Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-10-01
THE ORDER oBEYED.


That command has been fulfilled.
There is no slavery in any of your
Territories. That will scarcely be
denied, even by the opposition iourn-
ais. There is Just as little slavery in
any of the States. Something more
than you then thought possible has
been accomplished.
OTHER THINGS ACCOMPLISHED.
But there is no need to dwell upon
the national achievements of the last
spicuous not to have been seen; they
are too recent to be forgotten. It will
suffice to present schedule of the
leading events.
At home and abroad the Union
was proclaimed to be dissolved in
1861. The Union is restored now.
Nine States then claimed to have
left the protection of the Constitution
forever. They have all returned to
that protection now. Those that
thou gavest me I have kept, and none
is lost" said the Saviour of men.
The Republican party has preserved
more than the States you committed
to its keeping. It has found those
which were lost.
In 1861 the Confederate States of
America" so-called, were cIamoring
for admission into the family of ma
tions. There is no longer any such
preteDse. Each one of those great
but misguided communities now has
an honorable recognition as an integ-
raj part of the United States.
, A race numbering millions has been
raised from the condition of chattels
to the state of man. Human rights
have gained the sanction of three
new chapters added to the national
Constitution. Murder organized in
several States, bearing the name of
KukIuX, wearing the garb and plying
the trade of fends, has been exposed,
convicted, punished.
Abroad our career has been scarcely
less triumphant. Great Britain has
corrected the mistake she made
when she assumed that the appear
ance of the Confederate. States was
the sure premonition of the departure
of the United States. She has done
what Great Britain never did before
she has apOlOgized for a mistake.
Out of that mistake has sprung a new
era in diplomacy.
Without the employment of force,
but peaceably, the Republic which
was defied everywhere by her own
citizens, and despised everywhere in
1861, has led Great Britain voluntari-
ly to submit her conduct to the judg-
ment of nations, and, in pursuance of
their judgment, she has paid fine of
| fifteen millions for the wrong she did
US.
That is not all. Those islands to
which she made claim on our North
west coast are relinquished. That
claim Great Britain submitted to the
Emperor of North Germany, and sub
mitted herself to the modification of
being told to surrender it, She was
not awarded an equivalent for it.
She was simply told that she had
claimed great possessions to which
she had no right.
That is not ALL If there ever was
one principle of English Jurisprudence
which England believed to be ire
versible and unalterable, it was the
principle that a British-born subject
could never change his allegiance.
was a law she held to be as fixed as
gravitation. She fought one war
with us in defense of it. But after
seeing our pitiful army of eleven
thousand men suddenly swollen by
volunteers to nearly a million, she
wisely concluded it was not worth
while to fight another war in defense
of that principle, and by peaceful ne
gotiation she has repealed the law she
so long and so obstinately held to be
irrepealable. Germany has followed
that wise example, or rather set
the example. Belgium, Sweden,
Norway and Denmark have done
the same, and now when the Repub-
lie grants the boon of citizenship to
one of Irish, English, German or
Scandinavian birth, the grant is re-
cognized in the land of his nativity.
POSTAGE REFORM.
That is not all. If he can not re-
visit his home, but cares to write, a
| letter can be carried with marvellous
celerity and at trifiing cost. The fol-
lowing table exhibits the great reduc-
tions made in the rates of foreign
postage by postal conventions framed
since 1854 -