Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-21

of vital importance to the best interests of
the country-to raise my voice against ar,
bitrary measures-against military despot-
ism, and in favor Of free speech, free press,
the writ OF. hdJeds corpus, and trial by jury.
Thank God, to-day these rights are Begin
ming to be vindicated, and through the
Democratic party at last and alone will
this country be restored to It's liberties, and
Its citizens to their rights, and that flag
once more be hailed in truth as the flag, Of
the free and the. brave Applause. This
Is not what you have been told, but there ls
the record. And when recently these facts
were stated, what was the answer ut
may be all true, but yOu never can eradicate
the prejudice from the, minds Of the, sol-
diers." AS If soldiers were not human be-
ings with human hearts and understand,
ings, and could not learn the truth as we'll
as-Segroes, 4 Laughterl add uuIs9y
/ have no fear upon that subject, There
are many who were misled, and who cast
their votes against me, because they believed
these false reports, and because the speeches
which, made were never allowed tp circu-
late In the army; because Democratic news
papers were suppressed, and Democratic
tickets even were not allowed to reach their
destination. [Cries Of "Thatls so" An
officer in the 93d regiment told me, the
other day, that package of Democratic
tickets sent to him, at the last Presidential
election, reached him at Goldsborough, in
North Carolina, last April. Laughter. ]
The soldiers here know that. 50. t..,.. ....-
/ have not attempted, for, one moment,
hitherto, nornow, to disguise my sentiments
respecting the war. You will find them in
myspeeches and In the public record. /
stand by them to-day. Every event is now
vindicating the wisdom and correctness OF
the sentiments then uttered. But / was
for the Union then, and to-day stand vim
dicated as amembe of that old Union party
to-day the only immediate Union party
In the United States. To-day again we
have changed places. There Is the party
against Union, who would exclude the
Southern States for five, ten, fifteen, thirty
years, and keep the Union broken for a
whole generation, SO that at the expiration
Of that time they might make the Negroes
citizens and admit Negro States to consti-
tute one half of the Union. said in the
beginning of the war, that time would vim
dicate the fact that to the Democratic party
would be committed the mission of restor-
ing the Union. So it is to-day. lap
plause. -...-.....,. Ir,.,. ... .....l. ..,
So much thought 1t especially and pecu-
liarly appropriate for me to say to-day in
reference to the so.diery Of the State of Ohio.
have waited to meet this gallant, noble
regiment, whose men and whose officers
stood by me and vindicated their rights
and at the same time aided Inc to vindicatt
my rights. Tothem above all others coulC
address these words, not by way of vindi
cation, but that they may have ten fold as
surance. Irepeat, that this confidence wa
not misplaced. [Applause.l Yes, to-day
am laboring for the Union, and its imme
diate restoration and its re-establishmen
without delay-for the re-establishment O
the rights Of the people, and the rights o.
the Ststes-I mean the right of the White
people to govern the United States accord
ing to the principles laid down by oui
fathers.