The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-10-07
ADDRESS OF THE OHIO
REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION
OF WASHINGTON, ID. G.,
TO THE ELECTORS OF OHIO

Union men-freedom's champions
I-again the hour of trial for the
measurement of strength with your
political enemies draws nigh-ene-
mics whom you have vanquished
over and over again in the terrific
struggle for national life, both at the
ballot box and in the feld-beaten
repeatedly on the issues of universal
freedom, of civil rights to all and an
equality based upon whatever en-
dowments the Allwise Creator saw
| fit to bestow.
One wing of the common enemy
you vanqulshed in the field and it
lsurrendred; the other again reneWs
the battle for the "lost cause. "
Though beaten on every issue, eve
Try engagement, in whole and in de
ltail, yet under the same flag they
rally again.
Beaten in their efforts to extend
1.-THE fiendish curse of slavery, beaten
lin their efforts to destroy the Union,
beaten in their efforts to disfranchise
soldiers arrayed against armed Dem
ocrats in the field, beaten on the con-
IstitutionaI amendments, the crown
ling glory of the age, they still have
1.-THE pertinacity to renew the contest
for the ''lost cause in hopes to play
lSheridan and turn into a victory.
And now in what shape do they
come? Where and what their new
lime of defense2
Passing over their most distin-
guished Democratic leaders now on
the retired list, or at least Temporal
rily so, such as their Davises, head
ling treason, their Lees and Breckin-
ridges with drawn swords, their
Booths with the assassin's dirk, their
Blackburns with yellow fever and
small pox infected clothing for nor
Ithern cities, their FORESTS murder
ling surrendered soldiers, their Wirz
and Winders with their starved ske-
letons, we come to their civil allies
and their civil mode of warfare and
more modern tracties.
Let us observe first few facts for
the proof of which we have the pa
pers:
l. The great burden of the Natio-
nal Debt is strictly a Democratic le-
gacy, for no Republican ever bore
arms against his country. The 81
coo rebels who laid down their. arms
at Vicksburg were Democrats all,
the 10000 who surrendered to Grant
at Appomattox Court House were
all Democrats.
2. The allowing of soldiers to vote
though in the field was a victory
won by the Republicans after fierce
and solid opposition by the Demo
cracy everywhere.
3. The boon of universal freedom,
and the adoption of the three con-
stitutional amendments are due
alone to the Republicans, and this
great victory was won in spite of al
most superhuman efforts of the De
mocracy, who fought them all, foot
by foot and inch by inch.
Whatever may be the future OF
our two rival parties, their triumphs
or reverses, two striking facts in re-
gard to their past record are already
engraved on the adamant of history,
never to be obliterated. The first is
that no Republican signed an ordi-
nance Of secession in 1861; none
fired on our flag, nor aimed his rifle
at it's defenders; every State that Sc
lceded did SO under the appeal and
aided by the executive poweraof a
democratic governor; every cabinet
and administrative officer oftheCOn-
Ifederacy was a Democrat; eUerg
leading rebel general, when he drew
his sword against his country, was
also a Democrat; every man in the
North who gave aid and comfort to
the Rebellion by denouncing coer-
cion as unconstitutional, who pre-
dicted its triumph, who mourned
over its defeats, and whose eye
frightened at its successes, was also
a Democract; in a word, if there had
been then no party in existence but
the Republican, there would have
been no war, no bloodshed, and no
debt; while, if there had been no
party in power in the North or in
Congress but the Democratic, there
would have been no coercion, no re-
sistance of force by force, and con-
sequntly, no nation to-day.
DEMOCRATIC DEMANDS.
In the face of the above the Dem
Iocratic party, with measureless au-
ldacity, demands to-day that the
Government shall be surrendered
Into their hands.
They demand that the Republi-
can administration of General Grant
shall give place to Democratic
lone, so that, thereby, the burdens
of the public, debt may be diminish
led; when the result, since the Sd OF
March, 1869, of the overthrow OF
the Democratic administration OF
Mr.. johnson, has been to diminish
that public debt by a sixteenth ol
Its entire amount, or $156,138,784-
lO1. They demand this change to
democratic administration, SO that
the frauds on the revenue may be
stopped, and the revenues collected
when the effect of the expulsion of
the frauds of a Democratic Presi-
dent and his agents from the Gov
! ernment was the instantaneous in
crease of the revenues from $780,
943,7 q, for the last year of John
sons administration, to $40S, $751;
| 373. 80 for the first year of General
Grants, showing a gain by substi-
tuting Republican for Democratic
frauds of $37, ,SS6,626. 81 in a single
year. They demand this change to
Democratic administration, SO that
the taxes shall be voted down. But
only on the 18th of July, 1870, the
Republicans passed through the
| House a bill which reduced your
internal taxes $55,212,0O0, against
which reduction every Democrat
from Ohio, who voted at all, voted
being the entire vote except eight
They voted substantially solid
against a reduction, made by the
last Congress, of$26,OO0,OO0 of tariff
taxes on iron, tea, coffee, sugar
spices, fruits, and the like.
To show you how perfectly hol-
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