Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-10-07


fortunately the day sejee ed lor he Union
meeting in this county proved one II the most
unpleasant of the season-rain and mud pre-
vsilin0 to an extent calculated 10 derer any
but the most courageous from venturing out,
and utterly precuding anything Ike en al
tempt at display or a ra y such as have char
acterized like occasions IN lie past. NOtwiih-
standing the uupropi'ious weather. there was
a large number in Attendance from every sec
ton Of the county, far more than coud BE-
accom- .nodAted ia the largest hall in town, 70
which in c1nseq Iance of the heavy rain. It
was necessary to resort, We were particu-
larly fortunate 10 spelkers-Jgdge WM,
JOHNSON, Hon. HoRAcs MAYNARD, Gen. j.
a. GARFIELD and Gen. ). Il, GEIGER' all be
ing present. and it may be safely said that
richer treat ia the way of speaking Vas never
before on any occasion enjoyed by the people
Of our county. The speaking was opened by
Judge JOHNSON, and his effort was such an
one as might have been expected from
gentleman Of his known ability and high req
utalion as a speaker He was followed by
Hon HORACE MAYNARD, who deservedly
stands first as an orator aud statesman among
the true and tried men of East Tennessee
His address was a splendid effort, and never
was speech listened to with more marked
attention and absorbing interest than was his
on this occasion.
A reporter from Columbus having been in
attendance, we avail onrseIf Of the following
brief outline Of the remarks of the two dstin-
GU shed gentlemen named, prepared by him
for the State Journal:
At half past one Rev. MIR. Newton opened
the meeting with an appropriate prayer.
when the President, DR. Barnes, introduced
Judge VIM. johnson, of Cincinnati. A log
ical and powerful address followed. nearly
two hours in length, and iuterspersed with the
irresisfiby effective sarcasm and with peculiar
to Judge Johuson's style. The speaker ex-
hibi:ed the connection aud sympathy existing
between the three distinct agencies or powers
now seeking to destroy our glOrions govern
ment,-the moneyed oligarchy OF Great Brit
ain, which is practically the Government OF
Great B itain the slavehodiDg, labor-scOrn
irg oligarcby OF the South new arrayed in
arms against the lawiul authorities Of the
land and the Copperheads, the traitors in
the so-caIled Democratic party. who are Al
work in our very midst. These positions
were fully sustained by mass OF incongPo-
veriibe facts, interviewer in,o an argument
Of remarkable philosophical strength and clear
ness.
Passing to a consideration of the Chicago
platform, Judge Johnson showed the rebel
ard British interest in it, aud eXimin edits
principal features in succession. Tue sigu.f
cance Of the phrase which cone cluies he sec
md resolutiou-"on the basis Of the Federal
Union Of he States" was pointed NJ, as r.
ierring 80 ii Union under the Montgomery
Constitution, instead OF our own Tae Guar
ges OF the Pres d-p' 5 .'uuconsti utiuuai" pro-
cedures and "arbit-ary arrests" and the lying
assertion tuat the war is failure, were thor
oughiy riddIed and torn to pieces. The his
tory ot the whisky insurrection, B Irrs con-
spiracv, and South Carolina qualifications, was
gwen, to show how Washing on J ftrs0n and
jackson acjtd, when treason IL their days
plotted against the National Government
Jdcksou's course at New o. leans in 1915 was
also skeiched With telling and piquant effect.
\ comprehensive resume of cur successes in
the field and on the sea showed most convin-
cinglY the falsphood Of the Democratic as
sumption that the war is failure.
The speaker defended the eman cipaiion
policy, and he armiug Of negroes. God wa~
working out his plans, though we as a ma
ton were slow to perceive it. He concluded,
amid thuuders of applause, with an earnest
adjuraiou to all to go TO work, and keep
working until the election day. The Union
maj1rIty next November must be an over
whelming one, rolling like the ocean and rat
ting like The thunder, ard three mouths
there after therebellion will be 10 more.
Hon. Horace Maynard, Of Tennessee, fol-
lowed, and was received with three hearty
cheers. He sp, k for more than two urs,
aud held the aaditory's almos; breathIess at
teniion while he proceeded to prove that the
South mad caused the war,-had plotted aud
EUatured rebellion, aud had actually begun the
war months before Lincoin's inauguration.-
The mass Of testimony upon the point, Of
which his own personal "reminiscences formed
an exceedingly interesting portion. was pres
ented with overwhelming force, establishing
the facts from the mouths of Southern lead
ers, and from the pens of Southern writers
themselves. The speaker recounted the hopes
aud expec' ations with which the rebel lead
ers had begun the war, especially those based
on the cowardice, the avarice, and the livi-
sion OF the North, and showed how utterly
they bad come to naught bringing only woe
aud anguish to those who had deludcd them
selves with them.
The Baltimore and Chicago platforms and
the views which had evidently governed in
the choice Of cand dates upon them, were
briefly con'rasted. The Characterization policy
OF MIR. Lincoln was heartily endorsed, though
the speaker confessed that he had al first op.
posed it. lie did, indeed, with other gentle |
men from the Suuih, even wait upon the Pres |
ldent and ask him TO either modify or post I
pone the proclamation; hut since be has seen |
It's wot king he was satisfied that the measure
was wise one, ard that Mr. Lincoln was |
Ioght and that he was wrong. Tie a7nirg OF |
negroes was also justified, and now the,e was |
nor power enough in the country to re-enslave |
Them. The Deuoct attic howl about negro !
qualify was held up tn he scoru and deris-
ion thar its hypocrisy and ab-urdity merit
The term ''aboitionist" was no longer a re-
proach. In a few years il will be an honor.
wen at the South, to have borne it ia these