Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-03
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SPEECH OF HOW. S. S. COX.
The Presidents Policy and Why II
Must be Sustained.
Especial dispatch to tho N. Y. Worid1
New HAVEN, Conn, March 20.

Especial dispatch TO tho N. 7. World
New HAVEN, CONN, March 20.
A great masg meeting of the conserva-
tives of this city was held in Music Hall this
evening. Ii was an immense affair. The
hall was jammed full Of the supporters of
James e. English. VIM. s. Charnley, Esq,
presided, assisted by large number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries.
Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, delivered
the following telling and eloquent speech:
SPEECH OF HON. S. s. COX.
CITIZENS OF New HAvEN:-1Every click
of a Connecticut clock should keep time TO
the music of the Union. Every amenity OF
literature, art ard science, which has been
cultivated in this seat of letters and learn
ing, to be diffused over every part of this
land, for its grace and elevation; every in
terest of your State, and every tradition OF
your people, are bound up with the speedy
and perpetual restoration of the United
States. OF all the States of the North,
! there has remained in times of wavering
and doubt no lirmer national bond than the
State of Connecticut. [Cheers.l Why this
is so will appear from facts hereafter to be
developed. In the Improbable conflicts
about the races, she has not been forward.
| think both her present Senators were not,
had they received little more encourage
ment indisposed to vote for compromise in
| 1850. And now one, at least, OF them has
| nObly stood by the PKesidentin his heroic eff
| forts to bind the Union in nconcord. (Cheers.l
Connecticut herself has in advance placed
her veto on negro equality, which the Pres
ident has just forbidden. The question now
is, shall we stand by her veto, since the
| President has taken his stand by her! 1t is
no matter of maudlin philanthropy, or OF
| huf Of
| local and State liberty which is to be de-
cided. On its decision depends the restOra-
ton of the States. You have to decide
| whether the war shall be failure or sue
cess; whether the Union under the Consti-
tuition shall be achieved; or whether, by
continual delay and denial, the uneasiness
OF the South shall grow into turbulence,
and, Cuickened into violence, war, perhaps,
again blacken and devastate the land. 1t
is for YOU to say whether you will sane
ton that Federal legislation which would
force Oh the other States doctrines and
laws repugnant to them and your own
recent vote; whether the freedmen, who,
according to General Lee, are doing well
among those who need their labor, shall b(
kept in their places, or shall be disorganiz'
ed by restless, bigoted, unconstitutiona
legislation. Indeed there is a higher ques-
|
it is whether the States are dead cOrpses, t
be dragged at the chariot wheels of Con
gress, or whether they are entities, instinc
with lite and clad in all the pomp and cir
! cumstance of Statehood? That your STATE
lis the pivot on which those issues turn, Il
evidenced by the rush of legislative mag
mates from Washington to overawe yot
into their support, as they strive in vain tx
oyerawe Andrew johnson. Methinks tht
Senators who have been Outraging the ju'
dicial decorum which belongs to the decis
ion of the rights of their own bOdy-in TIN
person of John T. Stockton, the glorious
young Senator from New Jersey-migh
have rested awhile from their ignoble labor
and have taken a survey of the degradation
into which they are hurrying Senatorial
dig mites. [Applause.l Whether they de
stroy the voice OF Connecticut, as they haV'
that of New Jersey, remains to be seem
Your contest is nominally between Hawle!
and English; but it is really between tn
Executive and Congress. Its signiticanc
depends entirely on the question of sus
tanning the one or the other. Since the las
veto, the farce of supporting both can b,
played no longer, either by stars iron
Washington or walking gentlemen
here.
Mr.. Cox referred to the question put T.
General Hawley, whether he was an An
drew johnson man, and his sprightly an
swer, shat he was no mans man but hi
! wife's." This shows him to be q tende
husband, whether sound on the President
policy or not. This is highly cOmmenda
bic in private life, to which trust Genera
Hawley will be more inclined next week
/ have not the honor of his acquaintance
but if he be the clever gentleman repre-
sented by the speakers on both sides, h
will enjoy more the society of his wife tha
the associations to which an election woul
subject him. But this was not all of hi
answer. He has refused pointedly to in
dorse the Presidents policy, but he ha
said that he has stood by the flag. This wa
heroic answer. But however much h
may have fought for the flag, does he %
stand butt? JEFF. Davis fought for the oil
constellated flag in Mexico! But he trie,
with violence and secession to strike ou
eleven stars from its field of blue. Gen
Hawley stood by the flag; and yet he woul
keep these stars obscured in indeiinit
eclipse, Notwithstanding the Obscuratiol
was washed out in blood. [Cheers; cries o
"rhat's so."l This is not to stand by the flag
This is the counterpart OF secession. 1t Is b
stand by the dis United States. saw, da.
before yesterday, the proud and beautitu
emblem of our couAtry-the flag presente'
to the Department of State by the workme
of Lyons, France-the red, white and blu
embossed with stars and blazoned wit
stripes and like the garment of tn
Savior, woven without seam Is this tn
emblem of our national salvation, by whic
General Hawley stands? Oh, no. He il
perhaps unwittingly, its enemy; for h
adheres and gives comfort to those who
like the majority in Congress led by Ste
yens and Sumner, would destroy the sym
bolic glory of the flag, by hiding hall tn
heaven ofits blue under the cloud OF fanat
ical hate. But General Hawley is "n
mans mani" Then he is not the man 70
the people. They want man to sery
them, not the hates of Congress. But did
reflect that he was In thrall to some on
hundred and fifty contumacious Disunion
lists. who studyday and night.at Washing
ton. under the lead OF a central directory,
to foil ALI the efforts of the Chief Magis
trate for peace and union? General Haw
lev NAV not be conscious of wearing th
collar of Thaddeus Stevens and Charlie
Sumner, but never did Saxon serf ben
lower to pay homage to his liege than Gen
eral Hawlev bends to the little ebon
Fetisch enthroned at the Capitoll He
sIno mans man" but he is some men, mar
bound hand and foot branded by his assC
Citations as a Disunionist SO long as he helI
to make the war failure by the repellin
forces and policy of the cabal |
IS washington. AS to his opponent, nj
English y[cheersk l know him we'll
have served years by his side in th
marty man in any sense but that of patriot
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