Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-01
The TorE % %Cisy-Hon. 5. 3. Cox.

There was an immense Democratic ana Con
ssrvatlve mass meeting in the Park new iork
CITY, on Tuesday evening, the 2Sth inst., Of
which we have an extended report in the World
Il is described as an outpouring
of the middle and working classes, on whom
the weight of this war falls heaviest, and VINO
do not wish to see 1t prolonged by the raising
of foreign and unconstitutional Issues. IL was
great in numbers and enthusiasm, and gives an
assurance, the World says, that the metropolis
of the country is good for the conservative
ticket BY at least thirty thousand majority.
Several stands were erected for the speakers,
elegantly decked with American flags and
Chinese lanterns. Before and during the speak
ing, delegations from the various wards and por-
tiops of the city continued to arrive, bearing
trausparencies with various inscriptions, signih-
cant of the popular feeling. A few Of these
we copy below:
1, The Union and the Constitution, One and
Inseparable--Ho are you, Greeley, with your
Nine Hundred Thousand Abolition Warriors2-
A Free Presp, the true Champion OF Free
Msn's Rights-D Democratic Column-ohio, In
diana, PennsY lvanis with New York and New
Jersey, the Work will be Finished-Richard
O'Gorman's Guards; Opposition to Tyrants is
Obedience to God--Republican Benefits, Coal
Egh. Dollars per Ton-McClellan, the Target
OF the Abolition RadicAls-Beechtr's Crest.
the Nigger--Our National Malady, Niger on
tie Brain.
We should like, had we space at command,
10 give a sketch of the eloquent and soul-stir
ring speeches made during the progress of this
grand rally of the people. But the speech of
the evening, the World says, was made by the
Hon. s. s. Cox, of Ohio, who was ably cup
ported by large number of speakers. Mr.
Cox opened the speaking at Stand Number
One. He commenced by saying:
Fellow citizens: come from the State Of
Ohio, which has recently spoken as the late
election. Il is fashionable nowadays to issue
proclamations. (LAughter,) Fremont Issued
procamntion; Hunter issued Q proclamation;
our Chief Magistrate isEued a proclamation, and
the people OF the great Northwest, on the l4ih
dsy of October, issued q proclamation also.
| (Arplause.) They proclaimed to the people of
this country that the President Of the United
Statea should hereafter be emanoipated from
the rule of Abolionism. (Cheering) That
proclamation may not 60 into effect immediate
| lly like some other proclamation but, neverthe.
| less, it has been demonstrated in Ohio, and
Pennsylvania, and Indiana, and In Iowa, that
the people of this country yet hold the sceptre
and wear the crown ofsovereignty. (Applause.)
i NJ T.. al. of IA Lab al
Il means simply that the Constitution of this
country shall be the supreme law of the land;
|, means that personal liberty shall remain in-
violsble; it means that free speech and free
press, as guaranteed by the Constitution, shall
remain inviolable; it means that where war has
been carried on to restore the Federal author
ity throughout the limits of this Republic, it
ehall not be perverted from holy war for the
Constitution and the Government into mere
anti-slavery and party war, for no purpose OF
good to the black man or to the white man.
Mr. Cox urged that the regeneration of Con-
gress which has been begun must be perfected
by standing upon the Constitutional platform,
because.
There is no hope given under heaven unto
men whereby this republic can nov be saved,
except in the power Of the conservative De-
mocrccy of this country. (Cheers.) There 10
no Union without the Constitution. There
Was but q rope Of sand in the articles Of the
confederation before the Constitution was
made. And there can be no Union when that
Constitution is broken.
There is, therefore, no salvation for this
country but in remaining faithful to the Con-
s.Itution; and the men who would violate that
Constitution to get at slavery, are not patriotic
and loyal men. This led Mr.. Cox to remark
that
than disunionist. How do they argue2 They
sinners aud criminals; therefore, no union
with sinners and criminals-"no union with
slaveholders." Therefore, say that man
who is an Abolitionist, and who is honest--if
such a thing can be-must necessarily be q
disunionist; and if he Is not an homes. man |
do not want anything to do with him. This
Abolition party did not amount to much thirty
years ago, but il has grown until 1t has con-
trolled the las! American Congress, and until
it has brought pressure to bear upon our Pres
ident to such an extent that he has been CON-
PEELED to yield to is behests, and to issue o
proclamation Of freedom to the slaves in the
slave States, where alone the right of med
ding with this institution exists by the laws
and Constitutions Of those States.
Mr.. Cox commented Of length upon the Abo-
lition acts passed at the last session of Con.
gress, and upon the "pressure" brought to bear
on the President to induce him to issue the
emancipation proclamation. But We have not
room for further extracts, and can only add
that the speech was characterized throughout
by that clearness. force and ability, as well as
that patriotic and ardent devotion to the Union
and the Constitution, which so pre-eminently
distinguish the member from the Capital Dis
trict of Ohio.
Curious EccIesinsttcaI RevoIatIOns.