The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-09-28
CHARACTER AN. PURPOSES OF
s.sFsa NJ C[EEtAN ii r
SP ZEE CHI OF ,tla'
Hon. C. L. Vallandigham
Mcclellan Ratification Meeting
In Dayton, on Tuesday eve-
liz nang, the 9Th day of -
zFss7 September 1864. Js-ls-u9.
TReport of Cincinnati Commercial. I

IReport of Cincinnati Commercial /.
-FELLoM CITIZENS ltheae- furthe
ceremony, propose to address you brief
on the subject to consider which you h47
assembled here to night 1t is suggeste
that should reply to tie harang que mad
the other night here by Robert G.. SchencI
ECiies OF 'sThat's it-give him mahell!"1
beg leave, most respectfully 20 decline
Those questions in which you are all s
deeply interested, in common with tn
whole country, are of too great magnitud
to justify me in consuming your time il
the discussion of any thing which fel
from his lips. As to his personalities,
would at 10 time take occasion to reply
to them. He belongs to that class of mel
who with the end of this war will be con
signed to oblivion, or live only in memo
ry as the hero of Vienna and the petit,
iyrant of Baltimore. Like the toad, ue ly
and veuemous, but without precious
jewel upon his lead, his speeches are con-
s;steDt with the character of his mind
You will pardon me, therefore, if decline
to review that which [ find correctly re-
ported, no doubt, in the columns of the
Cincinnati papers. Only let ME say that
he, of all men, ought TO oe the last to de-
nounce Others as revolutionists, begin
ming public life twenty-five years ago,
with the most glaring act of revolution
ever committed in Ohio, breaking up the
legislature and striving to array In bloody
collision the party TO which he belonged, !,
against the laEmaking power of the State.
l came back here for other purposes; you
are assembled with different motive
As your representative in part at the
Chicago Convention, am here to night
to render briefly an account of my stew
ardship there. OF the Importance of that
Convention / need say nothing. Only
let me say tnat in nun 6crs, an charc cter,
an dignity and an ability. it was fully ad
equate to the purpose for which it Assem-
bled.g do not exaggerate-nay,s scarce
even do justice to that body of men
when 4 sag 1T WAS THE GRANDEsT Con-
ASSEMBLED ON THIS CoNTI-
NENT SINCE 17s7 He must be an able
man seho ,could undertake., singly and
alone, TO criticise tie action of that Com
cention, especially If he protesses to b :
Tong to Tie party ,ohich 1t represented.
The Convention was emphatically not
only peaceahle but peace convention,
Applause 1t assembled and sat in
harmony, and declared the present pub
lie sentiment of the Unit, d States, and,
in is language it has expli-
city declared it. Denouncing the war
as an experiment and a faiiEre,s aud
charging to its account all the expressions.
wrongs and out-ages committed by the
A dministr raticn for the past four years. as
veil as the injury 10 the material prosper
tv OF the country which has fullowed, it
demands as the sentiment of the people
IF these United States, that immediate
eforts be made for the cessation IF hostili-
lies, TO the end that there may be a con-
Eention- Of the States to restore peace t.,
the land u15on The tasis of the Fede, al
onion Of the States This is its procla-
nation. 1t was Union Convention, and
{ declared uoisreeruing facility to that
inion. 1t was a peace convention, and
peaking IN the name of more than TWEEN
y millions of freemen, it demanded peace.
ffer failure of the experiment of war,
ell, this--but first, before L preceed, let
ne say that no man among the earnest
dvocatcs of peace frcm the beginning
f this warto this hour, has. in any form
i public declaration demanded more
han the. convention has, declared. 1t
Hght to De satiisf factory to every man IN
he land. ECres of 1T is." 1t meant
eace, and it said SO. Applau.e- 1t
leant and it means now, that there shall |
e no more civil var in this land, mo in
rease of taxation, no augmentation of
he public debt; no more coDse fipfion, no
iore ieBlistulents,b no more bounties, no
lore shedding of blood, NJ more v ola
ons Of the Constitution, mo more arbi-
AIRY arrests, no more suppression of news
apers, no more putting down of Freedom
{ speech, but a return of the days of
eace and prosperity in the land. L Ap-
lause. This is the entertainment to
hich we, and all Of you, are invited. We
ring you hack again to the time of your
lthers-the Times which your own eyes
wv, whereby your own hearts were glad
ened. This is what it promises, just
ie antagonism of that which is held out
} you by the supporters of Abraham Lin-
'ln: They would serve MP to you war.
hey would fab down and worship be; |
re Moloch. They demanded your first
orn as sacrifice, and q war no longer
retended to be for the restoration of the
MON, ECries of s'That's so"1 but only
compel ten millions of. people to aban-
IN a social and domestic institution
hicb has existed from the beginning in Ii
ese States. Without distinction of par Il
:, the Convention held at Chicago hold
II to you. one and all the promise of a
turn of the good old days of the Repub-
, such days as you saw in the olden
me That it its declaration Mex, for j
deals only with living issues, it warns I
is Administration that should the ex- l
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