The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-18

ing alllances, and refused material aIC
to other States who struggled for thei
. freedom, yet there was scarcely al
American heart that did not blecC
: over the wrongs of Greece and Po
land, of Italy and Hungary. ON
hearts were fired by the story of The
Swiss Cantons, and the men of Ruth
We almost defied Them;stocles, lie
onidas and Bozzaris, Tell and Koscius
ko; and now we have embalmed in oul
hearts the names of those yet living
, patriots, Kossuth and Garabaldi. II
each of these we see the representa-
tive of lost cause, and in plaintivC
strain we join with Byron
l..Ye isles OF Greooe-ye isles OF Greece
Where burning SapphO loved and sung
Where DelOs rose and PhebuS sprung,
Eternal Summer gilds ye yet.
Gut all exoe ut your sun is set"
i In our own glorious success, may
be found the germ of an ultimate tri
umph for these ruined and down
ltrodden States.
To estimate Alright the real magni.
tude and worth of our triumph, we
should consider the circumstances un
der which it was achieved. We took
control Of the Government under the
most trying hour of its history, with
a war of unparalleled magnitude al,
ready begun. The nation disarmed;
its mints and its arsenals robbed; lis
forts dismantled, or the guns turned
against us; our gallant little navy un-
der the direction of the traitor Tou-
sey scattered to the four winds. Al
most the entire army,-small and in
consideratc, it is true-already sur
rendered byTwiggs to the rebel power;
the national treasury exhausted; our
credit so broken down that our bonds
were being hawked in Wall and State
streets bearing IL per cent. interest.
Such was the condition of things
when the Republican party came into
power on the 4th of March, 1851
Tracked by assassins, opposed and vii
lifted by traitors, our President, with
a high trust in God, and firm rcli-
ance uponthe patriotismof the North
ern people, went to work to save the
Government from the anarchy and
war into which the crimes of an apos-
tate and reasonable Democracy had
thrown it.
trust | have said enough, and vet
L have recited but few of those facts
which might easily be brought forward
to fix upon the Democratic party the
undivided responsibility of the war of
rebellion. i charge upon them then,
without fear of retutation, the "crimc
of history with no disposition to
magnify or distort the wickedness of
the rebellion.
L beg yOu to consider the people
involved in its guilt. They make no
defense that would stand them one
moment in court of Justice, or at the
bar of common sense. From the
foundation of the Government up,
they had been the subjects of It's
greatest partiality, enjoying vastly
undue proportion of the public pat
ronage. They had furnished an al
most unbroken line OF Presidents.
Men who belonged either geographi-
cally, or morally and politically to
them. They controlled the Supreme
Court-another coordinate branch of
the Government. BY themselves and
their allies they swayed the Legisla-
tive department. They had much
more than their share in the diplomat
ic and consular service. The militia
ry and naval schools were to great
extent given up to them.
When 1t was complained in the
presence Of Senator Hammond, that
the South had always governed the
Yes. and we have always
done it well,'' was the naughty and
false reply.
1t is not necessary to enter into an
argument to prove that the South had
no cause for rebellion. Their own re.
iterated admissions stand against them
on the RECORD, and it was clearly
" loves labor lost,'' for the Ohio De
mocracy, in 1861, to be sending, in
the name of 100000 Democrats, such
ostentatious tokens of sympathy and
friendship, charging that the North
had not fulfilled its duties to the Con
stitution and the South. How such
rebels as Rhett and Iverson, and
Brown and Young, must have pOked
each others ribs in derisive laughter
at this vile sycophancy,
When did one of those rebels, who
signalized his disloyalty by taking up
arms against the Government, talk in
such strains as the ''Oiiy Cannon" of
Ohio Democracy? Take a specimen
of that speech delivered in the House
of Representatives, on the 18th of
January, 1861: Fifteen States of
this Union come to you to-day with
these complaints What complaints?
What fifteen States ? -Four of those
eleven States that did secede had al
ready passed ordinances of secession.
They were not there asking for re-
dress of grievances. But, Mr.. Pen
dleton goes on: .'Hear them. They
tell you they have grievances. Re-
dress them. They say they have
of wrong. Assuage
them. Gentlemen, remove overy
cause--of agitation and irritation,
however unfounded you may deem it,
Ahi remove the cause of agitation
and irritation! Though unfounded
and therefore innocent, surrender your
manhood-ignore the right-crucify
the truth, to assuage the Kissing of a
brood of treason-plotting vipers =
You might do 50, Representative
Pendleton. l take you to be the very
man who would do it, and therefore
unfit for the place you occupy. "They
have committed acts of passion and
wrong. Apprehensive of armed coer-
cion, exasperated by a sense of
domestic insecurity, they may have
seized our forts and arsenals, taken
possession of our arms, and in some
cases treated harshly our citizens. Re
member, the men who come to you
are bone of our bone, and flesh of
our flesh;' "they are our fellow citi-
zens and our BRETHREN Yes, sir.
and so is every son of Adam, and
therefore, every murderer and fratri-
eide since the day of Cain or of Cata-
line.
This, then, was the rose-colored ad-
vice counselled by Democracy
That government hitherto respected,
able and willing to maintain the rights
of her citizens at home and abroad,
wheresOever on the face of the earth.
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