Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-06
Gbe Ohio Gtatesnta,t
Pugh's Excoriation of Tod.

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At tho great Democratic mass meeting al
Cadiz, Ohio, on the 3lst Of August, Hon. GEo
E. PUGH, the Democratic candidate for Leuten.
ant Governor, commenced his speech az follows
Mr.. Pugh began by saying that he had sup-
| posed every man and woman in the State was
aware of the circumstances In which he had
been nominated cSndidate for the Office OF
Lieutenant Governor, and the motives which
impelled him to accept that nomination. But
there was one man In the State 80 lost to
decency and truth 90 to charge him with i'm
proper motives in his conduct, L1d that man vas
David Tod, who, having lost the confidence of
the Democracy, got an Office by selling out to
the euemy, aud who has now arrived as thai
condition that he is despised by both parties. The
Democracy got tiredof him, and row, after serv-
Ing them two years, the Aboliticnists have
thrown him aside. [Laughter.l And this rene
gade has the stupidity, the sldacity, to suppose
that to be elected to an office for sixty days which
paid three dollars per dsy--to preside over tho
Senate of Ohio, and listen to speeches without
even having the privilege of making speech
myself, laughter induced me 10 leave home
and my own affairs, and travel night and day
through Ohio, eIhorting the people to elect the
Democratic ticket. My friends, you know bet.
ter than this The Democracy of Ohio have
been kind 10 me. In my younger days, when
had an ambition--I had an honorable ambi-
tion--they gave mo a full shore of honor--.hey
gave me all asked-for wbichoI am not un-
grateful. And 80 when this crisis came upon
ue, and the old Democratic party asked mo TO
carry its Gag, which could not be carried by the
exiled candidate for Governor, could not re-
fuse. would have avoided it II c.uld have
done 60 honorsbly; but could not, and ac-
cepted the nomination for the least important {
Office on the ticket, as cheerfully as If it had
been the Presideacy of the Un.ed States ~
If the Democratic ticket could be elected with
out electing me--if our candidate for Cover
nor could return aud make the CANVASS for him.
self, il would assuredly please me better; but I
know that eau not be, and aok you to vote
for me to promote the success of Democfstic
principles [Cheere for Pugh. should have
taken no notice of Tod, but shat be holds the
office of Governor of the State of Ohio. have
some respect for the cfice; | have net the slight
est respect for the man [Cheers. should not M.
tice him but for the impeE ti1eus iomark he m
about me, which the Aboi!ionists have been
OF the pains to circulate to-day, He savs-
"Wby, let me tell you, that this man Pucb.
within year agreed With She Union party as 10
the prosecution of the war" II Tod means TO
say that. although opposed to beginning this
war;, and regarding 1t as unnecessary, after Il
had once begun-aftef the swcrd had been
draHn--I was in favor of making it effective
and vigorous for the purpose which it had in
view, breaking the military power Of the rebels,
then he 10 right; bus II he means that agreed
with what he calls :" the Union party in any
other respect, or In prosecuting the war for the
emancipation Of negroes and confiscation, then
no states what Ia fRlse. He says: 'This man
who ID going about pFesching for VallRndighsm
and demanding withdrawal of our armies',-I
never demanded withdrawal OF our armies
"within one short yesr eeked me for commis-
sion to raise regiment" That is falaehood.
About the time that the draft was to como off
last year--there we're no three hundred dollar
exemptions az that time-some Of the Republ;-
cans were anxious that Cincinnati should have
another regiment, and some Abolition paper
came out declaring that the command ought to
be offered to me, because happened TO have bad
some experience as soldier In the Mexican war :.
Well, they did offer me the command of regi,
ment, and | told them | would accept it oniy
on condition ,hat the enlisted men should
have the privilege OF electing their own off
GERS, and that the men whom they elected
should be commissioned. The only communl-
cation ever had with Tod on the subiect ~ A
to ask him whether he would commission officers
elected by the men. Bat before the regiment
was raised martial law was proclaimed, the
people we're sent across the river into Ken.
lucky to defend Cincinnati, and | went with
them. Then came Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation, since which time have had no
hope of successful prosecution of tho var
with View to the restoration of tho Union.
. don't quite understand what Tod means BY
his allusion. It seems wholly impertineht sx-
cept In one sense, and that would be that had
asked him for d commission as personal favor
and that he had refused IL, and therefore had
interested myself for the nomination and elec.
tion Of Mr. Vsllsndigham. II Tod meanst that
If he intends any imputation Of that charhc
teri denounce him as base, willful and
malicious liar. And if he has any Abolition
friend present, let that friend tell him said so
Widely as differ from Mr.. Brough and Colonel
Anderson, and ss much as abhor the doctrines
that they sustain, am happy to acknowledge
shat they have conducted that campaign with
tho decenoy and courtesy becoming gentlemen;
but as fer Tod, he takes IL upon himself to
transact all the mesnness and carry all the filth
of the campaign leave him vita thstsa de-
marks. He is beneath the ccntemp. OF any
honest man. [Cheers 1 am ashamed TO be
under the necessity OF mentioning his name.
[ Prolonged cheering a'''i bea Hi41i' .s7a 3