Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-11

parrot between here and the south pole
and in twenty-four hours make him a
fair average Radical speaker; for il
twenty-four hours I can teach him to
say, "Copperhead, Butternut, traitor.
! Laughter and applause.
CHARACTER OF DEMOCRATIC AND RE
PUBLICAN ORATORY.
You have seen what kind of speeches
the Democratic speakers are making this
very year. I say nothing about my
own; but you have seen what kind Of
speeches Ranney, Jewett, Vallandigham,
Van Trump, Pendleton and others are
making, and you have seen how, like
statesmen, they argue the great questions
upon, which you liberties aud your
prosperity depend. You have seen all
this, and now I ask you to contrast their
speeches with those that are published
on the other side. Contrast that nigh
ty speech of Ranney's at Mansfield, with
the speech of my amiable friend, Gen.
| Hayse, down here at Lebanon, with
which be opened the campaign, and
which consists for the greater part Of
slips cut out of newspapers and pasted
together, in order to show, as he says
what some obscure man or newspaper
said on some occasion, or what Pendle-
ton said on another occasion, or what on
another, somebody was heard to say,
that somebody else had said, that Judge
Thurman was reported to have said
I Applause Why, I cannot help think
ing that my excellent friend Hayes
and am very proud to call him my
friend, for a very respectable gentleman
he is-when he set about making that
speech, must have got an Abolition sew
ingcircle, with their scissors, to cut slips
out of newspapers and paste them to-
gether ana call it a speech. Laughter.
Aut that, to say the least of it, is some
thing of a decent speech, although the
whole scope and animus of it, from be-
ginning to end, is to perpetuate the very
passions and prejudiees to which have
alluded. and which Gen. Hayes, if he
asDires to be the Chief Magistrate of
this great State, ought to be the first
man to endeavOr to allay.
THE DEMOCRACY AND REBELT.
But they say the Democratic party
sympathized with the rebels during the
war, and opposed the Government. Tell
that to the hundreds of thousands of
Democrats who went to the war to sus-
tain the ole flag, and to the fathers and
the mothers who sent their sons there to
battle for it, that they sympathise with
the rebellion. Again, they say that we
opposed the Government during the war.
I defy any man alive to point to the op-
position of the Democratic party to one
single act of the Government that was
not violation of the Constitution of the
United States. We did oppose violations
of the Constitution. We sought to PIE
serve that glorious instrument. which
guarantees our liberties, and which we
hope will still guarantee the liberties Of
our posterity for all time to come. We
did oppose the most shameful violation
that any country ever saw, of its funda-
mental law. Our mission was to protect !
the Constitution, to protect free instiu-
tion, and when we saw them shameless
" trodded under foot. not for the pur-
pose of restoring the Union, not for the |
purpose of maintaining the supremacy Of
the old flag, but for the purpose of set
ting negroes free aud putting negroes
above white meu-then we did say, Stick /
TO the Constitution That is what we /
said, and we have nothing at all to take
back, and nothing that needs to be
apologized for. They may speak of that
Just as long and just as much as we
please, and they will find it impossible
to point to one single act Of the Govern
ment that we opposed, unless that act
was unconstitutional. That is the truth
Of If. Was it opposition to the Govern
ment to oppose unconstitutional acts
WHY. what gave the Government the
right to do anything but the Counstitu-
ton? And was it unpatriotic to require
of those who were destroying the Con-
stitution, and who held their whole right
to rule by virtue of the Constitution, to
obey the mandates of that Instrument?
WAS THERE A DEMOCRATIC REBELLION?
But further, Mr.. Wade says that this
late rebellion was a Democratic rebellion.
Who, pray, who we're more interested
than any others in preventing this dis
union of the States It was the Demo
cratic party of the North. We know
'ull we'll if the South went out of the I
Union and succeeded in going out, that I
With it went a great Democratic strength. t
We knew it left our fate in the Jaws of 1
he Abolition lion, and therefore if par
Y feeling could have swayed any mas t
lDon such a subject as that, we of all {
others had the most interest in keeping !
he South in But we were actuated by /
higher motives than that-higher than t
my party motives whatever. This great t
country Of ours was one in which we
lad common inheritance, with its glo-
ious memories, with its free institutions {
md with its mighty prosperity, and we c
rad the same interest that other people 9
lad that it should not be discovered, but t
hat 1t should continue to be the great G
md mighty and exemplary republic of a
he world. That was our interest. What a
more interest had the Radicals than we l
We had in the preservation of the coun- ]
ry. Had they any more lives to be 7
aved, any moro liberties to be enjoyed,
ny more character to maintain than we? v
f theo had property, had we not prop i
y too? If they had wives and child C
Iren, had we not wives and children too, f
nd as quite as good and quite as beau i
iful as theirs? IF they we're interested /
n this being one great and mighty re- v
,ublio, had we net the same interest? v
nd, in addition to that, had We not the !
.artY interest to which l have alluded, | Q