Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-26
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MIR. COx's Eight Years i'm Con
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We print, this morning, graphic and in
teresting chapter from new contribution
to recent history, by Hon. S. s. Cox, the
late distinguished representative of one OF
the Ohio districts in Congress, but now a
resident of this city. Mr.. Cox's book is,
we understand, ready for publication and
will be Immediately issued by the Appletons.
His opportunities and capacity as an OBJ
server, and his ease and yivacity as, a wri-
ter make it welcome addition to the pub
lie knowledge OF a period which must al
ways be regarded as the most memorable
in our annals. Mr.. Cox was in Congress
during the four years theg great tempest was
gathering, and during the four years it was
spending its fury. Himself prominent
actor, his genial social qualities and conviv-
ial talents brought him into close inter-
course with men of all parties. A quick
observation acting under these advantages
would naturally bring its possessor CONVEX
SAINT with the secret springs as well as the
public history ofevents, as they transpired.
The Tribune, in notice of MIR. CoX's
forthcoming book, the other day, did what
struck us as an ungracious thing in repre-
senting that he has taken up his residence
among us in consequence of having been
ssrepudiated" by his former constituents.
Even if this were true, it would be rather
churlish and inhospitable, under present
circumstances,Ito say it. But when facts
are perverted with view to bring new
neighbor into discredit, it is not merely an
offense against manners, but against NOR
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The truth is, that Mr.. Cox never lost any
portion of his popularity with his old con-
stituents. Up to 1862, his district sustained
him, with constantly increasing majorities,
at every Congressional election. In that
year, the Republican Legislature gerry
wandered his district, avowedly to beat him,
by changing the two Democratic counties
of Licking and Pickaway to other districts,
and tacking on to Mr.. Cox's county of
Franklin, the three Republican counties of
Greene, Madison and Clark, thus putting
him in district over five thousand Repub-
lican. But even with this disadvantage,
Mr.. Cox's personal popularity enabled him
to carry the district, and he beat the Re-
publican candidate by 272. In 1864, he was
cheated and browbeat out OF his election;
but was beaten by only 1879 majority on
the home vote. His soldiers vote was new
er returned, although there is proof that a
large soldiers vote was given him, and
dishonesty suppressed. Ifthe Tribune had
had the candor to state these facts, its arti-
Gle would have produced very different
impression from the one it intended. r la
The chapter which we print from proof
sheets of Mr.. CoX's book gives the political
composition and personal portraitures of
distinguished members of the Congress
which Immediately preceded the outbreak
of the war and the history of the unavail-
ing efforts made in the last session to pre-
vent it. 1t is the most interesting and mo-
mentous coDjuncture In our whole Con-
gressional history; and the pages of Mr..
Cox will be found to contain fair, candid,
and truthful, as we'll as interesting account
of as seen from his standpoint and that
of his political associates. = 'm r