Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-17

that was at o distance; and he can be seen will
or without glass, at o great distance. Ye
this mountain Of mummy, swelled to unuBua
Importance by an Abolition nomination, pre-
sunes to question my size and my Democracy
Laughter He forgets shat am the Repre-
sentative OF large number Of very large peo
pie. Laughter. There 10 no constitutional
limit 10 mans size 10 running for Congress OF
Governor. A man may have much blubbeI
/ without brains. and much meat without man
hood flaughtetl, and be Governor. soa man
may be elected to Congress, whose femur and
tibis are feveral inches short of the average
human leg [laughterl; nor is II any disqualiH-
cation i.r office in this country, that man has
an extraordinary. protuberance Of adipose tu-
mors beneath the abdominal muscles. (Great
laughter.l II am obnoxious TO criticism for
my undergfoWn size, let Jack Brough look to
his overgroWn oliaginous tissues, and be careful
of his tissues of falsehoods and of his personal
gibes. Why should he call glorious, true and
noble George Pugh Hitler in Intellect, John
Bfough Ia to George Pugh az q tallow candle 10
the SUI. Laughter Monsters like Brough
have ever been the butt of ridicule. The Re.
publican party, desirou, of making ever mem
orable this campaign of 1868, have set up this
inFodinate incarnation OF swelling vsnity, TO
withdraw the attention of the people from the
real issues of the campaign to the curious
sport Of nature, which has thrown such
behemoth into our politics. Laughter. l.
But Shakespeare has anticipated .he sport.
To glancing over the world Of mind aud mat.
ter, he rested the fame Of his comic genius on
the creation Of Sir Jack Falstsff. Rolling into
one lumpiah, oleaginous mass, his whole soul Of
| fun--Falstaf, the fat knight, Was the result -
| There is great similarity between Jack Fal.
staff and Jack BFough. Falstsff is remarkable
for six points: His thieving, his lechery, bis
lying. his cowardice, his carcass, and bis wit.
[Laughter.l l do not know whether John
Brough can boast of all these fine attributes. -
He has, am sure, the lying, cowardlce, and
CARCASS, without o spark of hls wit or q
crinkle Of bis drollery. Laughter.
cannot speak as to his lust and roguery;
indeed, II any one should charge the former upon
him, would defend him, by the same irreffag.
ible logic which Sir Jack used to Prince Hal:
ain state Of innocenoy Adam fell: and what
should poor Jack Brough do In the days Of viii
laiDy. Thou seest have more fssh than an
other man, and therefore, more frailty."-
Laughter If, therefore, 60 carnal nature
a. Brough's should sin, there is much to be said
in extenuatiou, and an overpowering argument
against his final punishment. Sir Jack found II
when he said, "That the devil will never have
me damned lest the oil that's Ia me should set
hell on fire." Laughter.
As to his roguery-Falstaff's was demon
s!rated upon the highway. If Brough hos any
such tendency, II has been iiiustrated Ia the
railroad line. When he left Cincinnati and the
law, he took charge of the Madison and Indl-
anapolia railroad as President ard Superintend-
ent. The road had s,ms remarkable vicis,i-
tudes. Il once declared twelve and half per
cent dividend The stock was disposed OF at
an advance, and afterwnrd it vent to smash. |
do not know who played these tricks "of the
road" But this Isay, that 90 far as Brough
is concerned, all the tie that has bound him Ia
Ohio the past twenty years, has been RAILROAD
lie [laughterl; and fear not sound tie Ell
ther. Laughter. He has In vain tried to ex.
plain away his iuil fare to soldiers. 0theI
railroad Presidents have given kinder treat
ment to the soldiers; but Brough alone eDjoyE
the distinction Of heartlessness In his own and
his railroad corporation. O,' ..
AS to bis lying, have no hesitation ip giving
the palm to the knight Of Abolition over the
knight of iShakspeare. Re faisiied the truth,
when he charged me with being both Wing and
tory. He maliciously lied when be said that
Obtained my seat In Congress by fraudulent
aud false pretenses. Falstaf never fabricated
so grossly and meanly. l have obtained success
In This districtin spite Of Abolition gerrymandeE
aud negro votes In Xsnis; both frauds. | have
obtained success, because have been faithful
to the Constitution and to the interests OF my
constituents. [Cheers] When this war ap
lpeared as gpeck on the horizon, plead and
| voted for conciliation. voted for every com
promise, including that of CrlttendeD, which
i Brough "spurns." ] preferred the boads bI
Love to the armor Of Force. l read the ser
mon on the mount, and found in II 10 wisdom be-
yond that of Lincoln or even Of the priests Of
Chicago. never went so far as Charles Sum
ner in his speech on the "Tfue grandeur Of Ma.
tions," when he PRONOUNCED "all international
war to be civil war, and the partakers In 1t Of
traitors to God and enemies to mani" when he
quoted Cicero to show that he "prefered the
| upjastest peace to the justest war;" and Frank
lilo, to show that there "never was good wal
or a bad peace;" or when Sumner declared
"thst in our age there can be no peace that Ia
mot honorable, there can be no war that 10 moi
dishonorable." (5umners works, vol. l, page
H. Bot did and do hold that In our land,
| compromise which Crittenden framed, Douglas
advocated, and to which Davis and Toombs &C
ceded; which would have averted these horrible
calamitiss. In thus bslieyins-l sought tG
carry cut the Democratic principle which Madi
son laid down before the late war OF 1872
l"that war was only and rarely tolerable as 4
necessary evil, TO be kept of ss long, and when
ever 1t likes place; to be closed as soon as poa
sible." When this civil war began, voted
for the Crt.enden resolution Of July 22d, 1861
that 1t was not to be waged in any spirit Of op
preston, nor for any purpose OF conquest ol
subjugstlon, or for the purpose of overthroWipg
or interfering with the rights or established in.
stitutions OF those States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Constitution
land to preserve the Union, with all the dignity
/ equality and rights Of the ssufrat States an;m
paired. voted the money and men, 10. th,
sprlt Of Lincoln's Inaugural Of March 4th
ls6l-When he declared ne had ''no purpose
directly or indirectly to Interfere with the insti
tuition of slavery In the State whete IL exists:
have no lawfal right to do so; aud have no ihqli
nation to do so" IL was In this spirit tha. oil
the 28.hi of July, 1861, offered resolution
Ia Congress, TO make undimlnished and inoieaseI
, exer,ions by our navy and army to maintain
the Governments, and that commission be ap
pointed, consisting of Mlllard Fillmore and
n others, TO meet commissioners, not from th
. rebel Government, but from the aeoedlnI
lSiates, to cid in restoring BY peaceful and hon
/ Iorsble measures the old Union and the iorne
4 condition Of thinga This was and 10 my posi
. ton to-day. IL is the position Of Horatio Sey
i. mour, who, while ready TO aid our armies, q
Iho Aid shon pannav m "a uaa nvarrnn "a ara