The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-24
POLITICAL.
Speech Of Gen. Guyger.
Delivered al Sandusky, Ohio. sep
tember, Z, 1865.

.ral Joe Guyger, of Columbus, who spoke
as follows
My FELLOW CITIZENS: do not feel
quite as much at home among a democrat
&c audience as my friend Judge Thurman
lie has always been with the party; win
tered and summered with it. When
yet into large democratic audience | feel
good deal like a man IN Western Penn
sylvania, who inquired whether he knew
where Jake Kleinfelter lived. The boy
said he did Says he" Can you tell me"'
g Yes, sir" says the boy. g Do you sc e
our barn down there ?" " Yes" says he.
"go to that About three hundred yards
beyond the barn ycu will find a-lane.
Take that lane and follow along for about
o mile and and a half. Then you will
come to branch. Go up the branch
about quarter Of mile, an1 then you
will come to slipperyelm log. You be
mighty keerful: stranger, about going on
that log; you may get into the branch !;
and then you go on up until you get to
the brow of hill, and there the roads
prevarieate, and you take the left hand
road aud keep that until you get into a
big plum thicket; and when you get
there, why, then-then-theu--" "What
then," % Then, stranger, III be damned
ifyou aiu't lost [I4oud laughter.1
So scarcely know how to navigate
when get into a democratic audience,
because I was raised an old line whig, and
l have stuck to the party faithfully, /
believe, ever since, and L don't profess
even in talking to you tonight, to be a
democrat. have never asked anything
from the party, and | never expect to So
licit anything from the party. / stand by
the democratic party this time, simply be-
cause believe it is right, and whenever
believe it is wrong, | will turn from it
just as rapidly as the Irishman wheeled,
and he wheeled SO fast, Judge Thurman,
front. Laughter.l | am not ashamed
TO be called turucoat. l viii turn my
coat every day, if believe it is right.
All / want to do at every election is to
feel like q man, to speak like a man, to
think like PA l. to vote like man, to be
man in the presence Of my fellows aud
my God, and let my heart tell me | have
done my duty, and do not ask your dem
oeratic party nor your republican party to
speak for me
| want no body of men to draw the
blind bride over my eyes and put the
breeching over my back, hitch the traces
t. whatever load they choose to put on the
wagon, and haloo, "get up aud make
me pull. But know and feel that the
democrats party at the present time, is
drawing the right kind of load and,
therefore, | am willing 10 20 in to lead
or act as wheel horse. or perform any
ether duty for the success Of the cause.
Loud cheers.l
Now | know man IL claimed to be dis
loyal because he belongs to this party, but
| am not afraid Of terMs. They can just
call NE what they please. What ] want
to DO is to do my duty, if it is dlsloyalty
to stand by the constitution of the United
States, when it was now to be overthrown
by this radical party, call me dsloyal. /
have been taught to respect the old instru-
ment. have read that Washington and
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin and
the old men that came up from the battle.
fields of the Revolution, and welded the
country together in communionship ot
suffering, met together as friends, anc
made that old instrument [ am foo
enough to believe that George Washing
ton was as good man as Ben Wade
L arr silly enough to think that Jane,
Madison was as pure patriot as Ben
Butler. And | believe that Ben. Frank
lin was as honest and as patriotic as jim
Ashley. Laughter aud prolonged ap.
plause.1
[ cling to the old instrument. ma,
have old fogy notions. They may not sui
the progressive spirit of the times, bu
they are mine. My father lived and diec
under the old instrument. I have live
thus far under it, and l trust that ther
may be but few changes made in it Will
L live. l do not want any more con gress
es that are radical, and have to sugges
sixty-nine amendments to the constitutio
OF the United States in one session. Sh
may have some faults and defects. but il
Us stand by her, for she is the constitutio
and that is everything to us now. Be
meath our country's constitution, in tn
eye OF God and man, is the temple of tn
patriots love and honor