Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-29
SUPPLEMENT,

children. That is the way they propose to have a
Que of the steps taken 70 produce Solid south /
know and you know that majority Of the South
ern States are largely Republican by from 1000
10 as high as 100 900 majority; and still the Demo
Gratis say, Notwithstanding this. that they are GO
ing to carry every Southern State. They know
system COZ Of terrorism. ~ They fnO1 V
they can only do It as I told you
willing TO succeed by these Infamous means, and
Samuel ]. Tilden is willing to be made Presidents
OF the United Statess and be made so By means OF
ton have got to that gentleman. ICheers.l
Now, what else do they expect besides united
southi They expect q divided North. How do
going TO unite the South by Rssassina-
ton and murder, they are going to divide
ing that the Republican party is the most
terrific party that ever existed in the world.
fLanghter.l They are going to divide the North
BY keeping their own records secret; by saying,
let bygones be bygOnes;" by hiding the record
they made during the war; by pretending that they
we're as much IN favor OF putting down the rebel
going TO divide the North they believe by these
infamies, and because they believe the people Of
! the North have so little sense to believe these
statements. They can never divide the North
They may unite the South, but they never will IN
the history OF the world divide the North again.
HOw,my fIiends. what claim has this Democratic
party upon youf ask any Democrat here, what
in the last twenty years for this great Govern
ment OF ours. deny that it has done a solitary
thing that it ought not TO be ashamed of. Laugh
teri deny that It has advocated q single sof-
tSry measure that has been carried out in this
Government for twenty years 1 deny that any
human being in the North ie under the slightest
obligation TO the Democratic patty Of the North
when the South went into the rebellion
Democrats said they ought to de it.
Thousands Of Democrats went and fought for this
country. Thousands OF Democrats left the old
Thousands OF them fought well and bravely and
came pack and have been voting the Republican
ticket from that time to this. IApplagse.l Some
OF them it may be, vent back TO the Democratic
party and OF them 1 have not one word to
ssy-not word AGAINST any man that ever
barred his breast to 9 storm Of shot and
shell to save my country, no matter what
party he actg with, but VIII not support the man
that stayed at home and denounced HIM
as Lincoln hireling. I Will not support the man
that stayed at home and denounced the soldier as
murderer L VIII not support the man that
defeated upon the fields Of the South, and WepT
when this soldier came VIGOROUSLY home
This Democratic party say, as party. took
the side OF secession and il the doctrines of James
Buchanan and Samuel ]. 1ilden had been carried
out we would have bad no Nation tonight
l,Ihat's SOL We would have had no country
this blessed moment, and is anybody under any
obligation TO party which would have destroyed
the country IL 1t had the powers [''No."l l tell
you my friends. this is great country; it is no
bic country; 1t is The only free country beneath
the stars; and any man that ever tried to destroy
it committed the greatest of crimes Any man
who sympathized with those who vera en-
deavortng to destroy it sympathised with
TO commit, the most infamous of crimes.
1t a crime against humanity to destroy this
the world TO try to destroy this Government; and
Rny party that was ever willing that the country
should be DESTROYED never should be put in power
solitary moment again. t'tEever."I
Now, my friends, the Democrats opposed the
prosecution OF the war, and nobody knows that
better than an Ohio Democrat. The Democrats OF
OHIO, think, were about mean the Demo
Gratis Of any State in this Union. Laugh
SSsm rPeneed ,argSter S Tbav eCs enant e
bad as they were in any State In this Union, not
excepting the State Of Indiana They did oppose
every town, in every county, in every city almost
in the State Of Ohio. They endeaYOred to make
hind and shoot down loyal men. They did ar
matter Of fact oppose the draft. They did as
matter Of fact squat in the hushes-and use the
word "squat" as Iwould speak about that attitude
assumed by toad. They squatted in the bushes
and fired out upon loyal men who were simply en-
deavOrinR to enforce the laws Of this Nation.
