Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-09-15

The President Governor Seymour said
We have heard from distinguished fieur
of Andrew Jackson, Mr.. Allen, of Ohio
you will now listen to the words of one who
was the fast friend of Henry Clay durinG
his life time; and if he had lived till now,
God knows he would have been with US
Mr.. JAMES s. THAYER, of New York
1t may be considered inappropriate for a
member of this Convention to rise at such
an hour as this to make speech, but as |
have said nothing since l have been here, /
beg the Convention will excuse me for oc-
cupying small portion of its time. I know
that this is not the place for words, but
that it is the grandest stage of human ac-
tion Of our day and generation, and for the
future of our country. 1t will be marked,
IN my Judgment, as great event in histo-
ry, that the Democratic party assembled in
solemn council in 1864 Three years and a
half of civil war, that has destroyed many
things and changed almost everything, leave:
to-day the Democratic party indistructible
and unchanged.
Amid all the rude shocks of the conflict
with some alteration of its own, you car
still mark the grand curve Of its orbit, anC
the promise that it will circle round to the
VI llS lllgNs-l, gIdllQtSl ueslllIl
the reconstruction of the Union and the re
establishment Of the Constitution, ZAP
plause) And this, while all other parties
| factions and organizations, after long rev
/ elry in the guilty glory of this war, self-de
| structiye, are about to expire in the yer.
chaos and ruin they have produced / say
! then, that to-day the Democratic party
with its imposing and august presence anC
aspect, sends forth its heralds for the cam
paign of 1864, with Washington as a sacred
Mentor and Mcclellan as the living leader
(Tumultuous applause.
And now let me not call the roll of States
but ask you, as you come from the North
and the East, what will you do What
answer does New Hampshire, Maine anc
Vermont make from beneath their noun
tain homes and old Massachusetts,, from
4 the sweet smelling mound of Bunker Hill
what say you? And Connecticut, from the
shadow of your Charter Oak, what is you
response A voice The Constitution
and the Union The Union, the Consti
tuition is your answer New York witt
her Empire voice, responds to them, anC
tells you here to-day, that on your platform
and with your principles we will reconstruc
our government, and gain to this land peace
prosperity, and happiness to all, (Grea
applause
And now, let me say one word here, an,
it is this We want in this contest brav
men. We have platform, We have can
didate, and now will you not come up, y
men who hold the confidence of the Democ
racy Of this country; over the North, in tn
central States, and over the West. W
want, l say, brave and intrepid men, be
cause no man knows what is in the future
Yes, do you not see, that while this conver
ton has been in session they are seeking
strip your western States of your sovereig
robes of power, and twisting them into
bowstring, strangle you, and cast you hell
less upon the Bosphorus wave, where yol
with all your liberties, will sink to rise I
more. "a voice-they cannot do it, Id
not believe they can do it, but let the me
stand forth-men who will accept the pre-
ent and all the future issues of this conte
in all the grandeur, if need be, of accepte
death. (Applause, Men, like Mirabea
in the French revolution, who, when II
populace cried, "Grand treason Of, ,Cour
Mirabeau," and their voice rose in the cr
when he marched to the tribune, and h
friends whispered of danger, said, Il kno
it, and | come from it with victory, or to
torn in fragments. Applause
He came, as all men will come, when the
Use to that sublime attitude in public affair