Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-26
[Correspondence of the Ohio Statesmau.1

Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.1
DELAWARE. August 20, 1867.
The meeting here to-day was larger
than many anticipated, yet not SO large as
your correspondent had attended in Pike,
Seioto, Jackson, Vinton, Hooking, Fair
field and Perry, but five times as large as
the great Radical demonstration in Newark
on Friday last.
| The rain that continued to fall from early
morning until almost noon, it was feared,
would prevent the people who lived at
distance from turning cut, and it may ac-
count for the almost entire absence of la
dies, children and boys; but it seems as If
no storm, no press of business, is sufficient
to keep the Democrats or Republicans,
who are growing tired of high taxes, who
desire the restoration of all the States to
the Union, and wish to retain the ballot,
the bench, the jury box, and the halls of
legislation in the hands of the white men,
from hearing Democratic orators discuss
those questions, upon the wise solution Of
which depend the stability Of our Govern
merit and the prosperity of our people.
The meeting was held in the College
grounds, presided over by Col. VIM. P.
Reed, and addressed by Hon. Judge Van
Trump, OF Lancaster, and Hon. F. 81. Hurd,
Mt. Vernon. The Delaware brass band,
under the lead of Professor s. Kenyon, has
reputation equal to that of any in Central
Ohio, and well did it sustain its character
to-day in the fine and well executed pieces
it performed in escorting the eloquent and
patriotic speakers from the hotel to the
College grounds.
| Judge Van Trump directed the attention
of the people to the great Importance of
the one sole question that to-day occupied
zens. Namely, the question as to whether
our Government should be handed down
to our children and our children's children
as we had received it from the hands of our
revolutionary fathers-a free and glorious
republic, challenging the admiration of the
world, or whether it should be changed
into the worst form of despotism under
which any Intelligent or civilized people
ever lived. This, he said, was the great
question within which all the questions of
Taxation, Debt, Negro Equality, dis
honesty and corruption were con-
tanned, and to which they all pointed
and directly lead. He thanked his stars
that the discussion of this question
of questions, together with all the
monstrous measures of the revoIutionists,
would be full and thorough to-day, as the
audience would be addressed by their can
didate for Attorney General, the young and
eloquent Frank 81. Hurd, of Mt. Vernon;
and it remained only for him to open with
the grave subjects that were exciting the
alarm of every lover of our Republican in
stitutions.
He said as the attempt to establish Ne
gro Suffrage was no longer CoPPERHEAD
LIE, but an insulting Radical reality,
asking the white race to yield up the
government of the country into the hands
of the ignorant blacks for the basest pur-
poses, he would direct their attention to
the motives OF the Radicals in trying to
establish it. And this he did to some pur-
pose.
The present status of the Southern States
being taxed as States in the Union, and
at the same time the denial of their exist
,ence as States; the question between the
-Colonists and Great Britain upon taxation
without representation; the recognition
of the States now called Military Districts
by Congress, by the Administration and by
the Secretary of State, Mr.. Seward, since
the war ended, and the unheard of as
sumption to make Constitutions for States
having no voice, were some of the ques-
tions upon which the speaker very forcibly
dwelt. He read from Political Manual for
1866, by E. Mcpherson, Clerk of House of
representatives, to prove that the Secre-
tary of State, in accordance with Congress
sional enactment, proclaimed the amend
ment to the Constitution part of that in
strument, making Article 13, because it
had been adopted, amongst other States, by
the States of Virginia, Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, South Carolina, Alabama, North Caro-
lima and Georgia, making in all twenty
seven States, and the required three
fourths of all the States, which are thirty
six in number.
The con trast between the amount of tax
alton paid by the American citizen and the
British subject was shown to be surpri-
singly great. The latter paying only 80
cents on the hundred dollars of property,
the former paying THREE DOLLARS AND
NINETY CENTS on THE HUNDRED DOLLARS
The shameless and revolutionary action of
the body calling itself the fortieth Con-
gress, in refusing seats to eight members
from Kentucky, although one of them,
Judge Trimble, had occupied a seat in the
39th Congress, was rather astonishing to
some of the speakers hearers. But, when
he related the case of John D. Young,
another of the members elect, the listeners
looked at each other as much as to ask,
can these things be? The case as related
is as follows: The oath OF man named
Haockaday, signed with his mark, was pro-
duced in Congress, proving that this iden-
tical John d. Young was commanding
party of Rebels that made Haockaday and
other Union soldiers prisoners. 1t was af-
forwards shown that Haockaday was col
ored man who could not read or write, and
took another oath that the first paper
signed by him was wrongly read to him
by the opponent of Young, and that he
therefore swore to and signed false state
ment.
These few points in Judge Van Trump's
speech. notice, though they are only the
light infantry--the mere pickets of the
army with which he assailed the works of
the Radicals. His speech must have
brought conviction to those who were hes
itating.
The speech of Mr.. Hurd was one of those
discourses that powerfully appealed to the
reason. the Justice, the humanity, the in