The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-01

commercial telegrapns the following Il
that paper in regard 10 the recent meetinr
OF OhioAns in Washington to take actior
in reference to the death of Governor
Brough: s
WASHINGTON, August 80.
A large meeting of citizens of Ohio was
held at the Stats Agency Rooms tonight,
to pay respect to the late Governor Bro1Rh.
The building was draped in mourning.
Chief Justice Chase presided, and James
q. Wetmore, State Agent was made Sec
retary. Chief Justice Chase called the
meeting to order in q few remarks. in
which he spoke of the death of Governor
Brough as crest public loss to the nation
and the State. HIS whole life has been
illustrated with q faithful and earnest dis
charge of duty. He traced Gov. Brough,s
career, and spoke earnestly of the latters
| service to Ohio while State Auditor. Judge
Chase also dwelt upon the important fact
that Governor Brough urged in the spring
OF 1864, that General GRAFT should have
| all veteran troops in and about Washing
ton, and that IL q latter's places should be
hlled by bundred-dRy men, of whom forty
thousand were sent from Ohio, through
Governor Brough. He thought that
Grants success was due 10 the reinforce
ments thus furnished, through the agency
Of the Ohio Executive.
Postmaster General Dennison, Judge
Garter, Congressman Hutchins and Mr..
Wetmore all made sulogies on thedeceassd.
The latter sllu led to the great good which
Gov. Brough had accomplished for ONO
soldiers in the field.
A committee on resolutions, of which
Postmaster General Dennison was chair.
man, reported the following:
1st. ResoLUed, That we, citizens of Ohio, |
now in Washington, receive with profound |
SORROW the sad Intelligence of the death of |
our honored fellow citizen, John Brough,
late Governor of Ohio.
I'd. That while we gratefully remember
his distinguished services TO our State in
the various positions be has suecessively oe-
cupied, and especially those BY which,
when Auditor of State, he sustained her
credit, protected her honor, and secured
her prosperity, we can not but recall with
peculiar sensibility those which he hss
more lately rendered rather to the nation
than the State and in the midst of which
his life found its honorable close.
Sd. That it is with almost exultant
grief that we bear our testimony TO the
patriotism with which, when our country
was in danger, he broke the bonds of party
and of interest to the eloquence which he
consecrsted to Union and freedom = TO the
ssgscity with which he saw the need of
every man in the fortihcations to insure
the success of Grants movement upon
Richmond, and TO the tireless energy with
which he hurried forward TO the National
Capital the tens of thousands of hundred
day volunteers, whose presence made that
reinforcement practicable.
4th. That in the midst of our sorrow,
We rejoice that it was his privilege to con-
tribute to the rescue of the republic from
,he violence Of the rebellion, and to know ,
Is his LAST public act he welcomed home
)hio's returning veterans; that the coun-
ry he loved was safe, with all her Safe
guards of liberty ana unity strengthened
more perfectly than ever. SOB I
9Th. That we are impressed with Divine
Providence in spsring Governor Brough's
ife, snd service to the State and nation,
lntil the end of tha graAt rebellion.
1t was ordered that the resolutions be
ent to the family of the deceased and the
Executive of the State. They were then ,
Idopted, and the meeting thereupon Ad- {
burned. Z