Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-09-23

in 1857, be perfected the peculations which
bis brother in-law began He added thou.
sands and tensoi thousands TO them. For
that he, too, was arrested aud tried before
civil lribunal-for we had not invented mil.
itary commissions then. he wss convicted
BY jury Of twelve men, and sentenced TO
the peniteutisry. Temporarily, he escaped
BY some contemplate flaw in the Indictment
He was subject to trisl again, and while under
indictment and actual conviction as a thief
and apeculator,t this honest Republican party,
that never stands bJ dishonest public servants,
made him Colonel in the honorable service
OF the United States, and he is Colonel to-day,
OF until recently. In return he became one
OF the chief speakers against the Democratic
phfty, and Of its foulest libelers in 1863 And 60
with A p. Stone. His peculatiops run back
I'd the State Treasury 1t was known be was
a dishonest public servant, and yet the Ad-
ministration, through Salmon p. Chase, made
A. p Stone Collector Of Internal Revenue and
lost Sl4l 900 by it. '...
Again, the House Of Representatives
nearly threeSfourths OF which was Repu blican,
in 1862, lound Simon Cameron guilty of poe
ulation. They condemned him. They com
PEELED the President of the United States to
remove him as Secretary OF War, and imme.
diatsy he was appointed Minister to Russia
They punish their public servants, do they ?
Well, | hope by-and by some such punish
ment will come to us for our good deeds as
they gave to theirs for their bad oneo-that
some Of us may be made Collectors of Inter.
nal Revenue because we are honest, and some
of us sent to Russia for the came reason.
! Laughter Here is Treasurer of State
II man who has been one of the most foul
abusers Of the Democratic party--all this
time he was engaged in peculation-arrested
for'peculation, and now about TO be indicted,
and if convicted, sent to the Penitentiary.
His is but one Of the first cases that have come
to light. The rest are yet behind.
DEsPoTrsM.
But the party to which we are opposed is a
party of despotism. | will thank any man
who supports that party if he will show me
one resolution passed BY the Republican party
since the war began, ia which there has been
one single denunciatou ofarbitrary arrests or
arbitrary proceedings | will be obliged To
any body who will send to my address a copy
Of any such resolution There never has
been protest against single infractiOn oi
the Constitution, by that party Why2 Be.
cause these violations Of the Constitution
these arbitrary arrests and military commits
ions, have been directed against their
opponents And when the tables are turned
and the Democratic party shall have power il
the rules laid down by the late Administra
ton are to be the rules for future Admins
trations, there will come up howl such as
some wild beast may be supposed to send forth
from the jungles, when smitten by the shaft oil
the hunter, 1t is the party, too, against State
rights What have we bad in Ohio2 The
very first Governor elected after the war com.
menced, was Governor who not only did not
resist arbitrary power in the State of Ohio, but
actually invited the arrest of one of the most
prominent men of the Democratic party, and
had him dragged from his home, and incar.
cerated in Fort lafayette So with Governor
Brough, lie, in his lifetime, deliberately
permitted military commission to sit in the
city of Cincinnati for the trial of citizens for
two months, and permitted another comnii, :,
sion to sit in Guernsey County, to try citizens
for offenses properly cognizsble by the civil
tribunals Of the land That is the manner in
which these Governors have guarded the
lrights of the States It. is not the way in
which General George w, Morgan, il elected
will administer affairs as Governor.
Mr. VsIlendigham next referred to the tax
alton of United States bonds, aud concluded
by charging that the Republican party was q
negro equality party