The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-10-07
Sam. Cary's Advice to Young Men.
[ From Sam. Cary's Speech in Troy, New Yorf
NOVemb ber, 1861

From Sam Cary's Speech in Troy, New York,
November, 1866
Young men, with which party do you pro-
pose to identify yourselves? VIII you enroll
your names with the party of freedom and
progress; the party that stood by the four mill
ions of freedmen 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; the party
that gave Lincoln the second time to be inau-
gurated as nmapder-in-chiefI the party that
throughout the long and terrible conflict never
faltered; the party that has written for the ad-
miration OF mank ind the brightest page of his
tory in the worlds annals? Will you sustain
that Congress that proposes to secure National
citizenship to every native-born man, woman
and child of whatever color or Nationality,
that hereafter the declaration ''I am an AmeTi-
can citizen shall be a passport to- favor
throughout all lands as the expression will en-
body all that is suggestive of liberty, equality
and Justice? VIII you sustain a Congress
which proposes to base representation in the
resented? that Congress that says that the Ma
tional debt incurred in crushing out the rebel
lion shall be paid to the utmost farthing, and
that not n farthing of the rebel debt shall ever
be paid? that Congress which is resolved that
the tens of thousands of limbless soldiers of the
Republic, who have returned to their homes
shall be pensioned, and the widows and or
phans of the three hundred thousand who re-
turn no more shall be protected, honored and
which has gathered into it, as in one great res
ervoir, all the treason of the North and South
long years of war, said Not a man, not a dollar,
to preserve our Nationality? that party the
leaders of which denounced ''tbe boys in blue''
as hirelings and dogs, and refused them the
right of suffrage in the camp, in the field, and
hospital? that party the leaders of which re-
rebel defeats? that party the leaders of which
denounced the greal and good Lincoln a ty-
rant and uSurper, and nerYed the arm of the
assassin who took his life; that party, the lead
ers of which after fQGr years Of strife slandered
the dead and insulted the living soldiers by
solemnly declaring in National Convention
that the war was failure? that party, the
leaders of which exerted themselves to dis
credit the money and bonds-of the Government
by proclaiming their issue unconstitutional
and their promises to pay worthless? that par-
the me Nani6 10 81 rsF sese aT
ries and arsenals, release rebel prisoners, and
destroy by fire and sword and pestilence the
property and lives of citizens? that party,
the leaders of which welcomed and piloted the
infamo S Morgan and his band of guerrllaS
throu0h Indiana and Ohio p thai Marty which
inaugurated reign of terror in New York
City in 1868 10y burning orphan asylums rapine
your political fortunes with party which to-
day advocates the immediate admission to the
halls of Congress of men whose hands are yet
wet and dripping with the blood of our slain
heroes; of men who when mtniStering in our
We're plotting its destructioni men who have
added perjury to murder, and treason 10 per-
jury men who have distlnsulshed themselves
in rebel Congresses, and rebel armies, and rebel
naVies by their acts of tnhumanity and barbar-
ity. viii you support party who propose to
admit to our legislative councils the very men
who were abetting the starvation of sixty thou
sand of our sons in Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury
and Andersonville? Are you ready, young
men, to identity yourselves with all the guer-
riIlaS and highWaymen and bloody prosecutors
of Union men at the South; whose only crime
There is not robber, pirate or murderer in all
the South, from JEFF. Davis to Semmes and
and the whole Democratic ticket If they had
access to your balIot-box. win you, young
men the con- ntrol of our armies, the direction of
our navy, and PLACE in their hands the various
first venture upon the political sea be right
and your voyage Will be prosperous and long.