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Speech OF an Ohio War Democrat.

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Speech OF an Ohio War Democrat
We cut from the Commercial the conclud.
ing part of the great speech delivered by
Hon. John Brough, of Cleveland, at Mariet.
ia, on the 10th:
If there is anything in this war beside
the shedding of blood aud the increase
of taxation, that requires we should
stop it by accepting dishonorable peace,
don't know of it. Is the country suffer
ing in any great degree? Have we not the
sunshine and shower? Do We not receive
the fruits of our labor in due senson2 Our
taxes, you say, are heavy, and so they are;
but our produce is better, and money is
plenty and as good as we ever had, and
the world is free to our commerce. Is this
war oppressive to US who stay at home, in
any Injurious way? No, we have seen it is
not. But you want the war stopped. Shall
l ask you whether there is not larking in
your mind, behind all this special plead
ing, this idea, that there is little doubt
: about our being able TO whip those men
with the forces we have there and that you
may have to leave the comforts of home,
and the prosperity of business, to help fin
ish the work? If you entertain this mo-
ton, all | have to say is, that the moment
you make dishouOrable peace, that mo-
ment this great fabric of government, un-
der which we enjoy all this prosperity, is
swept away 'tlike the baseless fabric of
vision" and you would soon find your
selves reduced to poverty, as we'll as dis
grace. There is nothing that calls to an
honorable peace but the arbitrameut of
the sword and he who clamors for any
other, does not understand the position
which we occupy, or is actuated by mo-
tive which dislike here to name.
Well, you want to know what is going
to be the future of this contest; you want
to know what will be the state of thugs
when we snbdue the re6els--for hnve.a
reasonable belief that we are going to whip
them after while. Some one is troubled
for fear there will be vast number of
negroes turned loose, who will come up and
interfere with Northern labor. A voice
''There have been good many here long
time."l Yes, there were some before |
left, thirty years ago, and there is no use
to argue on this question, for where they
will go, or what they will do, We must
leave for the future to determine. They
may be q portion of the blacks that will
scatter throughout the North, but a small
portion, for climate, and the character OF
the labor will drive them away. The
probable result will be that the political
character of the institution having been
destroyed, emancipation in some form will
permit them TO remain where they are.
But, for fear such a result may not come
to pass. are you prepared to take the other
alternative and go down on your knees
and sue for peace2 Are you ready to let
them take all this virgin territory Of the
West, aud cover it with their slaves, shut
ting out your brothers and your sons from
obtaining homes for themselves and their
children after them, in order to keep them
away from us? Are you prepared to say
that you will yield to them again the polit-
ical power of the uation? If that is your
way Of thinking, it is not mine. You may
as we'll take the results of the war as they
csme, for be assured that we will fnd a
way to dispose of these difficulties as they
spring up ia our midst. Let US trust that
in the end we will be found as true to the
great interests of the country, and succeed
as we'll in disposing of them as we have
done with the difficulties of the past.
My main desire, my friends, to-day, has
been to satisfy you that there was but one
duty or obligation for every man to take
upon himself and fulfill in the state of the
country at the present time. may have
failed, and if SO, let me make suggestion
to my political friends Us 10 party, and
wish you to bear it in mind. Go back u
the record for it, and take care that you de
not make the same mistake. 1t is that ne
party ever made opposition to a war thai
was not rent in twain and torn to piece!
thereby; and you can blot the record out
you may try 1t, but it will stick to you
and am not going along with you in you
opposition now. The old tories of the
reTOlution-they are all gone now, bu
their records remain, and the odium be
longing to them attaches even to their de-
scendants. The old members of the Hart
ford Convention are hardly spoken of witt
decent respect, and / know of one case
} where the obloquy, though less than tina
, which should result under present circum
stances, descended to the individual of tht
second generation, keeping him from pla
: ces of honor and trust, simply because hi
father was a member of that Convention
the disgrace clung to him like the shirt o
( Nessus. In the5war.with Mexico we Dem
ocrats proclaimed it to be the duty of ever,
man to stand up for it whether we believed
it right or wrong. l did so, for I print
ed the Cincinnati Enquirer about tha
time. "a voice; 81 wish you printed
noW.") Well, don't, if it advocated tn
same principles as now. How pouret
het shot into those who opposed the war
How fred whole broadsides at Tom Cor
win; aad where is he now? The brightes
intellect, the no6lest man the old Viii
party ever had in Ohio they. hardly owl
him now, having showed him off to Mexict
"a striking coincidence; the very cOuntr
whose cause he chaapioued. A brighte
light never went ont than Corwin's, Whe,
: he and whole hecatombs of Whigsfell, un
!, der their opposisionto the nations war
Don't let us reserve tue record to-day, an
= place ourselves in the unfortunate positio
\ our political opponents then occupied.
Il tell you you cannot pursue this hostility I
the war without bringing repsosch upo