The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-10-30
Speech of Hon. John Brough at Psines
Vile, October 10.
Ladies and Gentiemon:

vi yo"' R'ee'hnB 'o'uay' L dUn hot Ce''
tain but | shall illustrate my feelings by
an anecdo,e | heard many wears ago. A
man who was given to the habi. Of pro.
fade swearing on all occasions, was one
day hauling a load Of potatoes up a hill,
when the tail board Of the Wagon getting
loose, he found, on looking back hat the
contents Of his wagon had escaped, ard
were strewn over The road. A friend
meeting him at the moment, asked him
why lie did not swear over the accident,
Well. he replied, simply because | am
not able 10 do justice TO the occasion. !
begin to feel TIE ebb of this excitement;
bu, i, seems otherwise with you. Perhaps
W something 10 the intensity Of my
feelings, and the arduous character OF my
Iabors. You may well rejoice in the grea,
victory you have won. 1t IS an achieve.
ment Of which you may well be proud.
it is one Tor which your posterily will
thank and glorify you, even as YOU rever-
ence and praise your fathers Tor the s,rug-
gle that gave you the best government
the world ever saw. This is not a triumph
Of any man. No man could have won
it, and no man 10 the State ever meri,ed
such nm honor. Neither. is il a triumph
ofany party, as We have heretofore Glass
fled and understood them. Party lines.
to a great extent, have been otliterated ia
this contest. Masses oil both parties have
inclined TO swell this great triumph. and
tie line Of division has only been between
those who were friends OF the Government
and the county on the one side, and the
opponents on the other. And why should
not men of all parties thus become united?
Nineteen years ago | stood 10 this same
grove, and followed Governor Corwin in
party discussion. What was our ground
OF contest? | contenGed that the princi-
pies Of my parry were best calcnlated TO
perpeluate the Government and promote
The prosperity Of our common county,
The Governor commended that the princi.
piles OF his party were better adapted to
the same end. The purpose was the same
We were like Two parties going 10 mill,
each c%ontendlng that his was the smooth
est and the best road. BY and by there
comes in the head OF this rebellion. What
more natura! than that we should say 10
each olher-here is a new element that
seeks TO %overturn and destroy this Gov
erDment that we are both trying TO pre-
serve-that is threatening to tear down
our mill-suppose We lay aside our war
fare, ard join our forces 10 subjugate this
common enemy? Why, my brother Dem.
crisis? The place Of the old Democrat had
always been on tie side OF The country
in its hour Of peril. and this was no lime
10 shrink from that duty. We should
ins'inc':vely have sprung. as a body. into
the breach.
When the war broke out the RepubIi.
cans held the political power in the Stale.
They invited us to bury party divisions
and join in a great party 10 sustain the
Government. They offered to divide with
us the posts Of duty and responsibility.
They gave us our presen; excellent Gov.
ernor. and a glorious thing it WAS for the
State they did so. They met US in the
spiri, Of literally. and have acted in
good faith. But the question was not ore
o. Office or place--it was one OF principle
and the Democrat who failed to strike
hands upon it, necessary admitted that
there was more Of patriotism and love Of
country among his old foliIicaI opponents
than in The ranks of his OWE party. This
l.. for one, was not willing to do. On
neither side have we compromised aAy
principle. We have simply put aside our
party contests and joined 10 a common
cause to save a common country. By this
Union we have achieved the great victory
over which we rejoice to-day. -
| confess myself disappointed 10 tho result
Of this contest. made my estimates four
weeks ago, and have tho paper in my peck.
81. but am ashamed to show it. l figured
the majority then at thirty Ave thousand on
the homo vote ; but il has doubled my Gg
ures, and stands to-day al nearly seventy
thousand. l was ANXIOUS for a good round
MAJORITY at home, for ! was we'll satisfied it
we were beaten on tho home vote. tho vote
Of tho army would be rejected. | did not
want to deprive our brave soldiers of their
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 voiley over il.
But this is not your victory onIy-it is
the victory of the whole Nation, for in Ohio
wo ha 70 fought tha BATTLE of tho whole
Union. II Ohio had been takea from the
loyal. and placed among the disloyal States
If her great civil and military power had
been placed in the hands of a %sympathizer
with t~raiIors-your cause was lost. With
New York controlled by Seymour, Penn.
s@ylvsnia in tho hands OF Woodward, and
Ohio, given over to the candidate now so
| badly dptpafpI tha,n WnnlH hava haan nnfh-