Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-09-06

them who really believed it,, notwithstand-
ing il came from their candidate for Gov
ernor. F# S 8 sG #
Hethen wentoff again on Dennison and
Corwin, and compared them to the British
Ministry, in the times of the Colonies; and
after expatiating on squatter sovereignty,
until large part Of the audience left, he
returned to Governor Chase, and repeated
the statement which he had made at Zanes-
vile, and which has been SO effectually
branded that it was not supposed any one
would venture its reiteration. Itwas that
! "Gov. Chase was one of q mob of ten thou
sand persons assembled at Cleveland for
the purpose of resisting United States Of
ficers in the discharge of their duties: and
that he encouraged and urged them to
bring on conflict with the United States,
with the avowed design of calling ont the
militia of the State to slaughter her loyal
eitizens." Now, there is no stretch of
charity that can save Judge Ranney from
the legitimate consequences Of such a
statement. His not possible thatAe could
believe his ststeshent true. The very papers
which told him of Gov. Chase's presence
at Cleveland. also reported his speeca.--
II is reported il these words: Governor
Chase said:
"a few hours ago'he was sitting in his
Office in Columbus, not expecting to be
present to-day;lhe had felt it his duty to
come, but he had not come to advise them
to do anything which they hereafter might
have occasion to regret. He had not come
10 counsel any violence. The American
people having the control Of all power by
the ballot boxes, it was for them to do it
in their own legitimate way.
alt was not necessary that we, the sov-
ereigns of the land, should resort to any
measures which could not be carried out
at all times and under all circumstances.
'Let the Courts be appealed to, and let
them act in accordance with their con-
science and their duty between themselves
and their God. The great remedy is in
the people Themselves at the ballot box.
Elect men with backbone, who will stand
up for their rights, no matter what forces
are arrayed against them" =.
There is what Governor Chase said, and
r. p, Ranney knows IL; vet he can stand
in the presence of an audience and pro-
nouncs peaceful meeting of 10000 of the
intelig ent citizens Of the State, mob,
which Governor Chase encouraged to
deeds Of bloodshed and treason! Well
does the Cincinnati Gazette" say of
Judge Ranney, on his making the same
false charge in his speech at GAINESVILLE:
"We cannot put a high estimate upon
the moral integrity Of man who would so
wantorly pervert history, and utter so pal
psble q SANDER against the man whose
place (in the language Of .Douglas) he is
after. If we are not mistaken, Judge Ran
ney will find very few audiences in Ohio.
whom he can proftaoly attempt to impose
upon in this interruptions manner"
Itispaiuful to be compelled to rel'nquish
the respect we have entertained for man
ofabiity-as Judge Ranney is-who has
held high and responsible position on the
Supreme Bench in our State Judiciary.
But no position, nor any amount Of talent,
can compensate for the total disregard of
truth and the deliberate Justification of his
tory, for the purpose Of accomplishing a
selfish end by pandering to the baser pas
sious which can only be appealed to by
such means. And when Judge Rauney
descends from the high platform Of open,
candid, truthful, and manly discussion, to
retail petty ISLANDERS on men who would
scorn to meet him in the dirty arena, then
indeed, in lhe language of the "Gazette,"
above quoted eve cannot place high es-
innate upon his moral integrity"
1t Is the saddest picture In the VISION OF
the future, to see men attempting to reach
the high places in the gift of the people by
means which have direct and necessary
tendency to blotout the moral sense and
extinguijsh in the popular mind that stern
regard for truth which is the only sure
basis of the social state, and without re-
gard for which, society itself must perish
in the universal want of confidence in man
for his fellows.
Asa fitting conclusion TO his speech, he
wound up with scathipg and indiscrimi-
nate onslaught htupon the churches, and es-
pecially the ministry! We suppose he
did not intend to include those Of them
who teach in the name Of God the Divine
right to trade in the souls and bodies Of
men, for he confined his denunciations to
the ministers and churches OF the North.
He said they had everywhere adopted the
fanatical and reasonable doctrine that there
was higher law than any human enact
ment, and that twas the duty Of christians
to obey this "higber law" This he pro-