Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-02
E5,R q 1866, 1866 90. ..
u oJt ! tFrom the Auglaize Democrat , ...''.,
Democratic Meeting on TilarEdny

, H'EF'G l1E :-9I I.as1. H0igi'9H IIlm6f-
Notwithstanding rain, floods, and almost
impossible roads, very respectable NUM-
Der Of people from the country attended
the meeting, previously announced. The,
Court House was well filled" Hon. w. d.
Hill, Of Defiance, first addressed the as
sembly. His speech was well made aud
very well received. QnFeandidate for Con
1gress, Col. Mungen, followed in quite. a
happy strain. He deinostrated tliat the
pu6lit debt, inflicted on 'dsby the Republic
cans, in one dollar bills, would make a belt
that would reach SIX HUNDRED TIMES
round the circumference OF the globe! that
fit will make a chain Of half dollars long
enough toreach the moon and perhaps to
many other of the heavenly bodies His
speech was good and he Was enthusiasm,
fcally cheered. ,r..-..-..,..;... .,.,,.
J., In the evening, the Court House was
again crowded. Our splendid and unriv-
,aIled Brass Band diseoursed excellent
music, as it always does on the occasion of
Democratic meetings. Gen. Rice, Of Put
nam county. being Introduced, the vast as
semblage arose and gave to him three deaf
ening cheers. He elOquentlya spoke of his
endeavors in four years and a half service
in the army, in which he lost q limb, and
several times almost his life, In which he
labored7 for a restored Union, for MAIN
tgnance of the laws oyer the entire coun--
try, but that at the,close, by a triumphant
vindication of the constitutional order of
things, party of fanatics, most of whom
were unknown in the field, eudeav0rto der
strOy the Government aud 10, establish q
different one in its stead! The General Is
pretty and easy speaker, and an educated
gentleman. During his remarks, he was
.VOcilerously applauded, and in this as well
as other ways, the people testified their ap-
probation of his great services to the
country; his honesty, goodness and his tai
ent. O..
Mr.. Eshelman, of The OHIO STGTEsMAN,
followed in lengthy address, replete with
cloquence, leahning and power. We know
not when we have listened to speech SO
acceptable and so pleasing, and thuswere
all impressed who heard it. He spoke of
the country, eloquently and truthfully,
cliHChing his propositions with arguments
and facts that could not be torn asunder.
Mr.. e. spoke of the condition of the coun-
try before the war; which old Ben Wade
recently admitted, in a speech at Ottawa,
Ohio, "was tlIe best government on the
fhce of the earth.n Who made it the best
inquired the speaker-was it not the old.
Democratic party2 and yet these cormo-
rants of the present Rump Congress would
endeavor to make the people think that it
was dangerous to fntrust the affairs of the
nation in the hands of the party that has
made it the greatest nation on the face OF
the earth" .,....-
Mr.. E. then explained the opposition
against the President in the ranksiof the
Rumpites-that they were bound TO oyer
throw our RepubicanfOFm of Government
in order to save the Republican party.Iil
In a clear, convincing and unanswerable
argument, Mr.. e. proved that the Republ-
can party was the cause of the war, and
read from the record the position OF their
leading eIitors and speakers, who in 1850
and 1861 advocated the peaceable separa-.
tion of the North from the South. Even
the Cincinnati Commercial in 1861 was in
favor OF peaceable separation. They re-
flIsed-the Crittenden compromise, through
which all difficulties might have been set
tied without the loss of one drop of blood !;
but the Radicals clamored then as they
do now for blood, anarchyand ruin. These
points Mr.. E. proved beyond cavil, by evil
dence from Republican authority. Mr.. Il.
also said, and proved from the Official re-.
cord, that the first pardon of rebel was
presented for Gen. Lee, indorsed by Gen.
Grant, and he referred to Grants letter to
prove that amicable relations should be
cultivated between the North and South,
and that the condition of the country re-
duired it,. '''' '. -",'
ut is useless, however, to attempt to fOb-i
low the great speech of Mr., Eshelman., 1t
was a brilliant effort, and has left an i'm
preston upon our people that Will tell ef-
iectually at the polls. '@'4''i'