Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-27

On motion the Convention adjourned
sine die.
Speech of Fred. Hassaurek.
In the evening, Hon. Fred. Hassaurek,
OF Cincinnati, opened the campaign with
the following stirring speech:
If the Bourbon leaders Of the Demo-
cratic party have forgotten anything, IL
Is only the great fundamental principle
of Democracy to which their party owed
its origin and former strength. They
have forgotten only what they should
have RENE Cmbered, but, with reference to
all that they should have tried to un-
learn, their memory is as tenacious as
/ that of the Bourbons of Europe. Our
! American Bourbons are still fighting the
Issues of the first battle of Bull Run:
but they have not yet learned the news
OF the fall of Richmond and the surren-
| der OF Lee. They have not yet realized
that the war has terminated in the de-
feat of Secession and the vndication of
our National integrity. They are still
coming over an old pro-slavery dispatch,
written by Mr. Seward, early in the be-
! ginning of the war, when reconciliation
and peaceable reunion were still thought
! to be possible. But they will not realize,
that, in the meantime, their pet Institu-
ton had been swept away, and now
era inaugurated by the success of the
Federal arms. They went to sleep, like
Rip Van Wrinkle, years ago, with the
resolutions of 1888 under their pillows,
and they are just awakening from their
dreams. They cannot believe that Mic
Nedder and Jacob Stein are dead, and
that the days of poor Rip are gone. They
have again presented themselves to the
people of Ohio with platformo of politi-
cal Bourbonism. Its outward feature is
its interminable length. Its intrinsic
feature is disloyalty. 1t is a rehash of
the anti-war speeches Of Pendleton and
cation. Its breath is reputation. 1t is
fraught with bad faith. 1t spurns the
obligations our national struggle has de-
vOived upon US. In the speech which I
had the honorto deliver before the Union
State Convention of last year, / said thaS
the people of the United States have as
sumed two solemn obligations. Que Of
protection to the nations wards, the
freedmen and the other of good faith to
our national creditors. If the Democrat
ic party had had the power, it would, to
our everlasting disgrace, have repudiated
10th these obligations. Whatever the
Union party undertook toward the per-
formancc of these obligations, met with
the unqualified opposition of our oppo-
nents. They OPP osed the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion. They opposed
the abolition of slavery. They opposed
all measures for the protection OF the
lives and liberties of Southern Unionists.
And if our national debt is being paid,
it is done in spite of the Democratic
party. If it were not for the existence
of the Union party, the true genuine
Democratic idea would now be without
u representative.
Governments are instituted for the
protection of individual rights. Whether
the power necessary for this purpose
shall be conferred on an nristocracy OF q
privileged few, or many, or whether it
shall be vested in the whole people, is
the great question which now agitates
the public mind in both hcmispheres, in
England az well as i'm America. The
history of the last few years has clearly
marked out the policy which will be
adopted by our people. And this with
your permission shall briefly proceed
tosshow.
THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF PROTECTION
FROM ABOVE DowNwARDS.
In order to fulfill our duty to the freed
men by protecting their lives, liberty and
property, several laws had been passed
by Congress which proved insufficient.
The alnendatory Freedmen's Bureau
Bill was passed. So was the Civil Rights
Bill. But these laws did not fully ac-
complish their purpose. Their execution
depended on an unwilling President;
the machinery created by them was too
compile ated and unwieldy and their OBJ
ject was defeated by tie determined hos
tility of public opinion in the States for
which they were chiefly intended. Thus
far Congress in endeavoring to protect
the persons and property Of the freed
n,n haI -Iof 1
European system of protection, which Is
protection from above downwards. That
system proved insufficient; and it be-
came necessary to resort to the Ameri-
can system of protection which Is pro-
lection from below upwards. The Eus
ropean system IL the inverted pyramid
resting on its apex: the American sys-
TEN is the pyramid sn its natural posi-
tIon resting on its broad square founda-
ton In continental Europe the govern
ment in or ter to protect those under Its
charge, reduces them to pupilage and
leads them like children tied to its apron
strings. It interferes with everything
and regulates everything. You meet 1t
at every corner Itpries into every mans
business. You cannot lay your hands
upon any thing for which 1t has not pre-
scribed rules and regulations. That sys-
tenn would never do for us. II would be
In view of the extent and
of our country. 10 would be
Unsuitable To the peculiar character, the
self-assertion, and strong
of our people. II would
De incompatible with our fundamental
dea of self-goverRmen.. For this reason
Il also proved impracticable as a means
Of shielding the freedmen against out
RACES and oppression, 1t became neces-
sary, therefore, to apply our own system
10 them--our great American system OF
'e!f-protocfion--that is to say, Of employ
ng SUFFRAGE as the principal means OF
the ends of government
laE AMERICAN sYsTcM OF sELF-PRoTEc-
IIoN, on PROTECTION FhoM BELOW
UPWARDS. Htl
Our system is based on the suppositioA
hat vote IL a much stroDger weapon