Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-20
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vile, October 49,


LADIES AED GEETLENHE:-Earnsstly, COR
daily do thank you for your greeting to-
day. I ana not certain but shall illustrate
my feeling, by an anecdote heard many
years ago. A man who was given to the hsb-
it of profane swearing on all occasions was
one day hauling load of potatoes up hill,
When, the tail bosrd Of the wagon getting
loose, he found on looking back that the con
tsnts Of his wagon had escaped, and were
ItreWn over the road. A friend meeting him
at the moment asked him why he did not
swear over the accident. Well, he replied,
simply because am not able to do justice to
the occasion. I an beginning to feel the ebb
Of this excitement, but it seems otherwise
with you. Perhaps owe something to the
intensity Of my feelings, and the arduOus
character Of my labOrs. You may we'll re-
joiee in the great victory you have won. It
is an achievement Of which you may we'll be
proud. It is one for which your pOsterity
will thank and glorify you, even as you rev
erencs and praise your fathers for the strug-
gle that gave yOn the best Government the
world ever knew.
This is not a triumph of any man. No man
could have won it, and no man in the State
ever msrited such an ovation. Neither is it
a triumph Of any party, as we have hereto
fore classified and understood them. Party
lines, to a great extent, have been obliterat
| ed in this contest. Masses of both parties
have Joined to swell the great triumph and
the line Of division has been between those
who were friends of the Government and the
country on the one side, and the opponents
Of these on the other. And why should not
| men Of all parties thus have united Nine
teen years ago I stood in this same grove
and followed Governor 0orwin in party dis
cussion. What was cur ground Of contest
1 contended that the principles of my party
were best calculated TO perpetuste the gov
ernmsnt and promote the prosperity of our
common country. The Governor oontsnded
that the principles Of his party were adapted
/ to the same end The purpose was the same.
We we're like two parties going to mill, each
| conten ding that his was the smoothest and
the best road By and bye there GENES in
the tread of this rebellion. What is more
| natural than that we shonld say to each
Other,-Here is q new element that seeks to
overthrow and destroy this Government that
We are both trying TO preserve,-thst is
threatening to tear down our mill. Suppose
we lay aside our warfare, and join our forces
to subjugate this common eDemyf Why,
my brother Democrat, should we have falter-
ed in such a crisis ? The place of the old
Democrat had always bsen on the side Of the
country, in its hour Of peril, and this was no
time to shrink from that duty. We should
instinotively have sprung, as body, into
the breach.
When the war broke out, the Republicans
held the political power in the state. They
invited US to bury party decisions and join
in great party to sustain the government.
They offered to divide with us the posts Of
duty and responsibility. They gave us our
present excellent Governor, and glorious
thing it was for the state they did so. They
met us in the spirit of liberslity, and have
acted in good faith. But the question was
not one Of office or place, it was one Of prin-
oipls, and the democrats who failed to strike
hands upon il, necessarily admitted that
there was moro of patriotism and love Of
| country among his old political opponents
than in the ranks Of his own party. This 1,
for one, Was not willing 10 do. On neither
side have we compromised any principle.
| We have simply put aside our party contests
and Joined IN common cause TO save our
common country. By this union we have
achieved the great victory over which we
rejoice TO day.
confess myself disappointed in the result
Of this contest. made my estimate four
weeks ago. and have the papers in my pock-
ct, but l am ashamed to show them. Figured
the msjority then at thirty-hvs thousand on
the home vote, but 1t has doubled ny figures
aud stands to- day at nearly seventy thou
sand I was anxious for good round ma
jOrity az home, for l was we'll satisfied if we
were beaten on the home vote, the vote of
the army would be rejected. did not want
/ to deprive cur brave soldiers OF their part Is
this triumph, but rather to save them from
being cast out. 1 wanted the people at home
to dig the grave of treason and bury it, and
the boys in the field to fire the funeral VOL
/ ley over it.
But this is not your victory only-itis the
victory Of the whole nation, for in Ohio we
have fought the battle of The whole Union.
II Ohio had been taken from the loyal and
placed among the dislOyal States,-if her
grest civil and military power had been
placed in the handle of a sympsthizer with
traitors,-your cause was lost. With New
York controlled by Seymour, Pennsylvania
in the hands of Woodward, and Ohio given
over to the candidate now so badly defeated,
there would have been nothing left US but
the triumph Of the rebellion, and the dis
memberment of our Union. Thank God
that cloud has passed away,--thet bitter
cup has not been pressed to our lips. We
have rescued our own homes and fresides
from civil war, even within our own borders.
In addition to this We have given strength
to the arm Of the Government, and at the
same time efectuslly crushed cut that spirit
Of factious opposition, which by procrasti
mating the war, has cost US q year Of time,
and sacrificed the lives Of not less than sew
enty-hge thousand of our brave men.
Had We been a united people at the North,
this rebellion would to-day have been at an
end. Many honest and well-meaning men
have been deluded into opposition TO the
means necessary to crush it. For these, there
should be trial and opportunity for repent
ance. But for the lesders, who have sinned
against light and knowledge, and sought to
PROSTATE the interests Of the nation for mere
partizan purposes, there can be but little
prayer for forgiveness. Their purpose has
been unholy, and their hands are red with
the blood of men, ssorifced through their
conduct, on many a battlefield, Let them
remain among us as visible monuments Of
treason as marks "f0r soorn to point its slow
unmoviBg finger at" They have carped at
and criticised to the public ear the measures
/ of the Government 20 crush the rebellion,
and yet, more than other means, their Oppo-
sition to the Government has forced upon it
the very measures they condemned.-
1 have found it very fair test that when
man was caviling at the acts of the Gov
ernment, that he had treason in his heart and
was only seeking Justification for it.
Again, this is no uncertain victory. We
have fought it on the broad issues Of sus-
tanning the Administration Of the country in
tbs measures deemed necessary for the
crushing ef this rebellion. We have lodged
no issues. There have been no such werds
as policy and erpedieney in our councils. We
/ have fonpht the hattle uuon the hroad "a.