Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-26
GREAT SPEECH


q ono, on me am ody o. JWy, 1867.
Following the reading and adoption of
the resolutions, loud aud continuous calls |
were made for Mr.. Vallandigham and
when he ascended the platform he was
greeted with rapturous cheers. lie spoke
as follows:
Mr.. President, and fellow Democrats of
of the State of Ohio: am obliged again
to regret that the latcnes Of the hour pre-.
cudes ME fir ON addressing you, either in
the manner or upon the particular sub
jccts which otherwise | should prefer
This is my misfortune again to-day as last
night; bu. speaking thus without premcd.
itation, and upon such matters chiefly as
may occur to me at the moment, if | should
happen to get fairly under beadway, it
may turn out to be your misfortune.-
Laughter.
congratulate .he Democracy Of Ohio,
that in the midst of great public trial and
calamity, of persecution for devotion to
the doctrines of the fathers who laid deep
aud strong the foundations of the Cons:i
tuition and the Union under which this
country has grown great and been pros
pcrous-the fathers, by whose principles
one and all, the party to which we are
proud to belong has always been guided
today we have assembled in numbers
greater than at any former Convention in
Ohio. l congratulate you that despite the
threats which have been uttered, and the
denunciations which have been poured out
upon that time -honored and most patriotic
organization, peaceably and in quiet, with
enthusiasm aud earnestness Of purpose,
we are here met, and ir harmony, which
is the secret of strength and the harbinger
of success, have discharged the duties for
which we are 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 is
indebted for all that is great and good and
grand and glorious would have been per-
mitted peaeeably to assemble to exercise
its political rights and perform its political
functions. Threats have even been made
in times more recent, that this most essen
tial Of all political rights, secured to us by
the precious blood Of our fathers in seven
years revolutionary war, should no longer
be enjoyed. The Democrats Of our noble
sister State of Indiana, second born daugh.
ter of the North west. have been menaced
within the last ten days, with a military
organization and the bayonet, to put down
their party l hold in my hand tele'
graphic dispatch from the capitol of that
State, boasting of this infamous purpose.
will read it, gentlemen; because know
that the same dastardly menaces have
been proclaimed against the Democrats of
Ohio, and because | am here to-day to re-
buke them as becomes a free-born man
who is resolved to perish Great applause
ia the midst of which the rest of the
sentence was lost
Some Hoaths ago, Democratic State
Convention was held in Indiana. 1t was
Convention of the party founded by
Thomas Jefferson, and built up by a
Madison and a Monroe, and consolidated
by an Andrew Jackson applause "a
party under whose principles aud policy
from thirteen States we have grown to
thirty -four. for thirty-iour there were,
true and loyal to the Union before the
Presidential election of lS60--a party
under whose wise and liberal policy the
course of empire westward did take its
way, until the symbol of American pow
er-the stars and stripes-waved proudly
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over the
breadth of whole contlnent---a party
which, by peace and compromise, and
through harmony and wisdom and sound
policy, brought us up from feeble and i'm
povershed colonies, struggling in the
midst of defeat and disaster in the war
of the Revolution, to mighty empire,
foremost among the powers of the earth,
the foundations of whose greatness were
laid broad and firm, in that noble Consti-
tuition and that grand old Union which
the Democratic party has ever maintain
ed and defended. The Democratic par
E ty, with such principles and such his.
/, tory and record to point to, held State
Convention in pursuance of its usage'
D for more than thirty years, and under th'
lrights secured by State and Fedora