M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-07-24

| iIuuOuo CdllS WelO MAUI IOI mI' ' al
landigham; and when he ascendsd tn
platform he was greeted with raptur
Gus cheers. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. President, aud fellow Demo
Gratis Of the State of Ohio: | am oh
liged agan to regret the lateness Of tht
hour precludes me from addressing
you, either in the manner or on tht
particular subjects which otherwise
should prefer. This is my misfortune
again to day as last night; but speak
ing thus without premeditation, and
upon such matters chiefly as may oc
cur to me at the moment, if | should
happen to get fairly under headway,
it may turn out to be your mlslor'
tune. Laughter.
congratulate the Democracy oi
Ohio, that in the midst OF great pub.
lie trial and calamity, of persecution
for devotion to the doctrines of the
fathers who laid deep the foundations
ofihe Constitution and the Union un.
der which the country has grown
great and been prosperOus--the faith.
ers, by whose principles one and all,
the party to which we ale proud to
belong has always been guided--to-
day we have assembled in numbers
greater than at any former Oonven.
ton in Ohio. Icongratulate you that
despite the threats which have been
uttered, and the denunciations which
have been poured out upon that time
honorcd and most patriotic organiza
tion, peacibly and ir quiet, with en-
Lhus;asm and earnestness Of purpose,
we are met, and in harmony, which
is the secret Of strength and the har-
binger OF success, have discharged
the duties for which we were called
together. There was a time when it
was questionable if in free America
--in the United States-boasting of
their liberties for more than eighty
years--a party to which this country
ip indebted for all that is great aud
good and grand and glorious--would
have been permitted peacibly to as.
semble to exercise its political rights
and perform it's political functions. -
Threats have even been made in
time more recent, than most essential
of all political rights, secured to us
by the precious blood of our fathers
10 seven years. revolutionary war,
should no longer be enjoyed. The
Democrats OF our noble sister State of
Indiana, second born daughter Of the
North west, have been menaced with
in the last ten days, with a military
organization and the bsyonet, to put
down their party. hold in my hand
a telegrapbic dispatch from the capi.
tel of that State, boastins OF this inla.
nous purpose. | will read it, gen.
tlemen: because know tina! the same
dastardly menaces have been pro.
claimed against the Democrats of
Ohio, and because am here to Gay
to rebuke them as becomes a freeborn
uan who is resolved to perish Great
applause--in the midst of which the
the rest part OF the sentence was
lost.
Some months ago, a Democratic
State Convention was held in Indiana,
1t was a Convention Of the party loun.
ded by Thomas Jefferson, and built
up by Madison and a Monroe, and
consolidated by an Andrew jackson
[applause] i a party under Whose
principles and policy from thirteen
states we have grown to thirty -four
for thirty. four there were, true ard
loyal to this Union before the Presi
Dental election Of 1904 party un
der whose wise and liberal policy the
course of empire westward did take
it's way, until the symbol Of American
power--the stars and stfipes--waved
proudly from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, over the bresdth Of a whole con
tinant-a party which, by peace and
compromise, and through harmony
and wisdom and sound policy, brought
us up from feeble and impoverished
colonies, struggling in the midst oI
defeat aud disaster IN the war OF the
Revolution. to mighty empire, fore
most among the powers Of the earth
the foundations Of whose greatness
was laid, broad and firm, iE that no.
ble Constitution and that grand old
Union which the Democratic party
has ever maintained and defended. -
The Demecratic party, with such prin.
ciples and such a history and record
to point to, held a State convention
in pursuance Of lts usages for more
than thirty years, and under the rights