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

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up the courts SO that, in those ofs.
States, perhaps not one of its crimes
has ever met punishment; banishine
from their homes and into the swamps
and Businesses OF mountains whole
communities Of men, women, and
children, and darkening the heavens
with the smoke of the consuming
homes, churches, and schools of the
unoffending and helpless poor!
This is the very monster of history!
But this is to-day the Democratic
political organization, relied on at the
South to make sure, if need be, the
election of Mr.. Greeley as President
of the United States! point you to
the testimony taken in Congress OF
more than q thousand witnesses,
taken in the courts of more than ten
thousand, and to the confession of its
members aud the declarations by its
victims or eye witnesses of more than
hundred thousand, disclosing this
fell organization. Thus are proved
its deeds to which l have pointed, its
present existence and readiness for
work, its political character, and its
sworn purpose to be the overthrow
Of the Republican party, and OF the
civil and political rights of the color
ed race.
And it was in part this organization
along with the hundred mouths which
defended t in Congress and the ten
thousand out of Congress, that resolv-
ed at Baltimore that liberty and the
colored race have in US their only
defenders.
Here must leave this picture and
these proofs, disclosing to the Amer
lean people admonitions as to whom
they shall intrust with the defense of
the equal political and civil rights of
the people. If indeed, in the terrible
presence and light OF these, this peo-
pie shall now deliver the keeping Of
the equal political and civil liberties
of this emancipated race, and of us
all, to those who met at Baltimore,
and there executed this new act in the
old conspiracy against US, then indeed
will our incapacity to defend, by our
suffrages, our common liberties, be
disclosed, and then equal liberty will
surely have passed away.
Here / leave this contrast of the
claims upon your confidence and
votes, of these two parties as these
claims relate to the especial interests
of the colored race. By no stale and
senseless prediction from the partisan
politician uttered to you at each COM
ing election, but only in the voice and
name of incontestlble history, which
the contrast shows, to which 1 have
so poorly pointed you, 1 admonish
you not to surrender, colored men OF
America, your equal liberties to the
keeping of your implacable foe, or
ganized and organizing for your en-
slavement or exterminstion.
Again, in noticing the financial poll.
cy OF the administration Mr.. S. makes
the following torcible and truthful
contrast:
But let US now turn to other ele-
ments of this canvass. There are
honest and patriotic Republicans, who
deem it their duty TO bring the Dem.
ocratic party into power in order to
secure economy, purity, official intee-
rity, removal OF the burdens of taxa.
ton, preservation of the national
honor and public credit. Fidelity to
exact truth requires me to say that
but few intelligent and honest Repub-
licans think thus; but to such as do /