Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-09-09
9ailgy empire,
City and Other Matters.
Lieut. Gov. StantOn's Unadyer-
Used and Unexpected speech
In Oregon Last Evening!

We were greatly surprised last eve.
ming to see Lieut.. Governor Stanton OF
Bellelontaine, Ohio, at the meeting in Or.
egon. 1t appears that Mons. Gunckol had
procured him rs Substitute" to fill an
appointment made for himself, and TO nd
dress q meeting on the bank Of the era
ging canawl,P il q remote portion Of the
city, which had only been faintly adver-
tised for himself and his gingerpopian col
league, Jayajordan, ESQ, neither of
whom, nor both Of whom together, can
can draw an audience in this city, either
in size or character, consistent with the
reputation and ability of Mr.. Stanton
He should have been advertised with at
least as large handbill, and his name
should have been printed in as large types
as those which heralded the malignant
platitudes Of citizen Schenck. And, be-
side, Mr. Stanton should have enjoyed the
honor and the opportunity OF being heard
from stand in front Of the courthouse,
where lirst-class speakers are always as
signed, and where first class audiences are
accustomed to assemble. TO say, there
fore, that Mr.. Stanton was very shabbily
treated, is fact wuich he no doubt un-
dsrstands as well as we, for it is altogeth-
er an unusual thing for him to appear un-
der adverse auspices, and especially as a
Substitute" "a very uncomplimentary
name for him) of one-horsc babbler Of
secondhand lroth.
Being introduced to the audience by
said Guncllcl as his "substifute''-onel
that hadn't cost him "any eight hun lred
hundred dollars, MIR. Stanton, feeling
no doubt, very cheap, said something (i-
ronically, we presume) about the compli-
mentary terms Of his Introduction, and
tnen proceeded TO say that it was always
unpleasant for him to be under the neccs-
sity of speaking to an audience who were
compelled % stand npon their feet during
hls discourse, especially rs he was man
oT but little wit and still less eloanence.
He dealt mainly in the dlier commodities
of fact and argument Without further
preface he then entered upon a general re-
view of the situation at the beginning of
the war. The northern people WIRE to-
tally unpreparcd for it they had long n
go abandoned their military organizations,
and had come to consider war as n rclict
Of barbarism, inconsistent with the age.
and therefore obsolete. The South, on
he other hand, had been for 80 wears.
the same old 80 preparing for war
hey had kept up their military prganiaa-
ions cultivated military spirit, and e.
ected military President with whom
o begin the war War was trade it
eqnired as much time to learn to be '
soldier as carpenter, The people of the
North were made up mainly of farmers
md artisans, and it was necessarily
work OF time to transform them into SOL
iiers. The speaker was silent as to the
nln and the danger involved in tho trans !
ormation. The battle of Bull Ran was
ought on our side by more mob. The
Dhio and Potomac rivers were usually re- !,
5arded as the boundaries between LOYALTY
md rebellion but Puritan blood had
'talned the streets of Baltimore, and our
soldiers were compelled to fight their way
rom Annapolis to Washington. What
,f those boundaiics now? Maryland,
kentucky, and Missouri had been retain
I'd within the Union, nominally while ;
Louisiana, Arkansas aud Tennessee, had a
'een brought into submission by the sue. 4
'ess oil our arms. That is, our armies /
lold few fortified points in those States, L
md rebel guerrillas are the exclusive mas
ers of the remainder of the territory. Ill 9
s not true that single State has been re- il
tored to the Union but it is notorious h
act that the border States have been al Il
most driven out of il and it is also true c
hat the great mass Of the people through
mt the North and West have become
weary and sick of a contest, at once so 2
ostly, so bootless, so fraught with abo-
Itionism, despotism and crime, !,
Sherman had defeated aud dispersed the Ia
rmy of Hood, and when last heard from was ~
pursuit of the flying remnan. thereof 20 II