Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-19

Party.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
LANCASTER, o., Aug. 18th.
| Old Fairfield is all right. She pledges her
self for the largest gains on her old Demo-
cratic majorities Of any county in Ohio
Your correspondent is authorized to say
that every voter in this city. under twen-
ty-seven years old, no matter to what par
ty he has heretofore belonged, is opposed
to the Constitutional Amendment and
squarely out in favor of the Democratic
State Ticket. The young men OF Lancas-
ter have nobly wheeled into line. The
Mumaughs the Kutzes; the Rabbits
and all the young gentlemen of high social
standing who had until recently been act
ing with the Radicals have left the Niger
equalityists. And at the head of the old and
middle-aged men here who have severed
| their connection with the revolutionary
faction stands D. Tallmadge, ESQ., one of
the wealthiest and most influential citizens
| in Central Ohio. The meeting to-day is
said to be the largest that has been held
here in any previous campaign, except in
'63, when persecution OF Democrats was SO
rampant as to beget on their part feeling
of enthusiasm and determination to stand
unitedly to their principles and to each
other, that was unprecedented. The
speakers stand was erected under the
shade of large hill, convenient to where
the old court house had stood; and, not
withstanding the immense audience were
without any protection from the SUMS
heat, not twenty men of that vast multi
tude stirred from their position during
three hours and half, until the meeting
adjourned. 1 mention this fact as an evil
dence of the deep hold the critical state of
the country has taken on the peoples
minds. q" 4-- tF
At one o'clock the President, DIR. M.
Dawson, of Royalton, introduced the Hon.
VIM. e. Finck, who made one of those fine
speeches that can be delivered only by the
statesman, orator and jurist. The utter
disregard of the Rump Congress for the
limitations of the Constitution, and the
stupendous usurpations of that revolution
ary body were argued in masterly style.
The Invasion of the rights and prerogatives
of the Executive and of the Supreme
Court was shown to be not only reyo-
lutionary, but dangerous and mischiev-
GUS. The case of western post
master was instanced who had been
removed for robbing the mail, but had to be
restored to office because the Senate would
not confirm his successor, and the only pro-
lection left was for the Postmaster General,
Randall, to write him requesting that he
steal as little as possible. The law passed
by Congress, prohibiting the President
from assigning Gen. Grant to duty else
where than in the District OF Columbia
withoutconsento of the Senate; the insult
ing reply of Secretary Stanton when asked
to resign; the declaration made by him to
Gen. Grant that he yielded only to superior
force; the attempts at impeachment and
the reasons why abandoned; show how
fast and radically the revolution has pro-
gressed. If said the speaker, the Presi-
dent deserved impeachment at all, it was
because he did not, in the very beginning,
remove some of those bad men that he has
too long continued in office-[I go in for
the removal of them all, shouted voice
from the center of the audience. A hearty
hurrah for Mr.. Tallmadge was the re-
sponse, the speaker joining.] The bill in
troduced into Congress by the member
from the Pittsburgh district, prohibiting
the Supreme Court from deciding any law
unconstitutional unless all the Judges con-
CURED, was denounced as Indicating a de-
termination on the part of that Radical
faction to usurp all power and annihilate
the last vestige OF Liberty, Law and Justice.
The invasion of the Supreme Court, because
it decided that military tribunals had no
power to try civilians, because it was true
to its trust and remained faithful, while
Others were faithless; the law passed to
indemnify the guilty perpetrators of
tyrannic outrages; the subversion of Ten
States, where every vestige of liberty is
destroyed, and the civil made subject
to the Military power, in contempt of the
Constitution, were measures that received
the most whitening invective. ~,.1
Can it be true, asked the speaker, that
one-t third of free America is governed by
military power? The position of Stevens
that Ten States were conquered Territory
and not States in the Union, was ably and
learnedly disputed. The war was waged
to preserve the Union, and so Congress
declared. Was this declaration a base
talsehood? The absurdity of government
conquering territory from its own citizens
was very ridiculous. No such example
ever occurred on the face of the globe.
General Sherman conceived the true solu-
ton. Had his policy been adopted, all
would be well to-day. But the Revolu-
tionists did not want the Union restored.
Twenty years ago one of their leaders de-
nounced the Constitution as league with
hell. Tax gatherers are in every district
of the South. The law OF Congress says
there shall be two hundred and forty-o
members of the House, yet fifty are ex-
cluded. Judges of supreme court
can only go into the District of
Columbia and into STATES. All Ten
States South are put into circuits
for holding court, and yet they are de-
held court in North Carolina a few days
ago. How could he if North Carolina is
not State? How could JEFF. Davis be in
dicted and bailed in the State Of Virginia
if Virginia is not State? Ask General
Hayes, when he comes here, if the Southern
States are States, by what authority Con-
gress goes there to disfranchise the white
race and to enfranchise the black. No such
power is conferred by the Constitution.
All this is done by the most wicked usur
patton ever attempted. If Congress has
the power to regulate the franchise in ten
States, it carries the right to do so in all.
On the black amendment to the white
Constitution of Ohio, my friends, if you
are in favor of yielding up your birth
right to the black man, vote for General