YOu know it and so do L Whenever we were
defeated in the army upon the fields in the South
ern States, the Democrat cheeks of Ohio bur st
INTO roses of 10y. Whenever we were YictOrs you
could tell their long drawn faces as many hundred
yards as you could see them: ILaughter.I
The Democrats in the South-they we're all Dem
oerats in the Southland the Democratic party
lid all they could for the destruction of this Gov
ernment RecOllect that during the en- tire war a
Democrat with musket was a rebel; rebel with
out musket was Democrat. [Laughter.l The
difference was not in the men, but in the musket,
and so call them Democrats, one and ALL Every
man that endeavored to destroy the Government
was Democrat; every man that sympathized
with the men that did endeaVor to destroy the
Government Democrat; every enemy OF the
United States, from the first musket that was
fired in the rebellion to the last gun every SINGLE
solitary enemy that the Republic had was Demo
craft (Great applause.l VIII you recolect that2
Everyone that tried to tear down the old flag was
aDemOerat Every man that starved our men who
were prisoners at Llnby, and AndersOnville, and
Salisbury was a Democrat. That's SOL Every
man that shot a Door insane prisoner, simply be
cause in his wanderings, following it maybe some
hand drawn from an insane dream, he happened
to go beyond the dead line, and was shot down
like wild beast; the man that shot him was and
is Democrat. Loud cheers.
The men that endeaVored to burn the city of
New York; tnat set fires il over twenty places,
knowing that hundreds and thousands OF lives
would thereby be lost; knowing that in the gmOk-
ing ruins would be found the charred remains OF
women and children; knowing that the serpents
of flame would leap from building TO building and
clutch, as it we're, the babe from the mothers
arms-every man that set these fires was, tell
you, q Democrat iCheers.l Every man that
endeaS ored to release rebel prisoners at
Indianapolis at Rock island, IN the city of Chi
oago; every man that tried to get uprising in
the North 70 burn the homes OF UniOn soldiers
above the heads OF theIr wives and children,
while the brave fathers and husbands were at the
front fighting for tile equality OF human rights;
every man that endeavored to do these infamous
things was Democrat. prolonged and enthu
siastie applause.l
Hold on; have not got through my indictment
vet. "a YOioe-"We'n want on you all night'l
Every man who believed that slavery was a d.
vine institution; that the bay of the bloodhound
formed part OF the music Of the Union; every
should be bought and sold upon the
auction-block ike cattle; every man
who believed that another should be made
to bend In burning sun under a masters lash
without OmpensatiOn-eYery one OF these men
was ana is a Democrat. Every man tnat wept
over the corpse Of slavery; every man that de-
nOuneed and damned the Emancipation Procla-
nation, the grandest document ever Issued since
the Declaration or Independence, was and is
Democrat. iApplause.l The man that as
sassinated Abraham lincoln was a Demo
crat; every man that was glad Lincoln
was assassinated was Democrat-every -one. I
don't say that all Democrats we're glad Of 1t, but
every man that was glad Of it was q Democrat.
IADplause.l More than that, every man that en-
deaVOred TO impair the credit Of the United States
when 1t wished to borrow money to buy shot and
shell to kill Democrats with TlaughterI was Dem
Ocrat. Every man that said the bonds never
would be paid; every man that said the green
backs were worthless trash-every single, solitary
one was Democrat. IApplause.l
So much did they slander and so much did they
maHgn the credit Of our glorious country that at
one time during the war gold went up to 800
What did that meant 1t meant that Q greenback
dollar was worth only thirty-fOur cents. What
became Of the other sixty-sx centsl They were
lied OUT Of the greenback they were
maligned, and slandered and illuminated
out Of the greenback Whom byI By the
Democratic party Of the North. Applause,
and voice, "Bully bOyI'l Twe-thrds of the great
debt put upon the shoulders of American industry
were put there by the Democratic party OF the
North; the other third by the Democratic party
of the South. TApplause.l
When the Democrats talk about hard times let