Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-08-26

WHAT next Z WnY one saws II is cruz
to give the negro the ballot down there
| am not discussing in detail. bat her
is plain proposition I'm the South 70
and l know that nineteen-twentieth
} of the white population were rebeli
Now they may have been honest
believe that q majority who stood will
rebel muskets in their hands, were jus
as sincereas you or ]. l charge n
want of sincerity but they were ret
els. Now every negro was loyal; b
was the friend Of the poor Federal sol
dier. and gave him lodging in his cab
in, fed him and helped him on his wal
when fugitive from rebel captivity
But when was the time when the sol
of Ethiopia turned traitor to the meI
who wore the blue? Never never.
He knew before Lincoln's proclamation
that the war was about him, and yoJ
and knew it; our oonsciences told it
the God of our being had been breath
ing upon the altar of American phi
lanthropy warm blasts for justice, tell
ing US, away with this erime-this mon
strosity- Down, oh down with thii
system that barters in the life and i'm
age of the God of the people, Dowr
with it. This is what we all felt, anc
the negro in his cabin felt it when he
heard of Donelsou, Shiloh, and Stone
River, and he knew that God wa:
marching on, and now that father
Abraham had spoken; he heard
of liberty; and tonight, with
that enfranchised slave, l thank God
that We can realize that we are a nstion
of freedom, face from the shackles and
ehsiDs that disgraced US. Fellow citi.
zens, is not that loyal negro who took
your poor boys by the hand in the
thickets of Georgia and led him to his
cabin. clothed and fed him. and helped
him to find our lines, when Just escap-
ed from the desth-pen at AndersonVilIe
is not he fit to WELD ballot that
shall govern rebel?
l protest in the name of the great
spirit of my age, in the name Of my
country and public conscience, against
banding over four millions of loyal
blacks to the tender mercies of eight
millions of rebels unless armed with
the ballot. We have given it to them,
never to be taken away from them.
There is no instance on record in his
tory where a people once enfranchised
have given up the ballot. But mult
hasten to close l think the clouds
above indicate a rain. Our Convention
has brought shower, and think thst
at Clyde will bring another. (Laughter.l
Who are the Republican nominees ?
Why, U. S. Grant, the tsuner boy of
Ohio, who, but eight years since, was
selling leather in Galena, and who went
to tanning rebels in 1862, tanned them
out, and in 1868 was nominated by
the Republicans. When he said to
Push on" when Lee sur
rendered the rebellion to the grasp of
the little man of destiny, he became
the candidate of the loyal people in
their hearts. Now, my fellow citizens,
what was the purpose of these govern
ments South? To secure life and
Their fields have been laid
desolste, towns burned. Let US make |
life and property safe; let emigrants |
60 down there and subject the forests
and unworked lands. The garden of
Gods whole earth are there in the
valleys of the South. Oh, men of the |
South, lCok South. There, little boys
ook South, where those mighty rivers
which take source in the mountains
)f the Northwest roll onward to the /
Southern gulf. What a country to be
cursed by slavery 1t has now fallen.
Labor knows it has, and seeks this
prize, and as it goes on we say you
hall have peace, protection and quiet,
md 1t shall be as safe for you there as
n Ohio or Massachusetts,. Is not that
light? The Democrats want that. 7
SIX no more. Then let US have it.
Did you ever get along any better than
on have in the last eight years1
,now somebody will say yes. l know
hat the last eight years have been
ears of sadness. Deaths Angel has
cen at every heartbstone; | know
hat the land is mourning; that Rach-
Is weep for their slain that the pesti-
snce of war has done its work, but
notwithstanding that, ses how the God
nat was with US has held US up in the
lidst of these sacrifices Why, in
ne midst of this war that covered
ne sea with pirate ships and swept /!
1r commerce from the waters, we still !
We raised more grain than
e could eat Our sturdy men on the (
lsins of Minnesota manufactured -four
nd fed Europe. We were not poor
he music of the shuttle and spindle
as still heard the forge still smoked
the valley, and the pick of the
liner was heard in the mountain.
our industry was only
lusled by our courage and perssver- :
ice in the field. Are we not nation? ,
Look at it. During this great war !.
9 have populated empires. A quar- :, =
T of a millioa of Europeans have l
me to our land, and instead of thirty a
ur we have thirty-seven States. In II
at war the first spike of the great o.
sci6c Railway was driven, and the
1n-horse from the workshops of Mas q
chusetts stands on the rugged cliffs 2,
the Rocky fountains, and before y
,tober, 1869, the oceans will be bound n
gether by iron track sDd tslegrsphic y
re, and the commercs of nations
oking to America, will say Beloved se s
nerical In the hour of her trouble y
e prospers. Beloved America n
med against herself, she still lives. q
loved America! Weeping at q u
llion graves, her population still ei
,ms up. Look at America In all 50
r Observation-Disclosures poor Ct
X up. and say al am man." Have ~
not accomplished thisf Look at Pe
> tide of emigration sweeping along u
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and New N N
.xico. Fellow-citizens, stand by the az
intry. ask you to stand by me. u
m poor, feeble, weak soon to sink OF
/ molder with my native dust, and tn
Iers will stand in my place and wear 81
mantle far more worthy than my an
{, but oh, pray you stand by your u
Intry, grasping at the great ideas of ~
BIT. Settle your questions and differ VI
,es like rational, intelligent beings co
| God will be with US in the future Ge
D the past and to our thirty seven Fe'
tes more viii be added, our com-
roe will enlarge, and to our popula- Or
/ will be added fifty millions more co
njoy the blessings and freedom and no
rty of these shores, and all shall Gel
their voices in one united testimo- goI
and exclaim glory to the men Of '76. GU
Y to the heroes of 1912, sll honor tn'
he men who save the nation from no
1lation, and re-established the unity lnf
he Government. l thank you for t"'
7 attention. (Greatapplause.l ing
ractical railroad men clam that on ten
BILE track roads the trains should in
on tho left, because of the greater
ance which can be seen around a
"a Tbia p,athod IL t,pifornolv fol