Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-23
An ADDRESS TO YOUNG MES.
BY General Samuel Fenton Cary, Deiy-
cred At Troy, New York, October, 1855

An ADDRESS TO YOUNG MnS.
BY General Samuel Fenton Cary, Dsiix-
cred at Troy, New York, October, 1855
1.-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 in the
political literature of America. Ii is the
I peroration of three hours speech, made
! in brnaif of Governor FentOn, Il cousin
of General Cary. The effect of this
mighty outburst was tremendous. Cen
( eral Cary himself was deeply touched
/ by it. He said he never witnessed such
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. led. 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
tIat stood by the four millions of freed
men in the struggle for the rights ofman:
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 iEaugurated ss commander-in-
chief; the party that throughoutthe long
and terrible conflict never faltered; the
party that has written for the admiration
of mankind the brightest page of history
in the worlds annals? Will you sustain
that Congress that proposes to secure ma
tional citizenship TO every native-born
man. woman and child of whatever
color or nationality, that hereafter the
declaration, i am an American citizen,
shall be a passport to favorthroughout all
lands, as the expression will embOdy all
thatis suggestive ofliberty, equality and
Justice?
"Will you sustain Congress which
proposes to base representation in the
National Legislature upon the people 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 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 return
ed to their homes shall be pensioned,
and the widows and orphans of the three
hundred thousand who return no more,
shall be protected, honored and support
ed? 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 a man, not dollar to
preserve our nationality ; that party, the
leaders of which denounced the boys in
blue as 'hirelings' and dogs and re-
fused them the right of suffrage in the
camp, in the field aud hospital; that
party, the leaders of which denounced
the great and good Lincoln as tyrant
I'd nd q ha of h1,
assassin who took his life-that party the
leaders of which, after four years ofstrife,
slandered the dead and insulted the liv-
ing soldiers, by solemnly declaring in
National Convention that the war was
a failure-that party, the leadersOf which
exerted themselves to discredit the mon
ey and bonds of the Government by pro-
claiming their issue unconstitutional
and their promises to pay worthless
that party, the leaders of which organ
lied conspiracies in the North to muir
der Governors, sieZe armories and arse
mails, release rebel prisoners and destroy
by fire, sword and pestilence the prop
erty and lives ofour citizens-that party,
the leaders of which welcomed and pi-
loted the Infamous Morgan and his band
of guerrillas through Indiana and Ohio
that party which inaugurated reign
of terror in New York City in 1858, by
burning orphan asylums, rapine and
murder? Will you, young men, embark
your political fortunes with a party which
to-day advocates the immediate admis
sion to the halls of Congress of men
whose hands are yet wet and dripping
with the blood of fourslain heroes: of men,
who when ministering in our offices
under oath to support the Constitution,
were plotting its destruction-men who
have added perjury to murder, and trea-
son to perjury-men who have distin-
gufshed themselves in rebel Congresses,
and rebel armies, and rebel navies, by
their acts sofinhumanity of and barbarity-l
Will you support party who proposes
to admit to our legislative coun-
ellis the very men who were abettingl
the starvation of sixty thousand of our
sons in Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and
Andersonville? Are you ready, young
men, to identify yourselves with the
guerrillas and highwaymen and bloody
prosecutors of Union men at the South,
whose only crime was love OF their coun-
try and fidelity to its flag? There is not
a robber, pirate or murderer in all the
South, from Jeff. Davis to Semmes and
Quantrell, who would not vote for Hoff
man and the whole Democratic ticket,
if they had access to 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 Government? Let your first |
venture on the political sea be right, and
your voyage will be prosperous and
long"