Daily American organ., 1856-03-18
Hon. Lewis ID. CamubelI.

ing the crushing out" policy which Giddings,
Wade, Greeley, and others commenced at the
opening of the present session of Congress-
have pursued Mr.. Campbell, Of Ohio, and mis-
represented his course, with bitterness Of
feeling, unbecoming civilized men. We know
Of no offence which this gentleman has com
mitted, unless IL be, that in the House of Rep
resentatives he dared to assert, in a voice
which rang throughout the remotest parts of
that hall, and its ample galleries, III am an
american ~ The more recent assaults upon
this gentleman originated with the Cincinnati
Gazette, the Ohio State Journal and the To
ledo Blade. These papers are edited by Messrs
Schuyler and Follett, who, it is said, bartered
away the honor of Ohio for chance to pocket
the profits of the House printing, and by a
Mr.. Williams, who succeeded in fobbing the
stealings of the House binding.
This trio of unscrupulous editors have most
violently assailed Mr.. Campbell, on the strength
of an imperfect, hasty, and in several respects,
erroneous sketch of speech, which he made
at the American ratification meeting, on the
29th ultimo, and which sketch appeared in the
Organ, given us by our local reporter without
Mr.. Campbell's corrections, or any supervision
which only purported to be rough sketch of
his remarks. As oneof the committee to pro-
cure speakers, we know that Mr. Campbell
only came to the meeting, after repeated 80
licitations, and without preparation--yet his
speech was one of which no American need
be ashamed was replete with wit and hui
NOR, and was at times exceedingly eloquent
We heard every word Of it, being ourself on
the stand and within ten feet of the speaker
and we youch for the accuracy of the full re-
port of it given to-day in our columns.
This trio of immaculate Ohio editors having
made the imperfect synopsis of Mr.. Camp
bells speech, heretofore published by us, as
handed in by our local reporter, the basis of as
sault upon a true american, to whom they have
professed very great friendship, we have felt
it our duty to him to procure u full report of
his speech, as prepared from the reporters
notes, and to present it to the public, in order
that all cavillers may have the utmost latitude
and longitude for criticism and assault
Wepropose to make an effort in few days,
to put one or two Ohio editors (to use West
ern phrase) "tarough course of sprouts"
Some of them " came here wooling, and went
home fieeced." tits no wonder they are sore,
aye, even spiteful In due time the people Of
the Northwest shall be posted up as to the
cause Of their vindictiyeness
Meanwhile, we commend to the perusal of
our readers the speech above referred to, and
we especially invite the crushers ont in Ohio,
to lay the speech before their readers, that all
may judge how far Mr.. Campbell is Justly OBJ
noxious to the indignation they have endeav-
ored to excite against him amongst his constit-
uents and friends in the Northwest. However
much we, may disagree with Mr.. Campbell
upon some questions of public policy, we may
be permitted to say of him, that he is in truth
an american in his principles, and not merely
in the profession of his sentiments but in his
action. This is more than we can say of some
Others who assume that they too are Ameri-
cans.