The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-10-27
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, OCT. 27

sponsible. When the King of France
ordered the massacre of st. Bartholo-
NEW, though it made the cheek of hu-
manity turn pale, he thought he was
doing right. and that he was serving
God. The Thugs of India think they
are serving their deity. When the
India mother casts her infant into the
Ganges, she thinks she is serving God;
but we regard it as murder.
FORGIVENESS BUT NOT FORGETFUL-
NESS.
We forgive them; we want them to
do we'll; we want them to learn the
lessons of history and stand by us in
the future. What shall be the lesson
we teach to our children, my friends,
If we put those who fought for slavery
years upon the same platform with
those who fought for liberty and. the
country? Shall we say to our chill
.dren that it makes no difference
whether you are for your country or
against it? That if you try to destroy
your country and succeed. you are all
try and do not succeed, why, you are
all right anyhow; there is no penalty,
there is no consequence following it?
No, ] want you to teach your children
to the remotest generation that those
who fought for country and for liberty
deserve the thanks and the love of
the nation and the world, and that
those who fought for slavery and to
destroy the nation must take that
place in history which their conduct
has assigned to them; and that they
have nobody to complain of but them
selves. Stand fast by your principles.
Do not dishonor your own record by
conceding that may be all were right
and equally honest, ,and therefore there
should be no distinctions. This doc
trine leads to other consequences
right at your door. If you should
abolish all distinctions, and concede
they were all equally honest and
equally worthy, then you must recog-
nize that in the law. You must PEN
sion them, you must pay them, you
must make no distinctions; and it
leads to this conclusion: that those
who fought to destroy the nation and
to establish a new confederacy. the
chief cornerstone of which was to
have been human slavery, are after
wards to be rewarded and paid out of
the treasury of the nation. That is
the logical and necessary result OF
that doctrine. If you will stand fast
by your principles, they in time will
come to you. As Gen. Sherman said
the other day, stand fast by your
own record, assert the ground that
you stood on, and let them under
stand the ground that they stood on;
and while we forgive them in our
hearts we never can admit the justice
or righteousness of their cause" He
said if we only stand upon that ground,
in fifty years from this day we will
not find a man who would admit that
his father was a rebel. just now you
cannot find a man in this country that
will admit that his father was Il tory
during the revolution. According to
that doctrine you ought to burn these
old flags; you ought to pull down
your monuments in Putnam and other
in the State of Indiana, be-
cause they are disagreeable reminders
Of the war. On the contrary, | would
preserve these old banners as long as
two threads will hang together.
But whenever / begin to talk about
these things some fellow springs up
and says, "Oh, you are shaking the
bloody shirt" Well, the most of
men that talk that way wear dirty
shirts and carry soiled records.
Laughter 1 would rather see this
remain in the hands of
loyal soldiers than to see it pass under
The control of Confederate soldiers.
[ think it is better for them as it is
better for Us. AS l said before. you
them but you could not
convert them. Let me say to you, for
We might as we'll understand the situ-
alton as it is, the most foolish thing a
nan can do is to volunteer to deceive
himself, and the wisest thing man
ever did is to understand fully the
then they know how to
meet it. Understand that these men,
ny friends, that you conquered, have
human natures, and you do not there
by secure their love. They do not
love you for doing it, and if they had
The power they would not exercise it
'or your benefit, but rather would
they exercise it for their own.
THE WAR DEBT.
A great debt was contracted to pay
The soldiers to carry on the war to put
down the rebellion. That debt may
be said to have been made on account
IF the army for the benefit of the na-
ton. We mr., in honor bouud to pay
L. It is moral obligation resting
upon every loyal man, but the men of
the South, who feel deeply, who are
and humiliated-feel under
no moral obligation to pay that debt,
none whatever. 1t was created for
II on1 <hor, IL
Iove the rod with which the stripes
we're inflicted. When men tell you
that they arc willing to pay the debt
hey are simply deceiving you; there
fore it is better for this nation, it is
better in the long run, it is better FOR
vou that the power of this government
should remain with the Union SOL
liers, rather than with the Confeder-
ate soldiers The men who did not
with you during the war
lin the hour of your trial-those
men do not sympathize with you now.
THE STRUGGLE AT HOME
Soldiers, while you were in the field
here was struggle going on at home
hat great many of you did not COM
prehend. The army could not be
sustained in the field without they
we're supported by public opinion at
home. We had our struggles here,
hard and long were they, and the suf-
cring and anxiety at home were far
greater even than they were with you
n the field. 1 speak to you about
mental suffering; your wives, chill.
lren, parents, and your dear friends
we're on 1.-The ragged edge" of anxiety
md even despair. While you were in
he field with the excitement of the