Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-27

Equal Taxation and a Speedy Res
toration of All the states to the
UniOn.fn Full IAttendance-Speech
by Thurman, Hurd, Van Trump
and LOwenstein.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesmau.1
lD[I-E q TPIoUA, August %, 1867.
Piqua to-day had the appearance of life,
| joy, gladness and hope. Decked in her best
attire, with flags streaming from her
windows, and bands of music, hundreds of
people, who think the Negro, like every
thing else that God has created, all very
well in his own place, and that the White
m IN of America h. not, all of sudden, lost
his intelligence, to degree that makes the
| Ignorance of the Black man an actual
necessity in the government of the country,
paraded the. streets. At half past ten
o'clock the train from Greenville arrived,
bearing Judge Thurman and Frank II.
Hurd, the Democratic candidates for Gov
ernor and Attorney General. Carriages,
band of music and fine body of Demo-
Gratis, headed by the Hon. VIM. j. Jackson,
President of the City Council, and the Hon.
lJ. F. Mckinney, ex-member of Congress,
were drawn up in line at the depot, in
waiting to receive and escort them to their
rooms. --......s s. =, 49,, sa
About this time delegations began to
pour into town, until the main street SEEM
ed an animated mass of cheerful and con-
fdent white men who look with glowing
anticipation to the 9Th of October-the day
that will declare Allen G. Thurman the
Governor elect of Ohio. .-t sisi5 sis' i.i''i
Judge Thurman had scarcely been seated
In his room, when gentlemen who have
severed their connection with the Radical
party began to call and seek introduction
to him. This continued until dinner was
announced, and was resumed again and
confined from the adjournment of the after
noon meeting, at which the Judge address,
ed the people, until evening. What hope
| full, happy sight to behold fine, honest farm
ers, mechanics, laborers, business and pro-
fessional men, pressing forward to heartily
shake the hand of the Democratic candidate
for Governor; accompanying the action
with such expressions ass udges Inever.
voted the Democratic ticket, but think
those bonds ought to be taxed or redeem
ed with such currency as they were bought
with, and cannot any longer support the
party that refuses to tax them.n- "Mr.
Thurman, my party always denied, and
have repeatedly denied with indignation,
the charge that it = was. in favor
of Negro Suffrage and, Negro Equal
ity, but must confess we denied what was
true, and very unjustly denounced the
Democrats as pack of Copperhead liars;
but, as for myself will act as, always
declared would; that is, to leave the party
whenever they advocated Negro Equality
swell, sir, l agree with the Democracy that
the Southern States should be restored to
all their rights under: the Constitution as
speedily as possible, and put them on the
road to prosperity, in order that they may
be able to help in paying off the national
debt, and that the necessity of keeping
such large standing army may be obvia7
ted, as well as freedmen's bureaus, and
other expensive machinery now in opera
tion there"
Many readers of the STATESMAN, who a
few years since suffered from party hatred
and Radical mob violen ce, can, am sure,
imagine the feelings of your correspondent
as he looked on the scene above described,
and contrasted the present tone of feeling
with the deplorable spirit of hatred and an
imosity that then existed, and which
Senator Wade is.now using all his talent
on the stump to rekindle. -o2 'nga
At O'Clock Judge Thurman addressed
the people from stand erected in the Mar
ket square. He spoke for an hour and
three quarters, reviewing the history of
the party now in power and proving that
its leaders had, during a series of years,
been endeavoring to bring on war bez
tween the free and slave holding States,
with a view to the abolition of sla-
very. He showed the manner in which
they had acted to break up the Wing party
with that object in view Hereviewed the
various steps they had taken and the many
shapes, forms aud names they had assumed.
He showed how Abraham Lincoln, VIM.
Dennison, Salmon z. Chase, Simon Gamer
on, Benjamin F. Wade, Joseph Holt Ben
jamin F. Butler and Edwin NJ. Stanton
had all affiliated with Gerret Smith, Joshua
r. Giddings, Wendell Phillips and William
Lloyd Garrison who had denounced the
Constitution as league with hell, and
some of whom, have openly boasted that
they had spent years in trying to dissolve
the Union. $50 -HI ROOD IF
He showed thus that by taunts, by en-
ceuragGment, by declaring the South had
the right, and by every other: means their
ingenuity could invent the South was in
duced to secede. r.
He showed, also, that, during all the time
these men whose aim was to get the Gov
ernment into their own hands, were trying
to bring on the war, the Democratic party
was sounding the alarm, bidding the peo-
pie beware and adnonishing them North
and South to come to the rescue; and by
their votes save the country from the i'm
pending danger, that war, and perhaps
dissolution of the Union would be the in
evitable result. But the answer to Demo-
cratic speakers=who were pleading for the
Union, was sneer and the cry Union
..saver;n and when war, like dark cloud,
was rising in the political horizon, the an
swer to all efforts to avert it, was: The
Union is not worth rush withouta little
bloodletting.
When the speaker had dwelt for short
time on the public debt, the unprecedently
high taxes and the amendment now pro-
posed to the Constitution of Ohio, he re-
tired from the stand. Three hearty cheers
were given for Judge Thurman and all
the candidates on the Democratic ticket.
The meeting was then adjourned by the
President, Hon. VIM. j. jackson, to meet
at half nast Z O'Clock, and hear the elo-