The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-04
SENATOR SHERMAN AT SALEM.
He DiSsects the Democracy.
Exemption Of U. s. Securities
from State Taxation.
THE PUBLIC Debit MUST NOT BE
REPUDIATED. d7r7r h-r--

Especial correspondence u NC OlefolAnN AAAoEs'I
a very enthusiastic meeting was held in
Concert Hal, at Salem, Columbiana coun-
ty, on Saturday afternoon, of last week.
The announcement that Hon. John Sher.
man, Hon. E. R. Eckley and Gen. Joe. H
Geiger, would address the citizens Of that
county, had been made but q day or "
before the time set for the meeting, and
had got no considerable circulation through
the county. As no posters had been put
up, it was not sven known by al the citi-
zens of Salem. Nevertheless the large
hall was we'll filled, and what was wanting
in numbers was more than made up in in
telligence and enthusiasm.
It is hardly necessary to held meetings
in salem, or, inded, in Columbiana county,
for the discussion of political measures.
Salem has always been 8 live piece, It's
people well-informed and abundantly cspA-
BILE of judging for themselves, and with
sufficient conscience and stamina TO follow
their convictions, and so not needing the
illumination and urgings Of politicians and
statesmen, which are 30 necessary in the
darker and more sluggish districts.
The meeting was called to order at two
O'Clock in the afternoon, by Jacob Heaton,
Esq, who proposed that MI. A. Pow act
as Chairman. 1t was announced that as
Hon. E. Z. Eckley was not present, the
| audiences would be addressed by Hon John
Sherman, after which the meeting would
adjourn till evening, when Gen. ]. Il.
Geiger, of Columbus, would make a speech.
Senator Sherman was introduced by Mr..
| Alexander Pow, and received with APP
plause, when he addressed the audience as
follows:
He had been appointed by the State
/ Union Central Committee TO visit this
place and various points in Ohio to discuss
the political topics of the day. He was
not here on his own account, but TO aid IN
the general effort to secure the largest pos
sible msiority vote for the Union ticket
this fall. The election Of Gen. Cox is not
at all doubtful. There is no doubt IS to
the result either with US or with the De-
mocrscJ. They are making strenuous
efforts in the already opened campaign, but
not with the remotest expectation of car
rying the election. Their object is merely
to preserve their party organization for
further use, to form future alliances by
means of which sgain TO ride into power.
It is our duty now to discuss fully the
policy of this government and preserve
intact u party organization. Party ID a
necessity in q government like ours, and it
is the duty of every man to act with others,
with party. Your party MAJ not always
come up to your stano ard, but unless you
act with it, you dissipate your force and are
of no account in the State.
Not here we have two political organi.
cations. One is the Union organization,
which has recently carried on the greatest
and most successful war of history, and
preserved unimpaired 9 government the
best ever instituted, whose very existence
was put in the EXTREMIST peril. The other
organization calls itself Democratic, but no
child eVer received 30 false 8 baptism. It
has been oligarchic in its features and ten
denotes the past few years, and is now dis
loyal to the core. Not that there are not
off dsm %HR II tHs EASfEttHt h Rg ffnissvits6fsS fs 81:
denotes of this organization areto the disso-
luton Of the government and the over
throw of our institutions.
Now in considering the character Of
these parties we are apt to fall back upon
platforms, and look to these only. But
this is no way to Judge the merits of par
ties. If the Devil were on trial, he could
make a good platform. We must judge
them by their tendencies and drift. By
their fruits ye shall know them.
How does the Democratic party hope TO
succeed2 Their only hope is in q pro-
spective coalition with the power. more or
less fully restored, which lately waged the
rebellion. They arc in a hopeless minor.
fly here in the North, and their dream and
purpose are to attach themselves in some
vital, fruitful way to the ex-rebels.
Formerly when the Wing and Demo
cratic parties occupied the ground, the
questions before the people we're material
and financial merely /; the issues were not
vital, and the difference between the aims
and measures of the organizations was
that between tweedledum and twedledee.
Gradually the Government drifted under
the influence and control of the slRvehold.
ing power, and the dominant Democratic
party became in its temper and spirit
more and more oligarchicRl. Many
Democrats in Congress, like Douglass, |
tried to check the tendency and pro
gress Of the organization, but we're them.
selves engulfed in the maelstrom.-
In 1860 the people of the North declared
themselves tired of this state of things, and
entrusted the government to Abraham
Lincoln. All that was good in the Demo-
cratic party LETT it and joined the Union
party. Andrew johnson may serve for an |
ovaponla Tho Qonfharnaro 1,o1dora1 L. /
the result, determined to assert their indie
pendence and maintain il, even in the
overthrow of the general government, and
thought to have an easy time whipping
out the North. The wal came. A million
men sprsng to arms. Europe predicted
the failure ofthe Government to put down
the rebellion. But you know the result.
Our flag has been carried in glory ever all
the land lately in rebellion. The power of
the enemy has been wholly broken, and
the leaders Of the wicked revolt, lately SO
defiant, are now suing for pardon. And
now after the successful close of. this war,
after all the expenditure of life and treas
ure in putting down the terrible rebellion
and the accursed system which was its in
spiration, the Democratic party met but
the other day and said what That thew
NAS SAA I'M 1
seek 10 UnbuEJ rOH.~s 2noy naTb
nothing and forgotten nothing.
And it is manifest that their only hope Of
restoration to power is in forming an ALI
ance with the public enemy, and thus out
vote the power which they could not de-
EAT by force of arms. 1 do not want TO
DIN such 6 party. You do not want to act Z
with such an organization {
But it will be convenient in Judging the I
Democratic party, not only TO consider {
heir tendencies, but to take their uttered I
Words and thus see what blinds they use t
nd what brides they offer toeatch the sup q
OF the unwAry and weak. l wish to t
all attention to one point in the Demo
ratio platform. In one of its resolu- 7
ions the Convention favored taxing Ii
be securities Of the United States a
sued by the national government in time &
f war, and proposed to subject them to q
quail taxation In all the StStes. The Drop G
sition that all property should bear an u
I~sltaxation seems at first thought plausi- "
le. And the Democracy have seised this is
q pretext with the covert intention to m
feet the constitutional power of the gov th
to borrow money on the credit of of
10 United States. 10
While the wsr was in progress the gov.
nment had to borrow money of our own LEI
sople to defraY the expengas of the war III