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

they be when the people were dis
loyal? You demanded that -hete
should be no more treason sent, by
these States, to your Senate and
House, to contrive under the cover
of official oaths, the overthrow. of
the Government, and to execute the
treason, by employment of the Gov
ernment's own offices and powers.
But how could you prevent the send
ing, when both the senders and the
sent were the authors and unchanged
friends of the baffled treason? You
demanded that, in the new States;
the laws should protect, alike, all OF
the people against the universal as
sassinations and murders that had
crimsoned, with the blood of patri
OTIS, the very earth and rivers of all
that sunny land. But how could
your demand be secured, when the
only laws you had, rendered all 10y
al men either enemies or slaves, land
when they who must make and exc
cute new ones were both the authors
and unchanged advocates of the as
sassinations and wrongs you meant
to prevent
Such, family, was the Work of
Reconstruction to which.my Fellow
Republicans, you came. How fearful
it was in its difficulties, responsible
ties and magnitudes When doing,
you thought it was done slowly
perhaps badly. Now, as you look
back you wonder--the whole world
wonders--that it was done at all.
But it Observation-Disclosures is
FINISHED. There it stands now, the
''New Union" No alien, no foe
within its vast dominion, because it
rests now upon the equal citizenship,
equal rights, and therefore equal
love of all it's children.
/ have made these financial sug-
gestions and comuarisons rather to
encourage the people of all parties,
than for partizan argument. They
are facts, poth the encouragement
and the honor of which, belong, in q
large measure, to no party, but to
Ethe people who pay these revenues.
Still, they are facts which have, in
certain views, marvellous significace
and value in indicating what claim
the Republican party has upon the
confidence and support of the people.
On the 81 of March, 1861, th"t party
received the country from the hands
of the Democratic party, in the very
commissions of dissolution and arti-
Gle of death. What the relations were
of our darty, to the country's deliv-
erance from that immense catastro-
phe, l have told. And these, the
leading facts ofyour material resour
ces, their relations, in their magni-
tudes, to other nations, and the meth
cds of their administration, which ]
have presented last, so fa- as they
show the rank and character of the
country noy, and the way in which
our party has preserved. advanced
and governed it, are not only argu-
ments to which we are entitled in
vindication of our claims to public
confidence, but they belong to the
class which make up the only claim
of rulers to the confidence Of the peo
pie. That people which had such
wisdom and patriotism as to both
contrive and execute the means by
which, during these last ten years
they have rescued their country and
advanced it to where it now is, as
indicated by these facts / have al
luded to, will, i think, be apt to have
sagacity enough to know how far
they are indebted to the wisdom and
virtue of the republican party for
the fact that they exist and will also
have both sagacity and gratitude
enough to know how far, their exis-
tence ought to 60 in securing to
that party the continued support
and confidence of all ire people. To
this last great fact in our record,
l point you to-day, Americans.
Look at your country now. in the
lights and views which these last
facts elements of my argument sug-
gest. With none of the spirit of that
self adulation which characterizes
and gives name to our Forth of
July" oratory, and which is as ir
rational asst Is bad in its tastes, but
with that wisest most manly, as
well as practical, of all purposes,
the purpose of apprehending the
exact state of the republic, and with
the purbose of thence infeing how
far it is wise in you TO continue
your suffrages and confidence to-
ward the rulers who are to be hon
ored for its excellenciss and con-
demned for its defects, invite you,
fellow citizens, to scrutinze your
country now, in the year of Grace
1870, as contrasted with that sad
year 81. mark We well her bull
warks; consider her palaces, that
We NAV tell it." Thus she stands be-
fore you, such as the facts i have
pointed you to show our dear coun-
try to be-such it is in the prospect
of the extinguishment of its public
debt; such in the actual, as we'll as
relative. costs Of its administration /;
such in her capacity of endurance
under. and escape from the most
, stupendous and crushing calamities !;
such in power; such in dignity ;
and such in national rank-its hon.
or not yet tarnished. its faith not
violated, it's credit, to-day, thebest,
perhaps, that is debated or vended
at the exchange boards of the world
its flag honered in peace and feared
in war by each nation of the earth.
| its protection coveted and secured
in the country of their enemy for