Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-09-28

measures against military dcspotism, and
~ favor OF Tree speech free press the writ
OF hd6cas corpus, and trial by Jury Thank
God, to-day these rights are beginning 10
be vindicated, and through the Democrats
party at last and alone will this country be
restored TO its liberties, and its citizens 20
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 is the record.
And when recently these facts were stated,
what was the answer at may be all true,
but you never can eradicate the prciudice
from the minds of the soldiers" Asifsol-
diers we're not human beings with human
hearts and understandings, and could not
learn the truth as well as-Neproes.
Laughter.
have no fear upon that subject. There
arc many who were misled, and who cast
their votes against me, because thev bcl;ev-
ed these false reports, and because the
speeches which | made were never allowed
to circulate in the army because Democrat
ic newspapers were suppressed, and Dem
ocratlc tickets even were not allowed TO
reach their destination. Cries of That's
so. An ofhcer in the 93d regiment told
me, the other day, that a package of Dem
ocratic tickets sent to him, at the last Pres
ldential election, reached him at Colds
borough in North Carolina. last April =
Laughter. The soldiers here know that.
! have not attempted for one moment,
hitherto or now, to disguise my sentiments
respecting the war. You will find them in
my speeches and in the public record. I
stand by them to-day. Every event is now
vlndicating the wisdom and correctness of
the sentiments then uttered But | was
/ tgi tho UniUn tivn, ann to-oay I stand vim
dicated as member of that old Union party
to. day the only immediate Union party in
the United States. Tot 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 whole genera
ton, so that at the expiration of that time
they might make the Negroes citizens and
admit Negro States to constitute one-half
Of the Union. | said in the beginning of
the war, that time would vindicate the fact
that to the Democratic party would be COM
mitted the mission of restoring the Union.
So it is to-day. Applause
So much / thought itcspecially and pecu-
| liarly appropriate for me to say to-day in
reference to the soldiery Of the State Of Ohio.
l 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 me to yindicatc
my rights. To them above all Others could
add ress. these words, not by way of vindi-
cation, but that they may have ten fold as
surance. | repeat. that this confidence was
not misplaced. Applause. Yes, to-day
| am laboring for the Union, and its inme-
diate restoration and its re-establishment
without dclay-for the re-establishment of
the rights Of the people, and the rights of
the States-l mean the right Of the White
people to govern the United States accord
ing to the principles laid down by our fathers.
PERSONAL TO GENERAL cox.
observe that an attempt is being made
I throughout the State by orators of the Re
| publican party, and am sorry to say by the
candidate for Governor Of that party, not to
discuss principles, not to meet the question
of Negro Equality and Negro Suffrage, and
immediate restoration of the Union, but to
appeal to supposed or actual prejudices in
the minds Of large portion of the citizens
Of Ohio against the gentlemen who ad-
dresses you, who is not a candidate for Of
flee, merely aprivate citizen like yourselves.
=, Some one has suggested to General Cox
as convenient mist or fog under which to
escape the disagreeable necessity of answer
ing fully upon these question, by making
assaults upon Mr.. Nallandigham One of
these was made before the assembling of the
!, Democratic State Convention, in the town
{ Of Warren, Trumbull county, and was re-
ported correctly | am sure, in the Ctncin-
matt Commercial 1t was my purpose at
one time, during the State Convention, to
call attention to the fact and denounce it,
but supposing it would not be repeated. and
that General Cox had meantime satisfied
himself that he had misstated me. | for
bore. But have since observed that it is
the burden of every speech he makes.
have not seen a single speech or sketch of
anything uttered by him in which this state
ment is not deliberately repeated. Here it
is, under the head of f''V allandig ghamism.' \
"One, says General Cox, who was but
recently their THAT is, the Democratic, J
candidate for the Governorship fthis State,
openly proposed the formation of a new
conteederacy, to be made up Of the North
ern States.
Now, either General ia cob Dol son Cox
II laughter.
/ To MI the sounding trump of fame!" tLaugh-
ter
has not read what proposed, and what |
advocated and defended in an elaborate
speech, and therefore had no right to at
tempt to describe it; or he has read my
propositions in Congress, and my argument
IN uelense OF tnem, IN winch event he has
deliberately and wilfully falsifed the record
In plain Anglo Saxon vernacular-he has
lied. Applause and cries of Give it to
him. That Is ong.language, and except
in reference to Benjamin T. Wade, for
similar offense, committed under similar re-
sponsibilities, | have never uttered it be-
fore. But General Cox is not only the can
didate for the Republican party, but he is
to-day the military commandant of the
State of Ohio-the Burnside of this dis
trict. Laughter, He is therefore in ev-
cry way responsible, and | am in every way
responsible to him. | choose to meet it,
because find it repeated, not once, not
twice, but in every speech he delivers to the
people. Sometimes in one form, sometimes
in another, every time false; and | now
make the record here, to be reported, that
,, it may reach him when he shall address the
Republican party on next Saturday, and
if he fail to do that, it may reach him thro'
the newspapers, that he may make the cor
: rection, in which event | will retract the
; language which | have applied to him.
Applause. never made any such prop
osition, nor anything resembling it. This
| particular statement is not even a respecta-
t bic rehash of the old, exploded falsehood,
= that | proposed to divide the United States
: into four distinct and separate nationalities