Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-11
Union MeetIng.--speech of
Governor Cox.

Webb's Hall was crowded on Tues
day evening of last week, by one of
the best audiences we have eve seen
assembled in Warren, called together
for the double purpose of testifying
the regard of our people for our dis
tinguished townsman and the worthy
Governor of our State, and to hear him
discuss some of the main issues diyi-
ding the political parties at this time.
The Hon. John Hutchins was called to
preside, and on taking the chair, made
some brief, pleasing remarks relative
to the former intimate relations which
the Governor had held to the people
of Warren for years ; Of the pride they
feel in his material success in civil and
military life, and that the best wishes
Of this people would ever attend Gov
ernor Cox, wherever his future home
may be.
The Governor was welcomed on the
stand by a round Of hearty applause
He spoke of the pleasure he experience
ed in meeting with so nany of his old
friends and neighbors, and that during
the few days he had been visiting here,
there seemed to cluster in Warren,
more than in any other place, the
h~eart-feeling ofhome.
In discussing the several topics of
his speech, the Governor seemed to
speak with more than usual energy
and power. He demonstrated with
the most convincing clearness, that the
Democratic party always has been and
still is committed to the doctrines of
State Sovereignty, involving the right
of Secession; that they were re-
sponsible for Secession, which inaugur-
ated a war against the Federal Govern
ment, producing E train of dire conse-
quences, awful sacrifice of life. loss Of
property, and the entailment of a most
stupeDdous debt. However dreadful
all these things may have been and
are, however wicked, however oppress-
i've, however destruetivs the war, all
was justly chsrgeable to the rebels, Sc
s~essionists, their aIders and abettors
and the Union men who denied the
right of secession, who opposed the re-
bellion. who stood by the flag of their
country, did their duty, are in no
wise chargeable with either the war or
the great burden of debt that now OPP
presses the nation. The Governor dis
cussed the question of finances with
great ability and c~learness, showing up
the absurd and futile schemes Of
the Democrats to force the nation into
reputation.
The present reconstruction policy
advocated by the Republican party, if
regarded as severe, has been made so
by the obstinacy of the .confederates.
under the advice of such men a PEN
dleton, Vsllandighsm and Thurman,
compelling Congress, step by step, to fix
such terms of re-admission into the
Federal Government, as would render
it impossible for the loyal portion of
the nation to be cheated by the seces-
sionists- On the subject of impartial
suffrage, the Governor spoke briefly,
but expressed himself decidedly in ia
vor of it. and that having been forced
by the memorable logic of events to de-
msnd the right to voting for the blacks
of the South, we could not consistent
ly refuse it to the few in our own State.
At the conclusion of the speech the
audience arose to their feet and gave
three rousing cheers for Gov. Cox, and
also gave three equally hearty cheers
for General Hayes, the Union Repnbli-
can candidate for Governor.
The meeting then adjourned, all
feeling that it had been good for them
t. be there"