The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-16
CONSISTENT.

aii,-si r.I fIsade and d-cl 'rrd tilIl We
would ry-er support for oiii1e Il nan
WHO was IN tlie habit of using int0xicat-
! ing drink. That we aided and abett'-d
. the Crusade we 10 not a"'.y, ':iil while
| We think that movement accomplished
/ much toward awakening the public 10
th.. encrmity aud danger Of the liquor
traffic, we are only sorry that more was
net accomplished. That it had its I'M
| p-rfrctions and committed mistakes its
warIuest advocates are free To admit
| They laid no claim to inflllibiiity. They
met opposition ani abuse where they
Ind not expected it, For instance, they
did not expect the COpIieJ to come to
the aid of the liquor sellers, and use its
best efforts to ncutrtlize and bring to
maught their work.
As to the second clause, We wish 10
say that the JEFFERsoNIAN will not
knowinsly support "A man for office who
is in the haG6 Of gettiHg dT1IRk.
While we would prefer tn support
men who do not use intoxicating
liquors as a beverage at all, there may
be and, doubtless are, men who make II
moderate use of liquor. But the COuT-
leT thinks that temperance men are very
inconsistent if they i o not support Sam.
Carey. Sain. says that he has not drank
for thirty years, but in the same breath
l., 4. r..
ercive laws. lie has switched around
50 much that we hardly know where to
find the ''horEy handed" Samuel. Does
lac tell the truth now. Did he tell it in
October, 1SG7, when in ii speec Il at Troy,
New York, which was reported in the
Troy Times, he said:
"Our boys in blue have exhibited a he
roism and performed deeds OF valor un-
PARALLEL i'll 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 diSenthrall
ed. The ground where they fell is holy,
for the martyrs of liberty cOnsecrated it
with their blood. The martyred Lincoln
the murdered Lyon, WadSworth, Me-
pherSon and their three hundred thou
sand comrades, died, that dOwn-troddcn
oppressed, buried humanity might have
"A glorious rcSurPctiOn-that this nation,
the favOritc child Of Divine Providence,
clothed with new vigor and beauty,
might be given over to Al purer and high
er civilization, aS a bride adorned for
her husband. The ashes Of the nations
slain in this war will be- treasured and
guarded by the affection OF all Christen-
dom In after years. when this vast
continent shall be peopled with five
hundred millions Of intelligent, liberty
loving happy people, when it shall be-
come the garden of the Lord, and when
this nation shall be the evangelizer Of
the world, the disenthralled and rnfrnn-
chised of all lands will scatter flowers
and tears of gratitude upon the tOnbs
of our fallen heroes, and their names
will be held in everlasting remembrance.
Then the leading rebels in the South
and the C0pperhead allies III the North
will be remembered only to be eXecrated
forever.
Young men, with which party do
you propose to identify yourselves!
viii you enroll your names with the
party of freedom and progress; the par
ty that stood 10y four millions Of freed
men in the struggle for the rights of
man; the party that voted supplies and
poured out its treasures TO sustain armies
and navies such as the world never saw;
lac party that gave Lincoln the second
time to he inauga.ated as commander
in-chief; the party that throughout the
long and terrible conflict never faltered;
the party that has written for the admi-
ration of mankind the brightest page OF
history ia the worlds annals. Will you
sustain that Congress that proposes 10
secure national citizenship to every na-
tive-born uan, woman and child oil
whatever color or nationality, that here
after the declaration 4 am AN American
citizen shall b. = passport TO favor
throughout all the lands, aS the expires
sion will embody all that is suggestive of
liberty, equality and Justice! Will you
sustain II Congress which proposes To
base representation in the National Leg
islature upon the people to De- represent
ed; that Congress that says that the
national debt incurred in crushing out
the rebellion shall be paid to the utmost
farihing, and that not q farthin@ of the
rebel debt shall ever be paid-tIIat Con
gress which is resolved that the tens Of
Republic who have returned to their
homes, shall be pensioned, and the wild
owS and orphans OF the three hundred
Thousand who return 10 more shall DE
protected, hoGOFed and supported! Or
will you vote with the party that has
gathered into it, us iii one sreat reser
voir, all the treason of the North and
South-that party, the headers of which,
f said
mot IA man, nor a dollar to preserve our
nationality-tlIatp party, the leaders OF
which denounced the boys in blue ~
'hirelines' aud dogs, and refused them
the right of suffrage IN the camp, in the
field and hospital hat party, the lead
crs of which denounced the great and
good Lincoln as a tyrant aud usurper,
and neTved the arm OF the assassin vino
took his life-that party the leaders OF
which, after four years ofstrife, SANDER
ed the dead and insulted the living sol
dier, by Solemuly declaring in National
Convention that the war was a failure
that party, the leaders of which exert
ed themselves to discredit the money
and bOnds of the Government by pro-
claiming their Issue unconstitutional and
their promise to pay worthless; that
party, the leaders of which organized
conspiracies in the North to murder Gov
errors, seize arIhOTieS and arSeualS, re-
lease rebel prisoners and destroy by fire,
sword and pestilence the property and
lives OF our citizens; that party, the
leaders of which welcomed and piloted
the infamous Morgan and his band of
guerrillas through Indiana and Ohio;
that party which inaugurated rei-,n of
terror in New York city in 1863. by
burning orphan asylums, rapine and
murder Will yOu, young man. EN-
bark your political fortunes with a par
ty which to day advocates the iinnedi-
ate admission to the halls Of Congress of
men whose hands are yet wet and drip
ping with the blood of our slain heroes:
of men who, when ministering in our
Offices under oath to support the Con
stitutiOn, were plotting Its destruction
linen who have added perjury to mur
der and treason to perjury-men who
have distinguished themselves in rebel
Congresses, and rebel armies, and rebel
navics, by their acts of inhumanity and
barbarity-will you support party who
proposes TO admit to our legislative
councils the very men who were abetting
the starvation of 60, 900 of our sons in
Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and Ander-
sonyille! Are you ready, young men to
identity yourselves with the guerrillas
and highwaYmen and bloody prosecutors
of Union men at the Sonth, whose only
crime was love of their country and IL
deity TO its tlagi There is snot a robber,