The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-08-22
OPENING OF THE OHIO CAMPAIGN,
Speech Of Major General Cox.

OPENING OF THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Speech Of Major General Cox.
On Tuesday last, the 18th inst, the Ohio
gubernatorial campaign was naugurated at
Warren, Trumbull County, the home Of Cen
eral Cox the gallant standard-bearer Of the
Union party. The General made the great
speech Of the occasion, starting the Uni1n
ball amid the enthusiasm and applause of a
large concourse of citizens. We have only
room for the following extracts from his
speech:
POLITICAL RESULTS or THE WAR.
The most marked political results of the
war are two-6rst the complete extinction
of the System of slavery secondly, the es.
tahlishment of the paramount duty of ale
glance to the national Government as n
duty above all obligations to separate
States, and as being directly aud immedi-
atoly duo from the individual to the Federal
Government itself. The first was the ne
ccssary result of the war, because slavery
having been, in itself, the cause of the re.
belion, its existence depended necessarily
upon the success of the revolt. That which
we were unable to do. and which we had
no purpose of doing so long as the Southern
States maintained their peaceful relations
to the Government, we had the power to
accomplish, and it became our duty to ac-
complish when once they had taken up
arms to separate themselves from the
Union. The second is a necessary result of
the war, because it is the only means OF
establishing principle which shall be, in
itself, guarantee against those mistaken
and exaggerated notions of State Rights
which were tho means of uniting in the re-
belion mauy who woul not have embarked
in it for the sake of slavery itself. When
ever these results shall have been fully ac-
complished so that there can be no danger
of evading them and no power to recon.
slider them the work of reconstruction OF
the Union will open new problems for our
discussion. But our present duty is limited
to the completion of this work, and the
union of all loyal men for this purpose is
what we now insist upon as the necessity
of the hour.
We have advanced. therefore, in the face
of an opposition both in the South and in
tho North, of so formidable proportions.
that il is no wonder the enemies of the
Government, both here and in Europe, have
believed we should never succeed, and
have, from time to time, congratulated
themselves that our efforts must soon be
abandoned.
TUX SOUTHERN DEsPoTIsM.
In the South we have overcome the con.
centration of the whole physical power OF
the rebel States, under II really despotiC
government. Beginning with the assertion
of Slate rights the rebellion eliminated ii
! tbs most absolute and comrlcto overthrow
of them Never, under Russian Gar oi
! Roman Emperor was the power of the
country more absolutely welded by ono
man, than was the power of the Southern
| ContedcNcy Ivy Jefferson Davis. The pro
tests of State Governors, and the opposition
of the so called Congress, were alike over
ridden, aud the doctrine OF State Sover
eighty had its most complete rehtation il
the submission of the rebels themselves I,
this absolute Capitalization of power ant
of administration which they saw was in
dispensable TO enable thom to continue th,
contest.
THE NEW suArE or SOUTHERN REBrLLIoN
In the South, those who but short tim
ago seemed TO have abandoned rot onl
the hope of opposing the Government b,
force of arms. but also the purpose of re
sistuuoo to the DEGREES of false reference {,
their peculiar institutions, are now fount
asserting themselves, and preparing Tor OF
ganizing with view TO new struggle t.
prevent the results of the war from bcinj
thoroughly consolidated and made perma
nont They would never have dared atemp
or even think OF this had il not been fo
tho existence of this disloyal party at th
North, and their knowledge that this OF
ganization here afforded them the basis fol
action, aud ground for hope, where other
wise the future would have been to then
hopeless. All history shows us that men
opinions are rarely changed by militar
conquest that those who were rebels i
arms will remain rebels in Thought aud a
y Oeart until change in the condition of th
conn,gy. or tho establishment of new ia
stitutions aud new interests shall, in th
lapse of time, change their relations to tn
society in which they are as we'll as to til
rest OF tho country.
RgsroNsimLIrY OF TuE UNION PARTY.
Tho elements of Southern society rema
Z substantially the same as they have been
the animosites and the bitterness whio
have characterized the war can not be q,
pected to disappear. The growth Of FIRE
institutions, and the change in the Who'll
condition Of the country which free labo
must make, will in time effect a thuroug
conversion, But until time has done II
work, the safety Of the country must dc
pond absolutely npon the efficiency and tn
power ol the Uuion organization. The bod
OF loyal men throughout the land mus
keep so closely cVmpacted and so thol
oughly organized that their power can nc
be opposed aud their political action mus
he made TO control the country and its dies
tmics. Ii we suffer ourselves to bedivide,
, we shall find our opponents united, an
ready 10 take advantage of our weakness
/ Unity and harmony must, therefore, be on
: watohwords, since they are our only sect
rlty. We can not afford TO let our ditlel
cnees of opinion separate rs. The Uuio
, party, like the Union army during the wa
I is made up of elements differing in man
= respects. As our battalions were con
? posed of men from Tennessee and Kentucky
az well AS from New England aud III
Groat West, so our political party con
4 prises the loyal men OF the border as We
a as those Of the North. The great body q
the soldiery have acted with us, and wi
continue 10 do so unless they are driven O
by q want of tolerance for their views an
opinions. They have speeulated 1ut littl,
/ but they have observed much And, thong
their theories may be less advanced til,