Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-24

UNION Mass MEETING IN CoURT-sTREET
MARKET. SPACE-Speeches Of the Hon. G.
Votney Dorsey and Hon. Sam GaLLoway.-
Quite large assembly of people gathered in
Court street Market-space last night for the
purpose Of listening to the remarks of the
Union candidates for Governor and Treasurer
of State.
The meeting was organized at nearly eight
o'clock by the election OF the Hon.. R. NJ.
Bishop, President; Judge Coffin, Thomas
Sherlock, and Hiram Keller, Vice-P Presi-
dents, and W. S. Williamson, Secretary.
The President then announced in response
to call for Tod" which was beginning to
become general among the crowd, that the
Honorable candidate for Governor who had
been expected to address the people, was
unwell, and could not therefore be present
He therefore introduced to the audience the
Hon. g. Volney Dorsey, of Miami County.
DR. Dorsey then proceeded to deliver an able,
but very lengthy discourse upon the great
question of the day, concluding with a refer
ence to State politics, as depending upon
and drawn from those great questions which
had been previously discussed. His review
of the 7th of August Convention, its plat
form ard the course of the party which
nominated it, was especially scathiug and
severe.
The question, he said, was not now, as it
usually had been in party times, what
party should carry on the Government, but
whether we should have any Government to
be administered. He referred TO the history
of the formation of the Constitution, aud re-
marked that it was important for us to con .
slider what that Convention which framed
our Government had done for us, and how
honestly we could stand up and support it,
The speaker then proceeded to consider
the preamble of that instrument, showing
that II did not contain The seeds of its own
dissolution, as the right of Secession would
make it, but rather provided as the first aud
most important feature that we should pre-
serve our Government, and then decide the
question OF the mode of its administration.
| That this was Lincoln's war-the assertion
Of many Secession mpathizers-was most
| etfectually answered by reference to the facts
themselves Before the President had hardly
taken his seat, the call had been issued from
JEFF. DaVis's dominions for one hundred thou,
| sand troops to march upon the Capital and
overthrow the Government.
Joseph Holt in a speech made in Cinciu
natl, said that the immediate cause of seces-
sion was the failure to elect John c. Breck
inridge to the Presidential Chair. But the
| speaker had too much confidence in the
American heart and head to believe that
such result could be brought about by the
failure to elect one man. The cause was
much deeper; and he then proceeded to ex.
| plain that secession has been brought about
| by the rapid march of the free States, and
that, while they had advanced, the South
felt that its power was slipping away. We
are told that the South has had grievances;
WELL perhaps 80; but there has been crimi-
nation and recrimination upon both sides;
and if the Abolitionists of the North have
taunted the South with being niger drivers
the latter has had its revenge by retaliating
in the terms of small traders and mudsills Of
| the North.
The speaker then referred to the Oonven.
ton of the 7th of August dealing some
mastery and powerful blows against the call
for that Convention, and the platform which
was drawn up by it, and upon which Mr.
Jewett had refused to stand. After some
very able remarks upon this and other
branches of the subject, DR.. Dorsey gave way
and was followed by Mr. Galloway, who held
/ the audience spell bound by some of that
electric fire of eloquence for which the gen.
tleman is so justly distinguished. His re.
marks plainly showed that in this crisis o.
national affairs the burden of care and
calamity had not triumphed over the pa
triotic impulses of his nature, but every
word from his ringing voice was q call tt
arms in defense of an imperiled country
After some intensely humorous illusions h
concluded with touching appeal to thos'
present to do their duty.