Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-10

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ho acknowledged the debt TO be a saeref
obligation of the whole nation that II
= u was The price of your liberty; that II
} il was the price of blood, and that ever,
dollar Of u must be paid to the utter
} most, precisely as promised in the bond
That has strengthened our credit
strengthened 1t ut home and strengthen
ed it abroad, and we are now standing
out before the world as nation that cal
fight for its liberties and then work an,
labor for its honor [applause) that hon
or y as dear as life, and that in our deb
and all that pertains to it the nation
honor and the nations faith are invoIv
ed. ..r..5 -.
! Now, fellow citizens, who can lool
over This record without being proud Of
1T? Who can look at the other part
and .he career though which they have
passed without rejoicing this day we
have stood by the old banner and contin.
ued true to the cid party.
A QUESTION ron DEMOCRATS.
If there he a Democrat in this great
crowd to night, want TO ask yon a
question as an honest citizen of Ohio,
IL may be a question that Won think a
little impertinent, but will venture to
ask it, and ask IL in good faith as one
citizen 10 another. 1000
ask you, my Democratic friend, if
down in your heart to night you are not
glad that your party has failed during
the past eight years. Uaughter) Are
you sorry or are you glad of that? Are
you glad we pat down tie rebellion, or
are you sorry? In your soul, my fellow
citizen, Democrat though you are, | be-
rlieve you are glad tonight that your
party was beaten on that issue. .
If Take a step further. When you resist
ed the draft do you wish you had been
successful 10 breaking it down? Are
you not on the contrary, glad that the
Republican party out-y0ted you on all
these question Come down a step fur
ther. When we proposed to pass the
Constitutional Amendment and abolish
slavery throughout the Republic, every
| man in your party, as now organized,
opposed it to the bitter end. Are you
glad or sorry that you did not succeed ?
Are you sorry that slavery is dead /?
Down in your soul l believe you are
glad, and therefore glad that your party
were beaten at the polls.
Take a step further. When we pro-
posed to reconstruct the south on the
basis of liberty, You opposed us at every
step. Are you now glad that you were
not successful, or are you sorry? / oe-
lieve on that subject, too, you will rejoice
by and by if you do not to day, rejoice
with us that you were beaten, and beat
en- by us. p. 'l
REPUcLICAN TRIUMPHs NAT'NAL TRIUMPHs.
Fellow-citizens, the Republican party
has had the proud distinction of doing a
good work to its political enemies, as
we'll as for ITSELF In all these years our
triumphs have been your triumphs, my
democratic friend. Our successes have
blessed you ; your successes would have
cursed both you and us. Do you know
of any other political party of whom
this can be said? Consider this fact for
a moment was there ever such war as
that we fought while the war was in
progress, and affirm it to-day, every
man that fought for the Union was ac-
tually fighting for the South as well as
for the North, and believe the time
will come when these men of the south |
will thank God that their fathers were
beaten in battle, and the right and the
Union triumphed. (Cheers.) 1t was the !
only war in history where the success OF
the other side would have been the ruin
of both. .'-
. Fellow-citizcns, this made our war and this |
makes our party war party of high moral |
issues of issues that rise above the more COM |
mon everyday strife of party politics, and lifts
it up into the clear atmosphere of high and |
patriotic endeayor; and here tonight, gath |
cred in this quiet place, under this beautiful |
sky, and beside this noble old structure that |
we love, let us rejoice together, and let us ask
our Democratic neigbbors to rejoice with us
over our victory, which will, by and by, be |
theirs. For they triumph, in fact by their |
defeat lApplause.l a.d f'iorr..e.' a..
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Is GOOD FOR
Now, fcllow-citizens, this little experience
that We have had with the Democratic party
during the past two years has perhaps, been
necessary as a sort of background TO the pic !
ture of our past history. We should never
know what beautiful eolors were, if there were
no black cloud on which they might be writ
ten as pictures in the sky. We would never
know the excellency of the Republican party
and its career, If We did not, now and then, |
have such a background as TO sh.. ! off the |
features of its exce)lency as the Democrats
have been making. Laughter and cheers
Gentlemen, the career of that party and our
party are as the poles apart. They are look
ing into the evening twilight, We are looking
into the morning twilight. Their faces are
turned toward the old barbarisms of the past
the faces of our party have been steadily turned
toward that rising sun that shall shine brighter
and brighter until the perfect day-the high
noon Of civil liberty in this Republic. ZAP (
planse.] And in the last winters work we
have seen in our State legislation the finger go
back a quarter of a seXtant on the dial, peint-
ing back in the direction that the Democtatic L
party haye led 1t. 1t remains for us to reverse /
L. II remains for us to call on the people to
face about and look to the morning, and look
no longer into the night. -....--f ,,fl I'D l.
The speech of the excellent candidate for Gov
ernor, made to-day, exhibited the character of
hat party In their doings last winter, and all
We want is 10 go out among the citizens of
ohio and show them that picture, and then
how them this, and the two pictures will set
le the question of this campaign without fur
her controversy. "
Fellow -cliizens it is a matter of sincere con-
to me that in all the dark days of /