Year: 1867

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for many years, they were the only peo.
pie in this country calculated to admin
ister it to the wants of the people, and
in accordance with their own views, and
in accordance with their own institution
and its spread all over the land. 1t was
not, then, because of their oppression,
because Of wrongs exercised toward
them that they rebelled against the
Government, but because the genius of
this country, as instituted by our fathers,
because the spirit of liberty that rang
clear toned, as does the bell, from the
Constitution formed by them, that these
people attempted to stab this Govern
ment, overturn it, and trample its laws
under foot, destroy its Constitution, and
make for themselves a government
more genial to their own institutions
than this Government established by
the patriotic sires that snatched liberty
and freedom from the tyrants of the
Old World, as you would snatch brands
from the eternal burning.


But, my fellow citizens, when these
dark clouds of treason commenced
showing themselves on our Southern
horizon, when the great sunlight of
liberty in this land began to be obscured
by those angry clouds, there was, thank
Heaven, some Of that spirit Of 1875
that burned in the bosoms of our patri-
otic sires, still leftin the loyal, patriotic
hosts in the Northern portion Of our
country. And when the tocsin of war
sounded, and our Constitution was
trampIed under foot, it burned anew in
the bosom of every patriot in this land,
until its ight was like the prairie on fire.
Liberty, freedom, the preservation of
the Constitution was the cry, or we will
all die in one vast chasm together.


We then, as was we'll said by my
friend Major Williams, who has just
addressed you, in the Providence of
God, the great ruler of all things, bad
wisely placed the right man in the right
place. And although didn't assist in
doing that, l freely confess my fault


He was placed there to hold the helm
of the ship of State. He registered an
oath, high up in Heaven, that he would
guide that old ship safely through the
storm of secession; that he would ride
her over the high and bloody sea of
treason, and land her safely, freighted
with the hopes and prospects of future
generations, in the harbor Of security,
there to unfurl her banner to the breeze
as long as time should last, or man live
to breathe loyalty to his country and his
! God.


During this time how did we divide
off, When our great Captain, Lincoln,
asked the people of this country whether
the nation should be saved, or divided
and destroyed, what was the response


throughout the whole land When you
stood here upon Ohio's fair soil, and
cast your eyes far off to the South, you
saw armed men springing up under the
banner of Jeff. Davis, almost as if the
land had been sown by the hand of
magic. 1t was great army thus rails
ed to oppose the Government Of the
United States. And almost as soon,
too. were the sweet strains of music to
our flag heard reverberating DER hill and


valley, and over rivers and lakes, from


the rock-ribbed shores of the Atlantic


to the golden sands of the mighty Pa


cifc, summoning the mighty hosts of


freemen to meet in battle array, with
glancing bayonets, fully armed and


equipped-each and every one, as he


stepped proudly forward, with Lincoln
as his captain, and loyalty in his heart
swore eternal vigilance and fidelity to


the flag and to the country, and swore,
also, that each and every man who has
either taken up arms Or given utterancc


to a disloyal sentiment in this country,
should taste with their own lips the
bitter cup of death, but what the coun-
try should be preserved.


War, then, was upon us. The two
} armies were arrayed one against the
other; one headed by jeff Davis, as
the pretended President of conteder'
I acy; the other by Abraham Lincoln
l the lawful and constitutional Pleslden
= of the whole country.


Now let us examine what the conduct
: of the people of this country was dur
ing the great and bloody struggle tha
0 lasted for over four years. When trea
son raised its flag in this land-and
g hope there are Democrats here, plenty
! of them-I want you to tell me to-day
=, as honest men, if you can point you
finger to one Republican, one Aboli
t zionist, as you are free to term then
0 now, in the whole land from Maine t,
:" Georgia, or from the East to California
G that ever drew trigger and fred upo
, the flag of the American Republic
s TVoices-"Never, never; not one. "
II Again: can you point me out to-da
e one single man in the whole Unite
:, States of America that ever did, durin
/ this whole war, that belongs to the lie
J, publican organization in this country
IT that failed to give sympathy to the sol
j. der in the field, or failed to pray fo
'f the success of the loyal army in thi
y country7 [Voices-"Not one."l 70
&c cannot show me a man, you caunC
IS show me woman, or prattlng babe
y that today acts or sympathises with tn
e loyal army called the Republican part.
le that ever felt or had sympathy with tn


rebel army.


What else is the record Of this r,
is publican party7 We didn't, during til