Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-14

Seer etary Chase IN Obio--His speech at
Columbus,
Secretary Chase arrived at Columbus at
late hour on Saturday night en- route
from Washington 10 Cincinnati to vote,
that being his place of residence. Al
though it was half past two in the morn
ing when the Secretary reached Columbus,
q large crowd greeted him with cheer af-
ter cheer, shouts of How are ye, green
bscks ?" Hurrah for our old Governor"
Three cheers for the model Secretary"
ETC., etc. a procession was then formed,
preceded by q band Of music, and he was
escorted to the Neil House, where, after
renewing cheering, the Secretary, evident
ly the most surprised man Columbus had
seen lately, briefly made his acknowl-
edgments. He was profoundly gratifed,
he said, for this unexpected welcome. lie
only regretted that they had put them
selves to such Inconvenience on SO cold
night and unreasonable an hour to re.
eeive one who was certainly no stranger
to them. Cries Of "no inconvenienee"-
"Glad to see you any time Of night 1t
did him good to stand once more upon
Ohio soil and look into Ohio faces. TCries
" So it does US to have you here" He
had been absent from home much longer
than he had expected to be when he
started. Il was now over three years
since he had gone on to Washington, and
though often seeking opportunities to re-
turn, he had never been able to leave the
Capital except on business, during all
that period. Indeed, he had been gone
80 long that he hardly knew whether he
even had right to vote in his own State
Voices, "Of course you have I" Ger |
Lsinly you have" Yeu just come down |
to your old Second Ward and wen show
you"
But in SO grave contest as this, he
could not rest easy in his place, and he |
had resolved at any rate to come home |
and try. Voices" Bully for you; that
is just like you. Times had changed /,
sadly during the interval Of his absence,
but he hoped and believed the darkest |
days were past. he had said at the cut |
break Of the war, that the rebellion must !
be put down, If in doing it we had to come |
to the old revolutionary standard and a
thousand dollars for breakfast laugh |
ter, and cries Of "a Well, guess we can |
stand it, But he begged them not to
understand him as meaning that it was
within the limits of possibility to come to
that, or to make any approach TO it. He /
had no fears for the final result, and he /
trusted the end was even now approach
ing. Our armies must now largely out /
4houo # fbo
had half their territory, and the rest near
ly twice cut in two. We held their prin-
cipal cities-New Orleans, Memphis,
Yieksburg and Nashville.
Our fleets blocksded their whole coast
and had nearly all their ports. At last,
thank God we had the deliverance of de-
voted East Tennessee achieved and the
Mississippi river opened. TCheers, ard
+" What we gcined We held" There were
and must be no steps backward. Soon he
hoped we should hear OF the fall Of Char
lesion, but whether it fell soon or late the
end was sure, and in that faith he rested.
Cheers. He had sometimes thought the
war did not 60 on as fast as it might, that
some mistakes might have been avoided.
and some misfortunes escaped, and he
had no doubt they had all at times thought
the same. Doubtless he and they had alike
thought that if they only had the power
they would push some things faster, or
could correct some evils without SO much
delay but it was easier 10 stand off and
calmly criticise than it was TO do. The
President was not unmindful Of his re-
sponsibilities, and was honestly and ear
aestly doing his best. He was sure he
MIGHT fhoA ar,vrnh /
Cries Of " That you may And the best
thing for all to do was to join in without
oarping or faHlt-hnding, which, whether
just or not, could only do harm, and by
upholding the hands Of their Government,
hasten its triumph. Cries of That's
so, and cheers. We were in the habit
OF tracing our evils to a peculiar institu-
ton. He had himself, endeavored 70 do
somewhat toward removing those evils nv
another peculiar institution to which thev
had been pleased several times 10 refer
Laughter and cries of Hurrab for tba
He thought he might n.
licitate himself and them too, that the
was certain not to break so
long as anything in the nation remained
unbroken. ltWss his faith that this strug-
gle was not to end save in the complete su-
premacy Of free labor, and of institutions
founded uponiti in general policy that
recognized only free labor and financial
policy that should be 50 shaped as to secure
to that labor its just rewards. He looked
for safe deliveranee from the perils of
the present, and for a rish and generous
nsnonal future. Loud and prolonged
The Secretary was then besieged by
crowds eager to take him by the hand and
welcome him back to Columbus, and final
", after more music and more cheers. the
assembly dispersed at between three and