The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-08-29
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Fred Douglass said ~ was a thing
and the Republican party made mo 4
man." OF Douglass this 10 true, IN the
nOhleat sense, but the vast majority OF
OOl0Ted people haye hOt yet been ele'
waited 10 manhood, because their right
OF suffrage has not been secured 10
them. They we're things, ehattelh ana
the Republican party touched them ana
made them flee-ifee children, They
must be made men, Wooster llepub'
liGan,
This Kind OF clap-tfap nonsense Ia
becoming quite common, The average
Republican editor OF 10 day does not
seem 10 know much about the hlatOry
of his county on tho slavery agitation,
The Republican party was not organ.
lied 70 destroy slavery aud " did
not give the negro his freedom,
llead the Republican National plat
form OF 1860 and you will ilnd that II Ia
a strictly stats rights document, rec
Ognizng the right 10 hold slaves IN the
slave states, aud protesting any inter
ference with that flght, IL only sought
10 exclude slavery IN the free terTlt0r'
les by Congressional enactment, Only
this aud nothing more,
The only party, previous 10 tho war
OF the rebellion, that favored negro
emancipation was the Abolition party,
aud " had no power anywhere IN the
North and WAS bitterly denounced by
the Republican party, everywhere, John
Brown, who attempted practical oman
elpatl0n IN Virginia, was hung ~ llaT'
per'a Ferry, without protest from the
Republican party aud tho National
Republican Convention OF 1860, that
nominated Lincoln for President, never
mentioned JOhn Brown, not even 10
protest against his untiinely taking of.
Aftr tho American flag had been
shot down NJ Fort Sumpter, and after
the Confederate Government had been
established ~ Montgomery, Alabama,
and the Union was q thing OF
rents and tatlera, the Lincoln
administration issued an order,
that was carried with the advance of
the invading Union army into Virginia
pr0elalming that alayed were property,
and that they should be recognized aa
such by the Federal troops, ana return
cd 10 their maatera, II they came 10 our
lines, the same as mules, hogs, oxen
and asaea.
The lerCeat battles of the war were
fought 10 save the Union, with slavery.
aa every student OF vAr history knows,
The Emancipation Proclamation, when
Issued, saved slavery 10 tho border
states that had not formally gone into
the C0nfederacy Even the Confeder
ate States were Informed that IL they
would then surrender the Confederate
Government aud come back into the
Union, they could have their negroes
as slaves. Hence, when any modern
jackaua gets up on hla hind legs aud
talks about the Republican party hay
Ing abolished slavery, and thar such
was lts mission on earth, he sim.
ply and solely ialsilea history.
The Republican party did not eman
cipato the negro. When the negro was
emancipated the Republican party had
changed its name 10 the Union party
The Republican party did not write
the Emancipation Proclamation. Old
John Brown wrote the Emancipation
Proclamation on the mountains OF Vlr.
glnia before Lincoln dreamed of ~, or
dreaming would have dared to utter IL,
The emancipation that came TO the
Southern negro WIS not born Of parch.
ment or proClamations. 10 was born Of
the sword, and dyed In human blood
The soldiers who fought the war TO
the end gave the negro his freedom,
and the voice that converted the nation
10 the doctrine Of universal freedom
came with the hot breath of destruction
from big mouthed cannon.
The Republican purty was lost u,
Bull Run, and 10 waa not found again
until after tho folded banners OF the
lost cause we're folded forever, and
new nation, with new IDEAS, was born.
None Of the men who led our armies
successfully came out of the Republican
party.
None OF these were with the drQat
C0ureuTS Of emancipation.
All of these came out Of the Demo.
cratic party,
We win name them; Grant, Sher.
man. Thomas, llanoo *, Meade, Nc
Clellan, Hooker, Sheridan, Rosecrang,
Logan and Bucl.
The real verdict Is; Slavery was do.
str0yod TO save the Union, and the
army saved the Union,