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

party substituting vituperation for reason,
and silencing facts by vulgar abnse, you
may rest assured that that party is not de- 4
serving Of yopr support. 1t Is very good
test to apply to them. Sometimes when
read slashing articles in the papers about
people who differ from the writer, in which
they are dubbed p"treacherous hOundsp
"liars," "traitorsp /, thank God that this
breast Of mine has no home for malignity
of that kind. A few days ago Que o, these
papers called gentlemen treacheTOus
hounds" who were going down to the Sol
diers' Convention. find among these
"trcacherous hounds" some of the officers
who have fought most bravely in the
Northern army. | find among them Stone
man, Custar, Rousseau, Grant, who walks
beside the Prpsident-[ [vociferOus applause]
and | also find among them that old sea-
dog hrragnt. [Applausel Now, when
you find any man calling these people
''treacherOus hounds" | would advise you
to. beware of that man. That is the style
of talk of thi. Radical party. '.
HOW THE RANKS Or THE DEMochATs ARE
-THINNED. d1HJ iaInJsi
The Radicals delight to abuse the Demo-
cratic party, and some very hard things are
said by them of the Democrats. Yes, the
ranks of that party are thinned. A great
many have left It. Where will You look
for them? Citizens they are not deserters,
they stood by its principles to the last, be-
cause they believed that its principles were
the. principles, of the Constitution. Where
will you look tor them?,, Look for them
under the sod; in the swamps of the Chick
ahomlny; look for them under the sod OF
every battlefield. where men have gallant
ly fought for that flag which waves above
mill Tim fIa sba hay
lett the Democratic party. WereN these
men "treacherous hounds" the men that
went ont with their hearts bounding with
enthusiasm, ready to pour out their llfe's
blood in the fight that they fondly believed
was fought in order to restore the Union
and save the Republic? Shall the struggle
they fought for be defeated by termina-
tiOn they never dreamed of? Shall men,
standing over their graves, rob the nation Of
the gr, ;lU good they won by their hearts
blood, and instead Of the Union that they
fought for, curse us with this disuniOn and
the subjugation of one section by the othei?
Shakespeare says: "When the cry of war
sounds in our ear, then initiate the action
of the tiger" Wen, you did initiate the
action of the tiger-yOu fought like tigers;
but now the war is over, peace has come,
for heavens sake let us get done with the
dCJlOllS vi. IlScIo Du>liltsSs l. arc uO
douot soidlers ana generals ana men OF
in all this, and as believe do not agree with
you. There are, generally, many men who
talk a great deal, and very eloquently; but
when | come to look at their record as
solIiers, | find it often happens that they
vino have done much talking have done
very little fighting.
policy nE THE
What is the policy of the radicalsp How
lone il the North tn Keen having taxesP |.
will answer van in The words of one of
these gentlemen. How long are the rpnre-
sentatIyes of the South 70 he excluded
.ITntll the heavens melt with fervid heat -,
trust, gentlemen. that such AN astronomi-
cal catastrophe Is not soon to happen. But
is this not simply absurd (? Do not we all
know that this sort of thing cannot long
continue? DOVE nut know thatwe cannot,
under the Constitution of the United States,
keep ten Southern State, Us Russia keeps
Poland, or as Austria has been keeping
Venice? Do we not knoW-T, an IRISH
man-do | not know that the Southern
States cannot he kept under the feet of the
Northern States rs England has been
keeping Ireland for the last five hundred
years? Oh, | remember to have read this
sort of language before.
,,rsrop1c, p,p,I1E1-rur c1rpsr op cpo,t-
WELL
Ireland at ona time. WINS swent from, pnd
tn-and nv a nre,t soldier and % roar states
NOR, who formed his starting idaa that rho
only wav tn hold Ireland in neare was to
omnIibiIofe its naonie IF ia tTo 6nmJreG
years since his tradk blasted thar fair island
and vet there are nanv men amongst Won
whose faces 7 lool, uno1 to-njght WHO know
that in Ireland there is no more bitter
malediction in the Irish tongue than this
The curse OF Cromwell on you!" Ireland
never forgot Cromwell; it never can forget
the iron hand of that grim chiettain, which
grfpped 1t too firmly and too sorely = for
gettulneSs and forgiveness can never come
from that people. 1t remembers forever,
because there are some wrongs that burn
into the heart so deep that they live from
generation to generation, and cannot be
efFaeed while il exists, while that race is
living. Do you wish fellow citizens, to
deal with the southern States as Cromwell
dealt with Ireland Cries of"No, no."l
Talk to any Engli,h StateSman-to any man
who lives above the petty level of action
and he will say: Mould to God that two
hundred years ago, Cromwell had never SET
his loot upon that ruined land-would to
God England had dealt more kindly by the
sister island. Mould to God that after the
Irish people had been defeated in war we
had trusted them in pace. and taken them
to our hearts and male friends of them, as
we could have done" BUTTE all this Puri-
tauism there comes an answer, "Too late,
too late" The indelible mark is upon us
we can never forget aud we never can for
give. ..oH .1.N. N. r.-.3i ~. .. .n
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