The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-08-20
Gov. Clayton. He said that Clay.

Gov. Clayton. He said that Clay
ton came here with trunk and was
a little bigger than a ''carpet bag
ger" The man who uttered this,
depressed intense devotion to the
Union and the Constitution. And
yet that man had tried to destroy
lboth. Clayton did not come here
with a carpet sack He came with
"a haver sack! He brought with
him the flag of his country, and the
Constitution of his fathers, and had
around him chosen band of brave
men whose blood had run like wa
ter in defense of that flag and that
Constitution! And when he so
came, and when his men bled amain
on Arkansas soil, and met this very
speaker amid those who sought the
destruction of the Union and of the
Constitution, he remained upon the
soil that he wrestled from the hands
of it's enemies: and to-day these
very men come up and denounce
him as a usurper and carpet bag
man, and claim that they who tried
to destroy, are better qualified now
to maintain and preserve that Con-
Estitution which has been baptized
by the blood of his brave comrades
in arms, and rendered doubly dear
to him by his own sacrifice.
BY reading the Democratic Plat
form it will be seen that these Ar
kansas Democrats endorse and re-
turn thanks to the soldiers of the
Union for their gallant defence of
the Republic. Had the speaker ut
tered such a sentiment he would
have been denounced as traitor to
his section.
These loud -mouthed advocates of
Democracy, these men who are not
whipped yet, are of the class who
never did fight for the Confederacy,
and never will fight. He himself
had surrendered in '63, and they
were rebels in '65. He surrendered
early, they held on to the last and
why ?-because their leaders were
profitatly engaged in running cot
ton through the blockade, and max
ing soft places for themselves to
fall in. Is it not notorious that
Kirby Smith was running of cotton,
while the mass of the people of the
South were held up against the Fed
eral bayonets, until the cotton-ope-
rators should get their property and
themselves safe and sound?
The speaker proceeded to criti
else that portion of the resolutions
of the Democratic Convention which
refers to the services of "our sol
diers." Our soldiers! Just think
of it! Imagine Bedford Forrest
voting for a resolution of thanks
and appreciation to "our soldiers,
who carried the flag Of our country" "
Surely the Democratic party is
growing in grace; but not in the
kno Wedge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Democratic party is the par
ty whose principles led to the wal
whose followers fought at the
South in the rebellion, whose ad-
herents opposed the war in the
North, did all they could to bind
the arms of the government, and
whose croakings about defeat, fail
ure, and disaster, were only drown
ed by the shouts of victory that roll
ed up from the battle fields made
immortal by the success of "ou1
soldiers
The Republican party is the party
which carried on the war-which
saved the government over the com
bined wings Of the Democratic par
ty, the one in arms in the South
the other slzulking in the North and
stabbing the government from be
hind, and it is from this party that
the Democracy would tear the rule
of the nation. It is to this party
that the Democracy say that we who
tried to destroy the government are
better qualified now to rule it thar
you who saved it!
In conclusion, the speaker, brief
ly reviewed the course, of the Dem
ocratic party Of Arkansas, in the
fruitless consumption ofpublic mon
ey. When the Murphy government
that through sunshine and storm
had stood by the Union, had amass
ed a sum of money, the cry rose
that two-t thirds white majority o.
the State must be considered in the
conduct of its government These
heroes, fresh not from the battle
!. field but from the cotton field, came
in and 'sgobbled'' the last cent; and
now they cry out, These carpet
bag men will steal!'' These Dem
ocratic friends of ours have plum.
dered the public treasury for thirty
years, and have given us nothing
if anybody is to steal, let the Yam
kess steal-they will give us some
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