Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-06
COLUMBUS. o., FRIDAY MORNING. =
NATIONAL BANKS.


of men would purchase hundred thou
sand dollars of United States bonds, and
proceed to organize National bank, and
issue their own promise to pay-to pay in
what? Not in gold. But;when five.d dol
lar note OF the National currency was pre-
sented at the counter, a five dollar green
back was given in exchange for it. When
this was the case, why not issue the green
back at once. The only good these banks
could do was to makesa a few bankers rich
at the expense of the people, and to enable
them to swindle and defraud the people.
THE NEGRO.
Mr.. Vallandigham regretted that the
negro question was not finally and forever
disposed of. But such was not the case.
The question'had been thrust prominently
before the people of Ohio by the Republic
can party in the present canvass, in the
proposed Constitutional Amendment. He
denied that he entertained any prejudice
against the negro. He had more respect
for the African than he had for the man
who falls down and worships him. He
felt reallya Kindness and sympathy for the
negroes, and weuld do them any real favor,
and was sorry to see them made the foot
ball of politicians.
The people of Ohio would find, in the
coming election, the question upon them.
They would find Constitutional Amend
ment" on their tickets, and they would be
called on to vote Eyes or no"
Mr.. Vallandigham spoke st considerable
length on the subject of negro suffrage and
negro political equality, holding that such
equality was impracticable, and that in
compatibility of the two races, physically
and mentally. must forever render ANAL
gamation impracticahle. .,.-.--
The speaker, ou this subject, did not vary
essentially in his argument from what we
have already published in. his PlainvilIe
an nd wi hp
the remark that his, happy Illustrations
and conclusive hits were greeted with fire.
quent and hearty applause 2 To- .ai-9
A PERSONAL MATTER. Fl tl
We give below the closing remarks of
MIR. Vallandigham in his own words, and
in full: ......... .,.--..
1 have now finished what I had to say
upon the especial political issues of the
day; discussing them earnestly, indeed,
but in all candor and fairness r
Or General Hayes, and other gentlemen
of the Republican party, who have main
tanned even common decency in the cam
vass, have spoken with becoming respect
| for my own sake and for theirs. But i de-
sire now, in conclusion, once for all, to dis
pose of two several subjects of strictly
partisan or merely personal character, ana
to do it in q manner and language quite
different from my ordinary habit. IN .,
| L
! Quaker gentleman, who, provoked beyond
endurance by the ipsolence of a cowardly
bully, threw his coat upon the ground, ex-
claiming: Lie there, Quaker, till thrash
the fellow soundly." Laughter.] Apply
ing this story -metaphorically, L propose
now, for a moment, to notice the fact that
one Benjamin F. Wade, who, for some
seventeen years, has dishonored the State
of Ohio in the United States Senate, and
disgraced, ifpossible, the Senate itself, and
who is at this time presiding officer of that
body, one step only removed from the
Presidency, has recently delivered a speecn
lin Marietta, Ohio, which, for reckless men,
dacity and obscene and vulgar abuse of the
Democratic party and its public men, eX-
ceeds anything ever uttered in brothel or
fish market except only similar harangue
by an Indian orator, one year ago. The
motives of the speech are obvious enough,
and as infamous as the effusion itself
yet strictly, in both regards, just what
would be expected from one whose
intellectual and literary N indulgences
and tastes are confined to Petro-
leum v. Nasby and Mother Goose's Melo-
dies. [Cheers and laughter.l Tne frs
} motive is, of course. to revive the blood
I thirsty and insensate bitterness of the war
times of the last six years. as it the ashes o
hate were to be rekindled into a blaze by
f the believing of his inebriate breath. The
!. OGn6r Is TO escape unQer cover from Unt
odium of his recent speech in Kansas, il
behalf of a division of lands and goods
not in the South, but here in our midst
contiscating the property of the rich fol
distribution among the poor. Conscious o
,, the folly and infamy of his Kansas escapad'
and of its damaging results to his political
prospects, he seeks to avoid it after tn,
fashion of the hero, celebrated by Mother
Goose, who, by an unfortunate leap, hav
, ing scratched both his eyes out, in fit o
desperation,".j dumped into bramble busl
and scratched them in again" lLout
cheers.] sEF p - 2. 81"
1 am, myself, forbidden further notice O
!, this fellow or his speech. Some five year
ago, in the Senate of the United States, h
applied language to me similar to that uset
. in his recent vulgar rawlings at Marietta
Quoting his words a few days later, on tn
floor of the House of Representatives.
q said ..Now, sir, here in my place in th
> House, and as a Representative, / denounce
,, and 1 speak it advisedly, the author of tha
!, speech as liar, a ScoundreL and colodrC
: His name is Benjamin f. Wade." [Cheers
q From that hour to this present moment
9 have not heard from this dirty libeler {
o better men, except at a distance OF not les
than hundred miles. Loud cheers
+. And now, fellow citizens, / depart sti
further from my fixed habit, and conde
scend to allude to a recent. article in tn
: : Cincinnati Gazette on the, Democratic part
Z and its leaders in Ohio-men, with the dog
d of whose flock the fellow is not worthy I
: si5-an article consistent, indeed, with th
J, whole course of that Infamous paper fC
q years past, but which, tor its effrontery, il
devilish malignanty and cowardly mer
dacity. is unequaled by any effusiOn fror
Il the pen of the meanest libeller and blacl
Is guard who ever stood in the pillory, &
it with cropped ears was whipped from New
- p. Al, r
IS and prolonged cheers. And L hear say
e Richard Smith, the miserable scoundreE-
Is repeat it, the miserable scoundrel who cor
S trolls the Gdzette-renegade from that nobl
It island which, in his person, did bring fort
: reptile, that if he shall succeed in his
Vt tabolical purpose of stirring up civil di
't cord, mobbing, rioting, assassination al
: general terror in the land, he will be al
IS be sh>ll be the first dog, hung to the LAM
20 posts n Cincinnati. [Cheers. For his a
ready multiplied libels, falsehoods and ira
: torous oItrages, he deserves, if ever CO..
d Victed villain, did, the extreme punishme
1t meted out by the old English law tor tt
ID crime of. treason-'to be dragged to Il
Ot gallows without sledge or hurdle; to
" hanged by the neck and then cut dow
,r alive; has entrails to be taken out al
,e- burned while he is yet alive; his head C
lie off; his body divided into four parts, al
to his head and quarters placed at the dispos
ut ot"-Edwin NJ. Stanton or Joseph Hol
d loud and prolonged cheers.l $50
$ Sirs, we have borne these things qui
y too long in polite and patient sileno
e Others have right to deal with them
they see fit. So have L and hencefOrth.
i proper time, proper place, and sufficient
IS Important subjectmatter, propose to I
re sort to the approved customary rules
le Radical Republican warfare and tacti
er Self-preservation and success shall no Ion
as er, as far as l am concerned, be sacrific
+. to dignity and politeness which, so
from commanding respect and appreci
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