Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-09-30

Ill you SuSCalu congress
which proposes to base representa-
ton in the National Legislature up
on the people to be represented;
that Congress that says that the ma
tional debt incurred in crushing out
the rebellion shall be paid to the ut
most farthing, that the rebel debt
shall never 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 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 treason of the 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 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, slandered the dead and
insulted the living soldier, by sol
emnly declaring in National Con-
vention that the war was a failure
that party, the leaders of which
exerted themselves to discredit the
money and bonds of the Govern
ment by proclaiming their issue
unconstitutional aud their promises
to pay worthless-that party. the
leaders of which organized conspi-
racies in the North to murder Gov
ernors, seize armories and arsenals,
release rebel prisoners and destroy
by fire, sword and pestilence the
property and lives of our citizens
that party. the leaders of which
welcomed the piloted and infamous
Morgan and his band Of guerrillas
through Indiana and Ohio-that
party, which inaugurated a reign of
terror in New York city in 1863, by
burning orphan asylums, rapine and
murder?
''Will you, young men, embark
your political fortunes with a party
which to day advocates the imme-
diate admission to the halls Of Con-
gress of men whose hands are yet
wet and dripping with the blood of
our slain heroes; ofmen. who, when
ministering 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
distinguished themselves in rebel
Congresses, and rebel armies, and
rebel navies, by their acts of inhu-
ma1ity and barbarity-will You
support party who proposes to ad-
nit to our legislative councils the
very men who were abetting 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 highwavmen
and bloody prosecutors of Union
men at the South, whose only crime
was love of their country and fideli-
t.v to its flag? There is not a rob
Der, pirate or nu d 'rer in all the
South, from jeff. Davis to Semmes
and Quantrcll, who would not vote
for Hoffman and. the whole Dem
ocratic 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 arm
les, 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"