The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1872-10-15

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greetings from the people Of Indiana =
Applause 1 have looked into their
clear eyes I have seen the light of heav.
en- rejected from their honest faces, and
7 tell you that as well as can read men,
I have read them, and feel assured that
on the night of the Sth of October next
they will send forth majestic voice On
the side of National reconciliation -
Great applause. The great Liberal
wave now sweeping over the country,
destined to efface all distinction of race
and all past bitterness, and to wipe ont
all this, will scarcely find anywhere a
heartier response than from that people.
Last night not less than fifty thousand
of them met us at Indianapolis to say
that so far Us their State was concerned,
they speak in no equivocal voice, they
are with you, they are for you,- Liberals
of Ohio and of all other States, in de.
claring that, strife having closed, hatred
shall cease, prescription shall cease,
disfrarchiserdent shall cease and the
Whole American people united under
one flag and animated by one patriotic
impulse, shall march forward once more
on that career OF greatness and pros
perity planned and prepared fol' them
by oiir revolutionary fathers Ap
Iplause. Those fathers, wheh we were
bat thirteen little States, scattered along
the Atlantic border, lis though prophet
ically, called themselves the Continental
Army. Tae Continental Army
was the army which Fought the baitle-o
the Revolution. Though eur country
then covered but a narrow strip of the
Atlantic ssaboard; vet ii spirit and aspi
ration the American eagle looked ovel
across this whole broad land and said
"This is all mine; this shall all be plan
ted and watered by the people. who ac
knowledge my ascendency.'' - -... 80 .. ~ 80 .
|, So, friends, We are resolved not mere;
lly that We shall I've united in. geography
that there shall be one Cover hmeht from
Texas to Maine, and to Oregon, Bi'
that there shall bc one willing, joyful
cordial, united people Applause ]-no'
lpinned together by bayonets, not strick
en- down and held PROSTATE by force, but
all of them, North and South, East and
West, rejoicing they are Americans, ant
tthat one flag covers them all, one Law
rules them all, that one country embra
ces and enfolds them all Il Applause.
THERE'S no more doubts at last tina
all must be as we propose. We cam
hate each other forever. We can no
keep raking Up stories of AHdersonville
Salisbury and Libby Prison to make the
fpeople hostile id heart TO those who
live below the Ohio River. We shal
learn at last, We shall come at last, to bt
lone people. Why not now? Sever
years ago the last shot of the war wa.
Hired !. seven years, and more, ago -tb'
Hast Confederate flag was SURRENDERED o.
ifurled, and still we 60 on holding Con
gentions-military Conyentions-to EN-
[phasize and aggrandize the triumph of
part oyer another part. I rejoice il
THAT coming triumph Of the whole Ma
ition, When the people Of the South shal
Esay to the people Of the North: "W'
Irejoice that our, country was not divi
Ided that our mistaken efforts 10 have
s6athern Confederacy were defeated
we find at last it was our destiny ant
our blessing to be a part OF the grea
American people. ~ So the North Evil
says: isTin4e shall be when the State
north Of Ohio shan rejoice as hearth.
as yea can rejoice that slavery has pass
ed away forever; they will feel that th
tgreat chain was lifted from their necks
fthe 'shackles were broken which bount
their limbs, when four millions of Ather
ican people were liberated and made cit
izens of this country, where they hat
formerly been slaves; they will yet real
ize that Virginia and the Carolinas ant
Georgia shall be richer and nobler, free
and puer, than they would have bee
so long as part of their people wer
held in bondage; theyywin realize tina
what was their weakness will, through
emancipation. become their strength
and they win rejoice. that nothing nov
remains to mar The unity and cloud tn
destiny OF our country and their coun
try, .s-, -los,..'..i. y. ~ .' .''
SO then, fellow citizens, having asket
of them. to surrender secession ant
abandon slavery, to enfranchise thei
colored fellow citizens, we did every
thing reasonable and proper to max
our triumph perfect. Now, we say, an,
they say: "Let hatred and bitterness
/ let contention and jealousy perish foi
tever-[spplause] ]-let us forget that W
have fought ;,let us remember only tha
we have made peace; let rs say this
there shall be no degradation; no pee
pie over whom we triumph ;our trump
IS their triumph; our triumph is the ur
. lifting of every one of the CO. mmo
platforms of American liberty ain
American nationality; our triumph
not the Triumph of a section it is tn
triumph of race it IL not the trump
of class, it is the triumph of th
American people, casting of shacRle
that bound some presently and all ult
mately, breaking down a wall or part
> ton that separated US go on to ,rnak
us all in life, in heart and in purpose th
= people, the Ione people of the gre:
American tRepublic. r!ea ags 81 :
l. Fellow. citizens, to this work of,iecol
Citation j. dedicate myself, For tn
purpose I would not feel it was . III
umph for me to be chosen your Pres
dent, if any part of the American pc,
> pie should have right to feel that N
+ afitriumph was their degradation. / b
|lieye the triumph of the Liberal caus
}. will be a triumph of the States that vo
against it. Applause That there.
no county in the Union which will NJ
be better worth living in and more va
liable because we have So acted, so al
lpealed. so been responded to by Il
}. American people that there are no lol
ger lines of separation and alienation
9 divide us. To this end have struggle
l. since the last cannon shot was fired
1.-THE war of secession and disunion :
" Cries of ''rhats so"] 10 this end
have hoped and aspired. This en-
seems to be not far distant. .
feople of Ohio 7 antrcaf y-ou en-