Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-20
Guernsey County. Ohio.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.]
CAMRRIDGF. O.. AuptIst. liz. 1897

CAMBRIDGE, o., August Is, 1867.
Judge Ranney was booked for this place
to-day. The day has come and went, but
Ranney did not; yet Follett did, and so did
the people, and fine day it was, and so
was the meeting. 1t was large beyond all
expectation, and orderly and earnest in a
most commendable degree. The people are
actually becoming solemn in view of the
sad state of civil affairs in the nation.
Thoughtful men look grave and wonder to
what end this wickedness in our rulers
will come. What kind of Government
they themselves will leave to their chill
dren, and whether the glorious, civil and
religious privileges, won for us, and be-
queathed to us by our noble fathers, are
not soon Gf they are not already, to be
rent from us, and we, as nation, sunk
down into despotism, as horrid as that
which now holds its iron grasp on some of
the oppressed nations of Europe?
1 tell you the people are thinking, and
solemn alarm is filling their hearts and is
seen depicted in their countenances.
Mr.. Follett pictured our danger with a
master hand, and with'a truthfulness that
must have produced conviction in the
minds of the most skeptical, as to the po-
litical corruption of all the leaders of the
Radical party. AS an orator his voice is
strong, clear and pleasing; his logic con-
elusive, and his facts not to be gainsayed.
He filed an awful indictment against the
doings of Congress and the unjust, re-
vengeful, and tyrannical edicts and meas
ures of the men who control it. History,
law, justice, civil compacts, solemn prom
ises were all drawn upon by him in most
eloquent manner to prove that Radical rule
is only SYNONYM tor Radical ruin. For
two hours and q half he held the large
mass of people, of both sexes and all par
ties, chained to their seats in the Public
Square with his searching examinations
and potent appeals. This, too, was done in
the kindest spirit and in style that must
have pleased the most exacting. He did
much good am certain, and it will be
long before the good people of this city
and county forget the Hon. John f.
Follett, of Newark. --s.. ~.
This was followed by speech from Hon
W. Lawrence Senatorial nominee tor this
District), of which 1 wish could give you
the gist here, but cannot. 1t is enough to
say it was in Mr.. LIS best style, who has
been a kind of pet among the Guernsey
Democracy for more than quarter of a
century. He dwelt on the financial ifea-
ture of affairs, favoring the scheme
(now becoming SO popular) of paying
off the public debt, or rather
of retiring the national currency by
the issue of legal tenders. He was Sc
we're on bondholders for being opposed to
the taxation of the Government securities
held in their hands, especially as most of
them were, or pretended to be, SO s'loyal''
as to give but about 40 cents on the dollar
for their bonds, taking advantage of the
necessities of the Government when in
need of aid, and demanding 7.3 per cent. in
gold interest on them every six months,
and now asking Government to redeem
them in gold at Sl4O on the dollar, all of
which Taxpayers had to pay. Such, said
Mr.. L., is shoddy ''loyalty." The rich gave
little gold at high interest, but the poor
their blood, to the aid of the Government,
loan with big interest increased four-fold;
whereas the sons-of the poor are dead or
wounded, and can receive no indemnity.
Such is ''loyalty," Mr.. l.. would keep say
ing to these points, or, in the language of a
certain noted if not distinguished states
man of Guernsey (the late Hon. DIR. It.
Clark, he would say, ''Do you understand
that ?'
/ His illusions to the affected sympathy
for the soldiers as evinced in the crocodile
tears of the "verdaht" editors of the Negro
journal of this place, were as pointed as
they were truthful. Thus ended the
'15th" in Guernsey. The people here are
alive to the extraordinary issues of this
campaign, and are determined not to al
4 low their liberties, one by one, to be
snatched from them without most deter
mined resistance. Well do they know
that if the accursed tyrants who are now
seeking to enslave them are not soon
dragged down from power, the oldest man
among us will live long enough to weep
bitter tears in vain over the fall of liberty
| in the land of Washington. May God de-
fend the right, and succeed the Just.
NJ. Y:N.
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