The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-09-24
gEE MORNING. SEPTEMBER a. 1869
From the Cincinnati Commercially
AN ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN.

= From the Cincinnati Commercially
e AN ADDRESS TO YOUNG MEN.
ar BY General Samuel FentOn Cary Deli,
cred mt Troy, New York, October
Z 1866.
The following extract from th
Il great speech of General Cary, q
g rrov, New York, shortly after hi
II removal from office, is one of tn
i most thrilling things in the politica
S literature Of America. 1t is the pc
e roratiOn of a three hours speech
c made in behalf of Governor Fenton
t a cousin of Genera, Cary. The eff
t feet Of this mighty outburst wa.
tremendous. General Cary himsel
! was deeply touched by it. He sale
he never witnessed such a scene
The sublime indictment of the Dem
ocratic party he wrote out with his
own hand, for the Troy Times. in
which it was originally published. l.
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 poured out its treasures
To sustain armies and navies such as
The world never saw; the party that
gave Lincoln the second time to be
inauSurated as commander-in chief;
the party that throughout the long
and terrible conflict never faltered :;
the party that has written for the
admiration Of mankind the brightest
page of history in the worlds an.
nalS2 Will you sustain that Con.
gress that proposes to secure nation
al citizenship to every native-born
man, woman and child of whatever
color or nationality, that hereafter
the declaration, 81 am an American
citizen shall be apassport to favor
throughout all lands, as the express
ion will embody all that is sugges-
tive of liberty, equality and justice?
"Will you sustain a Congress
which proposes to base representa-
ton in the National Legislature upon
the people to be represented; that
Congress that says that the national
debt incurred in crushing out the re
bellion shall be paid to the utmost
farthing, and that not farthing OF
the rebel deb. shall ever be paid
that Congress which is resolved that
the tens OF thousands of limbless
soldiers of the Republic who have
returned to their homes shall be pen.
stoned, and the widows and orphans
of the three hundred thousand who
returned no more, shall he protected,
honored and supported ? Or will
you vote with that party which has
gathered into it, as in one great re-
sefyoir, all the treason of .he North
and South that party, the leaders OF
which, during all the long years OF
war, said not man, not a dollar to
preserve our nationality; that party.
the leaders of which denounced sthe
BOYS in blue as 'hirellngs' and dogs
anu reIuscu uuCsI 1fTO IrguI Ut sIIIT-
rage 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,
slandered the dead and insulted the
living soldier, by solemnly declaring
in National Convention that the war
was a failnre-that party, the leaders
of which eXerted themselves TO dis
credit the money and bonds of the
Government by proclalming their is
sue unconstitutional and their prom
ises to pay worthless-that party,
the leaders of which organized con-
spiracies in the North to murder
seize armories and arse
nails, release rebel prisoners and de-
stroy by fire, sword and pestilence
tie property and lives of our citi-
zens-that party, the leaders Of
which welcomed the plloted and in
famous Morgan and his band of
guerrillas through Indiana and Ohio
that party which inaugurated a
reign OF terror in New rUIk city iu
1868. by burning orphan asylums,
rapine and murder -?
"Will you, young men, embark
your political fortunes with party
which to-day advocates the immeli-
ate admission to the halls of Con-
gress of men whose hands are yet wet
and dripping with the blood of our
slain heroes; OF men, who, when
in our offices under oath
To support the Constitution, were
plotting its destruction-men who
have added perjury to murder, and
treason to perjury-men who have
themselves in rebel
and rebel armies, and
rebel nayies, by their acts of inhu
manity and barbarlty-will you sup
port party who proposes to admit
to our Legislative councils the very
men who were abetting the starvation
of sixty thousand OF our sons in
Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and
AndersonviIle Are you ready,
Young men, to identify yourselves
with the guerrillas and highw~ymen
and bloody prosecutors Of Union
men at the South, whose only crime
was love of their country and fidelity
to its dag2 There is not Iobber.
pirate or murderer in all the South,
from jeff. Davis to Semmes and
Quantrell. who would not vote for
Hoffman and the whole Democratic
ticket, if they had access 10 your
ballot-box. Will you, young men,
so cast your first ballot as to give
these men control of our armies, the
direction of our navies and the Gov
eminent? Let your first venture on
the political sea be right, and your
voyage will be prosperous and long"
Hon. James w. Grimes. United
States Senator from Iowa, has resign
ed, his resignation to take effect De-
cember l. Mr. Grimes is now in Eu-
rope, and his letter OF resignation
was forwarded from Paris The
reason he assigns for his resignation