Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-11

rx,rac, from speech by Hon. Sam.
GALLOWAY, OF Ohio.

sS5ress, y+, reviewing the past records Of Tn
TO nolltioal parties of the day. Ate
LISTING the noble and successful efforts 0
she Grand Republican party TO preserv
our country during the upheaval Of tn
rebeIlIon. and Its earnest endeavors to sus
tsIn our national credit, he turns the pic
ture round and gives us full view of thu
other side--the Democratic record. Herr
IL is,
never dies Ii Is one of those things i'm
mortal and imperishable as the very ele
ment Of freedom. l tell you, when you
and are In the grave when many othei
things will not be remembered, there will
be a precious memory of what we have
done for our country, and what we havt
done for the world. Applause tel
you have three boys, and would rather
leave them the legacy Of freedom than any
other legacy. thank God when come
10 die can bequeath to them this legacy
of freedom, and will enioin IL on them r.
stand BY the flag and the principles ol
freedom throughout life, and give IL in
charge TO their children and to their child
ren's children to the latest generation.
And / tell you, my brother Democrat
II will not be forgotten what you have
done, and that little has been done amiss
TGreat applause.l But ] tell you that the
stain of infidelity to the flag and to the
principle of freedom the stain of treach
cry and disloyalty that attaches to you
now win attach TO your memory after you
and toyour children and to your children's
children who will be visited with sneer
that in the day of the country's trial their
father was false to freedom and 10 the flag
[Renewed applause tell you that the
stain Of treason is worse than the leprosy
of the body. That can be cured, but trea
son can not be cured. That stain is lodged,
and, l fear, great many of you will trans.
nit it. Laughter
repeat, we are the men, we are the
party that sustained the integrity of the
country during all the days of It's trial
and what has the Democratic party done
for the country And you hear these
Democratic orators assert that this war
was brought upon the country by the agi.
tation created by these Union men,
although they know that from the begin.
ming of the contest to this hour the Dem
ocratic party has been identified with op-
position to every measure calculated to
crush treason and preserve the freedom
Of the country. [Applause.
do not think, my fellow citizens, that
the Democratic party has ever been found
very sympathetic where freedom was in
peril. Who were the meu that sympa-
thized with the Free State men In the
struggle for freedom that was made upon
the Territory of Kansas? Not the
Democratic party. Who sustained the
Lecompton constitution with its laws for
bidding the abolition of slaveryY The
Democratiop party. Who rejected Governor
Reeder? The Democrats of the State of
Pennsylvania, because he stood up for the
rights of the Free State men In the Terri
tory of Kansas. We sustained Governor
Reeder, but the Democratic party, under
the lead of James Buchanan, put him on
one side because he refused to be tool of
the administration and the slave power.
My tellow-citizens, from the beginning
unto this hour, in all this contest, its
course has been uniform in this matter.
To come down to the beginning of the
struggles Of our country, who were the
men who attempted to waylay our noble
leader on his way to occupy the Executive
chair to which he had been chosen by the
free suttrages of this peopleP Who were
they but the Democratic party of the
State of Maryland. Who were the men
that waylaid and assaulted and killed some
OF the brave men of the sixth Massachu-
sets Regiment who were going through
the streets OF Baltimore on their way to
preserve the capital of our country from
the invasion of rebelsy Who did thatY
The Democratic party. Who were the men
who, when Abraham Lincoln made the
call for men to defend the flag of the
country under the first call for seventy
five thousand men-whG were the men
who then rallied TO the flagY They were
Union men; men perhaps, IL is true, once
connected with the Democratic party, and
take this occasion to do honor to the
memory of such a man as Stephen A.
Douglas, who preferred his country to
party, and who in the early hours of the
struggle after the attack on Fort Sumter
when Lincoln called for men, stepped for.
ward nobly and patriotically and rallied
under the flag. 1t was he who made that
proper discrimination OF the parties of the
when he said that in this country
there could be no neutral, we must either
be patriots or traitors. We have been pa |
triots Where the traitors have been they |
can tell better themselves. Yes, my fellow |
citizens, in that hour of adversely, there
rushed TO the support of the standard
such brave soldiers as the Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts, men. What did we dor
We sustained the President. They
charged him with doing acts which were
against the Constitution.
There is no doubt that man should
sustain himself according to the principles
OF law, but the Republic has a right to
preserve itself from the assaults Of the
traitors of the country. Yet, all over
Ohio and over Illinois, the whole Demo.
cratic press, with very few exceptions,
oined in denunciations of Mr.. Lincoln
and denounced his necessary measures as
unconstitutional. Is not that SOY Yet
these same men are now claiming that
they were for the war all the time. Yes.
Lhese traitors are now going around the
country and are claiming that they had as
much to do in restoring peace to the
country, and suppressing This rebellion, as |
any other class OF people.
Well, my fellow-citizens, when the Con- |
gress of the United States passed these
avs, authorizing the raising, equipping,
md mastering of men, who desired that
lctionH We did. Who opposed itg The |
Democratic party. How was il, my fel. |
ow citizens, when by vote of the Con.
,ress OF the United States, the President
vas authorized TO raise regiments of
olored menp Then ii was the Demo-
ratio party that said they would not
ght They knew they themselves would
lot and they Thought the negro was not
ny better than themselves. Laughter.
hey found that that was one of the cases
Vhere a negro was little better than a
Vhite man. These Democrats said that If
had not been for that they would have
cen In the army. Why did not they go
beforeS They said that ii never would
o to have oolored men go TO the battle
eld and fight the battles of the country.
the first place, they said they would all
esert and go over to the rebels; that they
ad delightful attachment for their old
masters, and would fight for them against
be flag Of the country. They did not
now the negro any better than they do
ow. They found that there was some
hing In the negro breast that they never
elt In theirs at any time. Well, my fellow
ltizens, we sent them out 10 the field. |
hey were brave men az Wagner, Fort /
'illow, and upon many other battle fields. |
may say to-day with truth that there are |
lore bones Of negroes bleaching on the |
attle-felds of our country than of all tho