The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-09-21
An Address to Young Men.
By General Samuel FentOn Cary, Delivered
at Troy, New York, Oct, 1896.

H at Troy, New York, Oct, 1866.
[The following extract from the
great speech Of General Cary, at Troy,
New York, shortly after his removal |
from Office, is one Of the most thrilling
things in the political literature of
America. 1t is the peroration of a three
hours speech, made in behalf of Cover
nor Fenton, q cousin Of General Cary
The effect of this mighty outburst was
tremendous. General Cary himself was
deeply touched by it, He said he new
er Witnessed such a scene. The sublime
indictment of the Democratic party he
wrote out with his own hand, for the
Troy Times, in which it was originally
published.-ED. Con-.
"Young men, with which party do you
propose to identify yourselves Will
you enroll your names with the party OF
freedom and progress the party that
stood by the four millions of freedmen
in the struggle for the rights of man
the party that voted supplies and pour
ell out its treasures to sustain armies
and navies such as the world never saw
the party that gave Lincoln the second
time to be inaugurated as commander,
in-chief; the party that throughout the
long and terrible conflict never faltered;
the party that has written for the admi-
ration of mankind the brightest page of
history in the worlds annals Will you
sustain that Congress that proposes to
secure national citizenship to every mas
tive born man, woman and child of what
ever color or nationality, that hereafter
the declaration, Il am an American citi-
zen,' shall be a passport to favor thro'
GU. all lands, as the expression will en-
body ill that is suggestive Of liberty,
equality and justice2
"Will you sustain a Congress which
proposes to base representation in the
National Legislature upon the people to
to be represented that Congress that
says that the national debt incurred in
crushing out the rebellion shall be paid
to the utmost farthing, and that not a
farthing of the rebel debt shall ever be
| paid that Congress which is resolved
| that the tens of thousands of limbless
| soldiers of the Republic who have re
turned to their homes shall be pensioned
| and the widows and orphans of the three
| hundred thousand who returned no
more, shall be protected, honored and
supported Or will you vote with that
party which has gathered into it, as in
one great reservoir, all the treason of
the North and South ; that party, the
leaders Of which, during all the long
years OF war, said mot man, not dol
lar to preserve our nationality that
party, the leaders Of which denounced
'the boys in blue as 'hirelings' and
dogs and refused them the right Of
suffrage in the camp, in the field and
hospital that party, the leaders Of
which denounced the great and good
Lincoln as tyrant and usurper, and
nerved the arm of the assassin who took
his life-that party, the leaders of which
after four years Of strife, s!andered the
dead and insulted the living soldier, by
soIemnly declaring in National Conven
ton that the war was failure; that par
ty, the leaders of which exerted them
selves to discredit the money and bonds
of the Government by prociaiming theil
issue unconstitutional and their pcomis-
es to pay worthless; that party, the lea
ders Of which organized conspiracies il
the North to murder Governors, seiz,
prisoners and destroy by fire, sword ane
pestilence the property and lives of GU
; citizens; that party, the leaders of which
welcomed and piloted the infamous
Indiana and Ohio; that party which in
augurated a reign of terror in New Yorl
city in 1868, by burning orphan asy
lums, rapine and murder Will you
young men, embark your political for
tunes with party which to-day advo
Gates the immediate admission to th
halls Of Congress of men whose hand
are yet wet and dripping with the bloc
of our slain heroes; Of men who, whe
ministering in our offices under oath t
support the Constitution, were plottin
its destructio1-men who have adde
l perjury to murder, and treason to per
jury--men who have distinguished them
selves in rebel Congresses, and rebel al
!. mics, and rebel navies, by their acts @
4 inhumanity and barbarity--will 20
support party who propose to adm
to our legislative councils the very m e
who were abettinO the starvation of six
q ty thousand of our sons in Libby, Bell
2 Isle, Salisbury and Andersonville Al
!. you ready, young men, to identify YOU
!, selves with the guerilas and highway
men and bloody prosecutors OF Unto
Y man OF no SnufI, vuhnso a.,lu ocip,o ~yc