Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-11


glad blessing all over the continent. They
didn't like that; and yet they will go
/. around the country and say they rejoice
, that slavery was abolished. They didn't
do IL. And if We had waited until the
! Democratic party had done IL, IL never
! would have been done, never but zoe did
+ t. And as l said before, II is one Of the
, brightest triumphs Of the Union party.
We hold II up, and to-day the eyes of the
world are upon this great people that shed
such lustre upon their name and glory
upon their race by that act Of emancipa-
tion. [Applause.1
Tho Democrats did not like confscation
either. They thought Il would never do
that these poor traitors should be deprived
Of their property. All they did was TO
try to break down the Government |
There was nothing the matter with them
except being traitors Is that not the
highest crime known TO the law9 But
this Democratic party could not bear to
see the property OF their brothers at the
South taken away from them; they didn't
like that. Didn't like the Confscation
act. All ha | that was what tried mems
souls and pockets. They didn't like that (;
none of us like II much but the Demo.
cratic party didn't like II at all. In Ohio,
In 1868, for the first time they began to
would not stand II they would die in the
last ditch before they would serve in the
armies of the Union, If they were drafted.
They held meeting at Dublin, In our
county. General Osborne knows Il well,
and George Hewes was the orator of the
day, and he Is orator yet He has not
changed one mite, and at that meeting
they passed two resolutions--the first was
that the draft was unconstitutional, and
the second was that they never would sub
NIT to IT, No, they would die at their
doorsteps In defense of their wives and
children, rather than submit to the draft
II was so all over the State of Ohio In
Holmes county they formod a regiment to
resist the draft bad their companies and
their officers; and their drum and fife I;
had their old muskets, and aTrayeed them
| selves TO resist the draft. David Tod was
| Governor of the State at that time-a
Democratic Governor. He sent out To
Camp Chase and ordered company of
seventy-five men to 60 TO Holmes county
TO meet these Democrats that had assem-.
bled there TO overthrow not the rebellion,
but the draft. They went there and en-
tered the valley where these men were as
| sembled-and here let me tell you that
Holmes county is the banner county of
the Democracy. Oh 1t is deep there and
dark there are some hollows there where
the sun don't shine more than three hours
a day, and the least enlightened the peo-
| pie are, the most intense the Democratic
sentiment. Some of them like darkness
better.
None of them could he found after
wards, except struggling round the coun-
| try. Occasionally they would find fell
low who had got an old horse and an old bag
which he had placed on its back, and, with
his constitution in his hands, had mounted
going along the road. They would ask
him If he had had anything to do with re-
sistng the draft. No. lie was going to
the mill about seven miles Off Ilaughterl
didn't know anything about it. So, down
in Butler county, 0hat is another ban.
ner county of the Democracy, they
assembled and resolved that they would
resist these "tyrannical eXactions" of the
country but didn't do it, They had not
courage enough to do it, And when these
messengers of death came along that they
were going to kill, they were not there.
Laughter. Their devotion to the coun-
try was such as to cause them to go to
parts uuknown-could not be found In
one of the wards of our city, when they
were drafted, there were not men enough
to respond, and that Democratic ward,
and yet four months afterwards when the
election came of, they had one hundred
and forty majority there. Laughter.
These fellows who were going to die In |
defense of their homes didn't die. They |
lived to run away, and lived TO fight some |
other day. and tell you there was moth. |
ing so dear to the Democratic eye in those |
days of tribulation as negro. All how |
admirable a negro was In the eye of a |
Democrat that had been drafted. You |
could see them running all over the coun.
try endeavoring to find some colored |
gentleman who was willing to go to war |
They were not willing TO spill any blood,
but they were willing to spill the money |
out of their pockets to get somebody that
was ready and willing to go to the front.
Irecollect on the day of the .draf( In one
of the towns in our State, that a leading
Democrat who had been drafted in the |
morning, found colored gentleman who
was ready 10 go, and he took the colored
gentleman by the arm and walked up TO
the Provost Marshal's office. He couldn't
smell negro then. Laughter There
was Il sweet odor about the colored gentle
man then; and there was nothing so
pleasant to one of these Democrats-so
odorous-as the tracks that the negroes ,
had made from Kentucky TO Canada, and
there was nothing so beautiful in the 9
heavens as the North Star The Demo.
Gratis began to study astronomy for the I
first time in their lives. They had never !
looked 80 high, and have never looked so q
high since. With the aid of the North
Star and the scent of the negroes tracks, @
they made their way through the country,
where the Constitution was being tram. 4
Piled under foot, to that delightful land of o
under the rule of Queen
Victoria-they that loved their wives and G
their children, and never would desert Y
ihnNN 90 Nl..a
culiar hour of trial for them and of they II
went to Canada, and there they met their Q
half brothers and half sisters from Vir- ?
ginia and Kentucky. Laughter They a
had no objection to amalgamation there. Q
They sang the Happy Land of Canaan"
and danced Juba by the hour.
Now, my fellow citizens, this is the rec. q
ord of the Democratic party. A voice,
LOUDER l say, they remained in Can
ada with their half brothers and half sis.
ters until the war was over, and they sang !
sweet Canaan and danced Juba and then |
when the war was over they all returned {
and found IL was constitutional to get
home in any way. Now this is the record. {
These are the men that are now going 7
around the country protesting great devo- I
tion to the soldiers of the country. G
Here in 1864, in your own city here was |
Henry Clay Dean and friend, EXCHANGED. 4
lor Burr, Of New Jersey, and a fellow by v
the name Of Trainor from our State of /
Ohio, in your streets, denouncing your sol. '
diers as assassins and robbers and yet I
they say they carried on the war. They
called you soldiers the minions of tyranny, s
and spoke of you as "these hired assas- |
sins" and these are the men now going I
through the length and breadth Of the /
land, endeavoring to seduce "the boys in
blue from their fidelity TO the country
and from their first love to the Union /
You cannot find in the Democratic pa
pers of 1862 and '03 q tribute of admira. s
tion given TO the brave boys in blue.
II gives this Democratic party immense I
good to get few stragglers from the {
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