Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-29

intercourse and communication with
home, except only such as was
permitted to one party alone, you
were taught to regard your fathers.
your mothers, your brothers, your Sis
tiers. all who adhered to the D. em ocrat C
party, as enemies and traitors to the r
country. |, who speak to you here day,
was, above all men, so reviled. But the
war ended. You made your last march
your last bivOuac; saw the last embers of
your camp fires; heard the last gun fired,
and the last drum beat, and listened, at
length. with eyes full of tears and hearts
full of joy, to the swelling notes of the final
recall" which spoke to you of home, and
hearth stone, and mother! You are here.
God be praised, though many a comrades |
bones and dust repCse in a far distant soil.
You are here, your own masters, to Judge, |
and act, and vote as you will. The false
practices of those who imposed upon or
tyrannlzed over you, stand revealed To-day |
their real acts in the past, their real de-
signs for the future. Your eyes are oppned. |
The accumulated frauds and falsehoods OF |
six years have perished before your scruti- |
nizing vision. And now to you, ''Bovs in
Biue," in this presence, and before these
my witnesses, let me say that all you ever
heard, and all you ever read charging me
with hostility in thought, or word, or
deed, at any time, or in any place, or in any
station, public or private, to you PERSONAL
lv or as soldiers, is totally and absolutely
false. We differed as to the war. You
had right TO your opinions, L to mine.
These are the same now as in and from Lhe
d fn,aif 70 yours, answer for your
selves in the light of the history of the psss
SIX years.. But now, and here, upon this
spot, bring forward any responsible in |
dorser of the falsehoods | have denounced. |
any man OF note. prince or peer, from
highland or lowland, from far or near, and
will tell him to his teeth,
.st Lord Angus. thou hast l'edp'
Finally, men of Knox, we have won a !
great and magnificent victory. What shall
we do with it? Upon this question, so
comprehensive. so significant, so momen-
tops, depends not merely whether the
Democratic party shall go forward to fu-
ture and further triumphs, but whether it
shall live. 1T i5 shall be true to principle
true to the men who represent principle.
full of courage. hearkening to no tinrd
counsel, yet securing harmony and good
will in its ranks: if firmly, and with mex
orabe purpose, it shall do the work ap-
pointed for it. and. with all tbs. shall COM
bine wisdom. and honesty, and moderation.
and Justice in all its acts; above all,
II, in every measure and utterance
outside the limits of mere partisan organ-
lzation. it shall consult the good OF the
country, and not of party, or. baser still,
of the men OF the party, it will rule again
iii Ciit dildlTS OF Gne SCaIe SJOVernnle0b ana
the Federal Government for a hundred
years to come. But if, taking counsel OF
the timid. the venal, the corrupt, t shall
shrink from an absolute and courageous
assertion of its principles, and enforce
ment of its policies and vindicatioa of its
public men if it shall halt one jot or title
in its support of the issues upon which it
won the fight; if it shall permit dissnn-
sion and discord as to candidates or
upon policies and measures of legislation;
especially if, forgetting that it is Il Dpmoc-
Icy. it shall have regard rather to the inter
est of capital than of labor, if the rich than
the poor, the few than the many; and shall
consider section, or party. or SELF rather
than the country and the whole country
in the day that it shall eat of srrh fruit, it
shall surely die, and upon its grave-stone,
for monument it win have none, shall be
inscribed the lamentations of Carthage
over her greatest son, You knew how tn
conquer, but not how to use the victory"
| [Great cheering.]