The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-10-15

oled prisoners OF war. When he becomes
President, whenever treason dares to raise
its head he will strike it down. Every
man who dares to raise his hand against
his fellow-man will be-met with the stern
power of the Government Grant will
give protection to all through the nations
strength. This is what Grant intends to
do, and what he believes the duty of the
! Executive as [ know from his own declar-
ations. These Ku-Klux outrages must
cease. You remember In 1860, eight
years ago, there were threatenings in the
7Soueh. They said they were going to
rebel ; you did not believe it then, but it
was stern reality. Do you know they
are better prepared to-day, than they were
then? They didn't then have this organ
lied Ku-Klux Klan, the existence of
which has been denied but no man can
deny 1t now. No man rises up to deny
what Forrest has acknowledged, that this
is powerful and armed organization ready
to do It's work. In 1860, you know, men
dared to stand up in the South and de-
nounce Secession, and declare their devo-
ton to the Union now no man can do so
without being in danger of his life
Speakers in the South teach people to os-
tracise those who speak in defense of the
Union. This you know is the case now,
and that it was not eight years ago, be
fore the Rebellion was organizeds 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 I'm
ion
''There is only one party that stands up
to-day against this wicked, proscriptive
and murderous sentiment in the South
and that is the glorious Republican party
of the country. We have said the powe:
shall not be put back into the hands of
these men, the executive, legislative, and
judicial power of these States to use as
they used that same power eight years ago
IN raising armies to destroy the nation
The Republican party is the only bulwark
against this state Of things being repeated.
When you see, in the South, the newspa-
pers, which express public opinion, speak
of Union men, who have lived there all
their lives, as scalawags, and when they
speak of the brave soldiers and others from
North who have gone down there and set
tied, as they had the right to do, and call
them carpet-baggers and when you have
seen their threats, In the form Of wood
cut representing a gallows on which to
hang, after next March, those they call
carpet-baggers and native scalawags; when
you see the attempt to put those States
back again under the power and control of
Rebels-if you consent to it, 1 say, then 1
say you are not worthy of the blood of the
brave soldiers that died to DESTROY that
power and to enthrone loyalty in its stead
A voice, ''They will never get it, No,
never, while God reigns in heaven. He
sustained us and our country in the dark
est hours. He never saved our flag that
it might be surrendered back into the
hands of those who sought, though inef-
fectually, to destroy it. He has prospered
us as a nation as no other laud was ever
prospered. He has saved us from perils
such as encOmpassed no other nation be-
meath 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 it, 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 an
cient or modern history. We shall rec
ognize the immortal principles of the
Declaration of independence, the baptis-
NAL VOW of our fathers when this Republic
was born into the family of nations, guar
teeing equality in life, liberty, property,
and protection to all whom God created.
To secure this, we have only to plant our
selves on the eternal rock of right, as We
did when we arrayed ourselves against the
wrongs of Slavery. He converted what
was intended as crusade of Slavery into
an onward march for Liberty, and you
have 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 triumph, because we are
inspired by the noblest principles that
ever animated a party. We shall trl-
umph because we are faithful to the hon
ored dead, over whose graves unrepentant
traitors have dared to repeat their treason.
They did not give their hearts blood to !
relinquish these States into the hands OF
those who murdered them for their fdeli-
ty and loyalty They went forth from
loving wives and happy homes to extin-
guish the embers of rebellion, never, as
they hoped, to be rekindled. 1t seems to
me they must turn in their bloody shrOuds
to-day as they hear over their graves the
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 be-
fore me- to so speak that the world shall
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