Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-05


sson. =. :. Cox, at Columbus, ohio,
september f4th.
do not intend this evening 70 discuss Govern
or Tod. He is our-9oUernmenf, you know.
Laughter Besides. he is under the sod, po-
.iitically. As the Irishman said when he took
the milestone for a tombstone, thread lightly
over the ashes of the departed" Laughter
Brough carries his sfiigy about Ohio so MS to
have the benefit OF his life long Democracy.
They each dress in the livery of heaven to serve
the devil in Laughter At Newtown they
were together. and the Cincinnati Commercial
thus reports Brough and Tod:
Il hail with joy this vast ~assemblage to-day,
separate and apart from self. As | have before
said. / would much rather that some one else,
that that gallant old MN who has for two years
stood by you, that noble, good man-Tod-
were your standard bearer nov"
Ii must have been an enormous assemblage.
which was vast separate and apart from Brough's
big body. Laughter How lovingly he speaks
of "old Tod" he seems fond of his To-day.
[Laughter After he had used the nocturnal
leagues to dirk Tod under the fifth rib, he glori-
fes the "old man" Laughter This corpu-
lent andidate plays the hypocrite with consum-
mite tact. He smothers him with honey 10
draw the wasps on his poor old BODY.
When Brough spoke here, he paid his respects
to me at length-or rather with all his bre ,dth.
Hecharged that Pugh and myself we're old Wings
and little t,res: that we had been for, aud were
now against the war; that I had obtained nv post
in Congress last year by false pretenses-preiend
ing to be for the war when ! was not, &c. Now,
the idea of Jack Brough calling George Pug h or
myself little! Laughter He must have for
gotten himself. What was he aboutf As some
one said to Fslstaff, he was about two yards-in
the waist. and surely such a person ought not to
have inter iardsd such personalities in his speech.
IL is a great temptation to an ardent young
speaker, like myself. to retortl When I heard of
his speech. | resolved on the first opportunity to
''bore for oil" Laughter.
! do not understand why Jack Brough should
take such liberties with my person. / don't
think he ever saw me / have not the honor of
knowing him / never saw him but once. and
that was at a distance; aud he can be seen with or
witbouta glass at n great distance Yet this noun
tain Of mummy, swelled to unusual importance by
an abolition nomination. presumes to question my
size and nv democracy daughter. He for
got that | am the Representative of a large num-
her of very large people. lLaughter] There is
no constitutional limit to a mans size in running
for Congress or Governor. A man may have
much blubber without brains, and much meat
without manhood laughter and be a Governor.
So a man may be elected TO Congress whose fe
muir and tibia are several inches short of the av-
erage human leg [laughter;] nor is, it any dis
qualification for Office in this country that a man
uiS mn tkttaoFuthdFf pOtuotfdHCt U y 0O pose tu-
mors beneath the abdominal muscles. TGreat
laughter IT l am obnoxious to criticism for
NV undergrown size. let Jack Brough look to his
overgrown oleaginous tissues. and be careful Of
his tissues of falsehoods and of his personal
globes. WHY should he call glorious, true and
noble George Pugh littlef In intellect. John
Brough is tn George Pugh as a tallow candle to
the sun. LAUGHTER
The Republican party DESTROYS of making ever
= mannrah1a tbia "a mpaiCn of 1852 have n M,
this inordinate incarnation of swelling vanity. to
withdraw the attention of the people from the
real issues OF the campaign. to the curious sport
of nature, which has thrown such a behemoth in
to our politics. Laughter But Shakespeare
has anticipated the snort. In CHANGING over the
world of mind aud matter, he rested the fame of
his comic genius on the creation of Sir Jack Fal
staff. Rolling into one lumpish. oleaginous
mass, his whole soul of fun-Falstaf. the fat
knight, was the result There is a great similar
ity between Jack Fslstaff aud Jack Brough. Fail
staff is remarkable for six points: his lechery, his
living. hs cowardice, his carcass and his wit.
Laughter l do not know whether John
Brough can boast of all these attributes. He has,
| am sure. the lying, cowardice and carcass,
without a sDaTkle of his wit or a crinkIe of his
drollery. Laughter cannot speak as to his
lust and roguery; indeed, if any one should
charge the former upon him. | would befriend
him. bv the same irrefragible logic which Sir
Jack used to Prince Hal: "In a State of limo.
cency Adam fell. and what should poor Jack
Broush do in the days OF villsinyf Thou see'st
| have more flesh than another man. and there
fore more frailty." Laughter IF, therefore,
so carual a nature rs Brough's should sin, there
is much to be said in eztenu iiip,, and an over
p,wering argument against his final punishment.
Sir Jack found il when he said. THAT the devil
will never have me damned. lest the oil that's in
me should sot nell on fire Laughter
When he left Cincinn iti and the law. he took
charge Of the Madison and indianapolis Railroad
as President and Superintendent The roah had
some remarkable vicissirudes. It once declared
twelve and a half per cent. dividend. The stock
was disposed of at nm advance. and afierward it
went to smash. do not know who playei these
tricks -of the road But his / say. that so far as
Brough is concerned. all The tie that has bound
him to Ohio the past twenty wears has been a
railroad tie [lsnghier]; and | fear not a sound
tie either Laughter He had in vain tried to
explain away his full fare to soldiers. Other rail
road Presidents have given kinder treatment to
the soldiers: hut Brough alone enjoys the distinc-
ton Of hesrtlessnsss in his own and the railroad
corporation.
As 60 his living, 1 have no hesitation in giving
the palm to the knight Of abolition over the
knight of Shskspeare. He falsi6ed the truth.
when I've charged me with being both whig and
tory. He msliciously lied when he said that |
obtainesI nv seat in Congress by fraudulent and
false Dreienses. Falstaff never fabricated so
grossly and meanly. / have obtained success in
this district in spite o. abolition gerrymander and
negro votes in Xenia: both frauds. | have OBJ
tanned success, because | have been faithful to
The Constitution and tn the interests of nv con-
stituemt,. ICheers ' When this war appeared
as a speck on the horizon. | plead and voted for
Cancellation. voted for every compromise, in
GLIDING rh,t Of Critfenden. which Brougb spurns.
I preferred the honds Of Love TO the armor Of
Force read the sermon on the mount. and
found in it a wisdom beyond that of Lincoln. or
even of the priests of Chicago. / never went so
far AS Chsrles Sumner. in his speech on the
TRUE Grandeur of N atoms" when he pro
nounced "all International war tn he civil war.
and the partaker in il TO he traitors to Cad and
enemies TO man" When he quoted Cicero. TO
show that he "preferre,i the unjuSIest peace to the
~justest war" and franklin. To show that there
'never WAS = good war or a bad peace" or. when
Sumner declared, '.thrt in our age there can be
no peace that is not dishonorable ."-fSumner's
works. vol /. page IL.
But | did and do hold that In our land it was
wisest, kindest and best to agree tn any compro-
mise which Crittenden framed. Douglas advo-
Gated, and TO which Davis and Toombs acceeded,
which would have ayerted these horrible calami
ties. Ia thus believing. | sought to carry out the
Democratic principle which Madison laid down
before the late war of l6l2-"that war was only
and rarely tolerable as a necessary evil. to be
kept off as long. and whenever it takes place. to
be closed as soon as possible" When this civil
war began. I voted for the Crittenden Resolution
of July %, 1861. that il was not to be waged In
any spirit Of oppression, nor for any purpose OF
conquest or subjugation, or for the purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights or es-
tablished institutions OF those States. but to de
fend and maintain the supremacy Of the Consti-
tuition and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity, equality and rights of the several States