The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-23
bloodshed by tbeUe6sati

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party, whose President rewarded
with cffice the men known as most
eminent in murder done to fssten
slavery upon the unwilling States.
1t was for the enforcement of these
very truths Republicans made Lin
coin the author of the immortal
words, "The nation can only rest in
the confidence that slavery is in
process ofgradual extinction" words
which brought from the Democratic
party, upon the author, a deluge OF
calumny, scarcely approached in its
loathsomeness, unless by that now
sweeping over Grant. 1t was for the
defense OF these truths our party de-
manded that Mr.. Lincoln should take
his seat as first magistrate which the
Democratic party arranged to prevent
by assassination. 1t WAS in the re.
sistance Of this, and to build upon
the ruins of our government one
whose corner stone should make slay.
cry the proper condition OF the Ia.
borers, that these men who made his
platform at Baltimore, in 1872, made
the war Of the rebellion. In that
war these same men organized a gov.
eminent which made slavery eternal
in the Constitution-rent the republic
into fragments, slew near q million of
men, expended of the treasures OF the
North five thousand millions, and of
their own near as much more, swept
half the country with the destruction
of universal war, crushed with the
agonies of deadly sorrow and bereave.
ment nearly every surviving heart in
our land, and filled it with the main.
ed wrecks of battle or the worse wrecks
of their Libbies and Andersonvilles.
protracted that war through four
years, ablack wlththe supreme crimes
Of human annals, and only ended it
in sullen and irresistible defeat--a
defeat leaving ten States in q charred,
mangled snd universal ruin, and the
whole ration staggering under debt
such as but one in history ever felt,
and no one ever piid.
Such, Republicans, in feeble out
lire, was the war made by the master
half of present Democracy against
these essential rights of man, and
against the very being Of all free
government. In the convulsions OF
this war, and in defense of these
rights, our party was born, grew, and
made deadly battle. Were this ret.
respect into the lives of parties all
we have to show US which party is
the tried friends of mans's "equity
before the law then the demonstra.
tions would be complete-complete
| in showing this affair at Baltimore is
part of new conspiracy against the
colored race and against the results
of the war.
But to the demonstr ations derived
from this recent past of the two par.
ties add an inspection into their
present attitude touching that war,
snd you find not State, not q con-
vention, not great journal, and not q
man of them, who executed this re-
cent and immense havoc to the end,
that they might embody the internal
dogma, that all labor is Of right slave,
into constitutional and eternal law,
has ever confessed that either the
either the war or the cause in which
they made it, was wrong. Moreover
YOU find them select their leader
because he, on the 9th OF November
1860, declare that when for suct
ends they shall make rebellion, thei,
"right to secede exists, and because
on the 17th Of December, 1860, hs
declared such rebellion for such ar