Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-25

not done as well as ve used to dob They say
We are an unconstitutional party. We always
observed the Constitution. Would you not Ike
to-day to trade the present for the pastf Lin.
colin says that they are making history--there
Is come that is already made. The Democratic
\ party has already made history; and the history
Of the Dsmocra tic party 10 simply the history
Lof the glory, the integrity OF the Union, the
preservation of liberty, and the happiness of the
people. Do you want these blessings TO returnl
Do you want ttis happiness once more restored
to the lsndf We viii d.ive out these men at
Washington, and put In the old-fashioned kind
Of Democrats. [Cheers. These men profess
too much; but does Practice cOnsissin proiss-
aions? You will find men Ia religion, as we'll
as In politics, that make loud professions. They
tell you hon good they Rre-hoW much religion
they have, aud all that sort Of thing Bot look,
and the first thing you will find su0h fellow
cheating some poor widow. Bat on the Other
hand, II yon take some quiet old neig hbor who
does not talk great deaf about himself, doss
not profess great deal, but has laid up, In a
long life, cay of seyeaty yeara, o bank ehock
full Of good deeds, OF what he has done, rather
than what he has saidi no loud Professions: be
has doIe moro. Nov, we don't profess 90 much
as these Black Republlcans; We don't bray 30
much about our .UniOniam, and If they ,lek. for
the proofs, wesay, "gosee what We have done"
The Apostle James, think IL is, saya, "faith
without works Is dead" If that Ia true, this
Republican party is the deadest party on earth,
for IL has more faith aud less good aotks than
any party ever knew upon earth.
Butt my ow-citizens, there 10 another
thing wish to present. tell you these Abo-
lilionisis done like the Constitution on the
subject Of slavery. No; and how Ia that dis
like developed in connection with this war2 /
will tell you. John Bfough says he never
wants peace till slavery is exterminated. root
aud bripcbj and tho reason why he says this,
ia, that Republican, and slavery cannot survive
together. That Is his position. He would have
spurned the Csit.enden Compromise, just as his
party did, because, as they said, the frat gun
hred upon Sumter was the death-knell of
slavery. II II was land he takes the ground
that Republicanism and slavery cannot exist TO-
gesher), he mustIbe glad that 1.-The rebels did
he upon Sumter. He says the 6rSt gun fred
upon Sumter was the death. kuell of slavery
II that be 80, and thought as he did, should
nave neen glad that IL was tired; and to be
consistent he must bo thankful to the rebels
ior nring upon SumteF-for relieving the coun-
Uy Oh slavery, and thus alone pefpetusting the
existence of Republican influence and opinion.
And Mr.. Lincoln said the came before he was
rfesident, that your country could not exlst
part siave aud part free, as your forefathers
maae IT, Bingham says It, aud they all say 1t
They are liars.] OF courae they are liara-
Bus you just wait. I'll giVsJit to them
Laughter and cheers.1 DoiTl5u
1 Let us try how this question stands. Sup
pose this class of men-BIngham, Bsough and
Lincoln-hsd con6ded TO their hands the form
alton of the Republic In the beginning, instead
OF Washington, Jefferson and Madison Our
forefathers found slavery, when they began the
formation OF this Government, in evory State
OF this Union. II II had to be abolished, they
would have said: "We can net have Repub-
! lie with slavery in it, and the result would
! have been that the slave States would not have
3 gone into the Union. They were independent
sovereigniies; they delegated none of heir
: authority. They would have said, you arc 20.
ing to make Government. that will wipe out
our most important interests. Aboltionisss,
/ therefore, could not have made your Govern.
ment; but your forefathers said, we will trust
the people with this mighty question. We
|, will trust 1t with the people OF each State to
DO with II al they please; and the States
on that condition came into the Union I;
and while that spirit was maintained they stay
ed In the Union, and when they come back it
will be by telling them, In the language of
their forelathers, 1--WE leave. this question
once more to yoa" If, BY leaving the qnea-
ton to the people at the start, they made this
Union, would you not think the beat way to
restore your Union would be TO do the same
thing over again2 Bat the AbOlisonists don't
want it. '--
They say they are trying to restore the Union.
q We say We are striving TO restpro it, But this
slavery question stands 10 the way. We fnd
II to day just as our forefaIhers found it-a die
tubing question. We say we will take our
forefathers' plan, by whom Tho Government
Was made, to get clear OF it, out tho Abolition
lets say no, We are wiser than our forefathers;
they did mol, know what they were about. Liu-
|, coin Gays the whole house must come down,
from raiter to foundation; thas gr eat temple OF
liberty, founded In blood and reared 10 the wis
dom which had brought Democracy in all its
grandeur before the eyes of the world. Bot
! Lincoln the Springfield lawyer, and Gdding5,
= and John BrOugh, and such Ike, say that that
? temple can not stand; shat II must come dowo
that your iorefathera reared it in loolishness-
put in timber that they ought not to have pu,
iu-and that makes IL weak; they sit in judg
! ment upon Washington, Jefferson aud Madison
= and they rise up to impeaoh the great anC
mighty dead in their graves. You and |, Ou
the other hand, surround their tombs to-day
= hallowed by every aspiration of human tree
\ dom and appiness-and swear that if il Glands
- at all, our Government sIall stald as our fore
= tathers made II, aud not as the Abolitions,s
= would change IT, [Laud cheers.
al foonclusion tomorrow
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