Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-09-05
RLooMINGBURe, AUG. IS, 1872.

now feastlng on Crow, made speech
in Troy, New York, in October, 1867,
in which he spoke as follows:
Our brothers, fathers, sons have not
made their forced marches, languished
in hospitals, died in battle, starved in
prison pens, simply to preserve the
integrity of the Republic and maintain
the superiority of our Northern civi-
lization. They were vindicating the
immortal, the divine truth asserted in
the. Declaration of Independence, aye,
promulgated by the Almighty, of the
universal fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man. We had made
merchandise of Gods image; we had
insulted the cross of His son bv de-
nying the manhood to millions of those
for whom he died our statesmen had
proclaimed that this was white mans
government; our Legislatures had de-
clared it crime to teach black man
to read Christ's sermon on the mount;
-our Judges had decreed that in this
Republic a man with a dark skin had
no rights which a white man was
bound to respect; ministers of the
everlasting Gospel maintained that
slavery was the normal condition of
the African, or that his manhood was
mere political question with which
the pulpit had nothing to do. And
thus the sublime and divine truth that
each individual of every race, color
and cline had an equal right with all
others to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness, was repudiated. But the
jewel truth of the divine right Of man
hood, not of kings, came over in the
Mayfower with the simple hearted Pill
grims, and like ''the little stone cut
out of the mountain without hands, is
10 fill the whole earth" Our boys in
| blue have exhibited heroism and per-
| formed deeds of valor unparalleled in
! history. God was with them, for they
were striking chains from the limbs of
His children. The blood they shed
was sacred, for, like Christ, they died
that manhood might be sinthralled.
The ground where they fell is holy, for
the martyrs of liberty consecrated it
with their blood. The martyred Lin
coin, the murdered Lyon, W adsworth,
Mcpherson and their three hundred
thousand comrades, died that down
trodden, oppressed, buried humanity
might have a glorious resurrection
that this nation, the favorite child ol
Divine Providence, clothed with new
vigor and beauty, might be given over
to purer and higher civilization, as &
bride adorned for her husband. The
ashes of the nations slain in this wal
will be treasured and guarded by the
affection of all Christendom. In af
ter years, when this vast continen
shall be peopled with five hundred mill
ions of intelligent, liberty loving, hap
py people-when it shall become tht
garden of the Lord, and when this ma
ton shall be the evangeliZer of tht
world, the disenthralled and enfran
chised of all lands will scatter flowers
and drop tears of gratitude upon the
| tombs of our fallen heroes, and thei
names will be held in everlasting re
membrance. Then the leading rebel
in the South, and the Copperhead al
lies in the North, will be rememberet
only TO be execrated forever.
AN APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN.
Young men, with which party d,
| you intend to identify yourselves
Will you enroll yourselves with TIL
party of freedom and progress: til
party that stood by the four million
of freedmen in the struggle for til
rights of man; the party that vote
f supplies and poured out its treasure
to sustain armies and navies such a
the world never saw; the party tha
gave Lincoln the second time to
u i S<,G
] the party that throughout the long an
, terrible conflict never faltered; tn
party that has written-for the admin
istration of mankind the brightes
= page of history in the worlds annals
Will you sustain that Congress tha
Il proposes to secure nation citizenshi
= to every native born man, woman an
t child of whatever color or nationality
# that hereafter the declaration Il am a
i American citizen shall de a paspo1
to favor throughout all lands, as th
expression will embody all that
suggestive of liberty, equality an
. justice? Will you sustain Congress
: which proposes to base representatio
|, lin the National Legislature upon tn
:, people to be represented; that Cor
gress that says that the National del
n incurred in,crushing out the rebelIio
= shall be paid to the utmost farthine
Y and that not n farthing of the reb'
debt shall ever be paid-that Congress
which is resolved that the tens {
= thousands of limbless soldiers of til
+ Republic who have returned to the
} homes, shall be pensioned, and I'll
!. widows and orphans of the three hui
dred thousand who return no MOI
/ shall be projected, honored and SUI
:, ported? Or will you vote with thi
If party which has gathered into it, as
is one great reservoir, all the treason {
the North and oGpth-that party, tt
leaders whieh, during ell the -lGu
: years of war, said s'not man, not
e dollar" to preserve our nationality
: that party, the leaders of which d.
! nounced "the boys in blue" as ''hirt
. lings" and ''dogs," and refused thel
J the right of suffrage in the camp, i
. the field and hospital-that party, til
! leaders of which denounced the gref
C and good Lincoln as tyrant an
II usurper, and nerved the arm of th
assassin who took his life-that party
the leaders of which, after four yeal
F.! of strife, slandered the dead and il
g suited the living soldier, by solemn
declaring in National Convention ths
the war was a failure; that party, til
8 leaders of which exerted themselve
"a to discredit the money and bonds {
the Government by proelaiming the
$ issue unconstitutional and their prom
To ~ Al, Al,