The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-11-10
Speech OF Hon. JOhn RrOugh. Al
PainesvilIe, October 10th.

SpeeCn Oh Hon. JOnn through. AZ
Painesvflle, OcteIser 10th.
Il LADIES AND GESrLEMEN---Esrnsslly cor
daily, l thank you for greeting to dag. 4 j
am not certain but shall illustrate my, feel
ings by 40 anecdote heard many years ago.
A man who was given Ia the habit Of psotaas
swearing on all occasions, was one day hauling
q load OF potatoes up a bill, when the tail.
board OF the wagon getting loose, he found, ou
looking back, that the contents Of bis wagon
had escaped and were strewn over the road
A friend meeting him at the moment, asked
why he did not swear over the accident. We'll
he replied, simply because / am not able to do
Justice to the occasion. am beginning to feel
the ebb Of this excitement but it seems other.
wise with you. Prehaps owe something TO
the intensity Of my feelings and the arduous
character Of my labors. You may we'll rejoice
in the victory you have won. II an achieve
mept Of which you may well be proud. Its
one for which your posterity will thank and
glorify you, even as you reverence aud praise
your fathers for the struggle that gave you the
best Government the world ever knew. This
is not triumph Of any man. No man could
have won il, no one in the State ever merited
such an ovation. Neither is it triumph Of
any party, as we have heretofore classified and
understood lhem. Party lines, to great ex'
tent, have been oblitersted in this centest
Masses Of both parsies have joined to swell
this great triumph, and the line Of division was
only between the friends Of the Government
and the country on the one side, and the op-
ponents Of these on the other. And why
should not men of all parties become thus uui-
| fal I in
grove, aud followed Gov. Corwin in party dis
cussion. Icontended that the principles Of
my party were best calcdlatd to perpe,uate
the Government and promote tie prosperity
Of our common country. The Governor con-
tended that tho principles Of his party were
better adapted to the same end. The purpose
was the same. We were like two parties
going to mill, each contending tat his was
the smoothest and best road. BY and by there
comes in be bead of this rebellion.-What
more natural than that We should say to each
other-herc is new element that seeks to
overlurn and destroy this Government that we
are both trying to pres,rve--that is threaten
ing TO tear down our mill-suppose we lay
aside cur warfare, and join our forces TO sub
| jugate his common enemyl Why my brother
crisis The place of the old Democrat had al.
ways been on the side Of the country in it's
hour Of peril, and this WAC no time to shrink
from that duIy. We should nstnctively 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 patty divisions and join in
great party 10 su tain the Goyernment.---
They offered 20 divide With us the posts Of du
ty and responsibility. They gave us our pres
ent excellep, Governor, and d glorious thing
for the State they did SO. They met US in
the spirit OF liberality, aud have acted 10 good
faith. But the question was not one of Office
or place--it vas one Of principle-and the
Democrat who failed TO strike hands upon it,
necessarily admitted that there was more of
patriotism and loye of coubtry among his old
political opponents than in the ranks of IS
own party, This !, for one Yas not willing
to do. On neither side have we compromised
any principle. We have simply put aside our
party contents and joined in common cause
to save our common country. BY this union
We have achieved the great victory over which
We rejoice TO dat.
confess myself disappointed in the result
Of this contest. made my estiuates four
weeks ago. and have the paper in my pocket,
bu, aa ashamed to shoH It. ] figured the
majority then at 35 900 on the home vote /,
but it has doubled my figures, and stands to
day at nearly 10000. | was anxious for a
good round majority at home, for !. was we'll
satisfied if we were beaten on the homo vote, ,
the vote Of the army would berejected. l did
10 hrav IF hai
part in this triumph, but rather to save them
from being cast out. l wanted the people at
home TO dig the grave Of treason and bury it,
aud the boys in the field to fire the funeral
voey over it.
But his is not your victory orly-it is the
victory Of the whole nation, for in Ohio we
fought the battle Of the whole Union. If O.
bio had been taken from the loyal and placed
among the disloyal States-if ber great civil
and military power bad heen placed in the
hands of the sym patbizers with traitors, your
cause was lost.--Wilh New York controlled
by Seymour, Pepnsylysnia in the hands of
Woodward, and Ohio given over TO the can
didate now so badly beaten, there would have
been nothing left US but the triumph Of the
rebellion, and the dismemberment of our Un.
ious oou INV WIN CtOuu uoo PdrocN
sway-tbat bitter cup has not been pressed TO
our lips We have rescued our homes and
our fresides from civil war, even within our
own borders. 10 addition to thia we haye
given strength to ,he arm Of the Government,
and Al the same time, effectually crushed out
the spirit of iactious opposition, which, by
procrastinating the war, has cost us year Of
time, and sacrificed the lives of rot less sewers
ty five thousand Of our brave men. Had we
been united people at the North, this re-
belion would to day have been at en- end. q
Many honest and we'll meaning men have
been deluded into opposition to he means
necessary to crush Il. For those, tbero should
be time and opportunity for repentance.
But for the leaders, who have sinned against
light and knowledge, and sought to prostrate
The interests Of tbs nation for mere partisan
purposes, there can be but little prayer for
forgiveness. Their purpose has been pnholy,
and their hands are red with the Blood Of mon,
sacrificed through their conduct on many q
battlefield. Let them remain among us as
visible monuments Of treason--as marks for
"scorn to point its slow. moving finger at"
They have carped at and criticised, to the pub.
lie ear, the measures of the government 10
crush the rebellion, and yet, more than any
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