Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-24
MORE OF CARY,s SPEECH AT
TROY.


On the first page we publish an ex-
tract from a speech delivered by S. F.
Cary at Troy, New York, in October,
1866. Since this extract was in type we
have received the following additional
instaIlment of the speech, which should
preeede that on the first page:
"Our brothers, fathers, sons have not
made their forced marches, languished
in hospitals, died in battle, starved in
prison pens, simply to preserve the in
tegrity of the Republic and maintain
the superiority Of u Northern eivili-
cation. They were vindieatingt the im-
mortal, the divine truth asserted in
the Declaration of Independence, aye,
promulgated by the Almighty, Of the
universal IGtbeThOod Of God aud the
brotherhood of q We had made
merchandise of Gods image; we had
insulted the o of His Son by deny
ing manhood to millions of those for
whom he died our statesmen had pro-
claimed that this was a white mans
government /; our legislators had de-
clared it a crime to teach a black man
to cad ChEist's ermO on the mount /;
our judges had deereed that in this Re
public man with q dark skin had no
rights which q white man was bound
to respect; ministers ofthe everlasting
Gospel maintained that slavery was
the normal condition of the African,
or that his manhood was politi-
cal question with which the pulpit had
nothing to do. And thus the sublime
and divine truth that each individual
of every rae color and cline had an
equal right with all others to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness, was
repndiated. But the Jewel truth of
the divine right of manhood, not of
kings, came ove in the Mayhower
with the simple-hearted Pilgrims, and
like the little stone cut out of the
mountain without hands, is to fill the
whole earEh.' Our boys in blue have
exhibited q heroism and performed
deeds of Yalor unparalleled in history.
God was with them, for they were
striking chains from the limbs Of His
children, The blood they shed was
sacred, for, like Christ, they died that
manhood might be d~isenthralled. The
ground where they fell is holy, for the
martyrs of liberty c-onsecrated it with
their blood. The martyred Lincoln,
the murdered Lyon, Wordsworth, Nc
PhersOn and their three hundred thou
sand comrades, died that -dOwn-trOd-
den, oppressed, buried humanity might
have a glorious resurrection-that this
nation, the favorite child of Divine
Providence, clothed with new vigoT
and beauty, might be given over to a
Durer and higher civilization, as a bride
adorned for her husband. The ashes
of the nations slain in this war viii
be treasured and guarded by the affeo-
ton of all C~hristendom. In after years,
when this vast continent shall be peo-
pied with five hundred millions of in
telligent, nberty-lOying, happy people.
when it shall become the garden of the
Lord, and when this nation shall be
the evangelizer of the world, the dis
CENTRALIZED and enfranchised of all lands
will scatter flowers and drop tears OF
gratitude upon the tombs of our fallen
heroes, and their names viii be held in
everlasting remembrance. Then the
leading rebels in the South and the
Copperhead allies in the North will be
remembered only to be exeerated for
ever.