The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-11-23
Speeches at the Republican Celebration
in Painesville, on Tuesday Evening,
Novamber 18th.


November 18th.
Judge Garfield, in presenting the Banner.
said: -..
Whet means this large sssemblage, this
booming of cannon, this display of fireworks.
those brilliant illuminations, this splendid
torch'light procession These unwonted
sights signalze the termination of as great
a contest, and tho achievement Of as great
triumph, as the pom of the historian has
ever chronicled. A contest great in it's in
caption, great in it's prosecution, and greater
still in it's ultimate results. Unlike the
great conflicts of which history furnishes us
a record il has been marked by no hecstombs
Ot human victims, no cities sacked, no fields
laid waste, no dwellings burned, no hearth
stones spriDked with the blood of murdered
mothers and their offspring. No ours has
been a peaceful conflict, waged in lawful,
! Constitutional way, in behalf of the God
/ given rights Of man, against the ever-grasp-
ing avarico Of brutal and despotic power
Aftor years Of almost fruitloss effort, hu-
manty has achieved signal triumph, and
the long, loud, cxultaPt shouts of rejoicing
people ascend to the blue arch above US,
and roll on, reverberatiDg, to Earth's re-
motest nations, cheering the struggling
labOrors in the cause of Liberty, and has
tenng the downfall of tho crumbling mon
unents of dospotism. 1t differs also from
other contests in this, that in the benefits
aud blessings of the victory We have
achieved, all are alike interested. The van
pushed may arSe from the field of conflict.
and share with tho victor the fruits of bis
conquest. We stand ever ready TO lift up
the fallen foo, and welcome him as CO.
laborer in tho cause Of humanity.
To give to the recent conflict an additional
interest, the Republican Clubs of Paines-
vile and Chardon purchased this splendid
Banner, to he contended for by the Repub-
llcans of Lake and Geauga Counties. By
the terms of that contest, the Republicans
of Lake County have, it is conceded for
this occasion, won tho prizo by barely one
vote. Let this teach US the Importance OF
single vote.
What more fitting object could have been
selected as tho subject of such contest,
than this banner, tho Flag of the Union, the
colors which led the foeble armies of the
infant Republic in their long and arduous
struggle for Right against Might and which
were baptisod in blood upon a hundred hard
fought battle fields or which an Amori-
can poet has said;
When Freedom, from her mountain hight,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
""o '1'e .nI "zuIo foeo oi n,gnt.
sho n minoIod n v vi,S M i,s ~ aerUsors s.o % dvos
The milky baldrick of tho skies,
And striped its puro. celestial white.
With strcakings of the morning light;
Then, from his mansion in the sun,
She called bor eagie.bearcr down,
And gave into his mighty hand,
The ymbol of hor chosen land.
r,e .ho e.o
P, nt hauJs ~ - -
rh,, s,ars har,, Ii, ,bo YoItin dana
i"S o,a'E III To- .I. -. 'no 80 ~ L
N"u a'' my "uo' "''o WI" '' "e1'o"'
Forever float that standard sheet
There breathes no foe but falls before us.
With Freedoms soil beneath our feet.
And Freedoms bs.,ner waving DER u.s."
po.,,;,,, of I,Lo Co,,.,1 7, koh.,s
ot 1pu9 ,Lp RnUnII;oan. % nS Cosnns do,;vor -
" VIZ H. 49, ,Sh;o,, ror h,re on Tako
w nI H s.',',n .,o =, hnL.,r 80
h a. .;nht. =" 10, :, Iood '.o,, 81 - -
Iana. :, novor A., ;noh No;nts;n sor 4,
"I O., nu,saIvas ,ho ,ro,;d ros;,;on ,o,
"u ~. Ton; - - !, y,So
Le,caI, orJ;aI oo,,ara,,I.,;o, or ~ D.
uuh,;no uu 81 Ga taouna nnS ia, ,ha
p"% luouoorr ~ ,b;s contest and tho nossess;on
"r ,L;.' a. It, ,'o,, % 80, oaor, a,d 10
;. o,, tss;,h no., zoaI in hab.IS of Tho nj.
,ima,6 ,r;nmnh of onr common cause.
MIR. Geo. T.. Pane replied as follows:
Gentlemen of the Chardon Republican
Club: On behalf of tho Republicans of
Lake County. and more particularly of
"Sleepy Painesville,' have the honor and
proud pleasure of acknowledging the recep-
lion at your hands Of this Flag Of our Union
tho trophy of a hard Learned victory in a
well fought contest. upon fair and equal
terms-a contest so very nearly even handed
that Lake claims to have won by the bare
majority of one vo,e-whilo Geauga only
comedies that claim subject 10 the officiai
retnrns yet TO be counted at Columbus.
That Geaupa should hesitate to grant an
unconditional surrender al this time, is in
decd no wonder, for sho has hut lust been
taught oy an awinl experience thaI mere
na"y , apo smp snd oo,fdeUt ;s onr hpi;ef that
! Lake County has won the bannor. we besi-
tato mot 10 stand here at this time. claiming
;ts rioh,CuI nossession. and. before these
s;,nossos rlsdgo on, word sbouId the off.
ci.I connt show indced we have wrongfnIIv
racc;yod II that we will nerforc. what Go
anGa has oniv nromised and that was co "a.
,nr, II again op wheelbarrov train over
,Lo p.iaes,i,,o and Undsor Ra;lroad Rnt
U '"U n""d G"snaa RenmbI;cans don, fool
~ 80 vonr ,;mo aIontips ont for tho angina %
.;n -. .,s. c., e. tho hoIi r;ns,
] tlll you hIo outo you hoot s"o ootA ing