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

country for which they died.
For this strange las see that "pool
Dred Scott case"
2. 1t gives to all citizens "tht
equal protection Of its laws"
This, too. was new, for the doc
trine of the Democratic party ant
of the Judge pronouncing the opin
ion of the Supreme Court declares
what protection the law gave tC
those of African descent in word:
which are burnt now, in letters o.
inextinguishable scorn, upon the
monuments of that courts and
party's infamy. Its words were
1t is ian axiom in morals and in
politics that the black man has nc
rights which the white man is bound
to respect"
To this also the 2Sth ofJuly, ,1S6S
put an eternal end.
3rd. 1t made the representation
of the people in Congress to be, in
the proportion of the voting males
to their whole population thus end
ing the plaine by which the owner
and driver of hundred chattle6
men became elevated to the dignity
of casting a vote siXty-one times
greater than yours.
The 2Sth of July, 1868, ended this
also.
Ash. 1t excluded from becoming
law givers or rulers those who once
had taken an oath, as such rulers
and who afterward had engaged il
this Rebellion, unless the disability
should be removed by vote o.
two thirds of each House of Con
gress.
5th. 1t prohibited from ever being
"questioned' the validity of the
public debt of the United States, in.
Guiding payment of pensions and
bounties to our soldiers; and it also
prohibited payment of any debt in
Cured in aid of rebellion.
Such is the work achieved in tho
third act of our career as party. l,
may have less at :racted the attention
ofmankind than its associate events,
but it is not therefore of any lesser
greatness. How can you eXagger.
ate the Importance of a transaction
which, for the first time, incorpor-
ates into the country's organic law
(what was before withheld or denied
or both that all who must fight
equally and bear equally the Other
burdens of the country, shall be en-
titled to he protected equally by that
country-that the power of votes
should be equal in Republic-that
nations debts to its defender;
should not be questioned" nor the
prices of treason against it paid by
it? The exact truth is that the
amendment embodies into our Con
stitution what. along with the 10th
Amendment, was required to com
plete and secure those acquisition:
to the domain OF liberty which the
triumphs of war had brought, ant
without the establishment of which
rights the republic neither coulC
continue to exist, nor ought to
What republic can or ought to exis
which, to one sixth, or more, of it:
native people, whom it compels tc
endure all its burdens, denies all tina
defence which is due to citizenship
due to citizenship only.
Such Republicans is. this thirC
epoch in the life of your party
Comprehend, | again entreat you
both its value and its future safety
ere you decide your mission as
party ended.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
In what have said, heretofore il
reference to the contracts presented
by that condition in which this rae
and this country were when thes
were passed over to the governmen
of the Republican parry, and tha
condition in which they are now, i
indicated, as fully as l can to-day
what are TO be the fruits of that 15tl
Amendment.
1t was proclaimed SIS becom
"valid to all intents and purposes a
part of the Constitution of the Unit
ed States" upon the Both of March
1870: md it declared that the righ
OF citizens of the United States t.
vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or any State
on account Of race, color or previou
condition of servitude; and tina
Congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate leg
islation."
RESTORATION OF THE STATES.
Vast, inconceivable, as is the i'm
portance of these parts of the worl
of our party which has just gone in
to history, they are, in an importan
political sense, wholly trivial com
pared with the magnitude of one We
remaining to be told. allude to tn
restoration of the revolted States
When "war's desolation" had swep
past, and its night had lifted fror
the scene, where during four sa
years, its darkness and its havoc hat
reigned, what spectacle was befor
you! Ten States lay therein ruin
And what ruin! In the element
Of wrecked power and greatness
was sublime, even in chaos. In tn
completeness of the disorded over
) throw, it was terrible; and in til
all-consuming sweep of unsubdue
and treasonous passions, it was stil
simply appalling. There they lay
ghastly, desolute, drear, but impli
cable-States in law, as was allege
but States in fact, without one ele
: ment of State except land an
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