The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-10-06
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this nation. If it had not been done
by the Republican party we would have
had no nation tonight; if il had moi
oeen done by the Republican party the
Old nag would have been torn from tl,e
air that it enriches, if it had not been
for the Republican party to dav. I saw
we would have had no nation and no
nag respected by any country on this
globe. What more did they do? They
went into partnership with the
rebels, got up Democratic meetings in
the North and paid the expenses with
rebel money. Jacob Thompson. who
was the rebel agent in Canada went
there IN 1864, and he writes back home
ID 1854, that he got in connection with
tnese Knights of the Golden Circle,
these Northern Ku- -Klux. He belong
ingto theDemocratic party. They were
going TO get up an uprising in the
North for the purpose of burning the
homes and houses of soldiders when
they were in the front fighting the bat
Ties OF the Nation. They held the first
meeting in the city of Peoria. the town
where I live, and Jacob IhomDsoa
writes home to the Confederate Gov
ernment-we found the letter in the
rebel archives when the Confedsracy
Ell 10 the earth-stating that lie help
ed TO get up that meeting, aud that ne
pad the expenses of that meeting.
More than that. They had another
meeting in Springfield and another at
indianapolis, Those meetings were ad-
dressed by the most CONSPICUOUS poll
ticians OF the Democratic stripe. Let
ters were written to the meeting by
Fernando Wood of New York, and
George H. Pendleton ard George e.
Pugh of Ohio, regrettiDg they could
not be there in body but they would
be there in spirit. Laughter That
IS the way, l say, the whole Democrat
ic party was present. Thomas II. Sey-
mour, of Connecticut, also wrote q
letter to this Democratic party. They
met and denounced Lincoln as a ty-
rant, and denounced the war as a mig
ger war: they denounced our brave
s1ldiers, who had carried the flag Of
our country up the ramparts Of rebel
forts, as murderers, as thieves, as vile
traitors to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States. What more2 They carried
in their professions transparancies in
which they said, ''Rouse, brothers, and
hurl the tyrant Lincoln from his
throne;" ''Can all the money in the
world pay this Niger debt" and
hundred other such infamous senten-
tences: and those meetings were ad-
dressed by Democrats who are to day
running for the most important offices
in Illinois and Indiana. The Demo
Gratis were as busy then as they are now
and they sent to the city of Peoria re-
volvers in boxes marked Sunday
School Books" Laughter. These
Democrats came here and said, what
we want is peace, and had revolvers
in their pockets and Bowie stuck IN
dertheir belt. They carried white flag
and they said. let us have peace. snf
they looked Ike a lot Of wlOves with q
laInb skin for a banner, they looked
like a lot of hyennas carrying d shrou1
for flag. They said what we want is
peace, and they were ell addressed by
the principal Democrats of Illinois.
Then they went over to India napolis
and had enother meeting there. In the
meantime the Convention met at Chi
eago, and put in the peace platform q
resolution stating that the war wes a
faiiu-e, and they made these poor dew
lis believe that they could elect Nc.
Cleilan at the polls, and they had bet
ter put off the uprising and civil war
until after the election. But before
the election ceiue on you know that
Farragut went up the Mississippi and
to Mobile; before the time came the
numbering of Grants cannon and
Sherrnan's was heard ell along the1ioe.
AMI before they. took tleir vote the
Rebellion was substantially crushed
into the eternal earth, In the mean.
time we arrested few of these wheIps.
Laughter. One whelp BY the name
of DOdds, who was at the head of the
organization in the State'of Indiana.
and put him in Ft. Lafayette. When
we were victorious we got quite gener.
ous-altogether to generous-and We
opened the gates and our prison doors
and let these wretehes out. It is n
perfect waste of air to let such men
Breathe. daughter. We let Dir. Dodds
out of Fort Lafayette and where do
you suppose he is now? He is in Wis
consin. What is he doing in Wiscon-
SIM What is he doing? He is making
speeches. What for? Tilden and Hem
bricks and Reform. Laughter and
applause. This same man. Thomson.
hired a little Democrat TO burn up Gin
cinnati, a little Democrat by the
name of Churchill | think lie was a
tailor, and if he was, his soul would
have gone through the eye Of any
needle he ever saw. Laughter.l They
hired men to burn the city of New
York, they hired men to burn the
steamers on the Mississippi, they did:
they hired men to disseminate tie small
pox and yellow fever as Instruments of
civilized warefare. In the North did
the Democratic party ever lift its voice
against il? Never. Did it ever pass a
resolution against such barbarism2
Never! neverl Did any solitary Dem
ocratic ever rise in his place and de.
nounce the eoure of the South for at
to burn the cities of the North
and for endeavor,rg 70 scatter disease
and coDtagion broadcast over the land.
and among woman and children? Ney-
er! They set fires tw, nty places in the
city of New York; they knew that IL
that city burned down thousands of
human beings woald burn; they knew
that the flames would leap like serp
snts and take the child from the moth
sr's breast; and no Democrat ever de-
bounced that mode of carrying on
war. Why didn't they? Because they
we're sorry they didn't succeed.