Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-06

The MEETING IN HAMILTON TOWNSVILLE.
The meeting at Spangler's School House
on Wednesday evening was an entire sue
cess. Although no extended notice had
previously been given, yet, the spacious
room was thronged with voters of both
parties, eager to hear the issues of the day
discussed. Mr.. Edwards presided, and in
troduced as the first speaker, L. F. Bing-
ham, Of this city.
Mr.. Bingham said that the people were
rejecting. The terrible burdens of un-
equal taxation came home to their bosoms
and firesides. They must see now that the
policy of the Democratic party had been in
the main right. 1t raised its voice against
a crusade on the Southern States and their
institutions. 1t was willing to fight armed
rebellion for the maintenanceof of the Union,
but never would, in war or peace, labor for
or fight for the negro, at the sacrifice of the
Union. The Republican leaders, who mould
the policy of the party, say that the South
ern States must be kept out thirty years If
necessary! Which Is the Disupion party?
That party. which has ever been unfaltering
in its devotion to the Union of these States,
or the Republican party, which labors to
prevent a Union as it labored to destroy it?
Mr.. Bingham reviewed the question CT
Negro Suffrage. He said that the Repub-
lican party was determined to make it the
s,1s qua non of reconstruction, and exhort-
ed his hearers to stand by President John
son and all would yet be well. Mr.. BIS
remarks were clear, logical, and forcibly ex-
pressed. He was listened to attentively and
frequently applauded. t8 .t. ~
E.T.DeLany next addressed the meeting.
Mr.. DeLany remarked that the time for
speaking had passed, and the time for ac-
tion was approaching. He did not intend
to make a speech; events daily transpiring
around us are sufficient to arouse the most
listless and almost to reanimate the dead.-
The issues involved in this campaign vital
ly affect our dearest interests and forever.
The question was whether America should
cease to be free; whether the chain of
tyranny should be riveted on a con-
quered people. After the people
have been impoverished by taxation, they
will be comparatively powerless to resist
encroachments on their liberties. Now or
never they must assert their interests as
citizens and maintain their birthrights as
Americans. The people OF the North and
the Southare but one people. Their inter-
ests are identical. Donot permit the fanat-
les In power to trample under foot every
vestige of Justice, and outrage every senti-
ment of humanity in dealing with the peo-
pie of the South. Prevent it for your oson
sdkes. Establish Poland in the South, and
you will haye a Russia at the North. The
liberties Of the South and the liberties Of the
North stand fall together. ,5r
r The party in power oppose restoration
of the Union. They are now, what they
ever have been, Disunionists. They OPEN
ly avow their programme to drive the
Southern people from their homes and send
them outcasts and paupers upon the world,
and give the lands to the negroes-the
"loyal" men Of the South! 1t is not Ameri-
can to pursue such course; it snot Chris
tian; nay, it is not human! The time is
near at hand when the people of Ohio can
set their seal of condemnation on such out
RACES. ost
Remember, that vote cast for the Re-
publican nominee in the coming election,
will be an approval of the past and an en-
couragement to perpetrate similar enormi-
ties in future. 1t will be a ratification of the
plunder and robbery inflicted on the people
during the last four yearsAa period, in
which the corruption In places of pub
lie trust would disgrace the history
of the world in its darkest ages
and viii be q license to plumber In the
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