The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-10-20
GREAT SPEECH OF HON. s.
?, CHASE.
Delivered at tho Immense Union
Meeting, in Cincinnati, Septem-
Der 25th, 1864.
Rn.tn,. nfAhA n.lnl.nI cau..i.n
ARcyicw of,he Political s,vs,ieo.

Gov. Chase delivered the following
speech to an audience OF 10000 mon:
FELtow CITIZENS: | come here to-
I night Tor the purpose OF joining nv voice
and my Efforts with yours for the clcc
Z ton Of Lincoln aud Johnson 10 the Chief
Mogisttacy aud Vice Cbief Magisiracy uf
the nation. | know that the people are
to do this work, and that what | or any
other speaker may say will have little 10
DO with the general rcsu,l-,he triumph
OF the glorious cause OF UuiouSnd free.
dom, represented by these candidates. |
have before spoken to YOU OF this theme.
but the theme OF Union and freedom will
not be exhausted in this land until the
last rebel has laid down his orms, aud
the last mHnaele fslls itcm the last
slave. (CheCrs, and "That'- SOL And !
just 80 long a., this ballle remains to be |
fought, wish 10 be on hand to take part
In the contest. (Cheers
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Fellow cit zrus, We urc told oil the |
tine that this war was tegun by the r.. /
publicNns. All our euemr constantly
join IN that rcpruuch, bui out or their
mouths We will convict them of misrrp |
rescutation. Ia 1861, not long after the F,
war began, the Congress VI the United
States passed n resolution. upon til, mo.
tion ol Dir. Criuendcn, that this war had
liz origin in the unholy ambition of
Southern disunionsis, and for that reso.
luton every man In the House of Rup.
resentalvcs, on every side, voted with a
single exception Of Vallahdighum, be.
licve, whu declined to vote upon the first
clause OF the resolution. This proves
what bave said, that they themselves
declare that this war was began by the
Southern disuniOnists; and il Il was be-
gun by them, was Il begun by Republi.
causl Voices, "NO, no."1 Everybody
who has taken any interest ia the 0ffairs
ul the country, knows that this war, SO
Tar from being precipita,cd by the pre-.
sent President Of the Administration
supporting h i'm, had It's origin previous to
the coming into power OF this Admins
ualion.
Ono word further. What cause had
they Tor warl What wac IN danger, that
they were Interested in! Voices The
niggcr"-"Slavery."l They thought SO,
or said they thought 50 but was there
one man in Cincinnati, ,onc man through
out the length and breadth of Ohio,
known to any Of you, who desired to in.
teriere with slavery in Kentucky! G"No,
no."J Not one. Why, we told them
when we met in the Peace Conference in
February, 1861, over aud over nDoin.
gentlemen, you hayg nothing 10 fear nom
the people OF the free Stutes. If yuu
arc contoot with your slavery in the |
slave States, you can hoyo u; Gut II you
wish TO iurce slavery into Ohio or any !
territory where Ohio men are gong to |
work, You cannot take IL there That
wos not endangcring them 10 Kentucky, !
or Virginia. ar South Caroiua. We
were willing TO let them alone In that
mattcr, and they told US that nll they
wanted was 20 be lct alone, So lar us that
question wont. IN we asked was that
they should lel US people in the free ter.
ritory alone, Was that attempting to
interfere in the smallest degreei Not at
all But they were not content with
this. They were determined either to
rule or ruin the Republic. We did not
choose tV submit tU their doctrines, a ID
We simply said, 1.-THE people OF ,his land
rule the country, aud what they deter.
'h'"N uPuh W tHN ShOiSS VI thClT TISbI-
deht' aud by The choice OF repfeschlaliy- u
inCongress, That must be the policy of the
country" Ihis was what we used 10
think was Democracy, that is 10 say, the
prevailing viii OF the people.
Now, ielIow'cilzens, that was rcpson.
able think, in the Judgment Of tho
world. We usked Of them nothing un.
reasonable, but they came to US aud
sa'u' ION must sunni TO all our wish
~ ~ ~, .u'' '"',"usou, !" WYNN
taLe m, o,cc,inm Of iinc,I" y. rs ,S"' "
nal of Tho nennIc of his conn,," ,hs',
they vere nor goipg 10 snbmi, ~ S,n,b
ern rnIe. und ,ben S,u,h C,r,lin, IiI,ad
her hand against the Union of ,ha S,a,'a
But even tIeo the President forsbors
He choose 10 wait and zoe whether ron,
son might not restore these men 10
their senses. He asked them TO stop and
listen to reason; he invoked considera. |
ton; but they refused, and actually fred
the first gun on Fort Sumter. Win thpt
broke out this war. Aggressurs in The
beginning, IN the continuance, in the
end, the whole responsibility OF THE
thing WAS with them. They made up
their minds that we should not maintain
this Unlol OF States, unless we were viii.
ling 10 fight Tor il. know that they
reckoned they were to huye help here 10
the North. But when they struck the
Union of the States, they struck that
which was dear TO every American heart
as the apple of his eye. The legitimate
authority Ol the people, represented by |
the Government, must DO maintained in /
this country.
roUR YEARS OF FAILURE.
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