Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-26
Extract from "a Speech OF Hon.
49,.

.. ). COX.
Ne Cox was welcomed home By an im.
mense crowd Of lis cousttutents few days
ago, aud addressed them at length. wemskS
this extract After ststing the terms upon
which reSee might have been had, Ne Cox
said
Il will be seen that toe basis Of this nego.
tiatioB Was the restoration Of the UuiOn that
at once Mr Lincoln imposed unconstitutional
and mpossible cocditions "lo al whom it
H,ay concern il was made known that the
President would not hear even Of q res,ora-
tion Of the Union, unless the Constitution
Yves violated, aud slavery abolished The
Onion WAS once the word The "Uuton"
PARTY was tho name The "Union" was once
ia danger. The "Union" was 70 be saved oy
war Conscript, volunteer money, patriot.
ism, we're all called into active energy for the
Union but when The Union seems near,
aud neu hold their breath with Joy and ex-
pectation, aud even Greeley himself desires
end the bloody slaughter and the endless tax.
alton, there comes the cold fat first attend
to the negro's freedom, and we will hear you
about white men, and their interests T. Here
was Union possible, it not probable Az least
"
The Old Uuion-thrice blessed for it's calam.
ities thrice loved for its trials--Ohl here was
at least CLEAN Of sunshine for its renewal az
Of old--when in the path OF light the Presi.
dent obtrudes the figure OF the African and
says to the South mo Union with the States
as they were. FIRST turu your negroes adrllt
to die or freeze on the cold charity OF New
England abolition, aud then viii grant You
safe conduct to my presence, aud then | will
hear"
How different the language be held two
years ago, when in a letter dated August ~,
1862, in writing to this same Greeley, repre-
bending his Abolition rashness, he said "l
am for the Union with or without slavery,
Whatever,I / do or forbear TO do, am for the
Union" | applauded that sentiment then
and and reprobsted the course of Greeley,
Now we have TO applaud Greeley and repro.
bate Lincoln. Mr.. Greeley, in an editorial Of
yesterday, saws, THAT the pacGcation of the
country is neither so difficult nor distant as
seems to be generally supposed. This is full
Of meaning. 1t means that the Union is not
impossible, with honorable dealing to restore
it, But so far as Mr. Lincoln is concerned,
he made it impossible by his conduct The
people are pondering these things Already
to my own knowledge, hundreds who once
gave him their countenance, are Withdrawing
it and turning to wiser counsels for deliver
anee from these iroutles
Will not history, nay, will not the living
present, curse this execrabls tool Of fanaticsm
who thus even in the agony and article of our
national demise, filings away the hopes and in.
erest of this nation 7
A Voce-God d--n him. daughter and
cheers.)
Mr.. Cox Il cannot join in the earnest i'm
precation of my gentle friend daughter
While do invoke that Providence may deal
mercifully with the President, pray that the
people in November will damn him to an i'm
mortality of infamy Immense applause }
Think Off in the very midst of the strife,
while calling aloud to some seventeen States
Of the old Union to send him half million
more to be added to the two million who are
wasted and wastng-when about TO consume
5000 600, 600 more Of the results Of labor, to
be added to the two thousand millions already
spent in the midst Of war Of bereavement,
destruction, desostiou and death uneeualled,
this executive trifer this retailer Of smuly
stories this vulgar tyrant over men thoughts
opinions. presses. letters, persons and lives, re-
jects the blessed opportunity which the Angel
OF Peace tenders to our afflicted land, for a
restoration of the Union and the salvation of
our Government (Cheers)