Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-26

proclaimed in thunder tone, not to be ig-
nored, not to be misunderstood, their SOW
| ereign will. r
The Union shall be preserved! The Gov
ernment shall hereafter be administered
solely upon the basis of the Constitution
the Constitutional rights of the citizens,
the prerogatives of sovereign States, shall
not be invaded hereafter; our freemen'
/ rights we will never surrender to an
self-government; we don't want gold
for the rich and rags for the poor.
One currency for all Let all, without
distinction, equally share the oppressive
burden of taxation and NationaI debt. No
longer will we be ruled by corrupt men,
who have acquired, and now seek to con-
tinue their power by false pretences only,
who have squandered our Inheritance, and
/ who, in few years, have brought Us to the
very verge of general ruin and bankrupt
cy. The relation between the North and
South shall not be the relation of the con-
queror to his captive. No! as the hearty
cooperation of the people on either bank
of this beautiful river has wiped out, and
forever abolished seeming division line
between Kentucky and Ohio, by the mag
nificent structure of yonder bridge, so
shall the abyss opened between the North
and South by the misrule of Radicalism be
covered again and overbridged; so shall
the North be again linked to the South by
the lasting bonds of love and affection and
mutual respect.
This my friends, is the sovereign will of
the people, as clearly and Enthusiastically
proclaimed at the late elections. And this
will of the people will be again the SUI
preme law of the land; the policy, the
principles of the Democratic party will
again be the policy, the principles of the
National Government, if we are consistent,
If we are true to the sacred tenets which
we have manfully advocated and defended
in years of sore trial and tribulation, and
which now have carried us to brilliant tri-
jumps over defiant majority.
Let us shout over the recent victories
Let us celebrate them, not as a victory of
one party over another party, but as vic
tory of reason over tanaticism, a victory
of liberty over despetism. And let us be
worthy of the victory we have gained.
Let us Danish the demons of hatred. re-
venge and sectionalism; let us be guided
only by the angels of mildness, love, wis
dom and patriotism. Let us remember
that Our defeated foes are also members
of this Republican household. Let us not
do unto them as they have done unto
us. but let us gather burning Goals on their
heads. The true principle of Democracy is
equality of all in liberty-is Justice to all
under the same supreme, benign laws. This
principle, applicable to ourselves, is also
equally applicable to our political oppo-
nents. The same rights we claim for our
selves let us accord to them also. Yea, let
us protect and defend them in the full en-
joyment of those rights, as we claim pro-
lection for ourselves!
Actuated by this spirit, let us carry out
our patriotic mission. Then, and then
only, shall we be successful then, and then
only, awaits us the crown OF final victory.
And, as in 1867. we have stormed the State
Malakof, so shall we in 1868 storm the Sc
bastopol of the Federal Government. The
next Democratic jubilee will be National
jubilee in the Capital at Washington, and
if the signs of the times deceive me not, it
may well be, and hope that one of Ohio's
best sons and noblest Democratic states
man-Geo. H. Pendleton-will be there to
receive us and bid us welcome at the White
House.
And God will again bestow the blessings
of lasting peace and prosperity upon peo-
pie once more happy, once more united.
And once more the inscription will smile
down upon us from our beloved star BAN
ner-nO North, no South. no East, no West.
The Union of sovereign States the whole
Union, undivided, undivisible. now and in
all eternity!