The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
THE RING OF THE TRUE HETAL.

THE RING OF THE TRUE METAL.
Quite heated debate was had in the
Ohio House last Friday on the occasion
of the election of an Engrossing Clerk
The Republicans in caucus had nOini-
mated !. 5. Tyler, coIored soldier, and
the Democrats had, without his knOwl-
edge or consent, aud evidently for effect,
nominated 5. Z. Crowell, Republican
soldier, Of Dayton. During the course
of tie debate, Mr.. Stone, Of Gallia, OBJ
tanned tire floor, and excoriated the
Democrats numerically. We quote
from the report of the proceedings:
Mr.. Stone, of Gallia (Rep), said that
when the slave Offered to fight for the
stars aud stripes, that had always been
to linn an emblem Of slavery, it was one
of the sublimest spectacles i'll the anna.s
of time. But the Democratic party said
it was unconstitutional, aud dared US TO
accept his services. We have always dar-
ed to do right; believe We have so dared;
the country has sustained us, and put us
and kept US in power. and 10y the eternal,
we mean to do right to-day and hence
forth. Loud and general applause. We
will do right in voting for Mr.. Tyler. col
ored man as he is; ''darkey "a they call
him; cook as they stigmatize him for
his army services-we shall vote for him
and elect him to the place for which he
is nominated Not dare TO vote for
colored man, Why. when my dearest
friend had escaped from the Democratic
hell at Andersonville, and when Demo
cratic bayonets were in his front, and
Democratic blood hounds in his rear, it
was colored men that hid him by day and
fed him and guided him at night, until
he had regained the protection OF the
stars and stripes which Democratic trea-
son was seeking to drag in the dust.
Not dare to vote for colored man for
office. Ay, dare to do so in the face
and teeth of every Democrat in the land.
General applause.
Mr.. Converse didn't dare the Re-
publicans to vote for the colored man.
l said they didn't dare to vote for the
soldier we had put in nomination.
Mr.. Stone-Who does not know that
your nomination of this soldier is con-
temptible, hypocritic, and dastardly
farcel The very man you bring now,
and against his consent disgrace him by
your treacherous support, you denounc-
ed when he was on the field of battle as
a cut tthroat and Lincoln hireling.
Mr.. Stone was followed, in the course
of the discussion, by Mr.. Rowland, of
Ashtabula, who was not less emphatic
in his rhetoric. We quote again:
Mr.. Howland, of Ashtabula, (Rep.)
said it was but few years ago since
man would have been mobbed in any
neighborhood of Ohio, if he had dared
to broach the idea that the cOlored man
was not a brute, and ought not to be a
slave. Through blood and persecution
and ignorance and outrage the Republi-
can party has advanced and sustained
the idea that a man is man, without
re gard TO color, and it is to-day upon
the floor seeking only to carry out that
grand idea. The Republican party has
been stigmatized here by some of the OPP
position, as the party of the hate; yet
history will show that no organization
ever So gallantly inscribed upon its ban
ner the love of humanity, nor ever so
nobly fought for what was just, and low
ing, and liberal, and kind, and true.
The Democratic darty, born of slavery,
has ever been the enemy of human
rights, and has resisted every effort with
voice and ballots to overthrow the
bloody wrong of slavery and oppression.
And the struggle on this floor TO day is
but the dregs and foul remains of DEM
ocratic warfare upon the rights of man
the foul remains and miserable lees OF
Democratic meanneSs, prejudice, and
hate against men of color. The Deinoc-
racy owed its existence as Il party to
human slavery; it bowed abjectly before
the slave owners of the land; and its
action on this floor to-day shows that it
still hears the echoes of the slave whip
in its ears And even yet it has the
slIarelessness TO pirate about its love for
equality and justice, seemingly uncon-
scious that the whole world is laughing
its pretensions to scorn. Mr.. Rowland
continued h;s speech, detailing the serv-
lie, bloody end treacherous record of the
Democratic party. and showing with
what toll and effort, and tears the prin-
ciples of freedom and repubicanism
were at last rescued rom Democratic
domination, and the Union saved, and
liberty established, even against the ut
most effort of the Democratic party in
arms.
Mr.. Rowland continued his speech
with marked ability. He said Tyler is a
good, honest, capable man, and he
(Howland) would vote for him, not only
on these grounds, but because he CFyler)
had come TO the rescue of the country
when it was assaiied by treason of the
Democratic party.