Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-17
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ELOQUENT SPEECH BY RICHARD
T O'GORMAN. '
Dissection Of the Radical Congress.
Its Unconstitutional and Excessive
Legislative Powers.
oLIcARcHY OF THE RADICAL
GROIN WELLS.
The Punishment and Rep ent-
- ance Of the South.
Plain word. for the Good Cause

Plain Words for the Good Cause.
Atan enthusiastic and numerously attend
| ed meeting of the UniOnists at New
Rochelle, which took place on Monday
evening last, Richard O'GOrman delivered
one of the best aud most statesmanlike
| speeches of the times. We heartily COM
mend its terse logic and elOquence to the
careful attention of our readers, who will
be well repaid for the time they bestow
upon it:
THE POLICY OF WISDOM AND MAGNANINirrY.
FELLOW CITIZENS II am beginning to
lose confidence very much in what are
called eloquent speeches and eloquent lead
| ing articles. For the most part they tend
to silence reason and excite passions. They
often darken counsel by words without
knowledge; and | am coming to think
that the instructive statesmanSuip of the
people is worth all the eloquence of orators,
and the guidanceship of leaders. b, lieve
in the p 'ople, aud | trust the people,; they
may err, they may be deceived, but
they are never dishonest, and they
never deceive. Political leaders cry
war, and talk about war; the people
think war, and they fight and die in
the war; one is talk, the otner is in earnest;
one is mere words on the part of the leaders,
the other is the eternal fidelity of the people;
and now, citizens, your time has come. We
have had enough OF party, enough Ot an
ger, enough OF blood; the war is over,
For four years the cry of war has echoe
through tne land, and the North determined
to fight the quarrel out, and ithas fought
the quarrel out; 1t has won the fight. The
South lies at It's feet conquered, wounded,
faint aud feeble, almost hopeless OF pros
prrity, or even of life, unless in the justice
and in the magnanimity and wisdom of
the Northern people. .. ...# ..
THE OBJECTS OF THE WAR.
Citizens, the power of the people in these
| United States is not in its mere physical
force; it is not in the bullet or bayOnet,
but it is in independent thought and the
ballot. The time has come for you, the
people, to take your servants to task, TO
pass their conduct in review before you,
and to say whether you are satisfied with
the past, and what kind of ideas and what
sort of men you desire to govern this nation
i'm the future. Now, how do we stand?-
We have had four years of war; we have
spent incalculable treasure; we have spent
thousands and thousands of mOs5 valuable
| lives. We submitted to part with what
| was dearer to us than treasure or life; we
bore to see our liberties for time invaded,
because we hoped that by allowing that to
| happen for time we would secure them
forever. All this we bore-all this We gave
for what? In order to secure the eterni-
| ty of the Union that the fathers of the
| American Republic bequeathed to us. Did
we go into that war for the purpose of con-
quest? No, citizens. Did we 90 into itfjr
the purpose of subduing the South and
| Il l,.os, 49, /, go NNf
citizens. The Congress OF the United
States proclaimed this to you, and on the
faith of that promise you lett the plow, the
anvil and tue desk, and took up arms and
went to the war, and shed your blood in the
war; and now you have won the fight
| The two issnes that were before the nation
prior to the war have been settled. Seces-
| sion never can be more. Hundreds ofthou-
sands of men have shed their blood to prove
such thing impossible. Slavery has
passed from earth; it can no more be re-
newed than the life OF the mastedon or any
monster OF the antediluvian world.
REAL QUESTION AT ISSUE.
The two issues have been decided; the
great trial of arms has been had; these
| things are done and passed, forever, and
| the question is: What policy is necessary
| to be adopted to govern the nation for the
future? There is party in the United
| States, and that party, unfortunately, is in
the majority in Congress. speak of what
| is called the Radical party in the United
States, and they say in effect that, notwith-
standing the war, notwithstanding thetinal
settlement of these great questions, the
Union shall not be re-established; but the
| gulf which civil war has dug between the
| North and South shall remain open and un
closed forever. know we'll that if the peo-
pie oucc could see the real question at is
sue, they would deal with it sensibly and
wisely. There is an effort made to delude
you, and to spread false issues before you.
But, citizens, the real question is, shall we
have Union and the Constitution, or dis
union, subju cation, centralization and the
loss of the Republic?
PUNISHMENT AND CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
The majority in Congress say that the
repI eseI tatives from the South shall not be
admitted into the councils of the United
States. Why not? Because the SOuD9 has
not been sufficiently punished. Great God!
What punishment more can be inflicted on
the South3 Have notthey lost their pride?
Have not they lost their property? Have
not they lost the dearest of their household
Where do you look for the fathers, hus-
bands, sons and brothers of the Southern
States? Under the sod, dead, killed in this
civil war, and even sometimes those loved
are not allowed the humble privilegeqof
shedding a tear over their graves. The
South not punished! Look at Sherman's
march through the South, where, for lines
OF sixty miles apart, not living thing was
! lett the land. Isn0tthat punishment !?
What more was ever inflicted upon any peo-
pie that raised their hand against Govern
ment, and were subdued by it2 They are
punished! They are desirous to return 10
their duties and responsibilities under the
Constitution. All they ask is to come back
to work, to strive for this nation--the
| United States This small party set their
hands against them, and say: No; stand
back; because you have erred we will never
believe YOU are fepehtaht; because we have
cast YOU down, and trampled, you tundeg
our feeb we will tTample you under our feet
| forever. otg .r.c. III
PLAIN WORDS TO LAB0RING MEN-TAxA-
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| AsI look over this meeting, I see before