The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-08-26

the negro boy j Ohm from the United
States officers. He is pretty person to
call on others to support the Federal Gov
eminent. Laughter. These Oberlin
rescuers were tried, convicted, and about
to be sentenced by the United States
Court at Cleveland, when a meeting was
called at Cleveland, to revolutionize aud
by violence overthrow the Federal power.
They sought, like South Carolina, the
agency of. the State to do it. The Re-
publican Governor, Chase, and his At
torney General helped it on. l have the
account of that meeting in Republican
paper. Here it is Here Mr.. Cox held
up the Ohio State Journal of May &c,
1859, pretty we'll worn. It has seen
some service, this paper; a little the worse
for wear-like the Republican party.
Laughter
DR.. B.-Let me see it, if you please
Mr.. Cox handed it to the Doctor. He
looked it over, wiped his specks and pro-
nounced it "genovine.
Mr.. Cox-Thls paper says there were
ten or twelve thousand Republicans from
the Reserve present. Ne doubt Oberlin
was there. Laughter. Perhaps you
were there, sir.
DIR. B.-I was, and am proud of it.
Mr.. Cox-And you approved of thoir
action and their resolutions?
DIR. B-Yes, sir; do, and did
Mr.. Cox-Now, have you. IF do
not prove you to be secessionist, revo-
lutionist and nullifer, then there is no
truth in your own statements [ read
further that this vast meeting marched
into Cleveland with banners, with revolu-
tionary devices and music. John Brown
had not then been hung, else they would
have sung his march, instead of playing
the Marseillaise." Old men were put
at the head of the procession, with flags,
imprinted with "1776.' Then came the
Lorraine County delegation-.your crowd,
sir, of mobocrats against the Union
You were in it. Perhaps you carried the
banner inscribed Lorraine" on one side,
and on the other
Here is the Government
Let tyrants beware"
Do you remember that? You do. Well,
where was the Government? 1t was not
then in the Administration-ohl no
you had not then got Lincoln and his
Cabinet at Washington. "Here is the
Government in this mob of law -haters
and higher law revolutionists Here is
the power to overthrow and destroy
What commentary We Democrats said
then, as now, that. the Government is not
in men; not in mobs at Oberlin, nor agents
at Washington; but in the Constitution.
1Nhaarc l lot MS ha ho
violate the governmental chart. Cheers. I
We say stand by the Government against
mobs in Ohio, in 1859, or in New York
city in 1868; against usurpations of State
authority in 1859, or of Federal authori-
ty in 1863. Cheers. Yet it is the De-
mocracy that is reproached as disloyal by
such scum of sedition as hoated ever
since.
This meeting was a type of the Re-
publican party. 1t followed Lincoln's
doctrine. Every prominent Republican
in Ohio was there; in person or by letter.
You, my sweet evangelical friend, voted
for one of the Committee on Resolutions,
Mr. Blake, and made him Congressman.
Chase approved by speech, and Dennison
by letter, of the meeting and it's objects
Giddings was President. Perhaps you
have heard of him.
DIR. B.-A nobler man does not breathe.
Mr.. Cox-No doubt you approved of
his course. He told Mr.. Ewing, in his
letter of the 7th of November, 1860, that
when he "held up to the Republicans, the
humbug of dissolution, that he was a
coward, and an unvirile minion of the
slave power"-you thought him proph-
et When he advised you to shoot down
United States officers, with warrants for
fugitive slaves, as pirates, you thought
him loyal patriot. When he gloriied
the State habeas corpus, and the guaran-
tees for the liberty of negroes, you
thought him wise man. But now, when
your party despises habeas corpus, out
RACES personal freedom for white men,
and, by the perjury of an Ohio Cover
nor, permits white man to be banished,
not for crime, but for prevention. You
think you are SO high in your loyalty that
all Democrats are "Copperhead traitors. -
[Cheers.] So much for Giddings and the
inciyism he taught and you followed
Who else were at this revolutionary meet
ing of traitors, to revolutienize Z" a por-
tom of the people against the Federal
Government? Here is the Committee on
Resolutions: B. f. Wade, Republican
United States Senator; James Monroe,
now Counsel at Pernambuco, an Aboli-
ZIONIST and gentleman; Congressman
Blake, Ashley Edgerton, Philemon, Bliss;
Bascomb, Republican editor at Xenia;
Peter Hitchcock, Republican Senator;
Lieutenant-Gove R. G. Kirk, pnd a
long list. I will not name all here. The
whole Republican party were thero rep
resented. D. X. Carter, one of Lincoln S
appointees to judgship at Washington,
and lond Union man now; Root, of San
dusky; Delano, of Mount Vernon, who
pretends to be schoeked at traitors now,
Judge Spaulding, the Cleveland Congress-
man: President Asa Mahan, ef Oberlin,
and athers. including the inevitable negro
Langston-Tod's orator for black troops
and Governor Chase. These were the
trumpets of sedition, whose voice inspir-
ed the revolutionists. One said: "Ohio
shall not, in Gods name, she shall not, be
made hunting ground for slave catch
ers." You applaudcd that.
DIR. B. assented.