Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-05-09

| Gov. Ton roR R.-KLEcrioN The friends OF
the Union had most enthusiastic meeting at
Youngstown, Mshoning county, on Saturday
last, which besides other speakers was address
ed by Gov. Ton, 10 defense Of his own course
and that Of the President 10 the conduct OF the
war, and in bitter denunciatiou Of copperheads
and their allies, "our erring southern brethren
He made the distinction broad and we'll defined
tween loyal democrats who hold country para.
mount to party-a distinction which rebel Gym.
patAisers strive TO obliterate To this speech
the Governor intimated his willingness, If the
people endorsed his course, to serve them an.
other term. We can hardly do better, we think,
to give the reader an idea of the Governor q no.
sition, than to publish the speech as we ind II
reported 10 the Cleveland Herald, so here il is:
The Governor arose is ATM d loud cheers
and the waving of handkerchiefs He was
healily glad to see gathered around him
this mass of friends, and whatever others
might think Of him, nothing could be CRATE.
full 10 him it they, among whom he had liv.
ed from infancy, aud with whom he hoped
to fnd his last repose, disapproved. They
had endorsed him for the position he now
was honored in occupying. and he could
say TO them that he had fulfilled his trust,
and that with clean hands aud a pure heart
he now stood before them No where 10
the State had an accusation been made
save in this village 10 the sheet administer.
ed by one Webb. One charge was that he
corruptly used the peoples money, in this;
that he had paid clerk $3.50 for one hun.
dred and forty eight days TABOR in exanin.
ing the papers and letters Of bis-Webb's---
friends, VIZ, the secession prisoners.
,fhe other accusation was that he was
chargeable with the sale of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Canal to the Cleveland and
Mahoning Railroad Company for an in
significant sum, aud TO the detriment Of
the interest of the State therein. H.
showed thai the capal is Of little vaule now
and that the price for which 1t was sold
was greater comparatively than the esti-
mate put on the other canals Of the State
as determined by the lease made year or
two since. He also stated that With the
sae he had nothing to do, and was iB no
way responsible for it,
The Governor rehersed 10 brief bis vari
Gus duties, and the manner in which they
had oil been performed, and when it was
proposed that the people should make a
show Of hands as to whe' ber they believed
their endorsement had bceA honored by bis
) official conduct, not band in that vast
. crowd but Was thrust eagerly into the air.
The character and fidelity of the Presi
a dent and the complaints made of him by the
l sympathi1.rs with treason. were next fully
discussed. The Governor had had much
personal and Official intercourse With him
and he knew him to be pure patriot who
$ bad laid aside party views, and was devot.
, ing his entire energies 10 he great work Of
putting 6owB this rebellion fLe e1cIaim
ed the difference between the war powers
aud the evil powers of the tiovernmeu'
} and aerided all ,he complaints against
+. arbitrary arrests, suspension of the writ oI
II ibeas corpus and the like, believing aDy-
thing proper aud constitutional necessary
o to preserve he Constitu ion WarpOwers
= were only exercised in emergencies, and
then the civil law must necessarily give
way.
lie believed thess alleged grievances oil
the Copprbeads were not causes os com
plant, for the men who were urging them
were in every Instance those who had op
posed either secretly or openly, the war
from the beginning Treason was in their
souls, and yet they claimed TO be DINO
: Gratis. He seuff'd at their mocracy.
; scarce one OF them bpt had come Into the
/ party since 1859, and not Que Of them bu'
e had J 'ilied the ranks af er the hard battle,
II had been fought that bad given honor II
e the patty. The old Democrats the Suo
c Pur,s, who had d,Re the labor, and il
t whose hesrts, Ms well as minds, democracy
l. was living pruciple. w,re opposed TO-
q reason, and sixty thous md Of them were
|. now sirunder 10 shoulder with sixy thons
e and brave R,'publlcans IN the ranks of tn,
o OHIO volunteers, testltying by action ths
X they are IN earnest.
lr He denoussed as traitors, the meane.
OF all raj ors. those who claimed To bt
Democrats, ard yet we discouraging Ell
}, lls' meDtS, urging Ceseriions. railing ngains
ID this as an aboaition war, and ch"Iglng III,
y govt with tyranny, thus keeping upa Fl =
,r III the rear O@ the patriots who were hciu.
Of The rehels in front Toelr names would b
Is accuIsed TO all generations.
Of lie wss not sparing Of Copperheads il
s that locality, and held up 10 scorn til,
'e names of Gibson, Webb, and Others whlc!
s. have escaped our memory. 1t wasa homt
meeting. and while be applauded the
friends of the Union frequently by name, i
y was but justice 10 denounce With equa
u dire ctness its enemies.
y In regard to the coming campaign he re
e. marked, that il his familiarity with the d.
ID ties OF the Office. aud bis known devotion ,
'e the Union were considered Of service.
iS hould be happy to again act as their stand
ard bearer, aud assured hem thai he voul
, as faithfully and earnestly perform its Ia
Is bors, arduous as they were.
re The Governor spoke for two hours a n
~ was listened 10 with unwearyng attention
y and was Interrupted by frequent applause
s. His speech may be termed an exhaustiv
rs one, for be exhausted all charges agains
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