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

| 'CuTlOSlll NniCn htn eOTTy 10 Say
seem to have excited; and which hai
brought ont even some Of them as j
to "see the elephant" They have
never'ment to be friendly with me
Il know, but as see sUrne Of then
now within my vision, let me whisper
in their ears. that | never had better
friends, and no man ever had sincC
the world began. They have adver
tised me free of cost, for the last fit
teen mouths: yes, ! may say Tor som,
five years past, all over the UniteC
States. Why, sir, Republican edi'
tor without "the undersi gned" for q
text, would be the most unhapy NOR
tai in the world. Every little "prin,
ters devil in the Office would be
ho~ling for copy, and no copy to be
had. know thst they are friends,
by tho usual sign, "the remarks they
make" Gentlemen | have had my
share Of what Jefferson called the
JUNCTION, the holy oil with which the
Democratic priesthood has always
been annointcd-slander, detractiOn
and calumny without stint. Really
am not sure that with me it has not
reached "extreme unction," though
am not ready, and do not mean, to de.
part yet. Well, ! will not C complain.
1t has cost me not single nights loss
OF sleep from the beginning. My ap.
petite, if you will pardon the reference
it you will allow me. as Lincoln wo'd
say, to "biab" on so delicate a sub.
jeet-has been in no degree impaired
by it. Others before me and with
me, have endured the came. Here is
my excellent friend near me, TMr.
Medary Oh blessed Martyr! [Greai
laughter aud applause For one and
sixty years, the storms of partixan
persecution and maiignity in every
form have beaten upon his head; but
tbongh time and toll have made it
gray, the Heart beneath beats still to-
day, as sound and true to its instincts
OF Democracy and patriotism, and Of
humanity too, as when he laid his
first offerings upon the alter Of bis
country just forty years ago. What
Others havo heroically suffered in ages
past, we, too, can endure. We are
all, indeed, still in the midst of tri-
ala.
Here before me, is the gentleman
of whom have just spoken, whom
you have honored with tho Presiden
cy of this noble Convention, for forty
years a Democratic editor-fUr forty
years devoted to the Constitution and
the Union of these States "a man
who, through evil and through good
report, has adhered with the faith OF
devotee and the frmness ofa martyr.
to the principles and policy Of that
grand old party of the Union; and now
that the frosts of three score years
have descended and whltened his head
he, | say, has lived to see the paper
which he gives the labor and the wis.
dom OF his declining years, prohibited
from circulation through a part of the
mails, as "disloyal' to tie Govern.
ment! (Cries OF no, no, shame. y
Samuel Medary dislOyal and Wen.
dell Philips a patriot! Sir, it is not
many months siuce, that in the city Of
Washington, in that magnificent bull
ding erected by the charity of an In.
glishman who loved America-I wish
there were more like him, that art
and science might the more widely
flourish in this country-the Smith.
sonian lnstitute--Wehdell Philips ed.
dressed an assemblage oi men as false
to the Union and the Constitution as
bimself. Upon the platform was the
Speaker Of the Bouse of Representa-.
tives, the third officer in the govern.
ment; by his side the Vice President
OF the United States, and. between
these two, in proportions long drawn
ont, the form OF "Honest Old Abra.
ham Lincoln" Am mistaken, and
was it at another or earlier abolition
lecture by that other disunionist,
Horace Greeley in the same place
there have been many o. them--that
Lincoln attended, The Speaker and
Vice President | know wtre there;
and with these two or three witnesses
before him, and IN presence of the
priesthood OF Abolitionism, the Sum-
ners and Wilson's. the Loveioys and
the Wades of House aud Senate,
(great laughter and cheers surround.
ed by these, the very architects Of
disuriou, he proclaimed that. 'for
nineteen years be had labored to take
nineteen States out Of the Union -
And yet this most spotted traitor was
pleading for disunion in the city Of
Washington, where women are arres.
ted for the wearing of red, white and
red, upon their bonnets, and babies
OF eighteen months are taken out Of