Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-08
On Saturday evening, Jan. Q, 1866.

d, On Saturday Evening, Jan. 9, 1866.
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Thanks, Fellow-C Citizens for your well
/, come on this occasion; thanks for the evil
dence of confidence so lately and SO kindly
expressed at the ballot-box.
| To Columbus, the world is indebted for
the discovery OF a Continent, which has
been the eradIes but which may yet become
| the tomb Ofdiberty--your beautiful city is
worthy Oof the name. Frankln,--philOs-
opher and statesman.-drew fire from the
Heavens, and trained and subdued the
llghtnings, which have since been taught
to whisper messages across the Continent
Immortality to Franklin! all honor to the
| gallant county which bears bis name. g
l. | come, citizens, In compliance with your
| wishes, to consult with you relative to
| certain of the affairs of o0r State and Ma
ton and do so with the greater pleasure
because ili this moment of calm, the mind
is prepared to listen with candor, and decide
| with Justice upon questions which may be
submitted for consideration. And | con-
| 6ure you, citizens, one and all, to forget
| partisan preiudices, and remember only
that we are all Ohoans, all Americans, all
Countrymen; with common hopes, COM
mon interests and common destiny.
Il In all ages, the demagogue has been the
same: ambitious of place and power, and
regardless of right conscious of his own
nworthiness-he desires to make better
men appear unworthy as himself; and seeks
to inflame the public mind, and rouse the
evil passions of the heart that the victims of
his deception may be blindly led TO their
destruction.
Against suchmen, citizens, bid you be-
ware; they are your enemies-.hey are the
enemies of free institutions. And if civil
liberty be subverted, and from race of
freemen, we degenerate into a race of
slaves, it will be owing TO the fact that we,
as people, mistook party for country, and
prejudice for patriotism.
Undoubtedly" said Daniel Webster, " If
our political system should be overthrown,
il will be the work of excessive party spirit
acting OH the Government which Is dan
gerous enough, or acting in the Government,
which is thousand times more dangerous;
for Government then becomes noLhing but
organized party, and in the vicissitudes of
human affairs, it may come at last, perhaps,
to exhibit the singular paradox of Govern
ment itself being in opposition to its own
powers, at war with the very elements of
its own existence. Such cases are hopeless.
| AS men may be protected against murder,
hut cannot be guarded against suicide. so
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foes, but nothing can save it, when it
| chooses to lay violent hands on ITSELF"
With what vividness does the language OF
| the great orator portray the danger in
! which the Government is involved by the
paricidal conduct of the present Congress
where one of the branches of the Gov
ernment has become nothing but organized
| party" But why does the danger exist
Because the same party has an overwhelm-
ing majority in both branches of the Nation
| al Legislature, and there is no check against
corruption or the delirium of partisan mad
| ness. " i.
The great aud good Washington, in his
farewell address, thus warns us against the
excess of party spirit: +" 1t serves" he
says, "always to distract public councils,
| and enfeeble thepublic Administration. 1t
agitates the community with ill-founded
| jealousies and false alarms; kindles the ami
mostly of one party against another and
| foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
| And there being constant danger of excess,
the effort ought to be by force of public
opinion to mitigate and assuageit."
Deeply impressed, citizens, with the wis.,
dom of these precepts, will endeavor to
approach the subject OF my discourse with
spirit of sincerity worthy of the grave
topics to which your attention will be in
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the foundation OF the. FUNDED debt OF Great
Britain, was tlaid, ana to-dayit amounts to
eight hundred and hye million pounds
sgerllng, equal. Ia our currency 10 three
thousandeighthu hundred anu ninety six MIL
lions two hundred thousand dollars, and
draws from 3E to per cent, interest,
while the ilquidated DEBT OF the United
States, created within I'VE years, will on