The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-09-25


color, much less the President Of the |
United States, with his $25, 900 a year,
bis hne carriage, and his body guard.
Mr. Lincoln does not want Vallandig.
ham to speak. WhyH If Vallsndighsm
had nothing to say which could render
this Administration odious, he could not
do Lincoln any harm. If be had moth.
ing to say but falsehood, he could do
Lincoln no harm. There are three thou.
sand newspapers In the United States,
that are spreading all the facts. VAL
landigham could not lie the people into
the error. Mr. Lincoln has money
enough to hire ten thousand times as
many liars as the Democratic party. 1t
was not because be thought Vallandig-
ham would lie, bat because he thought
be would tell the truth. C"That's what's
the matter"1 Aud the only way Of pre-.
venting him telling the truth was to ar
rest him; for be knew that II he were
simply manacled be would still halloo
ont in favor Of the Democratic party
1t was necessary to do this In order 10
Impose terror upon the friends Of Val
landigham left behind him. Ny God |
be left two>thirds Of the people Of Ohio
bis friends. CCheers.
If they rely upon the army as they
have been doing, and attempt to array
the army against the Democracy, it will
, not do; they started that game q little
! early; itSSev ought not. to have raised the
curtain oy :%s.ree nicccths. There are too
many conscripts being sent w w toe army
as chain. gang Of slaves, to vote for the
ticket that Lincoln puts in.
John BrOugh.
must speak Of Mr.. Brough. Mr..
Brough and l have known each other
both for good aud III; and If in this new
bear hunt, be should happen to be
squeezed to death, then l would say
Of him as was said of another: Moth.
Ing In bis life became him like the living
It,"
There are thousands Of good men
in the opposition. We shall get TWEEN.
ty or thirty thousand of the votes of
the old Wings that passed under the
name Of the Republican party; perhaps
half of them are going to vote for Val.
landigham. (Cheers. We understand
the thing perfectly We laugh at this
idea of giving this State to Brough.
We understand where the vote is coming
from, and they will understand it on the
second Tuesday in October.
Brough says he was an old jackson
man. The first thing heard of Brough
was he was attacking Jackson; and the
other extreme has been tho end Of Mr..
Brougb. He began with notification,
and ends with Addition. l don't want
to hurt Mr.. Brough's feelings, but I am
ashamed that man that ever went with
me in the Democratic campaign, as he
and Tod have done, should ever be found
arm 10 arm with a woolly-hesd. l am
sorry to see any man of that description
rise up in public assembly and tell the
American people, as Mr.. Brough did in
bis speech at Marietta. that it was a
maxim Of law that laws are silent in the
midst Of. arms; that is, there is no law.
This was inaugurating military despot.
ism, in which men were arrested at mid.
night by armed soldiers, as Vallaudig.
ham was arrested by Burnside, and Judge
Leavitt had the impudence to say: II
can not issue this writ Of habeas corpus
because I know that Burnside will not
allow 1t to be executed"
1t was in describing such a state Of
things as that that Cesar made use Of
that phrase, and Brough takes it up and
excuses Burnside for trampling down the
Constitution and the laws Of our State,
and establishing a military anarchy in
our midst. Vallandigham, though q
good talker, 10 bis whole life, even If all
the language he ever used was compress.
ed, concentrated and condensed into one
sentence of criminality, his speeches do
not contain as much treason or crime as
that one sentence or expression used by
John Brough. Who ought to be sent
out of the State-the man who urges the
people to obey the laws, the Constitution
Of the State and the Federal laws, or the
man who has the impudence to rise and
say there is no law; that Burnside's
sword shall strike down the Constitution,
trial by Jury and Courts OF law, and sub.
stitute the bayonet and sword for the
Judge and Juryl
The Mission OF the Democratic
Party Is TO Redeem this COun.
try.
Now the Democratic party have, as ]
, told you, the great mission to fulfill o.
redeeming this country from the terrible
, condition into which these people have
plunged it. How are we to redeem iii
If you have got into the difficulty by fol
lowing q particular course, the way tc
, get ont Of the difficulty is to counter
march upon that same particular course
q You have got into this difficulty by st
:, tempting to invade the rights of th,
q South. Get out Of 1t by attempting t.
= restore the rights Of the South. ask
now. whether the people of the slav
h States are the only ones interested il
= . the negro7 believe that you will al
, - admit, on little reflection, that they ar
, not.
i One Of two things must happen.
!, : these Abolitionists succeed, they can on
"a ly do so By destroying the State govern
!, ments Of the South. and thereby destro
NJ N iu fact the whole State governments
~ - the North; they can only succeed by o.
=, tablishing despotisu, garrisoning Il