have been defeated. Not only in this congressional district, but in States all over the country, this honest, sturdy, Saxon element is everywhere uniting with us, and if we are but true to the cause of freedom they will remain with us. Had it not been for the charge of Know-Nothingism, which was so persistenly and falsely made against us, by the very party which has to-day, and had then, nearly all the pro-Slavery KnowNothing leaders secretly in its ranks, we should have numbered with the Republican army in 1856 about the entire German element in the United States. They will be with us in 1860.

They can be deceived with the name of democracy no longer. In all our large cities, in Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Toledo, and indeed in nearly all the States, we owe our success to the German vote. It was indeed a glorious sight to see that solid old Saxon element showing its true independence, and uniting with us, as they did in Toledo, in rallying around the banner of liberty. It is a good omen for the future, and if we but remain true to them and to ourselves, and without compromise stand by our organization, and our gallant and true leaders, who in four successive campaigns, in nearly all the free States, have safely led us to battle and to victory, there can be no such word as fail. Every pulsation of the popular heart gives us the assurance that the shout of the awakening is at hand, that the day for the triumph of our cause dawns upon us, that the people in 1860 will arise in their majesty to hurl the present corrupt, extravagant and sectional administration from power, and place a tried and true statesman of the national Republican party in the presidential chair.

ADDRESS

DELIVERED IN GERMAN TOWNSHIP, FULTON

COUNTY, OHIO.

On Tuesday last, November 1, 1859, a large meeting of the Republicans of German township, Fulton Co., Ohio, was held at Archbold village, at which a banner was presented to the Republicans of that township in honor of their first victory over the Democracy, achieved at the late election. The banner was of white satin, upon which was the following inscription in gold and colors:

"From the Republican Mothers and Daughters of Fulton county to the Republicans of German township." greet you as brothers."

"In commemoration of the glorious victory of 1859."

"We

On the reverse-top and sides-"Fraternity," "Liberty," "Equality." The filling in—"Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country." "Free Homes for Free People." "Lands to the Landless." "Protection to Foreign-born Citizens

abroad."

After the presentation was made a resolution was passed complimenting Hon. J. M. Ashley, eliciting from him in reply the following remarks, which we find in the Wauseon Republican:

MR. PRESIDENT AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is not my purpose to detain you long, for I come not so much to make a speech this afternoon as to be a listener, and to enjoy a social hour with friends who are convened to celebrate an event that should make glad the heart of every free man. For your compliments, and the manner in which you have been pleased to express your appreciation of my humble efforts for the cause, I return you my sincere thanks. And permit me to express the hope that no act or vote of mine in the new and untried field of labor to which you have com

missioned me, and to which in a few days I must repair, will ever cause any of my fellow-citizens to regret that their suffrages were bestowed upon me.

The victory we have assembled to celebrate, my fellowcitizens, is not a victory for any one man, or a number of men, but a victory for principle, a victory for humanity, for right, for truth, for justice. It is indeed a glorious victory, the effects of which will soon be visible at the slaveholding capital of the Republic, where Ohio will again be represented in the Senate of the United States by a senator true to freedom. This is a consummation over which we may properly express our gratitude, and exchange congratulations, and to no township, of the same number of inhabitants, in the State, are we more deeply indebted for our triumph in Ohio this fall, than to German township in Fulton county. And I express to you, but imperfectly, the joy the Republicans of Lucas feel, especially the German Republicans of Toledo, at the redemption of German township from the control of a spurious and false democracy. You fought the battle well and gallantly, and the beautiful banner just presented to you by the fair daughters of Fulton county, tells you better than I can tell you, of the high esteem and regard in which you are held by those who, with you, are battling earnestly for the rights of man and the liberty and cnfranchisement of the human race. I have faith that you will take no step backward, that you will stand firmly by the principles of freedom, and annually carry to the ballot-box the time-honored Democratic-Republican principle emblazoned upon the folds of your banner.

