The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1864-09-23
WHOLE NO. 7G7.

slbility will rest upon theso mo, !, ,,,,s
against tno Uuion." OF course it will It
: has been rostng with them all the whilo =
II has rested upon jeff. Davis since be frat
} hfod upon Fort Sumter, and il ia resting
upon him to day. And if our armies should
be ordered to turn their backs, the respon.
: sibity would still rest upon him. And he
IS ready and anxious to take tho RESPONSE
bility of giving Us a constitution and law.
. which he will at once attempt to do as soon
ae wo withdraw our armies. He will take
tho responsibility of taxing you to pay their
public debt as well as ours, and to pay for
all tho negroes you have put into your army,
or that have run away during the war. lie
VIII take tho responsibility of giving you on
ly so much freedom as no peases. and just
80 much cnrslng and bitterness as he pleas
es All that thoir candidate, Mcclellan,
says on ,ha, subject is, that the rebels will
be responsible. | propose to say that tho
gcrat American people have resolved to
sako this responsibility themselves. rGroat
and nnthusaspc chcering.1 That you and
your army, the President and his officers.
nave agreed to take On their own shoulders
, the responsibility of.putting down this re-
belIIon, and ending tho war. BY settling the
question on tho basis of lasting peace
And when your armies have gone o little
further, and you have filed them up-when
Sherman has rested little, and Farrapus
has smoked bis pipe. and climbed to the
masthead, and looked over the river and
down into the city of Mobile; then you will
go on to finish up the settlement of this
question, the responsibility of which you
have taken upon yourselves.
WHAT OF ARBITRARY ARRESTS?
III these people talk TO you of arbitrary ar
rests, refer them to Gen. Mcclellan, who
not only recommended such arrests, but &C.
tuaily arrested whole Legislature of trait
ors' / thank him for il. Gov. Seymour
stood up in the convention and said he hap-
pened to know Mcclellan met with change
OF heart since he mado that arrest, and ho
is now sorry for it. Where he arrested
traitors, and put them in prison, n,-where he
didn't lot them throw little MARYLAND out Of
the Unon,-litt!e Maryland, then a slave
State aud full of treason, is now loyal and
free forever. Great applause.l
WHAT OF TIE UNION PARTY?
On the other side, the great Union party
have organized, and tell you they have nailed
the flag to the mast, aud they will go up or
down with it. They tell you tha. they will
pledge every man and every dollar-every
drop OF blood and every ounce of treasure,
| 1t necessary, but they will defend, maintain
and defend tho Union and the Constitution
OF our country. Renewed cheering For
that purpose thoy toll you that they will
mako no terms Of poace with armed rebels
anywhere. Thoy tell you, for that purpose,
they will not only use the draft, bDt every
other necessary means to put down the re-
bolliop. Mcclellan saws the time was when
the war was prosecuted for the sole purpose
of restoring the Union, but that now some
| nfhar idpas ha ,rnf irtn ba ;ns;
ing that Il is for tho purpose OF freeing tho
slaves. Whom went into the war, did so,
| leaving all collateral issues alone. / hated
slavery, bot hated treason more To the
man who was for slavery / said: If you lovo
slavery. but love the Union more, como with
me, and VIC will fight for the Union, and not
talk about slavery. To anti.savery men I
said: II you hate slavery, but hate disuuion
more. come with me. and we will fight for
tho Union, and By and by sottle the slavery
question.
WHEN Is THE WAR TO END:
But when shall We see the end OF this
war? We look down along tie lines, and,
having studied this qeestion, will tell you
what l think. There is just one difficulty,
which, if settled tonight, and The South
know it. tho war would end before snow
| falls. They sec our boys in front of them,
u,
for the Union to the last man. But they
look over behind the boys with muskets to
Chicago, whero they sec men that sympa-
thize with them and their cause; men who
reach across Niagara River and shake hands
with them; men who in their scores oreani-
cations ard otherwise are doing all they can
to help them And they say. If we can only
keep our ranks together little longer, we
shall see these Union people in the North
broken down, and our Democratic friends
there in power, who will manage the Gov
arnment as we shall dictate Voices, NE
yer. never. But if they should sec Today,
and know that this great Northern people
wero united in the determined purpose to
put down the rebellion. through seas of blood,
if necessary, it would wind up their last
hope. Their armies would be demoralized
and broken up, and it rests with you to tell
them that there is no hope for them over
hore.u Send the word down our lines. and
lot our boys shout it out that Ohio has spok-
en-, New York has spoken, and New England
has spoken, and they give you no hope
Let your armies shout that, and il viii. be
better than broadside; better than bayo-
net charge, better than Atlanta, better than
the fall OF Richmond, for it will DO the fall
of the rebellion forever.
/ received letter a few days ago. from
one of our noble men who fought under
General Rosecrans. He says to mo, ave are
very sorry that you left the army for soma
reasons; but we tell y ou you are engaged in
fight of more consequence than any on
the fold. We expect TO take Atlanta in
few days. and they have done it; but, says
he, Atlanta is nothing compared with the
ballot box in November. If you settle the
question there in our favor, we won't have
much more blood 70 spill. We will bold on
until you speak in3Sovember. Ii you speak
right, and we'll, we will only have TO 60 for
ward and take the crown of victory"
What will you do for the boys who tell .
you this? This great meeting here tonight
is half an answer to tho question. This
crowded square tolls what Cincinnati will
do; and what Cincinnati does Ohio will do.
You will close the war, aud give the coun-
try lasting peace. Great applause.]