The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-03-10
A DEMOCRATIC CELEBRATION
IN OHIO.

IN OHIO.
One of the i" Institutions " of Ohio, is
an open Democratic Celebration of Janu-
ary 9th, as General Andrew Jackson's
gala day. This year it was celebrated
with more than usual spirit. The toast
Of the day--to General Jackson-was re-
spOnded to by the Hon. Allen G. Thur
man, who, among other good things, said
of General Andrew jackson:
A President who quelled notification
without shedding a drop of blood, who,
by wisdom and moderation, SO efeetually
silenced the voice of secession, that it
was not again heard for nearly thirty
years; who left, as his parting legacy to
his countrymen, the injunction to repress
all sectional feeling and love one another;
who told them that "the Constitution
cannot be maintained, nor the Union pre-
served, in opposition to public feeling by
the mere exertion of the coercive powers
confined to the General Government !;
that the foundations must be laid in the
affections of the people. in the security it
gives to life, liberty, character and prop
erty in every quarter of the country, and
the fraternal attachments which the citi-
zens of the several States bear to one
another as members of one political fam
ily, mutually contributing to promote the
happiness of each other "a President,
who thus acted and thus spoke, scorned
alike the mean impulses of vindictiveness,
the base promptings of a lust of plunder,
and the cruel dictates of the spirit of
persecution. Such man, such Presi-
dent was Andrew Jackson and truly does
the toast declare that the circle of his
affections embraced the whole Republic,
and i'll will toward any portion of it, he
scorned and abhorred.
Mr.. President, the past cannot be re-
called. The dread carnival Of blood and
FIRE of the last four years cannot be blotted
out of our history All around us are its
marks-States laid waste, their industry
destroyed, their most sacred rights with
held, the Republic burthened beyond all
example with debt, the wrecks of the
Constitution on every side, and, to crown
our ills, ferocious, unrelenting spirit In
the councils of the country, that sets
Constitution, wisdom, justice, liberty,
humanity, all that is dear to freemen or
essential to the welfare of the people, at
defiance, in its unscrupulous struggles to
perpetuate the power of party.
/ Sir, this headlong current that is fast
destroying the very foundations of our
Government, viii never be stopped until
the people, rejecting the false lights by
which ambition, ayarice and fanaticism
have misled them, shall turn away from
their errors and once more tread in the
footsteps of Andrew jackson
Gen. Geo. w Morgan, late candidate
for Governor, responded to a toast about
liberty, State Sovereignty, and perpetual
Union. In the course Of his speech he
said:
/ I said, sir, National sovereignty and
State sovereignty both exist, though each
is qualified. The Federal Government is
sovereign to all the powers delegated ;
and the States are sovereign as to all the
powers reserved-nor can there be any
collision between them, so long as each
keeps within its well-defned orbit.
/ We have but one country-eomposed
of equal States, but all united. Inde-
pendent as to everything that concerns
ithemselves-united as to everything rela-
tive to the entire Union, and foreign ma
tions. But, Mr.. President, to execute
Jour mission, we must send men to Con-
gress who viii represent Ohio, and not
Massachusetts,. Let us do this, and the
first step viii be taken toward preserving
the liberty Of the people, the sovereignty
of the States, and the perpetuity and
sovereignty of the Union. Let Ohio In
dignantly rebuke the men who, while
processing to represent Ohio, resolved in
their caucus that, in the choice of GER
tain officer Of the House, Ohio would
follow the lead of New England--that is,
of Massachusetts,. And why, Mr.. Presi-
dent, should Ohio follow Massachusetts
. Is it because Ohio folto,ced Massachusetts,
on the battlefield Z Ask, SIR, our SCARED
heroes, whose wounds, yet unhealed, at
test their deeds, and let them respond,
Ohio follosO Massachusetts, Is it because
Massachusetts, conspirators inaugurated
Tile I1ATb1OIu O0uVSuttOH tI0dSOu, duu
sought to dissolve the Union? Or be-
cause, during that same year, the Senate
of that State resolved that:
The war with Great Britain was founded
in falsehood, declared without necessity, and
that its real object was the extent Of territory
by unjust conquest, and to aid the late tyrani
Of Europe in his aggrandizement?
i Is Ohio to be led by Massachusetts,, be-
cause at the outbreak Of the war with
Mexico, the legislature of that State
voted against an appropriation to equip
Massachusetts, soldiers to fight for the
Union flag Z
4 Ohio be led by Massachusetts, With
the same propriety, sir, the lion should bt
} led by the jackal, and the eagle be taught
to follow the wing of the vulture.
}, The Rev. DR.. Pusey says: There are nov
: places in London, as have frequently seen