Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-04
Opening of the Abolition Cam.
Omigu I'm Franklin County.

For some time, the Abolition State Cen
tral Oommittee had an advertisement stand-
ing In the Ohio State Journal, informing
the public that on the evening Of Saturday..
September 3 General Cox. Col. MOVES and
Hon. SAMuEL GALLOWAY would hold forth
at Columbus, on the political issues OF the
day. A few days preceding Saturday, the
State Journal made the announcement that
General Cox could not be present, but that
Col. MOVES and Mr.. GALLOWAY would be
on hand. Saturday morning the State
Journal besought, ''most earnestly" "the
Union men Of Columbus and vicinity 10
rally for such an opening of the campaign In
Franklin, as will give bright promise for the
contest at the polls in October" Saturday
evening came; for an evening meeting 1t
was pleasant. With. the aid of rockets and
roman candles meeting, that did not seem
to us as very large for the opening meeting
of the campaign, convened. Our regret IS,
that every voter in thehcity and county
could not have been present and heard the
speeches. |'t e' l'i' p hsi
3o,d COL. NoYEs' sPEEcH. 'o''''t
When we got to the meeting, Col. NoYEs
was adverting to the fact that a little over
four years ago, we had no army or navy
worth talking about, and since that time we
had developed the most stupendous army
and navy of the world, with which we had
sueceededin putting down the most gigantic
rebellion of which history gives us any ac-
count. In connection with developing
this martial spirit, 1t SO developed the finer
feelings OF the people as to make them bet
ter than they were before the War. When
he said this, we called to our mind a state
ment that the Ohio State Journal made on
the 9th Of August, referring to the preva-
lence Of crime, that It was '.in duty bound
to declare that it is unsafe for woman to
Journey even from one town to another
without escort" The Col. accidentally, no
doubt omitted to state another thing that
had been ndeyeloped in the past four years
a thing, to be sure, that A" Copperheads,"
Of whom he protessed to have no good
opinion, are not specially epamored, which
is owing to the defect of their early educa-
ton, which make them look with distrust
upon large standing army and q large
naval power and a multiplicity of tax-gath-
erers. We refer to the internal revenue
system, which has spread over the country
brood OF tax assessors and tax-gatherers,
through which the people are taxed on
everything they wear, eat and drink, ex-
cepting the water they drink and the air
they inhale. The Col. was actually horri-
fled at the Democratic idea Of equal taxa
tion-such equality in taxation he empha-
sised as reputation, inasmuch as it would
subject the capital invested in Government
securities to pay taxes for State, County,
Township and City and School purposes
The South, he argued, was out of the Union,
and should be governed q by Provisional
Governors and by military force until the
Southern people, whom he represented as
the worst, whipped people in the world,
should be completely purged Of every faint
of treason and secession, If itrequired un-
til doomsday to do it. If there could not
be found in the South men of approved
loyalty out of which to make Provisional
Governors, he was in favor of importing
them. To the 100000 Negro soldiers he
paid glowing tribute, and with moistened
eyes stated that the white bones of the Ne
gro soldier lay bleaching with the bones Of
the White soldier ON battle-fields in the
South or lay mouldering in the same
graves with White soldiers, and from this
circumstance he deduced the opinion that
the Negroes should have all the rights they
could bear. At this point an old soldier
spoke up: 'iia- 81. i.i"
".what about the poor Whites in the
o Col. MOVES curtly replied: "They are no
better than the Negroes" The Colonel then
continued, impressing the audience with
the belief that he was in favor of Negro
Suffrage. Indeed, he said, that perhaps he
was not in favor OF unlimited Negro Suf-
frage at this time; but was in favor of it in
aqualified sense, and if other members of
the party were inclined to 60 further and
give it to all of the Negroes, he should not
quarrel with them. l.n-l,4 .8 II
/ Lll 81 Mr.. GALLowAY's SPEECH. u ;Gau
After Col. MOVES had concluded his re-
marks, Mr.. GALLOWAY came forward and
spoke. He was proud to belong to the
Union party" because, no doubt, through
it he had procured an Office out of which
he had made a good thing, and he hoped