The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-11-20

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fort, or artifce, or expenditure they can re-
tain it; | krow what mighty interests will
rally to their support-how the hosts who
feed and fatten at the public crib, who draw
tribute by millions from the pockets of the
people, and those who, by means of partial
legislation, tax us, for their private emolu-
ment, even more than the Government tax
es Us, will strain every nerve to perpetuate
a rule that ruins us but enriches them. |
| know that we are to have the votes of Airs
canized States in the South to countervail
the votes of White men in the North. |
know that the scales of victory hang so
evenly balanced that the weight cf mere
| feather may turn them, feel all this; but
yet am full of hope. We have made a
glorious beginning in the work of redemp.
| ton, and | have not forgotten the old max
i'm of Horace, that, freely translated, reads:
: A work well begun is half done " We
nbave begun our work well--it is half done
it is in our power to complete lt--every>
thing dear to Freemen, every true interest
| of the People calls upoDsus to complete it.
Let them not call in vain. let no man lay
aside his armor, let every man go earnestly
to work and the year 1858 will be forever
ms moratle in the annals of onr country as
| an era when Tyranny aud Misrule departed
| from the land and Constitutional Liberty
| end good government reaSsnlncd Their way,
! Ny friends, do you know that r yuu ear
| ~ 0Eio next yeaf, :. Democratic P,aai4 nj,
| u sureiy lie elcc'cd2 puyqu know than
! uTon ;34 j .r,r in nur State alsy, y@r. pro
baiiY, Depend ;hc gensrgI rc-,2 Do gu
| Elo# thar Hj.H tHaf a.Aa'' may Po@.9y
/ he"ehd t9e ,G.o>c '@har q ltiniaf
| e"vc.hnlen| p" You Iea''2n ne immense
! resnorsl'Hhl} that th'a TACT lnPe"eN upon
| you! ~ l"h %iSh u ne feGirmbeTed aud
arploNded, rs long as tine shall endure, az
the savIourS OF poputat rFht Is! 10 you
wish you children, and chllhfen children,
to bless your memories! DO you wish this
| grand State OF ours 70 beGnme the c'tadeI
Of freedom? DoyolI wlsh4her name to ln>
spire the hopes OF rye oppressed even to the
uttermost partsoi the earth? DO you rea
llzo the truth, the proIoundest OF all poltI'
| cal truths, that the world Is governed too
much? Doynu know thattoo much govern,
ment is always in the Interest OF the few and
the sci fish, and oppressive to the many and
the grnfr Gus! 30 you know that iaiher
| and a mother are better legislators TOR their
! iamlIy, than the wlsest Congress- or Parlla-
Imert thet ever sat? Do you know that the
I dignity OF the individual Is superior to the
lsdlgnlty OF The government; 1or where the
Individual is dehased, the government. Is
| Infamous? Yes, my friends, or Franklin,
you know all this, as well as | know 1t.
You have proved your ta'th, not by words
but by leeds, Under cIreum@5anceS That
might have appalled, the hart" OF the bfavr%t
Hou have increased your Democratic maJor-
~, from year to year, tor the iast seven
! years You nave endarcd TenuoIHGiau; S"u
have suffered persecution; you nave been
| prescribed IN Your business; you nave seen
yoar social relations hr"Aen up; you nave
t1embled, not with unmanly fear, but with
| ratrrnai Anxiety, i0r, your wives ana your
| chlldFcn; you nave Sl'pt an uneasy SleeP'
! when mobs Threatened your holneS' ana Set'
| speak 1t III the Hear OF Nod, no trner
patriots ever lived than you. NO trner
| friends OF the Uulon cI o'F fathers ev
existed, than you. Aud when il>tory HhaIi
COM to he truly written when that long
and drealy, and apparently hopeless reign
OF terror In oar State shall ne truly Denoted
then, Democrats OF Franklin, one o' hE
brightest pages VIII be devoted to you.
| say this, not to draw. comparisons, not to
dotract from the merits OF others, tor fuil
w"l! do know what the Democracy OF the
whole State, lay, what the Democracy
every where, had to endure. l know how
they were, misunderstood 10y good men,
revied by bad men, d'strnsted by tlmd
men, hated by narrow minded ana pas
sionate men. But yet IT'S appropriate to
this occasion, 1t Is right; here on TINS spot
to speak OF you, II IS right, while, we
award gartitude to all who have suffered for
liberty sake. to REGAL the years oh how
| long they seemed-when you were mISun
derstood when you were reVlled, when you
were threatened when in the eyes OF old and
honored friends you saw GOODNESS and dis
like, where friendship and love had former
ly beamed; it is right, say, to recall these
years not to draw comparisons. not to IN
culcate revenge, not to bear malice, but to
profit in all charity and wisdom, by the
lesson they teach. But here, let me OBJ
serve, that OF all courage that has even been
! developed, there Is none equal to that which,
for the sake of truth, endures, year byy ),
month by month, week by week day by day,
the constant presence OF dislike, defamation
and danger. In the excitement of battle,
even timid man, may, in the reckessnesS
of desperation, perform ieats OF apparent
valor; brave man may, under the inspira>
ton that the brave only can feGl, rival The
deeds OF Hector or Achilles; brt to live,
year after year, conscious OF rectltude, yet
misunderstood, miSrepresrnted, looked at
with coldncss and suspicion, nay, threaten
I'd with violence, this Is to try man cour
age indeed. And this is precisely what
you have Undergone this ,s precisely the
manner in whlch you have been tued. --
'ihi. is precisely the rroaf that you have
giyen Of patriotism, courage and ioruMee..
Eut, nv friends, "flie W. .gvember
these thing 'gf ge hs Just NO man
detests, more the4 J d., The 'hean, and