The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-23

"JuStlfylng the secession OF i've ui
lions Of Southerners from the Fe'
ersl Union in 1861" They took hi
because he demanded that Lee an
jackson should be honored for the
achievements in this war, in tn
| cause, with the same honors given
those whose valor defeated the caus
Add, 1 say, to their past this spects
Gle Of their present attitude towar
such a war, In such cause, and th'
people must be wholly incapable
the guardianship Of their liberties wh
fails to see in this Baltimore affair
new device in their conspiracy again'
the equality Of man.
But when you are making inques
as electors, as to whether your Rt
;;,,ca 1S,S,,can marty is not, and this part
at baltimore is to Be trusted h sh1 1h1
business of making liberty and equal
ity for all eternal in our government
it would be crime to stop al thi
inadequate glimpse at what furthe
they did to destroy liberty, who nol
demand to be made its sole custodian
and defenders. 1t would be made
quate because the review stops to-
soon, and leaves out the acts Of tn
North, half of these our adversaries
In sid and execution Of this war fo
making the enslavement Of the poo
organic and eternal in government
was sent to the rebellion from Ohio
the greetings" Of "two hundred
thousand Ohio Democrats on ths
2Sd Of January, 1861, the very day
in which the armies oi the rebellion
were seizlng the forts of the nation,
and organizing to march against the
capital. Similar acts Of cheer were
sent by the same party from all the
North and from Congress. In aid Of
it they organized throughout the
North and armed and drilled armies
for the rebellion. They gathered in
your cities the stores and munitions
OF war. They put spies in all your
houses and camps and public Offices.
In aid OF it their chief men arranged
conspiracies, and fixed days for uni
versal uprising at the North against
the Government and for liberating
rebel prisoners, tor sacking and burn.
ing your cities, for marching their ar
mics to join those of the rebellion,
and for consuming the land in the
flame OF war. In aid Of it, just whom
Grant and Sherman were struggling
with this huge conspiracy, approach
ing its last agonies, they met at Mag
ara in concert with the assassins, Clsy,
Sanders, Blackburn, and Thompson,
and arranged to murder your men
and women and children by the poison
of yellow fever, and to consume their
homes with "Greek fire." And then,
as our armies pressed the rebellion
nearer to its fall, they resolved in
national convention that the war was
q failure, and must stop; and, at last,
when to your eagles at Nashville, at
Sherman's march to ths sea, and at
Appomattox, this monster had sur
rendered, they crowned the immense
crime against human liberty by put
ting all its quilts into one sum OF vii.
lainies, and killed the President of
the United States, and consigned to
the first place in human annals the
one compeer of Washington and mar.
tyr of liberty. This done, and by far
the foulest crime in history against
nay, against human nature
itself, thus ended, the authors Of the
crime, some OF the very same men
who organize yellow fever into epi
denies, met at Baltimore rnd resolv-
ed negro equality to be the chiei good,
and they Its best defenders I!
Such is another Of the paradoxe
Of 1872.
No, it is not so much. The vision
yet lacks its colors.
When the drama Of flagrant war
thus ended, the Republican party
found the Union in fragments /; ten
of its mighty States in ruin, and four
million OF its people the helpless poor
of God, and wards OF the nation.
You Republicans began the work Of
their emancipation slowly. First, by
law, you ordered the slaves used
against you in war and captured, to
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