Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-03-27

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four years civil war, to stamp the freedom .,
tie citizen iniclibly upon the pages OF the
AMERICAN Constitution. Why? Because
three hundred and fifty thousand actual slave
holders were controlling and rul, ,ng the nation
of over thirty million Of people. But the maj
es,y and glory Of the Declaration can never
perish they will survive all Governments.-
The Fourtt Of July, ll7G, Witnessed the dec
laration that the Colonies were free and inde-
pendent, and that all men were created equal,
&c. The surrender Of CORVALLIS, seven years
later. confirmed the first branch Of the dcclar-
alton, but the other part-was practically sup
pressed for c:gly>nine years, land has not
| vet fully Gomez Till the last remnants Of the
| armed champions OF slavery surrendered TO
the armies Of Freedom. The intervening PC
rio | was the jubilee of slavery. II fourishee
as human slavery had never fourished before
and II rulci and directed the Government
Which theoretically, was founded upon tht
principle that the liberty of all men was an
inaleniable right which could not be withheld
except by despo,ism equaling that which
impellcd the Fathers to throw off the yoke Of
Griat Britain But it took a four years bloody
war. in which millions of men went forth to
battle. and hundreds of thousands fell upon
the field, while sorrow and desolation we're
carried to every village.
Bui the people kept the fires Of 1.7G lighted
III good earnest, and, by their blood, scaled
the solemn truth that all men were created
inalienablc right of life, liberty. and the pur-
suit of happiness. For over half a century
the principles from whose declaration it re-
ceivcs its historical grandeur were utterly re-
pudiatca wherever slavery held its reign
There freedom and inalienable rights were the
property Of one class and bondage was the in
heritance of another. The happy Shareholders
had black men. at the South, to work, and
white men, who they called "mudsillss,' at
the North to vote for them. But finally the
people in the North, (or at least majority Of
them, got their eyes open, and, in 1856 they
got hold of the idea that they were tools in
the hands Of the Southern slaveholders, and
resolved to throw off the yoke Of oppression.
And therefore, up sprung the great REpuB-
L,cAx party. But our Democratic friends held
ont four years longer, until 1860, before they
fully caught the idea that they were swallow
cd dozen by pro-slaveryism, and that the slave
holders were working all the wires to their
own interest; therefore, when they met in
National Convention in Charleston, s. c., in
April, 1860, our Democratic brethren, who
they called ssmudsills of the North, come TO
the conclusion that they would take part in
working the wires. The slave -holders, being
like spoiled children, who have had their own
way in everything, and could not have it now,
seceeied, and hence ~ great Democratic par
ty rended asundcr, and the UNION was in dan
ger Of being dissolycd-thc shareholders set
ting up, as they said, Confederacy Of Dir
own, and human slavcry the chief corner
stone Therefore, the great Union party had
to step into the breach to save the Union, for
the head Of treason was in the South but its
| tail spread all over the North. And, sir, when
the rebels fired on the Star Of the West, with
her supplies for the garrison at Charleston, it
was the signal that treason was on legs and
when they marshalled their ten thousand reb-
el troops in Charleston, and the rebel guns
belched forth against Sumpter, containing
Major Anderson and his gallant little band.
twas the signal that treason was in arms
and ready for fight! And when the news
flashed like lightning over the wires Of the
fall Of Sumter. and that our flag was dishen-
ored and trailed in the dust by the hands Of
rebels, not until then did the people Of the
North fully understand the situation and the
danger that the Union was in, and had to dy
from their count ing rooms, counters. work
shops, aad fields, to save the Union from utter
ruin.
Sir. this was slave holders rebellion. Al
though We were not accepted, at first to help
suppress this gigantic rebellion, but when III
hone was about lost, and the country was in
its greatest danger, We were called upon. Did
the colorcd man shrink back7 Mol They res
bonded to the Presidents call, and rallied
round the good old flag. On the field Of bat~
I'd the black men demonstrated that they we're
man. Bravely they fought and graadly they
died They showed courage and devotion
never surpassed. The battle might have been
won il they had not stepped into The breach,
but il would have been harder won--many .
mother would have mourned the 'loSS Of her
.on. the wife her husband, the sister her broth
er, who, by the aid Of The colorcd men, came
he~e wearing their lssrsls and crowned win
honor. After undergoing our full share OF
hardships ineidsntal to TIE War, for the sup
preston Of tho slave-holders' rebellion, and
wh.ls some of the colered boys in blue have.
h>lpSa % drive the savage TOO from Kanas.