Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-10-07


been paid with another drawn by
the sword,' its adjustment only
came when God made the wrath of
man, as seen in a slaveh older's re-
bellion for slavery, to combine, edu-
cate, consolate and give moral cour
age to the Republican party, a par
ty whose primal work was thus
made the consummation of slavery's
overthrow. The inconceivable
grandeur and beneicence of that
work, and of its results, will be full
| ly apprehended by mankind only
when they shall see this whole race
take. in the family of men, the po-
sition as an educated and christian
lied people, to which they are rap
idly advancing, and not then until
the results of that advancement
shall be accomplished upon the des-
TIMES of the world.
Look down, once more, Ameri
cans, into the abyss Of moral and
physical wretchedness where, but
yesterday, that whole people lay.
1t was an abyss where the human
soul--that fragment of Gods own
capacities and eternity-was the
merchandise of an avarice, at once
merciless and insatiable-one where
the mems sinews and bones and
blood were the prey of wanton and
lawless cruelties or the instruments
of sordid rapacity-one where wo-
man was the toy of lusts british
and universal. II was a condition
where infancy owned and could
claim, as its own, not even the
milk of its mother, none of the
loves from her heart. A condition
which childhood was, of right, enti
tied to no father for its defence, or
it's rearing-a condition where was
unsaid and unfelt, in any sense
above british, that blessed nomen-
dature of the family. ''husband," J"
"wife," "child," ''brother," father
"mother"- condition where there
were no homes, no religion, no
Heaven, no God-where the lights
Of all these were ''put out''-where
all light was put out in one univer-
sal, rayless, endlesss night.
When that Providence, who
"changeth the times and removeth
Kings, and setteth up Kings" sum-
moned upon our arena, together in
deadly conflict, the Republican par
ty on the one side, and the Rebel
lion and its allies on the other side,
there were sunk in this gulf of infer
nal horrors, three million, nine hun
dred and fifty three thousand, seven
hundred and sixty souls. 1t was an
empire of men larger than the minor
States of Europe. And the rebel
lion came on. 1t came grim, hide
Gus and terrible-came invited.
urged on and cherished by the sup
port and salutations of the great
democratic party. like that saluta
ton sent from your own capital
when two hundred thousand demo
Gratis of Ohio sent to the rebellion
"Greeting." 1t came with Il de-
mand, backed by the sword Of war,
that this abyss already deep and
dark and terrible as hell, should be
wIDENED-widened to the full di-
mensions of the Republic. 1t came
with the demand. backed by the
torch of war, that the one temple of
LIBERTY on earth should have for
it's "corner stone SLAVERY! 1t was
from this condition, both of this
race and of the Republic, that our
party took the country and placed
it where it is now.
/ repeat, that neither philosopher
nor sage-hlstory nor song--men
nor angels will ever conceive or in
dict the magnitudes or grandeurs,
either in color or outline, of the
events involved in that change. In
the progress and completion Of this
change, this race, men, women, and
little ones--passed up to the owner
ship of rights-nay up to the owner
ship of the sublimest political rights
ever held by man-the rights of
American citizenship-up to the
ownership of a country--a Heaven
"A God--passed up to the owner
ship of themselves. And our coun-
try too passed up TO the ownership
of the lives, and, for its defence, of
the army Of all its children-to the
ownership both of the blessing and
the beauty of being, for the first
time in its marvellous history, as
we'll a free as Christian state. And
the world too, catching the influen-
ces and power of our great exam
lple, passes (slowly true )-up to
the eminence of extinguishing from
earth, first, slavery, then Kings
passes up to the emllence of beng
free.
When these come, as come they
will and do, then men will begin to
apprehend sublimity, the moral and
political dignity of that event which
we name "the adjustment of Amer
ican Slavery and to which 1 point
you, my countrymen, as the second
act in the history of our party.
/ pass to the next.
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
| The 2Sth of July, 1868, will bt
forever illustrious In our constitu
tional annals, because upon that day
Mr. Seward proclaimed to the people
that the Fourteenth Amendment haC
"become valid to all intents anC
purposes as part of the Constitution
of the United States.
| What that amendment added tc
the guarantees of our Constitution
and to the rights and liberties of tn,
!. people | cOndenSe as follows. /