Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-10-15


4 Nor was this ALL r. In the mid
Q of this terrible conflict, when ever
/ family was crimsoned with blood
@ when every church yard was crowt
ed by patriot graves,our mob
, Chief Magistrate recognized !
; slavery the source Of all our woe
q issued his PROCLAMATION which ha
y made his name immortal in all tb
Fages that are to come, Lion
Cheers, cst,,.a,,., ai oa,
t right arm Of this rebellion, its in
/. spring cause, its strength and bul
w9rk, if they continued it one hun
dred days longer, he would strik
! that institution with the battle-a
of the war power, and shatter i
: from turret tb foundation stone.
. afH You stood by him in that strug
gle for liberty. You strengthened
his hanaAhd encouraged his heart
and while you did so, around you
on every side, were poured the
iVials of wrath. You were reyileC
as fanatics. You were denounced
as negro7worshippers. You was
Istigmatized asi having converted
/ this war for the, Union into war to
free negroes. Inevery way that
ingenuity could invent, or that
malice could devise, opprobinm
was heaped upon you, But with
| the same lofty devotion to liberty
! with. which opr fathers went forth
into their struggle for independence
you stood fast TO your principles.
You bore those malignant attacks
undismayed, and at last you
achieved the victory. At last the
final triumph was won. Slavery,
that vile stain upon our national
escutcheon, was wiped away for
ever, and we had the satisfaction Of
saying that from hundred hqrbored
Maine to the far distant State
which opens. to the sunset q path
way of gold, there was not a man
who dared call himself master, or
call another his slave, Cheers.
This was your noble, heroic,
patriotic work ! How tripmphantly
have you been vindicated Where
are now the men who then de-
nounced and villifed you? They
are on that issue as silent as the
grave, Not one of them dares to
wag his tongue against your work,
You have been the most magnif
icentlys indorsed party that ever
existed. Our enemies being our
judges, we are vindicated before
the onrloeking world, This is a
record of which you have a right
to be proud. A8a II a4wa
A few more years at most, and
all these thousands shall have
away-we shall have been
laid beneath the clods Of the val
lev. But what we have accom-
plished ir this great struggle shall
live in history, frightening under |
the eye of posterity, as age after
noe shall roll away, and vour chill I
iren, and your children's children,
shall arise and call YOU blessed 1
because amid the chaos of civil
war, YOU dared to attack this vile
nstjtution-because Won hurled
his Young and progressive party
lpainst this Internal wrong with L
me hand, while YOU struck down
he rebellion with the other. Il
This was your work. .Isit NOT n
.ecord to make MS all proud of our
in the marty that &C.
.omnlisbed Il?
Do Won wonder that nv ' heart {
wells a as / feel that this glorious |
york is part and parcel of nv his. ]
ory as L is Of yours. and that it is I
rtitten down on the paoes Of orr
atoms history. where no &c one can
ver erase Il bnt where Fl shall I
tand 10 onr' eternal honor in oil (
gos tbot are 10 como {
Morris tbat ali Van had a noble s
,roe.beoTtcd. natriotic President, |
lithfpl to his oath, faithful to the
ana l9lIhlul against
nc fe0elilon' IKE Narfo, ne ney-
oespalEeq ol ING rePuollc, re
'as Wiling 70 go do"h Win Vle !
llhs OF MS country ratnef lhan
20 II surFenqereo lnVo lpe hanaS Oh
; ellehles'GH, H9-a . re
ou remember now nltterly ne y
as aenouhceq ana VllilHeo as q IN
espot' now ne was llkcned TO Nv
efeI ana Cailgql9' anq 70 every p
rant whose qark qeeds blackened Fl
le pages OF mstorSl 9e was "
tanpep as a Taltor'aY Yllll1led as 2 a
'lFper1 anq denounced asa despot' d
Ut you steod py MN IN these S
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