Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-10-16

American Republic. We have passed
through severe struggle for national ex.
istence. No land was ever required N
make such sacrifices as our. Wo had TO
heap up golden and living treasures upon
cur oountry's altar; the noblest and best
went forth to prove their devotion to the
flag of our fathers. Now, In the language
Of our leader, Let us have peace. We
want no more taxes; no more drafts; no
more carnage and bloodshed, and dosola.
ton No, no. When we reflect that this
rebellion is only TO be remembered In
broken hearts, numberless graves and
enormous debt, we can all say we want
no more war, hut we want loyalty to be
triumphant, and we want peace through
Justice liberty, nationality and security TO
all. [Groat applause. Are we going TO
have thcmH /" Yes when we elect Grant
and Colfax"l Yes there Is one man who
commanded peace, who struck down and
drove those who waged war into the last
ditch, and sent them homo rs paroled
prisoners of war. When he becomes
President, whenever treason dares 10 raise
Its hoad he viii strike II down. Every
man who dares 20 raise his hand against
his fcllow.man will be met with the stern
give protection 10 all, through the nations
strength This is what Grant intends TO
do, and what he believes the duty of the
Executive, IA l know from his own de-
olarations lGreat applause.1
These Ku Klux outrages must cease
You remember in 1860, eight years ago
there were throatonings in the South.
They said they were going TO rebel; you
did not believe II then, but it was stern
reality, Do you know that they are
better prepared to-day than they were
thenY They didn't then have this organ.
lied Ku-Klux Klan, the existence Of
which has been denied but no man can
deny IL now. No man now rises
up TO deny what Forrest has acknowl-
edged, that this is n powerful and armed
organization, ready TO do its work. In
1860, you know, men dared to stand up In
the South and denounce secession, and
declare their devotion to the Union; now
no man can do so without being In danger
of his life. Speakers in the South teach
the people TO ostracZe those who speak In
defense of the Union. This you know Is
the case now, and that It was not eight
years ago, before the rebellion was organ
ized. These outrages are encouraged by
the men who then controlled these states,
and thereby organized the Confederacy
and raised the armies of the rebellion to
crush the Union. There Is only one party
10 day that stands up against this wicked,
proscriptive and murderous sentiment In
the South, and that is the glorious Re
publican party of the country. We have
said the power shall not be put back into
the hands of those men, the executive,
legislative and judicial power Of these
States, touse as they used that same power
eight years ago, In raising armies to des-
troy the nation.
The Republican party Is the only bull
wark against this state of things being
repeated When you see, in the South,
the newspapers, which express public
opinion, speak of Union men, who have
lived there MI their lives, as scalawags,
and when they speak of the brave soldiers
and others from the North who have gone
down there and settled, rs they had the
right to do, and call them et.baggers
and when you have seen their threats, in
the form of a wood-cut representing gal
lows on which to hang, after next March,
those they call carpet-baggers and native
scalawags; when you see the attempt to
put these States back again under the
power and control of rebels, II you consent
to II, then shy you arc not worthy of the
blood of the brave soldiers that died TO
destroy that power and enthrone loyalty
In its stead A voice. "They will never
get it"l No; never, while God reigns in
heaven. He sustained us and our country
in the darkest hours. He never saved our
flag that IL might be surrendered back into
the hands of those who sought, though In
etfectually, to destroy it. He has prosper
ed us, as u nation, rs no other land was
ever prospered. He has saved us from
beneath the circuit of the sun. He gave
victory to loyalty on the battlefield, and
he will give victory TO loyalty at the bal
lot-box. If we deserve II we shall have
peace; we shall have protection TO every
American citizen, South and North, at
home and abroad and with this we shall
have stability, progress and power, and
the grandest march of any nation in
ancient or modern history. We shall
recognize the immortal principles of the
Declaration of Independence-the bap-
tismal vow of our fathers-when this Re
public was born into the family of nations,
guaranteeing equality in life, liberty, prop.
erty and protection to all whom God Gre
ated To secure this we have only to
plant ourselves on the eternal rock of
right, as we did when we arrayed our
selves against the wrongs of slavery.
He converted what was intended as q
crusade for slavery into an onward march
for liberty, and you heard, ringing all
over the Republic, "Proclaim liberty
throughout the land, to all the Inhabitants
thereof" We shall triumph because we
are striking for the right We shall trl-
umph because we arc inspired by the
noblest principles that ever animated a
party. We shall triumph because we are
faithful to the honored dead, over whose
graves unrepentant traitors have dared to
repeat their treason. They did not give
their hearts blood to relinuuish these
States into the hands of those who mur.
dered them for their fidelity and loyalty.
Thoy went forth from loving wives and
happy homes, to eXtinguish the embers of
rebellion, never, as they hoped, to be re-
kindlod. II seems TO me they must turn
in their bloody shrouds to-day, as they
hear over their graves these threats of the
men whose power they struck down.
BY all the memories of the sainted |
dead; by all the blood shed so freely; by
all the sacrifices of the nation, appeal TO |
the thousands who stand before me, to SO
speak that the world shall hear that the
American people will not welcome unro-
pentant traitors to their Cabinet to rule
this country nor to their Congress to
make laws to govern the widows and
children of men they slew upon hundreds
Of bat,le.flelds; and every friend of liberty
throughout the world will rejoice as he
hears the mighty voice of the people that
oyalty shall govern what loyalty pre-
served.
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