Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-07

licitation on my part. Waving every COM.
sideration personal to myself, accept II,
believing that offices OF trust and RESPONSE
bility are neither to be sought nor declined,
as was the rule in the golden, days of the,
Republic, and whatever the future may be-,
/ assure you that l shall carry with me to-
the, grave a feeling of gratitude for this,
marx Of Gohfdence shown to me by the
Democracy OF my, native county OF Ross
and its neighbor the, county. Of, Highland.
With diffidence in my worthiness to merit :,
SO much at your hands; with confidence in
the right and Justice Of our cause with an
abiding faith that, the Democratic Party
must ultimately triumph; with the, BELIEF
that its success Is essential to the tpreserYa-
tiom Of individual liberty, the rights of the
States, free institutions, and the only Union
worthy of that sacred name-the Union re-
sulting from the Constitution administered
lin the spirit that formed it'll receive from
your hands the standard of the Democracy
for this noble proud old Senatorial District,
and promise you to spare no honorable Ell
fort to- bear IL in triumph to victory on the
second Tuesday OF October. 9sgsi Jon ,9.L
In conducting the canvass shall, avoid
all personal crimination, and discrimination
toward every candidate nominated for any
office by, our political opponents-their
public speeches and their public political
acts are legitimate subjects of comment by
press and speakers; personal yituperation,
always q gross distortion of truth-yery
often mere envenomed slander-neyer ris5
ing nor moving, but within the low and
narrow sphere of mean and petty passions
living no longer than! to be despised by
every body the day succeeding the election
--is always more injurious to the authors
| Of it than, to those at whom 1t is aimed.
| Sna hall ha m toward the
dates upon the other side. gShould they,
their speakers, or their press depart from
this rule toward the candidates associated
with me on the ticket, or towards myself
their ISLANDERS shall not receive from US any
| notice whatever; they shall be welcome to
win and wear all the laurels such a course
may crown them With. l'"i ~ a''Ni .,
Z, As TO III THE STATE OF THE COUNTY,. .,a
Our motto shouldrbe meyer despair Of the
| Republic." Political or civil liberty be-
| ing the very end and scope of our Constitu-
tion'' and the institutions created thereby,
the interests and the wishes of the great
mass OF, the people, are, il take its that law
and order and good government shall pre-
vail all over the land from Maine to Texas
--and from Ocean to Ocean; thatas speedily
as possible the calaInities, social and ifnan-
eial, inflicted by the late terrible war shall
done; that the security of life, liberty, and
property shall be,established and maintain-
ed without standing armies or any of the
\ appliances OF despotism by the people them
lI selves voluntarily, everywhere, sincerely
and earnestly acting to promote this great
end as in times past.1 This may beIa very
easy task: and it can beeasily SO marred that
i the permanent destruction of free institur
i tions and the advancement of the country
\ through anarchy tOa fixed despotlsm, VIII
be the work of only atew, years. People
must not fail to observe and bear constantly
H In mind how thoroughly and completely all
l armed resistance and all liability TO armed
II resistance to the, Federal Government are
II put down and, destroyed ;ini the Southern
lIStates of, the Uniong tiReYolqtions, never
\ 70 backwards and if every armed man We're
i to day to be Withdrawn r9m those States,
LIMO powers of agitating el9quence could per-
\ suade the people there any where TO take
Eup arms, or go toi war again or attempt to
|-secede, it. matters mot what the Federal
IlGovernment might undertake to dorr No
measures the most insanely unjust, could
induce them to dpso. taAnd as to slavery,
while all must admit that the war can not
Erightfully change o letter OF the CConstitu-
ton, and that that Constitution forblds to
the General Government, and to every
lslayeryin any given. State, but that Negro
slavery is subject solely belonging to the
State--yet in point of fact, the, war has de-
stroyed the relation of master and slave in
1.-The States that seceded--aiid this, not by
lemancipation proclamationso or military
etiicts, but by the inexorable tread of force,
whose conuuering footballs have stamped
| it asunder. q Revolutions" / say again "do
not 20 backward" while any State
NAV now have the Constitutional right to
establish slavery as it ever has bad, there
being no provision of that Instrument for
bidding it, which the Abolitionists admit
by seeking to amend IT. the southern states
lwillno more undertake. to have the slaves
hunted,up and placed with. their masters
again than they will try war. They say
they accept the destruction OF slavery As
lone OF the Consequences OF their defeat .9d
INgIRey status and destiny ~ Of tho negro race
found aobere the soar has left that race toiU gtue
tj4se 10 ere,u question about the negro In '0tI
future politics. These are facts that every
lstatesInan and the whole people must re-
lalize to act wisely upon the questions now
before the country. They must no, longer
/ be frightened by the ghosts OF war, or Sc
( lcession, and the re-establishment OF slavery
| | in the Southern States, becausethose states
NAV have the possible physics power to at
! temDt the one, and the Constitutional right
! to d6 the other. The North can affordtob b
/ lpenerous. Malice and revenge areunworthy
! Of it.. The soldiers have achieved alb the
reputation and honor that victory cah give
|, | They will scorn 10 be cruel to- thoset they
/ Ihave conquered. That would only detrac
| from, their laurels.l % uJDtgWI0l n9fi sGH
li1To prepare themselves for thegreat w0rl
!! lbeiore them the people must tatOncedismis'
7 from their minds passion and prejudice