The Portland daily press., 1880-08-16
The Way Sam Cary Used to Talk
About the Democrats.

Sam Cary of Ohio is now talking for Han
cock in Maine. The following is an extract
from speech delivered by him at Republi-
can meeting in Troy, N Y, in October 1867.
1t is q good deal better talk than tlat in which
he is now INDUCING:
young men, with which party do you pro-
pose to identity yourselves? Will you enroll
your names with the party of freedom and
progress; the party that stood by the four mil
lions OF freedmen in the struggle for the rights
OF man; the party that voted Supplies and
poured out its treasures to sustain armies and
navies such as the world never saw; the party
that gave Lincoln the second time TO be inau-
rated as commandes-in- chief; the party that
throughout the long and terrible conflict never
faltered; the party that has written for the ad-
miration Of mankind the brightest pages of
history i'll the worlds annals? Will you sus-
tain that congress that proposes TO secure ma
tional citizenship to every native born man,
woman or child of whatever color or national
lty, that hereafter the declaration, Il am an
American citizen shall be passport to favor
throughout all lands, as the expression will
1embody all that is suggestive of justice? Will
you sustain a Congress which proposes to base
representation in the National Legislature up
on the people TO be represented; that Congress
that says that the National debt incurred in
crushing out the rebellion shall be paid to the
utmost farthing, and that not farthing of the
which is resolved that the tens of thousands of
HmbleSS soldiers of the republic who have re-
turned to their homes shall be pensioned, and
the widows and orphans of the three hundred
thousand who shall return 10 more, shall be
protected, honored aud supported? Or will
you vote with that party which has gathered
into It, as into one great reservoir, all the trea
son of the North and South-that party, the
leaders OF which, during all the long years of
war; said mot man, not a dollar to preserve
hat larrx fha Of
which denounced the boys in blue as hire
lings' and dogs, and refused them the right
OF suffrage in the camp, in the field and hospi-
tal-that party, the leaders ofwhich denounced
the great and good Lincoln as tyrant and
usurper, and nerved the arm of the assassin
who took his life-that party, the leaders of
which, after four years of strife slandered the
dead and insulted the living soldier, by solemn
ly declaring In National Convention that the
war was failure-that party, the leaders of
which eXerted themselves to discredit the
money and bonds of the Government by pro-
claiming their issue unconstitutional and their
promises to pay worthless; that party, the
leaders of which organized conspiracies in the
North to murder Governors, seize armories
and arsenals, release rebel prisoners and de-
stroy by fire, sword and pestience the proper
~ and lives OF our citizens; that party, the
leaders of which welcomed and piloted the in
famous Morgan and his band of guerllas
through Indiana and Ohio; that party which
inS'2u Leu lne relgn OF Terror IN new \ Ork
city in 1868, by burning orphan asylums, rapiae
and murder? Will you, young men, embark
your political fortunes with party which to-
day advoca ,es the Immediate admission to the
halls of Congress of men whose hands are yet
wetand dripping with the blood of our slain
heroes; of men who when ministering in our
offices under oath to support the constitution
were plotting its destruction-men who have
added perjury to murder, and treason to per-
jury-men who have distinguished themselves
in rebel Congresses and rebel armies, and reb-
ell navies, by their acts of inhumanity and bar
barity-will you support a party who proposes
to admit to our legislative councils the very
men who were abetting the starvation of CO.
900 of our sens in Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury
and Andersonville? Are you ready, young
man, to identify yourself with the guerrillas
and highwaymcn aud bloody prosecutors Of
Union men at the South, whose only crime
was love of their country and fidelity to its
flag? There is not robber, pirate or murder
or in all the South, from jeff Davis to Semmes
and Quantrell, who would not vote for Hoff-
man and the whole Democratic ticket if they
had access to your ballot-box. Will you,
young man, socast your first ballot as to give
these men control of our armies, the direction
OF our navies and the government? Let your
f1rst venture on the political sea be right and
your voyage will be prosperous and long