Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-09-14
Peace, Justice and Economy

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: The Policy and Conduct OF the
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Speech Of Hon. C. Delano, at Sandusky
4 -. August path. 1871.
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i One of the ablest and most com
prehensive. speeches of the Cam
paign was delivered by Hon. Colum
bus Delano, at Sandusky, on. the
oath of August. 1t is too long fol
us to copy entire, but its matter is
so excellent, clear, and conclusive
that We take, pleasure in copying the
chief portions of it;
The Republican party came into
power in 1861, just in time to save
the national affairs OF this country
from an extensive and well-matured
scheme of treason. Stripped by
conspirators of all ready means OF
resistance to their plot to overthrow
the Government, it appealed at once
to the people and to the loyal States
for aid. By them alone it was en-
abled to accomplish the mighty and
almost marvellous results to which /
have referred within the. space OF
flour years. This work having been
jso perfectly and sublimely accom-
Iplished, the Republican party found
itself charged with the most deli
cate and difficult political legacy
ever bequeathed to any party since
governments were known. I'd.
1t was the work of restoration
and reorganization. 1t was the du-
ty of bringing order out,of chaos.
That differences of opinion should
arise among friends in accomplish
ing this great work, was not only
natural, but unavoidable. That dis
comfited rebels and their sympathi-
zers should embarrass, impede, and
denounce this work, however per-
formed, was to be expected. But
that it should have been embar-
rassed at the very threshold, by the
assassination Of that noblest work
of God, that great and good man,
the first and only choice of free
people-Abraham Lincoln-was not
reckoned possible, until the traitor
Ious assassin made it an accomplish
ed fact. i'' 1l'i,' '''
The Republican party, however,
standing upon a righteous cause,
and sustained by an omnipotent and
ever present power, met all these
difficulties with a sublime compos-
ure and resolution; and, as if puri-
fed by fire, like Moses on Sinai, an
nounced to othe world the Freed
mems Bureau Bill, the Civil Rights
Bill, and the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the
Constitution. y 'A. l'. ' "'-."
By these noble measures our fun
damental law abolishes slavery, es-
tabIishes universal emancipation,
provides citizenship, and protects
equally the privileges and immuni-
ties of all, without distinction on
account of race or color; and fur
ther, it guarantees the validity Of
the public debt, including bounties
and pensions to the soldiers of the
United States, ,invalidates all obliga-
[tions incurred in aid of rebellion,
and all claims for the loss or eman-
cipation of slaves. 80
The annals of history furnish no
record like this since the founda-
tions of the world were laid h' Z
And yet, during each and every
step in the progress of the Republi-
can party, and during all the work
of reconstruction, everything thus
accomplished was opposed and de-
nounced violently, and without
mitigation, by the defeated rebels,
and their oftner defeated friends,
the Democratic party, as illegal, un-
constitutional and void.
Very suddenly and very recently
however, a change has "come DER
the spirit of their dream" and if
they do not "depart," they take a
"new departure" Let us see what
this new departure is and whittier it
leads.
Those honest people, citizens of
this country, as much interested in
the public welfare as you and I, who.
have been following the leadership
of rebels and the Democratic party
for the past ten years Of great
events and great Republican achieve
ments, ought to pause and candid
ly consider what this new departure
is and what it signifies. 1t is, in
fact, but a penitential confession of
political sin-a recantation of party
heresy. 1t is an admission, of rec
ord, that the Democracy and rebels
have been wrong, blindly wrong,
since the war, at least. 1t is proc
lamation to their followers and the
world that the amendments to the
Constitution securing freedom and
Justice, and advancing the civiliza
tion of the world are right, and that
they have hitherto willfully and
wrongfully opposed those great Re-
publican measures. 1t is true, they
do not put it in this phrase precise
ly, but it comes to that at last. They
sugar-coat and disguise the confes
sion by saying, "We accept the sit
uation," and call it new departure
by protesting to cease waging open
opposition to accomplished facts
and established propositions which
they have long resisted and which
now it is deemed eXpedient to ac-
quiesce in only because it seems
idle and impotent longer to fight
against the expressed and reiterated
will Of the people. e-.is
is this a party with which to in
trust the Government, and to hazard
again the public welfare, if not the
very existence of the Union itself?
An experienced and prominent
leader of that party in neighbor-
ing State, who is willing to be the
presidential candidate of the party
at the next election, referring to the
new departure, is reported to have
said: "We must make the fight up
on living issues. 1t is folly to be
always going back to dead issues.
We must take things as we find
them. l think the great mass of
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