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

| enough to crown with eternal glory and
honor those who dared to stand In the
gap. to risk all for the salvation OF the
country.
"But that is not ALL Oh, no. Let us
look still further at the record ofthis party
You know how, for years and years. we
hid our faces in shame because of that
greatest all disgraces, American Slavery.
When that institution, the sum of all VII
lainies, had plunged the country into a
terrible civil war, after three years OF for
bearance, Mr.. Lincoln issued his procla-
nation declaring if the Southern people
continued to murder Union soldiers hun
dred DAYS more, he would strike the insti-
tuition with the battle-ax of thewar power
and shatter it from turret to foundation
stone We stood by him unswervingly in
that exciting contest. Do you not remem-
Der how faithfully every one of you Re
publicans stood by our noble and martyred
standard-bearer Do you not remember
how we were denounced for it, and had in
vective and calumny heaped upon us with
out stint !; how we were called fanatics and
negro worshipers, and accused of making
war to free the negroes, and not to save
the Union In Congress, on the stump,
through the press, our enemies endeaVored
to overwhelm us with the torrent of calum-
ny But, inspired by the same devotion
to liberty and Union which inspired our
fathers in the Revolution, you perseVered,
unawed, unchecked by the tempest of in
vective that ragged around you upon every
side, and at last YOU triumphed You blot
ted the stain from the national escutcheGfi,
and at last you could stand up in the great
Republic, and proclaim, from the hundred
harbors of Maine to that far distant Pacif-
ic State whose foam is amber and whose
sand is gold, throughout the entire domain
of this vast Republic, that there was not a
single man who could stand up and call
himself master, nor call another man his
slave This, fellow-Republicans, was your
work, and of this you should be proud, as
one of the noblest legacies you can trans
NIT to your children. In this great act of
Justice and liberty you have been honored
by the world; and | sincerely believe ap-
proved by Almighty God. Where are the
men now who pointed the finger of seorn
at you, and who filled their mouths with
revilings at you, because you dared to
strike at Slavery? Not tongue Of these
men dare to wag now they are silent as
the tomb, every one of them. You and /
shall pass away, but what We have accom-
pished shall live in all future history, and
brighten under the eyes of posterity. AS
age after age rolls away, your children's S
children will rise up to call.you blessed
because in the midst Of civil war you dared
| to strike down this cursed institution of
Slavery because despite the ISLANDERS that
were heaped upon you, you banished Sla-
very forever from this fair Republic of
ours. Do you wonder that my heart throbs
with unutterable pleasure when [ think of
this, our glorious work But we have
still another honor in connection with this
work. Wehad noble President, faithful
to duty, faithful to the country, faithful to
the Constitution, and faithful against the
Rebellion. You well remember how all
the elements Of party bitterness were let
loose upon him how slandcr, and abuse
and calumny were heaped upon him, and
finally how he fell, pierced by the bullet
Of rebel assassin. Noblest of the Presi-
dents since the days of Washington, he
was denounced as no President ever was
reviled, and yet he reviled not again, but
pdIouSu hlo lIuC VI OuUy 10 GHC
end. Supported by noble patriotism,
his course was true and faithful to the day
he was numbered with the dead Dead,
did | say? He is not dead His is one
of the few Of the immortal names that were
not born to die. He lives to-day among
the noble martyrs to liberty, justice and
humanity, and in the recollections of the
dark-browed race he lifted from Slavery
to the full stature of manhood 1t is with
pride that we look back upon the fact that
we stood by him when the storm of war
ragged around him. We feel proud that
we stood firm in the cause of justice and
manhood against every wrong and oppres-
sion. To-day we feel proud that we have
saved nation and emancipated race,
and to-day we follow our great standard
bearer, the hero of the country, U. S.
Grant. Brave in battle, generous in vic
tory, retieent in speech, yet firm as the
eternal granite IN principle, and upon
whose banner these magic words are in
scribed: 'Let us have peace :" They
are four words only, bat volume is con-
tanned in them If there is a country in
in the world that wants peace, it is this
American Republic. We have passed
through a severe struggle for national ex-
istence. No land ever was required to
make such sacrifices as ours. We had to
heap up golden and living treasures upon
cur cOuntry'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 desolation.-