Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-07-13
~ General VIM. B woods. o

re- General VIM. B. Woods, OF
Licking county, who was President
of the Union State Convention, was
the last Democratic Speaker of the
Ohio House of Representatives. He
was the Democratic competitor of R.
c. Parsons when the latter gentle
man was chosen Speaker. General
Woods has been in the field since
the war commenced and discharged
his military duties with great ability.
He made the following remarks in
the Convention:
Fellow citizens of Ohio-I must
congratulate you on the auspicious
circumstances under which you nave
this day assembled. Four years ago
found us preparing, in fear and sor
row, TO defend the institutions of our
country, with our navies scattered in
distant seas our arms and arseHals in
the hands of the insurgents, and fear
and apprehension prevailing over the
entire country. To-day we come
here to give the lie TO the assertion
that the four. years of war for the
Union, through which we have pas
sed, have proved failure. Great
cheers. Four years ago saw the
sturdy sors of the republic hasten
ing to the field to sustain the flag of
their country, which had been dis
owned and dishonored in eleven
States of the Union; to-day sees that
honored ensign floating in triumph
over every foot of American soil.
Cheers. The most wicked, mo-
mentous and atrocious rebellion the
world has ever seen has disappeared
like a dissolvIng view, its armies
scattered, its leaders prisoners or
fugitives, and the arch traitor the life
and soul of the rebellion, the haugh-
ty and inperieus tyrant of the so
called Contederacy has been eaptur-
ed, flying ingloriously disguised in
the habiliments of a woman. [Cheers
and laughter. Peace, blessed peace,
reigns throughout the length and
breadth of the land to-day. We
have cause to congratulate ourselves
on account of the settlement of GER
tain questions agitating the country
before the rebellion broke out 1t
has teen settled that Northern man
win fight. [Cheers. 1t has been
settled that one Southern man can
not whip five Northern men,
ICheers. 1t has been settled that
from this tine hencefoIth. the foot
of no slave shall press the soil of
this free Republic. {Great cheers.
1t has been settled that from this
time henceforth, no State Of this I'm
ion has the eight to seeede from the
General Government. And to day,
in exultant pride, we can inscribe on
our .lational flag: "Liberty and I'm
ION, now and forever, one and insep-
arable." Cheers J se i' a---
I'VE owe a debt of gratitude some
where, for these grea, results. And
first of all, let us render our humble
and heartfelt thanks to Almighty
God, whose oyerruling providence
has youchsafed this great victory.
Next under God, our gratitude is
due to the labors, virtues and genius
of our late lamented Chief Magis-
trate; and when we forget Ills virtues,
when we forget his toll and his un-
dying patriotism, and cease to de-
pfore hts untimeiy death, may our
names and thehames of our posteri-
ty perish forever from the memory
of mankind Il Sensation, and ap-
'plause. } Weowe debt of gratitude
to the soldiers who have taken their
lives in their hands and gone forth
to the field in defense of the institu-
tions Of their country. (Great