Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-04-22
Hon. S. s. Cox in Chicago-The Elec
tiOn.


Hon. s. s. Cox in Chicago-The Elec-
tiOn.
The municipal election In Chicago took
place on Tuesday; and the telegraph may bring
rs the result before we go TO press.
Hon. 8. S. Cox has been spending some days
In that city, visiting relatives. On Saturday
night, the Democracy held their nominating
Convention, and aiterward an immense mass
meeting, to IaliIy the nominations made. Mr..
Cox was called upon for a speech, and responded
In bis happiest vein. The Chicago papers
speak of It In terms of highest commeudation.
The Times has a pretty full report of It, from
which we copy the following paragraph:
Mr.. Cox said all our interests are bound up
together. The interest of Democrats Is equal
to that Of Republicans in the unity and valne
of the Republic. If the vessel goes down, our
freight, our homes, our all, is whelmed by the
same food. We, Democrats, nay the same taxes,
owe the same allegiance as Republicans. II we
are loet, 90 are the Republicans. We are all
| in the same boat, though We row with different
akulls. WHY then this idiotio denunciation of
Democrats as disloyal.
When violence is done 10 our laws and liber-
ties, all feel il. Our vigilance and criticism is
necessary, In o time like this, when war tends
TO aggrandise power. Il has come to this now,
that security to lifs liberty, aud happiness Is the
exception at the South, aud violence is the rule.
The same result is threatened Moth But he
did not despair. The Union foundations re-
maIped. though the fabric was partially shatter.
| luHn In tha Goufh
omen: in the North 1t was insidious. The one
makes bold Its deeigns and bare ito arm Of
treason; the other tskes the dangerous form of
tatriotism, and strikes at our constitutional
yipor and life. 10 this chaos Of violence and
doube the mind turns toward the Democracy
party ever jealous of the encroach-
ments of power,--whichf ever took
reproach to avoid disuniop,-wbich guorded
s ate rights while 1t defined foreign dicta,ion.
The speaker looked upon the Democracy as
the only hope of bringing about the reunion Of
this discovered land. They would do It by the |
action of the States under the Constitution, and
in national convention. In all their conduct
they would adhere to the law. II the laws
made recently to oppress them and break the
Constitution were declared by the courts to be |
illegal, the Democracy would stand by the
courte; and In defense of the law as interpret
were wrong they had The ballot to reform them
and II the attempt be made to wrest that power
from them, they would defend it with their |
lives. So long as the war was conducted for
ihe maintenance Of the rlghtful authority of the
Government, they gave IL their means, their
men, and their whole heart. When it was per-
verted, they entered their protests and will
continue TO protest, because such o warfare
brings disaster and disunion. Every day oil
failure shows il. The Democracy were 10 favor
| of all constitutional ways TO reach the old
Union. They were opposed TO any peace
with disunion; opposed to any war which would
bring disunion. They are in favor of trying
reason to reach the hearts and interests of the
recusants, as we'll as force. Force alone would
prove utterly futile. All the acts Of the re-
cent Congress seem designed to proloDg and
embitter the conflict. They were in derogs,
ton Of the traditions and Institutions of this
land. Therefore they fail. They failed to
unite the North; they served only to unite the
South; they were revolutionary and seditious;
and we Democrats, as the Unconstitutional op-
POSITION" will and do denounce them.
Mr.. Cox discussed the confscation bills, the |
proclamation, and the conscription law, the in |
demnity bill and arbitrary arrests. He discussed
these matters at length. In speaking Of the |
fiscal measures Of thelate Congress, he charged |
that the immense banking system Of Mr.. Chase |
was partisan scheme; that it was part of
plan to control all the interests of the country
from Washington as center. He opposed This
consolidation Of the Government, and defended
the rights of the States. Al properly interpre-
ted, they neither lead to secession or abolition.
On the financial question, Mr.. Cox said: As
would not place In the hands of one man un-
limited control over the muscle OF all the militia
of the country, 60 neither would trutt Salmon
P. Chase, or any one else, with all the money
and money making of the country. Yet this
Congress has done it. They have not had the
grace to follow precedents, and trust the Pres-
ident with the power to issue Treasury notes.-
Search as have, all the laws from June 80,
1912, to the act Of Dec. %, 1857, and in these
eighteen acts, by name the President is to issue; !;
but under Mr.. Chase's auspices as chief fiscal
clerk to the President, beginning with the act
OF July IL, 1861, the Secretary of the Treas
ury" Is made the trustee of this immense power.
| 1t is power that no one man can, or ought to
exercise. Millions-bundreds Of millions Of his
greenbacks fill the land; bonds, as boundless
as the wish of Fortunatus, are OF his disposal;
machinery is authorized to be fixed in the Treas.
uty for the engraving and printing Of these paper
promises; the centers OF trade and the circum.
ference Of commerce may be rocked and startled
at the will of this Prospero of the green ocean
Of mony.
Taxation, to the amount of $3.50, 900 900 per
year, gathered by bis thousands OF paid collec-
tors and subordinates, depletes the people and
fills his Golfers The estimates to July l, 1863,
we're estimated by him st $685., 600. 600, and 10
July i, 1864. 81, 100 QUO .OOO and the actual ap.
propriations were near tao biiiions! Connect.
ed Nth this immense receipt ana disbursem ent,
is system OF banking, based on his bonds.
more extensive than ever Biddle dreamed: a
system which would make Jackson's bones
Whihe in their sepulchre.
Who is not enamored Of this splendid Gov
ernmentf How millions play before the eve
where hundreds were once seen! What Gov.
ernment oil strength Is this, where once IL was
scarcely felt or knoWn? What ample corkaRe
| now holds the anchor Of the ahip, where once A
sllken thread p;ayed with the easy vessel, which
never strained It's gossamer f,ml How nearly
We approach, with our standing armies, BY con-
scriptlOn, our grand debts, our magpiH cent
banks, our dictAtorial assumption OF poW.r.
the monarchies OF Europe. Russia and Turkey
are free; France and Austria are constitution.
al; England and Italy are wild democracy
compared with this new automatic system at
Washington!
i Aud 10 tais creature of Congress, this In
convertible psper money, used TO pay all
debts7 All, no. IL will do for the soldiers
aud the people. IL did not answer to pay the
tour million debt Of l647, or the interest on the
i -..Lt;. Aahs Gala n. Ahaaat In n. !.