To you

To you, my German fellow-citizens, the Republican party is under deep obligations for its past success. it looks with confidence for aid in the great battle of 1860. With gratitude we acknowledge its indebtedness to you, not only here in German township, but all over the country.

Everywhere the freedom-loving Germans are joining our ranks, and if, as a party, we are faithful to the constitution and the Union, and true to the doctrines of human brotherhood, they will remain with us. Had it not been for the charge of Know-Nothingism which has been so persistently and falsely made against us, by the very party which from the

first has had nearly all the pro-Slavery Know-Nothing leaders secretly in its ranks, almost every German elector in the United States would have been with us to-day. As it is, they will be with us in 1860, and, like brothers standing shoulder to shoulder on the Republican platform, will rally around the banner of liberty, and our cause shall triumph. Let no friend of humanity doubt it, for the principles and doctrines of the Republican party are such as to commend them to the judgments and hearts of the friends of liberty and justice everywhere, especially to the poor of every nation, who are seeking homes in this land of ours. The Republican party is opposed to the proscription of any man, whatever his nationality or religion; opposed to a strong centralized government in the hands of an aristocratic privileged class; opposed to fraud and corruption in the administration of the government, to an irresponsible government bank, to issuing millions of shinplasters for the purpose of carrying on the government in a time of profound peace, to borrowing money every year for the office-holders, and creating a national debt for posterity to pay; opposed to making war upon weak and defenseless neighboring nations for the purpose of robbing them of their territories over which to extend the blight of human slavery; opposed to the fugitive slave bill, to the reopening of the African slave trade, or to permitting slavery to go into and occupy our national territories to the exclusion of the laboring white man; opposed to selling the public lands to speculators, or permitting them to go into the hands of any person but actual settlers; opposed to an increase of the rates of letter and newspaper postage; opposed, as Washington was, to a large standing army in time of peace, believing it to be dangerous to the liberties of a free people; opposed to importing from Europe anything which we can manufacture as well and as cheaply at home; opposed to going to England to buy rails for our great network of western railroads, when we can make them as well and better from the iron mountains of Pennsylvania, where forges and furnaces, which are now idle and still, and immense beds of coal and iron ore and forests of timber, await but the touch of the American artisan and American la

borer to put down every bar of railroad iron we need at our doors; and finally opposed to the passage of all laws, either by the legislatures of the several States, or by Congress, granting privileges to the few which are denied to the many. These are some of the points in which, as a party, we stand in direct antagonism to the present national administration, and to those who placed it in power. But the Republican party is not, as has been charged by our opponents, merely a party of negatives. It stands forth and boldly proclaims to the world, not only its hostility to the wrongs and corruptions of the slave democracy, but in the language of General Jackson, declares that it is in favor of a "PLAIN AND SIMPLE GOVERNMENT, DEVOID OF POMP, PROTECTING ALL AND GRANTING SPECIAL FAVORS TO NONE," and that its first desire is to see the government so administered that "Like the dews of heaven, its blessings shall fall upon the rich and poor, the north and south alike." For this purpose was the Republican party organized, and on this platform it proposes to fight every battle; it therefore favors from necessity, as well as from choice, peace with all nations and the full protection not only of the American-born citizen, but of the rights of the naturalized citizen, both at home and abroad; favors the improvement of our great inland seas and western rivers and harbors, to protect and build up our growing commerce; favors the readjustment of our revenue laws, so that money enough shall be collected for the use of an economical administration of the government, without issuing treasury notes or borrowing a dollar, and at the same time adopt such a scale of duties as shall afford ample encouragement to our manufacturing, commercial and farming interests, thereby restoring confidence, and by a proper division of labor bringing activity to every forge and furnace that is now lying idle and still in the coal and iron districts of Pennsylvania, and renewing the hum of the spindle and shuttle at every waterfall among the cotton and woolen factories of New England; thus creating a home demand for our breadstuff and produce, and infusing new life and new energy into every department of industry; keeping our gold and silver at home, instead of sending it to Europe as now to buy our iron when we have iron mountains at our doors, to buy cotton