Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-09-03

peasant girl born, by marriage with Peter /
the Great and upon the death Of her hus-
band, became the sole sovereign of the
Russian Empire. The first act OF her pow
er was to issue an order that all the gallows
and gibbets of the country should be pull
ed down,-[applausel-- l--and that all the in
struments of human torture should be
broken to pieces. [Renewed cheeriAg.l
That is the spirit in which we commence
this contest. We win have no Bastiles put
up, but we will have the present Bastiles
opened and cleaned out. Tremendous
cheering.l Our President will be the friend
and guardian and protector, In obedience
and within the limits of the Constitution, of
every State, and of every man, woman and
child within the sweep Of our flag. Ap-
contest. In this spirit we will present our
selves with fascination so great that the
timid Republicans, who are now afraid that
/ we will be down upon them with more
| blood and more taxes, will come to our
camp and sit In protection under the broad
| egis of the Constitution and the law, as
administered by the faithful interpreters Of
| that Constitution, the Democratic nominees.
As matters stand we have been In some,
what of a predicament for the last three or
| four years. The Democratic party during
| that time has been without any organ
lied representation. With the excep-
| tion of the State Of New York and the
smaller State of New Jersey, there was not
not against us. The Federal government,
including the army and navy, was in the
hands of Mr.. Lincoln. State governments,
with the two exceptions mentioned, were
all against us; and get, with all this organ
ic power opposed to us, what do we behold!
Why, we behold rising power,-a spon-
taneous current made up Of the cOntribu-
tions of individual wills, and individual
feelings; and that power Is so great as to
make Mr.. Lincoln and his people in Wash
ington tremblc i'm their boots. [Cheers. i
We have not musket; we don't want any
we don't need any. We have the ballot
box, we have tickets, we have human rea-
son, and all we ask of Mr.. Lincoln is that he
will keep the road to the ballot-box unob-
structed by fraud or force; that he will
make the road open to the people give us a
clean ticket and fair count out. Laugh
ter and applause.] That is all we want
| We do not care how many revolvers he has
so that he will just keep them away from
hepeople. We want him to do that. Mark
you! We don't want him to interfere, and
don't think he will try it after this demon
| stration.
Now, my friends, know how anxious
you all are to get through with the glorious
doings of this day. / am not going to de-
tain you. Nor am / going to say thatI will
| support the ticket. Great Godl l never
did anything else. [Cheers.] Twill not only
support it but / will do it with all my heart,
with all my might, and with all cheerful
ness. / once voted for man on the DEM
ocraic ticket for Congress, and refused to
speak to him as returned from the polls,
because he was on the ticket; and, my
| friends, / take it for granted, and always
have taken it for granted, that, whatever
else happens in the world, God and the peo-
pie can't be wrong. [Applause.] j came
! here withoutany personal feelings in this bu-
siness. / have no desire, but that the desires
| ofothers shall be gratified. Think now that
any fears which some four friends may have
entertained in regard to this eminent man
already nominated are without any founda-
tion. / will tell you why. We have had
Presidents of the United States before this
who commanded the whole army and navy,
and were victorious Generals. Did they do
lis any harm? Did Andrew Jackson en-
slave his country? Loud and enthusiastic
cheering.] Did he employ armies to silence
the clamors of few factions in South Car
olina? Not at all. How many men did he
send to the Bastile? Not one. He was a
military man, with military instincts as
strong as General Mcclellan, and with this
difference: that jackson came In upon his
own popularity, and Mcclellan comes in as
a man believed by the Democratic party to
be fittest for this particular emergency.
Mcclellan has been suggested by the peril
GUS condition of the country for reasons,
all of which have been given to the people;
but it makes no difference whether they
| har crsv 70 fha NJ n.
| is secret instinct in the breast of every
Democrat which at night, when he is alone
and passes his eye over the darkened aspect
of this country, will lead him to feel and
see reason to have some person of Nc
| Clellan's stripe near at hand. [Applause.]
Do you understand it? The army, this great
citizen army, does not belong to any one
man in this country. 1t belongs to the peo-
pie; it is a part of the people; 1t is under the
patronage and protection of the people,
and the army will know what we want
very well. They know that we edon't intend
to say to them, "Go on, you brutes, into the
field; no matter how many thousands of
you are slaughtered to-day, will draw a
as many more to be slaughtered to-mor-
row." Loud cheers.l Nothing of that kind.
We don't want a cold-bl0Oded joker at
Washington who, while the District of CO.
lumbia Is infested with hospitals, and the
atmosphere burdened by the groans and
sighs of our mangled countrymen, when he
can spare minute from Joe Miller's Jest
Book, looks out upon the acres of hospitals
and inquiries, "What houses are those ?"-
We want a man who can entertain a proper
appreciation of their sufferings-a man who
knows what soldier means when he points
to missing arm and says: "This arm was
lost at such a battle;" or raising mutilated
hand, says: 'This hand was fractured at
such battle-this limb was broken at such
battle, where l fought at your order I'M
defense of the Government of my country,
as YOU told me-" When a soldier comes to
Geo. B. Mcclellan he will not be answered
in ribald joke. The soldiers all understand
this thing. They know what the Democratic
exists under Democratic rule, the brave
themselves underits banners will be respect
ed, regarded and cared for, their pensions
paid, their families provided for. because
there will be some humanity as well as blood
in this business. Therewill be no call upon
half a million of young men to 60 and be
cut to pieces under any pretenee, hashed
worse than animals, worse than the Roman
gladiators, and then come back to be put
off with jest. [Cheersl They will all
know, every one of them, that Gen. Nc
Clellan is no Joker, and will know every
one of them, when they are told to fight,
that it will be for something that Is constitu-
tional and legitimate, and when they are
told the fighting is ended they will be will
ling to say, swell, General, Mr.. President,