The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-10-01
Samuel Fenton Cary's
OPINIONS ON
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
Extracts from Speech Delivered by
General Cary, in October, 1866, at
Troy, N. 2.
reported in the Troy Times.I

sour brothers, fathers, sons have not made
their forced marches, languished in hOspit-
ais, died In battle, starved in prison pens,
simply to preserve the integrity of the Re-
public and maintain the superiority of our
Northern civilization. They were Vindicat-
ing the immortal, the divine truth asserted
in the Declaration of Independence, aye,
promulgated by the Almighty, of the una
Uersql fdtherkOOd Of God and the brotherhood
of man. We had made merchandise of God q
image; we had insulted the cross of His Son
by denying manhood to millions of those for
whom he died; our statesmen had proclaim
ed that this was white mans government.
ovr legislators had declared it a crime 10
teach black man to read Ohrist's sermon
on the mount; our judges had declared that
in this Republic a man with dark skin had
no rights which white man was bound 10
respect; ministers of the everlasting Gospel
maintained that slavery was the normal con-
dition Of the African, or that his manhood
was a mere political question with which
the pulpit had nothing to do And thus the
sublime and deViDe truth that each individ-
uaI of every race, color and cline had an
equal right with all others to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, was reuudiat-
us
of manhood, net Of kings, come over in the
May flower with the supplemented Pilgrims,
and like 'the little stone cut out OF the
mountain without hands, is to fill the whole
EARTH Our boys in blue have exhibited a
heroism and performed deeds of valor un-
paralleled in history. God was with them.
for they were striking chains from the limbs
of his children. The blood they shed was
Co. 1ilxa CTInrfok f1,-r Il A.
hood might be disenthralled. The ground
where they fell is holy, for the martyrs of
liberty cOnsecrated it with their blood.
The martyred Lincoln, and murdered Gyon.
Wadsworth, Mcpherson, and their three
hundred thousand comrades, died that down.
trodden, oppressed. buried humanity might
have a glorious resurrection-that this ma
tion, the favorite child of Divine Providence.
clothed with new Vigor and beauty, might
be given over to q purer and higher civil
cation as bride adorned for her husband.
The ashes of the nations slain in this war
will be treasured and guarded by the affec-
tiOn Of all ChristendOm. In after years
when this vast continent shall be peopled
with five hundred millions of intelligent.
liberty loving, happy people, when it shall
become the garden Of the Lord, and when
luis uhblDQ nud4A 1c huC tCNalkEilL6E Ci LlE
world, the disenthTalled and enfranohised of
of all lands will scatter flowers and drop
tears of gratitude upon the tombs of our
fallen heroes. and their names will be held
in everlasting remembrance. Then the
leading rebels in the South and The Copper
head allies in the North will be remembered |
only to be execrated forever,
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN.
young men, with which party do you
propose to identify Pourelyes2 VIII you
enroll your names with the party of freedom
and progress; the party that stood by the
our millions of freedmen in the struggle for
he rights of man; the party that voted sup
plies and poured out its treasures 10 sustain
lrmies and navies such as the world never
Jaw; the party that gave Lincoln the second
.ime to be inaugaTsted as comma0der-in
,hief the party that throughout the long
md terrible conflict never faltered; the party
hat has written for the admiration Of man
Kind the brightest page of history in the {
worlds annals9 Will you sustain that I
congress that proposed to secure national 8
to every native born man, woman q
nd child of whatever color or nationality, {
hat hereafter the declaration i am an Amer q
can citizen shall be passport to favor g
throughout all lands, as the expression will I
.mbOdy all that is suggestive of liberty ]
quality and justiceY Will you sustain a a
congress which proposes TO base represen- n
alton in the National Legislature upon the lg
eople to be represented, that Congress that 7
ays that the national debt incurred in crush Ie
ng out the rebellion shall be paid to the ut d
1ost farthing, and that not farthing Of the s
ebel debt shall ever be psid-that Congress S
7hich is resolved that the tens Of thousands I
+ lmbless soldiers Of the Republic who