The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-09-12

eVvery one nundred-Wltl listen to no
voice. THAT advises them to withhold
their support from General Grant,
but on the contrary, they will give
him hearty, cordial support, and
no men in America will be more
faithful, more firm, and more united
than the black men in support of
General Grant for reelection. loud
cheers.
Ihave recently spoken to thous,
ands of colored men in the South.
and express to you to-day, the con.
yiction that from the Potomac 10 the
Rio Grande ninety nine per cent. Of
the colored voters will stand in the
Republican party OF the United
States, and give their support to
the re-eleotion of General Grant,
lCheers.l -
AMNESTY.
Gentlemen, we seem to be living
in time when every body can be
forgiven, with the exception Of those
who never sinned at all. Laugh
ter. The men who offered a price
on the head of William Lloyd Gar.
rison must not be forgiven, because
he is for Grants reelection. Re.
newed laughter Men who robbed
negroes in 1855, and broke the ne
groes' skulls, and burnt Pennsylva-
MIA Hall-the men who committed
these outrages upon the noblest men
and noblest women that ever trod
this continent, they are to be forgiv.
en-their hands are to be erasped,
but those that stand upright, stand
now where they stood then, have
been firm, unyielding, God fearing
men, they are not to be forgiven
The men who avowedly and in the
face of the civilized world used their
best endeavors to extend the bound
aries of slavery, they are ell to be
pardoned, but God have mercy OH
them who were firm enough to resist
their attempts. Long continued
applause.
The men who repealed the Missou-
ri Compromise and opened halfa mil
lion square miles, sacred to freedom
and the free men and free women OF
this country, and their children, and
their children's children forever the
men who opened them to slavery,
they are to be welcomed and forglv-
en- but the tried men who resisted
their demands, and maintained the
interests of the toiling millions of the
country we'll, they belong to rings.
daughter and tumultuous applause.
The men who, when war came stood
by their country, fought tor their
country, shed their blood for their
country, fingered at Belle Isle, Lib
by Prison, Salisbury and Anderson
Vile, suffered almost more than HUI
man nature could endure,-these
men are forgotten to-day, and the
men who fought them, and the men
who starved them, are to be olasped
to our bosoms. tNever, God for
bid."1 Well, you say 'never," l
saw "never." Great applause. =
But there voices in Massachusetts,
there are voices in New York-there
are voices all over the land-ready
to forgive anybody-everybody who
have taken the side of slavery who
have fought against their country,
who have fought against the institu.
tons of man anu the commands OF
God. They are ready to forgive
them, to embrace them, to clasp their
hands but you and me and the
rest of us, who have no malice IN
our hearts, and who stand true to
man and to God to-day, we are not
to be forgiven.
Well, gentlemen, | go as far as
any man living in forgiving the man
lat has repentance in his breast. :
l believe in repentance. believe
that the the wickedest man that
treads the earth to-day may repent
and obtain the forgiveness OF God,
and our forgivness. But gentlemen,
I want some other evidence than re-
pentance made on the eve OF an
election for the purpose OF taking
possession of the Governmental the
United States, and 10 disgrace a man
who has been true to the country
and baffied the measures that had
been inaugurated for the protection
of man and the advancement of the
cause of justice in America. Why,
gentlemen, know-you know-all
of us know-no m tier to what party
we have belonged-we jail know
that the Democratic party from the
time that Garrison inaugurated the
New England Anti-Slavery Society
in 1882, up to within sixty days, has
been the steady, persistent, unfiinch
ing tool of the slave power in this
country.
HEwAs ORIGINALLY A DEMOCRAT.
Why, / was brought up in the
Democratic party my father was q
Democrat; l was a Democrat when
1 was boy; shouted for jackson
in 1928; but l soon became an anti.
slavery man, and when I became an
anti.slavery man Of course l had to
put eff my Democracy for a m an
could not for the last forty years be
q Democrat and an anti-slavery man
also. The thing would be impossi.
BILE. Laughter.
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS
.s# G
I say to you here to-day, that all
along, during its time, the Demo
cratic party carried the banners, oi
slavery. Whenever the slave pow.
er desired anything they got it. !
They welded the entire power Of
the nation, until in their arrogance
when we elected Abraham Lincoln
they plunged the country into the
fire and blood of the greatest civil
war recorded in history. After the
war all the measures inaugurated for
emancipation-to make the country
free-to lift an emaneipated race up
to give instruction and make them
citizens-to. give them civil rights
and make them voters-to put them
10. - .ality with the rest of the
people-to every one of that series
OF thirty or forty measures the Dem
| ooratic party gave their Presiden
unqualified and united opposition
Well, now, we have been accustom
ed to say they were mistaken, misin
formed-that they were honest
that they believed what they did
but, gentlemen, If they believed wha
they have said, that they actee
according to their convictions from
1882 to 1874 period of forty year