The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-10-13


am 10 speak TO the Democracy OF Old But |
Ter, They are present. aud ] am here 70 !
sneak TO them. What say shall be varied
n, language I'm order Of arrangements and
rpon the topics of the day but not w prin-
ciple, nor In substance anything different
from what you have listened TO IN tunes
past. occupy preoiscly the position i
ever have done not merely daring the war
bnt before the war, long years ago. all
here to the principles still which learned
in youth. and which were strengthened as
grew Into manhood principles which
have ,lroelaiu,ed tor fourteen years past 10
the gallant Democracy of old Butler, and
appiieil'to the Successive questions OF pol
Icy as they arose in the progress OF Time.
am here, then, asa Democrat % ADDRESS
Democrats, in suliport hgtleed ~ the policy
OF the President as great living issue of
the hour and because that policy Is thor
otf9hiy consistent with Democratic. prlnci-
ciples. and because could mot address TO
YOU A Democratic speech unless advocated
the Union and the Constitution.
1 am not here tonight ~ "a Democrat TO
eulogize the policy or principles, or person.
al attributes OF Mr.. Lincoln. ! leave that
entirely to those who supported MIN uur,
Ing his administration, whether they voted
for him i'm 1850, or became subsequently
his friends 1t Is not for me; IL Is not for
Democrats who opposed him, 10 argue that
the present Executive is but pursuing the
line OF policy prescribed by Abraham Lin-
coin. Neither am here TO denounce men
who were his supporters, and whom am
accustomed to hear continually assatled.
II is'the fashion 70 assail Beecler' and
Lloyd Garrison, aud Wendell Phillips, and
Sumner, and Wade, and Stevens. and a score
or tNo OF others like theu. for their fanati-
clsm. radicalism and violence ;and for their
disregard and contempt for all the ancient
and settled principles and institutions Of
the Government aud the country. And yet
they were the mon whose pioneering steps
Lincoln, more slowly in his own time, but
most surely in the end. followed till the
close Of his career. | Will not denOEnce
these men and spare Lincoln.
IL Is the fashion. or was till the other day,
to assail William II. Seward, because itwas
he who spent llfe-timc In creating aud
gathering together the elements of fanati-
cal and sectional discord aud strife which
burst, at last with such desolating fury all
over the land; he, WHO, first of all men,
proclaimed the doctrine of the Higher
Law" and of the "lrrcprcsSibie Conilict;'
he, who, schooled In the deyilish politics
of the Medici the Machiayels and the Rich
elieus Of Italy and France, In the fifteenth
aud sixteenth centuries. developed, com-
plete IN all its parts, IN the very first weeks
of the late civil war, a system of dcspOtism
and terror never exceeded in concep-
tion, detail or execution, in ancient
oriental or medieval tyrsppy; he at
whose instance the cprivilege Wfrthe writ of
hdbeGs corpus was, BY executive order first
suspended, and the Supreme Court aud
the Chief-Justice set at defiance; lac who
first closed and barred the casemates of
Forts Warren and Lafayette upon "prisOn-
ers of state" and then by special order de-
clared to them that he would mot recog-
niZe any one as an attorney Tor political
prisoners and would regard the employ
ment OF counsel by them as IAN additional
reason for declining to release them ~ and
finally, who boasted to Lord Lyons, the
British Minister, that he could touch a bell
at his right hand and arrest any man In
Ohio at his will, and touch It again and ar
rest another a thousand miles distant In
Massachusetts, and then with u charming
aflectaton of simplicity, which Sejanus or
GodOy might have enyied, asked his Lord
ship Can Her Majesty do as much ~ And
yet for each and every one of these things,
or in spite of them, was he applauded
honored, cherished as his chief counselor
and friend, by Abraham Lincoln, TO the
day of his DEATH | will not condemn the
servant and approve the master. will
not denounce Seward and spare Lincoln.
1t is the fashion to assal Edwin Nj. Stan
ton for his rudeuess, his brutality, his
iiherty bnn,n 's,,fIarinS anI human iife
for his bearrless refiisaisto excban~e nris,
oners durin a. mo war whence the borrors
ot Andcrsony iiie. and fnr a thousand other
crimes and e,ornities Nv which his name
and momnrv are biafkencd anG de8ia5 dav
nv dov Aud vet for evcrv ono Of thcSe
acts ond gn, tbese his cba ctnri.tirs or IN
Snitc nfthe,o he FOO ,xnS rcininc1 i'm oGicn
errhonnrad ma cherishgJ ne coinselor ana
frIenI nv Ib,obsn incoIn ~ tbe bnnr lJ of
his deatL 1 wiIl nv Gnnonnce Stanton
amd snarn Tincoin IVY
II ~ tbe fasbioi, to ossoii Iosenb IIolt COS
his ,nsrniIess a,d colJ JiaojoJ I'a.sao,'ti
of nniiticoI ,risorsrs tbro,ey tho eoSo.us,om
Of that n,ost oIio,,s ot'j 81 II,
The innoyotions ,d tiovs "g tlo ~ i.ar or
,i,a ,ro,r",,, ~ ht;i;,,' fro i,: Wat
Wodinns in name and cYoeraiI, w t n Trsc nrsctjco
80. ,,i,ioI, i,a 80 ME- ~ - ~
hood i"tt ,,,d ~ ,,,,,,1oro,,I .', ~ iiis
rer;nry to n.oar,rr cnn,iot;"n HnI ,,ot ~
III thosa thi,,,rs az q, i,,;to ~ thn, ~ ~
100 y,as retainnd IN oGice P'rr nnortoI yi' @ ns
syy,ondod S,v krahom, In IA "h,' ~
1ipppd Iii, ,,nt Ta,,r,,,, Iii "ii',o ne
Ttncolu "''' NV 'i''' "''u spare
If H. tho fashion N oss.;, p.n;oroir Y
Ruler in la%"'eSa 'Sybich ,oad snt ra
neat for crinas s,,d oITensas se,ai,,st ~ LII,
fon a,,ainst ,no,.,is ,ao,a1nSt 1ihnst,, S4l
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