Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-17
jon MEETING.

was quite large attendance, and the pro-
ceedings were enlivened with excellent
music by the Soldiers Home band and by
Hemmersbach's band, of this city. Colonel
Henry Hunter, Vice President of the john
son Club, presided at the meeting.
MR.. UNDERwooD's SPEECH.
Private WITT. Underwood, of the 46th o.
vi, being called upon addressed the meet
ing. He made plain, straightforward and
pointed speech. He. referred to the past,
the present and prospective condition OF
the country, and said that he had sustain
ed Andy johnson, because he believed
Andy was right, and that he sustained him
now because he knew Andy was right. He
named over the great statesmen and pat
r OTIS of the generation just gone by, who
lived and labored for the whole country,
and contrasted them with the Boston
philosophers of the present day, who
live and labor for Sambo alone. He did not
believe that persons of an inferior race,
lately slaves, should be made the political
equals of white men. 1t was now the
time for the laboring white men
of the country to stand forth in
defense of their rights.
Mr.. Underwood referred to the question Of
ten asked, "Wby don't Andy johnson hang
JEFF. Davis?" He wanted every man who
intended to vote for Sam. Shellabarger to
hear his answer to this question. 1t was
In hcfo Ia n6u Inhnann
but Chief Justice Chase that refuses to hang
JEFF. Davis. The President cannot hang
him, till he has been tried, convicted and
sentenced by the Court. This Chase has
Andy. johnson will not do his. But sup
pose Jeff. Davis was brought before the
Chief Justice for sentence, and Chase
should ask him what he had to say, why
sentence of death Should not be pronounc-
upon him, JEFF. would reply: "Why,
graduated in your school, Professor
Chase. learnrd my political doctrine
from your speeches on State sovereignty
and your advocacy of the assertion of State
authority against that of the United States"
Such would be Jeff.'s response. to Salmon
p. Chase, and for this reason, it is morally
certain that he will never try JEFF. Davis.
The platform of the Baltimore Conven-
tion which nominated Lincoln and John
son, declared it the duty of every man to
maintain the integrity of the Union. The
soldiers went into the war to sustain the
Union, and were assured that If they sue
ceeded in crushing out the rebellion, the |
Union would be restored in all its former
Never was greater lie palmed
of upon any set of men. How is it to-
night? Is the Union restored? No, there
are eleven States yet out of it, and the
Union, the "Boston philosophers" tell us,
is not preserved, and the niggers, and not
white soldiers, they say, settled the war,
and therefore, the niggers must have the
right to vote and hold office. Soldiers and
men who agree with these Boston philos-
ophers" should vote for Shellabarger;
those who do not, shnnld vote for Miller.
We have not space at command for the
use of but small fraction of the notes we
took of Mr.. Underwood's speech. He clos
ed by saying that as the southern radicals |
had ruined the South so, the Northern fa-
natics were trying to rule and ruin the
North, and urged upon his hearers to use
every effort to overthrow the schemes of
those who sought the destruction of the |
white mems government.
Mr.. Underwood was enthusiastically |
cheered during the delivery and at the close
of his address.
COL. BABER's SPEECH.
Col. r. p. L. Baber, in answer to repeated |
calls, addressed the meeting at considerable
length. But our notice of his remarks must |
be necessarily brief. He paid his respects
10 Hon. Aaron F. Perry, who made speech |
for the Radicals at the Atheneum the pre-
,eding evening. He said MI. Perry ma e
but one single point that could be said to /
have any show of argument. In defend |
ing the action of Congress for refusing to |
admit the Southern representatives to seats
In that body, Mr.. Perry quoted, or professed |
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Supreme Court in prize cases. But he quoted |
in each case the syllabus, or analysis of the |
decision made by the reporter, and not the |
language used by the Court in making the /
]ecision. In the first case referred to by |
Mr.. Perry, the Court said that persons in |
,he rebel States were liable to be treated as
enemies, but not as foreigners. The ex-
preston 'but not as foreigners" Mr.P |
omitted. Why did he do this, If he did not \
design to misrepresent the decision for a
purpose?
This decision which was given by JUS
lice Grier, establishes that, during the ex-
stence of hostilities, the people in the in
districts, were liable to be
reated, not as foreign enemies, but as ene-
nies entitled to belligerent rights. If en-
titled to the rights of belligerents, they
,ould not be treated as traitors or rebels,
,h0ugh they might be when the war was
over.
In the second case, cotton case, cited by
Mr.. Perry, the Court decided that the con-
lition of the people in the rebel States and
Territories remained that of enemies, until
hat condition was changed by some act OF
he General Government, or otherwise.
Here as before, Mr.. Perry made an import
int omission, for seeming purpose at least.
lie omitted the words, "or Otherwise.n Il
To show that the refusal of the Radicals
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