Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-21

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you know is the case now and that il
was not eight years ago, before the re-
bellIon was organized. 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 to
day that stands up against this wicked
proseriptive, and murderOus sentl-
ment in the South. and that is the
glorious Republican party of the
country. We-have said the power
shall not be put back into the hands
of these men, the executive, legisIa-
tive, 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
bulwaTk 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 all their lives, as
scalawags, and when they speak of
the brave soldiers and Others from the
North who have gone down there
anu SSNAAGns aeNo lllti9 ndu Nlic Ilklll lO
do, and call them carpet-baggers and
when you have seen their threats, in
the form of q wOod-cut representing
a gallows on which to hang, after next
March, those they call earpet-baggers
and native scalawags; when YOU see
the attempt to put these States back
again under the power and control of
rebels, if you consent to it, then / say
you are not worthy of the blood of the
brave soldiers that died &c destroy that
power and to entbrone loyalty in its
stead. + A voice, "TheyywiTl never get
it."] No, never while God reigns in
heaven. He sustained Us and our
country in the darkest hours. He
never saved our flag that it might be
surrendered back into the hands of
those who sought, though ineffectual-
ly, to destroy it He has prOspered US
as a nation, as no. other land was ever
prospered. He has saved US from
perils such as eneOmpassed no other
nation beneath the circuit of the sun.
He gave victory to loyalty ON the bat
tle-field, and he will give victory to
loyalty az the ballot-box. If We de
serve it we shall have peace, we shall
nave pIOlcCllOu W tNcIN AlAleEACali
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
Declaration of Independence-the
baptisnlal vow of our fathers-when
this Republic was born into the family
of nations, guaranteeing equality in
life, liberty, property, and protection
to all whom God created. To secure
this we have only to plant ourselves
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 heard, ringing all
over she Republic, "Proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all the inhabi-
tants thereof" we shall triumph be
cause we are striking for the right
We shall triumph because we are in
spired by the noblest principles that
ever animated a party. We shall tri-
umph because we are faithful to the
honored dead, over whose graves un-
repentant 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 from their fidelity and loyalty.
They went forth from loving wives
and happy homes, to extinguish 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 have over
their graves these threats of the men
power thew strllel. d9an -, =,
BY, all the memories of the saluted
dead; by all the blood shed so freely !;
by all the sacrifices of the nation, I
appeal to the thousands who stand be-
fore me, to so speak that the world
shall hear, that the American people
will not welcome unrepentant 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
and every friend of liberty
throughout the world will rejoice as he
hears the mighty voice of the people
proclaim that loyalty shall govern
what loyalty preserved. t~
When Mr.. COlfaX concluded his |
speech the audience, at the suggestion
If Hon. H. $. Lane, gave him three |
lines three cheers. Then followed a
'ush to the stand, everybody wishing
o shake his hand.