rights, and placed them on
the firm rock of your government. TO
participate in and be part and parcel
thereof.
You may search the history Of human
revolutions, and you will tind nothing 80
| dazzlingly glorious as this in the history
of man. This is the achievement already
| attained. We have got almost to the end.
We have all but placed them on the rock
of eternal justice and security. VIII you
fail in the last step? Is there any man
here that meditates taking step back
ward, and forfeiting his right 10 glory in
the future? a voice-"So such man
, here."l You may have been az educated
that you at times feel like it, but be-
lieve you will be able to endure to the
end. The great promise is made that
not to him that begins and looks back
ward, but TO him that in any good and
glorious work perseveres to the end, shall
the reward be. / know you will perse-
we're to the end. 1t is the last account
the Democracy are to have with us. You
know they have been nibbling at the
nets of the negro now for twenty years.
1t has been their only capital in trade.
/ y,
party trying to build up? Are they adj
vocates of any great principles that you
know of? II there is Democrat here, /
ask him What is your plan?" ask
Judge Thurman. His answer is, "Oh
you are tyranizing over the seceded
States. You want to let nicgers vote.--
You have trampled the Constitution un-
der foot" But what is your plan? Sup
pose we put you into the gubernatorial
| al,ni Noll i,rb inf he
ate, what will you do when you get into
power? All he said in his speech is
against the poor negroes, to prove they
are lower in the scale than he Ia. But l
want a better witness than he gives
They say the Republican party has not
done single thing right. When we
raised armies they inveighed against IT,
at would be terribly expensive" When
we had to raise money to pay them, why
dollar in there. Ifyou do, you will lose
it all" And now I ask him what is their
plan to save the nation? He answers,
1.-THE negro is not as good as the white
man. This is a white mans govern
ment." This is all you will get out OF
them. They say lyon have freed the
negroes, you must not go any further
Leave him free. F" You can't leave him
free in nation where he would not have
too, would endanger the freedom of the
whole mass. You can't do a wrong to q
class of men that will not rebound upon
all others connected with them. We all
did wrong in permitting slavery to exist
and we have all suffered from 1t in the
war. tell you that national Gins arc
visited by the Almighty upon nations as
surely as He visits Individual sins upon
individuals. Let us continue in the righS,
, as we have begun. Let US give those
poor men that which belongs TO them as
much as it belongs to us. Let US deal
out to them the last morseI and need OF
justice that is demanded Rt our hands,
AS began so I will end: Equal and ex-
, act Justice to all men, without regard 10
race, color or condition.
: The speaker supplemented his remarks
: on the question Of paying the Govern
ment debt and continuing to pay inter
est on the ,bonds, saying in this as In
, other matters, he would do what was
: just and right whatever 1t might cost.
Hon. T. A. Plants followed in very
popular and telling speech, the large au-
2 dience remaining to the last.