The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-27
Extract from n speech or Col
8. McRee.
ruE RECORD or xEvrucRY's RuLERs.

Let me ask you question here. Who
are those that rule in Kentucky to day
Are they Union men Yes, such Union
men as those who after the FIRST battle of
Bull Run, when the whole Union was in
mourning, and when sorrow and sadness
had been carried to almost every house.
hold in the land, threw up ,heir caps with
shouts of joy and lit bontires in our streets,
aud howled and made the air hideous with
yells on account Of the achievements of
the so.cNlled Southern Contederacy.
The men who rode over MY own State
and other States burning hntises, aud inur-
dering innocent citizens and driving others
away FROM their homes to seok refuge on
the banks of the Ohio; men who olowed
John Morgan through your own State,
plundering your people and committing all
manner of depredations, these are the men
who rule and have power in kentncky to-.
day these are the men who have been
placed in authority and positions of honor
there, and who to-day control matters there.
Yet that is what men are pleased to call o
Democratic State.
THEIR ELECTION AIDED nY sYNPATnIzERs IN
ONO. Pa
And who put them in powcrS Not Ken,
tuekians alone. Your own men--Demo-
Gratis from Ohio-went over to my own
State, when The war had euded--Pendle.
ton. White, Reemelin. and Vallandigham--
and Thurman himself wus there, in heart
aud spirit, il not in person. aud hy their
voices and actions encouraged and aided
the people of my own State in putting these
men in power.
These Ohio Democrats crossed the river
and helped put in power again the very
men wLo have murdered your sons--the
men who have made widows and orphans
in so muny Of your homes. They aided III
placing in high position such men as Duval
Helm aud Stevenson, always rebels Smith
and Rodman, the one John Morgan's chief
officer, the other rebel Colonel under
Bragg and Kirby Smith and Dick Hawea
IJef, Davis Governor 0t kentucky; jessie
d. Bright, lndiaua's exlled traitor, and
niny others who wero leaders of rebel hosts
They have aided in giving place and
power to such meu in that State again, and
then they return to their homes and ask
you, the people of Ohio, to-day, to do the
same thing for them I'D Ia .cs
BUT ONE GREAT QUESTION BEFORE THE PEOPLE
That, my fellow citizens, is the question
before you to day. ltnarrows itself down
to merely this: Whether this great nation
of ours will after the long, bloody and ter.
rihle war of nearly five years existence
after having lost by the calamities of war
nearly half miliun of men, and millions OF
treasure whether, say the great loyal
people of this land will so stuitify them
selves before the world as by their verdict
at the polls, to say all our acts v ere wrong
whether we will insult the memories OF
three hundred thousand slain SOL Tiers of the
Republo; whether we Will throw dlshonor
over more than fifteen hundred thousand
surviving heroes Of the contest /; whether
we will inflict dishonor on the widows al q
orphahs Of our land and say that these
murderers of their hn, bands and fathers
deserve all the places of honor in this Re,
public, and that the men who crushed ou
treason and rebellion shall have moro OF
the honors of position and power. That i,
the issue, and all of it. Turn it over in any
shape you may, charge it in any position
you will, and it resolves itself back into
this same question Shall the rebel party
be restored to power, and the nations
heroes, who have gained such glorious
victories in our land, be dishonored and
put downP r f"> $50 ~ <e~s"
WHO REJ ICE OVER THE ELECTION IN KENTUCKY
Now, my fellow izens, little more
about Kentucky. .-us Is to-day what is
called Democratic State, in consequence
of the victory achieved there by the aid OF
such men as have described to you. And
who was il, my friende, who made those
hoarse howliDgs OF JOY In your own State
over the success OF that party in Kentucky
They were those very men who opposed
the war who, when our soldiers at the
front were fighting the battles of our couu
try in the cold bleak winters of 1863 and
1894 and suffering for the very nccessaries
oi he, for clothes necessary to protect then
from the storms Of winter, and when these
sons of yours called loudly to your nstion't
Congress for aid said not man or a dollal
for your struggling army. The men, my
fellow citizens, who, when the natou's
treasury was depleted, and we needed
money not only TO carry OH the war, but tC
protect your widows and orphans, said in
this nations Congress; and by the vote, Of
re-echo of those who indotsed them, Mo-
a cent for surviving widows aud orphans
at home" Thene are the hien in the 8 ate
of Ohio to-day who throw up their caps
and grow wild with Joy at the news Of
Democratic CictOries, as you cpll them here
but rebel victorieS, as we call them i'm Ker.
lucky, for they are nothing ELSE. These
are the meu, say, that grow happy at the
event, and then have the brazen impudence
to ask you to-day to put your own State
just in the same condition that you find
mine. Are you prepared to do this
vALLANDIauAh AND LOYAL wRETcHEs,"
Are you prepafed to follow the counsel
ofsuch men as Vallandigham He who,
during the war, was tried snd convicted
as traitor, Il always thought Abraham
Lincoln made a great mistake in interfering
and preventing him from being hung)i to
day leads, yes, is the very head and fr6nt
of tine Democratic partylof Ohio, who is
making the chief canvass all over y6ur Own
State, and who insulted you more than he
did my people, by crossing over into my
own State recently, and there holding up
as examples Of patriotism such fiieh as
Robert h, Lee, Joe Johnson; and Stonewal
jackson, holding them up as patriots equal
TO the great father OF olr country Wash.
ngton himself Aud who, in the same
breath, SAID no " loyal wr,t;h could throt-
tie his mouth from, uttering the praises OF
such men as these" These are his words
What does he mean byi loyal wretcles ="
You know very well. /: is such men as
Grant. Sheridan. Sherman, Pope and Siokles
the great leiders Of our armies; aud every
soldier who followed them aud crushed
out treason and secession that is what
he means by " loyal wretches;" aud to that
phrasH; d loyal wretches!" the hills of
Kentucky are triade 10 echo with rebel
shouts, such as have not been heard
since the days when Kirby Smith aud
john Morgan assailed your loyal forces.
Aud to day, here in Ohio, they ask yon To