Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-03

by the most stupendous combination of
political fraud with military force. can not
shake our confidence in that noble State,
which has carried the banner of Democra-
cy triumphantly through many hard fought
battles.
In the elections of October, nearly forty
thousand fraudulent votes given to the Re-
publican candidates turned our legal victo-
ry there into an illegal defeat. 1t is not
probable that these frauds can be repeated
upon so colossal scale in November, and
if they be not so repeated, Indiana will be-
yond question 60 for Mcclellan and Pen
dleton.
1t is impossible, too, that the States lying
around the headwaters of the great river of
the continent should not vote to open the
needful markets for their crops and their
necessary highway to the seas.
Even from the Peninsular State, Michi-
igan ESQ strongly runs the patriotic and ma
tional tide), our friends send us words of
cheer, and bid ms hope that the home of
Lewis Cass, misrepresented so long in the
National Congress by Senator who long
ed for 'little blood-letting," may set itself
right with the Union by a sound majority
for Mcclellan and Pendleton.
The tide will roll to the shores of the
Pacific. California and Oregon, bound to all
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chords of memory" can have nothing in
common with the party whose leaders
would fain long since have severed them
from the Union. All that we hear from
those golden cradles Of empire promises us
their voice and vote in November for our
candidates and our cause:
With such signs and omens of victory,
with the glorious recollections of the past,
and the promises not less glorious of the flu
tlre TO cheer us, what true man can now
dare to talter or to fail in this crisis of our
national fate?
Fellow citizens: The peaceful remedy of
such wrongs as Americans throughout all
time to come shall blush to remember could
be done in the sacred name of liberty upon
American soil, is now within your reach.
The glorious and honorable termination
of war whose victories are all unharvest-
ed, since they have not been garnered to-
gether with the victories of peace, is now
within your reach.
An end to the accumulation of a limitless
debt, already morgaging half the resources
and the industries of great people, is now
within your reach.
The triumphant restoration of that mag
nificent national temple which our fathers
reared to freedom and to justice, is now
within your reach.
The madness of the men in power is an
argument tor more than hope. 1t is the
homage OF desperate ambitions to the gath
ering power of the peoples will. The dread
handwriting which they read upon the wall
bids you press forward with decisive energy
to the certain triumph now within your
reach and grasp.
1t is not much that your country now
asks of you; but all that you hold dear, all
that you have or can hope to have of liber-
ty, of peace, of prosperity, depends upon
your giving to your country what your
country now asks-wisdom to see your
duty, courage to do it.
With you, under benignant Providence,
it rests. to determine by your votes on the
9Th of November the death or the life of
the noblest Republic ever established
among men.
AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman.
FREDERICK o. PRINCE, Secretary.