Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-04
.The aR.@. Gllruaitle.
Senator Wade ON the Issues
of the Day.
Senator Wade spoke at Marietta on
| the Doth. He said:

Senator Wade spoke at Marietta on
the Goth. He said:
AN OLD TEXT.
have an old text, my friends, which
l have preached from for more than
thirty Years. ] never have varied it,
and never expect to vary it. 1t is this:
Exact and equal justice to all men
without reference to color, condition
or race" That is my political creed,
which now for thirty years 1 have pro-
claimed from almost every stump IN
the State. The people have stood by
me during all that time, and | expect
as long as am faithful to the doctrines
of that text they will continue to stand
by me. 1t makes no difference wheth-
er things in the immediate future look
dark or look cheerful. l stand by the
doctrine because believe it will enable
US to go through triumphantly under
all and under every circumstance.
(Applause.)
believe, sir, that is the doctrine
favored by the Almighty, and l believe
that he that breaches from any other
text will not be favored of Him who Is
the father of US all.
vALLANDIGHAN AND THURMAN IDENTICAL.
What, my friends, has transpired
since that should cause any intelligent.
any honest man 10 falter in the course
he took on that great occasion in 1868.
There stood Vallandigham, a deliber-
ately condemned traitor before the ma
ton, soliciting the people for their
votes, and asking them to advance him
to the highest Office in the great State
of Ohio. There were men in the State,
and great numbers of them; too, who
stood by him then, as they will stand
by his great coadjutor now.
For there is no difference between
the political sentiments of Clement L.
Vallandigham and Judge Thurman,
the Democratic candidate for Govern
or. Vallandigham was then put for
ward as the candidate of the Democra-
cy for Governor, and he was sustained
and supported in all parts of the State,
in all he has done, and in all he had
proclaimed he would do, by the candi-
date which the same party have put
forth for your votes to-day. They have
not changed in their bad course.
THE coNsTITUTIoSAL AMENDMENT.
There Is a new element in our can
Yass, now, that encourages those that
oppose US TO make one more struggle
for the mastery; but it is only the
legitimate and logical deduction from
what you have already done.
And what was the issue of last year ?
It was on. that constitutional amend
ment proposed by twothirds Of Con-
gress and more, to the people of the
seeded States. Itwas saying to these
people, if you will adopt that. amend
ment, you may come into Congress and
be represented there, provided you will
send true loyal men, who love republi-
can government. Were these hard
terms7 Was there any thing tyranni-
cal or harsh, or such as honest and just
men ought not to do? We want no
traitors in the eounsels of the nation,
and by favor of God we will never have
any. Applause. ia-t ---
Now, what argument do they put
forth on the otherside against the con-
stitutional amendment that our Legis-
lature, in their wisdom and intelligence,
proposed to their constituents last win
teri The constitutional amendment
put forth by Congress was this: That if
the seeded States would allow the
colored men to vote, then they might
have a representation in Congress,
based upon their numbers. If they re-
fused TO trust the colored men, and
would not permit this great measure OF
Justice and human rights to prevail,
then they should be restricted in their
representation in proportion. Was
there any thing wrong in that? Is
there any man here vino would wish to
put premium on traitors, and increase
their representation because they had
raised their arms against the best gov
eminent on earth to overthrow and
destroy it? That was what the Demo
cratic party wanted to do; that was
the position of the Democratic party in
this and other States. They said that
while slavery prevailed there should
only be certain representation for the
slaves--fve of them should count equal
to three free men. That was according
to the old Constitution. That is what
it was when its trainers made it-while
slavery prevailed in all the seeded
States, and in some of the others. We
proposed to these people that, since
we had freed every slave, if they in
ttended to have representation like the
Northern States, for every free man
then they must give these freemen the
right of suffrage if they are not gooc
enough to vote, we said, they are moi
good enough to have you get votes II
Congress by reason of their numbers
That was all we said to them. Tha
was all we asked of them.
Coming down to what 1 asserted be
ifore, l say these men, because they haC
committed treason, and had forfeited
their right to hold slaves, should not
therefore, have much larger representa-
ton in Congress. We did not believe
that the traitor, instead of being hung
for his crime, should have q greater in
fiuence in the Government he had jus
OOCu oCCAAAS W AOSbAOgs
vALLAGDIGHAN DEMOCRACY.
| And this old Vallandigham Democ
racy had the face to come up here anC
look honest men in the face and asser
that they were ready to swallow tina
accursed doctrine. Now l have nj
fears of that.
Is there any Democracy in thos,
gentlemen who call themselves Demo
Gratis! Never in the history of tn
4 world was word so perverted as that
Real, true democracy is the polar sta
of all my political action. do no
want it mixed with this stuff they cal
democracy, which is nothing unde
Gods heaven but the sternest an,
meanest tyranny that ever existed any
) where. These gentlemen were the I'D
vocates of aristocracy everywhere
They agree with the British Tories AM
aristocrats everywhere. The last thin
on Gods earth that Democracy wi
yield, is the true principles of demoC
racy-that all men shall be equal be
| fore the law, and stand on the sam
footing. and enjoy the same rights an
) privileges. unless they forfeit them b
I crime. Pause and consider that m
friend. It is an essential element i
. the approaching canvass. 1 have n
doubt there are many good men her
, who have strong prejudices against tn
colored people. 1t is part and parct
Of their education. A man is not t
I blame for it; but he is to blame if b
Z suffers what his better sense knows {
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