True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-09-12

about to be ruined if these jacObins should
control i.s destinies.
Then arose Salmon P. Chase, and with
the appearance and dignity of Freeman;
said that be was not member Of any Sc
cret political organization, and that he was
not to bethwarted in his attempt to show up
the nam issues of this campaign; by his
honorable OppOn ent's attack upon the A
merican organization, or any other party
or set of men save and except the Repub-
lican party as it stands upon the Republi-
can platform adopted at the 18th of July
Convention, which placed him before the
people of this State as their Gubernatorial
candidate. e.--And in truth said be there are
but two issues in this contest, for they ab-
sorb all others Of minor Importance, viz:
Shall slavery be triumphantly established
in the territories Of the United StatesY
And secondly, shall man be compelled
to pay taxes upon what he has notY And
whilst upon this last proposition he put o
case that would practically illustrate the
false principle upon which the present rev.
enue law is based. Suppose an individual
should loan him q thousand dollars and
he should re-loan it to another, and so on
till every individual in the State should
owe thousand dollars, by that process,
and not permitted to deduct the thousand
dollars that he owed from the thousand
comingto him, there would under the pres
ent law, come upon the tax duplicate Two
Hundred Millions of dollars of fictitious
valuation, and against such principle Of
taxation he set his face, and would contin-
ue to do 80 until the peoples burthens
were removed, even if it required change
Of that provision of the new constitution;
that has 80 far been in the hands Of its
friends ...
In short he replied to Governor Medill
in such gentlemanly and dignifed man.
ner; as to cause his Republican friends to
feel p oud, and at the same time comman-
ded the respect of his opponents, save and
except the Sancho Panza; George W. Nc
Cook, who next addressed and distressed
the audience for about one hour. \ more
insulting and personal attack upon Mr..
Chase, could not well be conceived by any
person not present to witness the true de-
magogcal performance of the great l
am Attorney General of the State Of Ohio,
He arose, very much excited, flung him
self into passion ut point that made his
friends pity and feel ashamed of him, and
his former admirers feel sorrowful, whilst
his opponents exulted over him for his in
domitable iimpudcnce, after his entire
downfall in the estimation of the audience.
He became furiously uproarious because at
one time whilst his political friends applau.
ded him, some one hissed, thereupon the
Col. was going to jump right over and
blister that fellows lips, and after gener.
al TRADE against the Know Nothiugs in
particular, and mankind in general, he sank
back into his seat under cover for his neck
of huge spotted handkerchief, well fol-
ded for the am OCCASION
After which, Hon. J. A. Bingham,
opened his battery upon the poor Col. and
such an expost facto, post mortem exami-
nation of the political carcass of the Mex
ican Colonel, it has not been our privilege
to witness in the dissection ofany dead bo-
dy in third of q century. During the
operation. every muscle of the Coloneps
face worked convulsively, although the
scalpel was applied more sparingly than the
circumstances of the case would have war.
ranted.
After Mr.. Bingham took bis scat, the
galvanized body of the Mexican Colone
dashed the huge handkerchief, (high il
air, y and with fresh bound alighted upor
the rostrum, where, with arms upliftet
and hair disheveled, he poured forth il
strains terrific, whilst the terrified Grove
retreated in good order from the scene
for, said they, the dead is alive and at tn
aprarition were affrighted and of cours
retrcated. Whereupon the already furi
ous Colonel, made one more effort, and a
bused the ruuaways in gallant stylc--chal
ged them with being old rotten Wing,
and cut throat Know Nothings, while thos
who stood their ground lie said he knew
be genuine Democrats. After this las
discharge of positive electricity, he wa
evidently much more negative, and CAV
way to Governor Chase. Immediately upo
> Mr.. Chase taking the stand, the people II
turned in mass, and such a withering, SEQ
}, ching, burning rebuke, as the Col. mt
with in the honorable and dignifed reply
9 Mr.. Chase, would have brought any homo
II able man to his feelings, but the Col. sti