Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-18

slavery question, Gn6 led you 10 believe thai
the North would always yield. They made
you believe that we would not fight 70 save
the Union. They made you believe thatif
We ever dared to cross the Potomac or the
Ohio to put down your rebelion We co1ld
only do SO across she dead bodies Of many
hundred thousands of Northern Democrats.
They made you believe that the var would
begin in the streets of our Northern cities;
that We were a community Of shop-keepeEs,
of sordid money -getters, and would not
stand against your 6ery chivalry. Xou
thought Us cold, slow, lethargie; and in
some respects we are. There are some diff
ferences between US that spring from origin
and influences of climate-difsrences not
unlike the description of the poet, that
Bright and fierce snd fickle IL the South:
And dHrk and true and tender Is the North,
differences that kept Us from good under
standing.
You thought that our eoldness, our slow
ness. indicated lack Of spirit and Of pa
tTiotisu, and you were encouraged in that
belief by most Of the Northern Democracy;
but not by all. They warned you at
Charleston in 1850.
And when the great hour struck, there
were many noble Democrats in the North,
who lifted the flag of the Union far above
the flag of party but there was residuum
of Democracy, called in the slang of the
time "copperheads" who were your evil
genius from the beginning Of the war till It's
close, and ever since Some Of them sat in
these seats and never reioiced when we won
victory, and never grieyed when we lost
one. They were the men who sent their
NallaRdighams to give counsel and en-
couragement to your rebellion and to buoy
you up with false hope, that at last you
would conquer By the aid of their treacheTy.
honor, you gentlemen Of the South, ten
thousand times more than / honor such
Democrats of the North.
said they where your evil genius. Why,
in 1864, when we were almost at the cul-
minating point Of the war, their Vallandig-
hams and Tildens land both Of these men
were on the committee ofresolutions) altered
the declaration, as the voice of the Democra-
cy, that the experiment of war to preserve
the Union was failure and that hostilities
should cease. They asked US to sound the
recall on our bugles, to call our conquering
armies back from the contest, and trust to
their Vaccinations to save their party at
she expense Of broken and ruined country.
Brave soldiers of the lost cause, did you
not, even in that hour of peril, in your
heart of hearts loathe them with supremest
scorn? But for their treachery at Chicago,
the war might have ended and q hendred
thousand precious lives been saved But
your evil genius pursued you, and the war
went on. And later, when you would have
accepted the constitutional amendment and
restoration without universal suffrage, the
same evil genius held you back. In 1853 it
still deceived you. In 1872 it led you into
A gulf profound as that serbonian bog
BetNixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
Where armies whole have sunk.
Let not the eloquence of the gentleman
from Mississippi Mr.. LAMAR lure you
again to Its brink.
Mr.. Chairman, it is now time to inquire
as to the fitness of this Democratic party to
take control Of our great nation and It's vast
and important interests for the next four
years. put the question to the gentleman
from Mississippi Mr.. LAMAR what has the
Democratic party done to merit that great
trust He tried to show in what respects it
would not be dangerous. ask him to show
in what It would be safe. affirm, and I
0CAlCNC L AD nOb uAA6lCBICocuI ILP -RIcdi
Democratic party, that in the last sixteen
years they have not advanced one great
national idea that's not to-day exploded and
as dead as Julius Cesar. And if any Demo
crat here will rise and name great nation
al doctrine his party has advanced, within
that time, that is now alive and believed in,
will yield to hear him. A pause. In
default of an answer, / will attempt to prove
my negative.
What were the great central doctrines of
the Democratic party in the presidential
struggle Of 1860? The followers of Breck-
enridge said slavery had right to go wher-
ever the Constitution goes. Do you believe
that to-day? And is there a man on
this continent that holds that doctrine TO-
day? Not one That doctrine is dead and
buried. The other wing of the Democracy
held that slavery might be established In the
Territories IL the people wanted it. Does
anybody hnld that doctrine to-day? Dead,
absolutely dead
Come down to 1854. Your party, under
the lead of TildeR and Vallandigham, de-
clared the experiment of war to save the
Union was failure. Do you believe that
doctrine to-day? That doctrine was shot
to death by the guns of Farragut st Mobile.
and driven, in a tempest of FIRE. from the
valley Of the Shenandoah, by Sheridan less
than q month after its birth at Chicago.
Come down to 1868. You declared the
constitutional amendment revolutionary and
void. Does any man on this floor say 50 to-
day Hso, let him rise and declare it.
Do you believe in the doctrine Of the
Broadhead letter of 1858, that the so-called
constitutional amendments should be dis
regarded? No; the gentleman from Mis-
sissippi accepts the results of the war The
Democratic doctrine of 1868 is dead
walk across that Democratic camping
ground as in graveyard. Under my feet
resound the hollow echoes of the dead.
There lies slavery, black marble column
at the head of its grave, on which read
Died In the flames of the civil war; loved
in its life; lamented in its death; followed
to Its bier by Its only mourner, the Demo-
cratic party, but dead And here is a
double grave Sacred to the memory of
squatter sovereignty. Died in the campaign
Of 1850. On the reverse side Sacred to the
memory Of Dred Scott and the Breckenridge
doctrine. Both dead at the hands Of
Abraham Lncolnl And here monument
of birthstone Sacred to the memory of the
rebellion the war against it is failure :;
Iflden ct VaIsandighGm tecerEnt, A. D. 1864.
Dead on the field Of battle shot to death by
the million gun of the Republic. The doc
trine of secession; of State sovereignty.
Dead. Expired in the flames of civil war,
amid the blazing rafters of the confederacy,
except that the modern Eneas, fleeing out
of the flames Of thai ruin, bears on his back