Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20

erage loss per s1,lG0 cn ihe amount IL
volved was S5.17. While since that time it
has been only 81 cmts. These are official
figures and speak .or themselves.
The.historyof the Repsbliean party for
the last fifteen years Is about as follows
1t has put dow. and crushed out one Of
the most gigantic ,(DemOcratie) rebelhons
the world ever saw.
1t has saved fresa destruction and perpet-
uated this Union.
It has emancipated four millions of
slaves, and has given them the rights of
citizenship, and extended to them equal
protection in all heir rights.
1t has maintained the public credit.
1t has rapidly reduced the public debt
and taxation, and has reduced the public
expenditures one-half in the last eleven
years. These are but few of the things
that it has done, and it justly points with
pride to its past history
The Democratic party does not point to
its antecedents for the last fifteen years,
but deals with the ''liYe issues of the day.
Why does it not point to its aatecedents?
About fifteen years ago, it-or the control
ling part of it-robbed the U. S. Treasury
and arsenal, stole our ships and sent our
navy into foreign waters, and scattered our
little standing army Of less than twelve
thousand men to the fartheupost bounda-
ries Of the country-frosn whence they
could not be rallied for months; passed
secession ordinances. and finally declared
war upon the flag of their country by firing
upon old Fort Sumter; waged a most wick
ed and inhuman war for over four years
that cost the country thousands of millions
of treasure, and the blood of five hundred
thousand of her noblest sons; created great
riots at the North to prevent the execr-
ton of the laws; undertook to introduce
yellow fever and other diseases into. and
burn our principal northern cities; intro
duced the most dqmaaBle and fiendish sys-
tens Of prisons for the confinement and de
struction of their prisoners, that was ever
heard of since the creation of man, in one
alone Of which they, starved to death nzore
than fourteen thousand Union prisoners;
practiced the most inhuman cruelties upon
their prisoners that could be conceived Of
by the two most inhuman fends that ever
disgraced the face of this earth-namely,
Winder and Wurz, who were appointed to
their positions as commissioners of prisons,
for that very purpose.
Since the close of the war, they have or
ganized canditti of the most red-hande8
kind that the minds of desperadoes oould
conceive of, for the destruction by mid
night murder, and assassination ia broad
day light, of any one who might haid views
antagonistical to their own; and they have
murdered and assassinated thousands upon
thousands of Republicans, both white and
blackf for no other cause than that they
were Republicans They have come back
by the magnanimisy Of the Republican
party, into the very legislative ais which
they deserted to take up arms against their
government, and have turned out Of Office
ex-Union officers and soldiers, and put in
their places ex-rebel officers and soldiers.
Now, to cap the climax, they propose toput
into the chair of the chief executive, Sam
uel J. Tilden, of New York, VINO was their
sympathizer during the whole war, and is
now; and they ask you to help theml WiU
yOa do it? They ask you to give them full
control of this government which they
tried so hard and persistently TO destroy.
VIII you do it?
They are trying 10 gain by a fraudulent
ballot what they lost BE.a rebel bullet.
They say they Do not point to their past
record, butdeal with the 'E@live issues =, of
the day. If they call the Republicans of
the South the" live issues, then l should
say they do. And we know how theyhave
dealt with them too. We only have to re-
member Coushatte, Hamburg, Raesser
Bridge, and thousand other places. They
say we faunt the "bloody undergarment."
All have to say in r epIy to that is, if they
will cease making it, We will have none TO
shake.
They ask US, rs the South in state OF
wal, and if it is and you have not been
able to put it down in eleven years, what
guarantee caT1 you give as that you can put
it down in eleven more?"
No the South is not in state Of war,
we put down all the arar' they could make
in four years, and We would haT aat i-