Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-14
VOL. X,jXXIV.8iF NgHl

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government that prevailed then. We had
at that time low tariff, low taxes, Consti<
tuition and Union-a union OF hearts and
of hands. We had liberty with all its
blessings, civil and political liberty. per-
sonal liberty, freedom of speech and free
| dom of the press, and freedom of thought
| with white mans suffrage in the land
These things. have in whole or in part
passed away; but 1 choose not to deal with
the days gone by. ~
| BoURBoNIsM. ~ ,.t,,rs.
| In common with others of the Democrat
ic party, have been called one of the
Bourbons of politics, because Napoleon the
Great once said of the old Bourbon Kings
of France that they never learned any thing
and never forgot any thing. There are
many things have not learned. | have
mot learned to disregard the Constitution,
to despise the Union, to trample under foot
constitutional liberty, to defy constitution
| al law. There are many things have not
| forgotten. i have not forgotten the prin-
cip1es upon which this government was
founded, or the lessons of the men by whom
it was founded. [Applause.] But the issues
Iof the past, questions of policy that have
tperished, have nothing to do with. l am
mot here to discuss the past, not even those
events of quite recent date. l hand them
over quite willingly to that distinguished
Bourbon, General Hayes, the Republican
candidate for Governor, whose speech indi-
Gates that he never knew any thing before
the war, and has learned nothing since
that he has fixed that as the great epoch in
the human family equal only in importance
to the creation of Adam and the birth of
Christ. He has not passed the fact that
there was a war. 1t is ever present to him,
and he is full of all its bitterness, its preju-
dices, its annimosities, its denunciations,
in part though congratulate him very
heartily upon. the improved tone OF his
speech, far different as it is, from what we
have been accustomed to hear, and, so far
as he is concerned, Il shall not ethe first one
to violate the proprieties OF gentleman IN
remarks about him. In discussing the IS
sues of the day, I shall do SO after the old
fashion, from the beginning. Brought up
amid the hills of old Colqmbiana. in the
good old Democratic days, 1 learned that
good old scripturaI rule, "lVhatsoever thy
hand findeth to do, do it with all thy
might.'' have done that as best as knew
Ehow, from my earliest efforts in public life,
and shallso continue AT ss
s, wATHCING AND WAITING.
+ There are other issues to discuss beside
those, which were before us during the
war. These have been decided and | do
not propose to discuss them again. 1t is
very true 1 was not here in 1868 to take
part inrthe gubernatorial campaign laugh
ter so that / may be said to have missed
something and lost some. time, and perhaps
1 ought to be allowed acseparate campaign
to make up for it. / refer to the period
bwhenT I was across the border "watching
and waiting" Yes, / was s'watching and
waiting" across the border, but the men
who refer to that subjectin that way should
have their tongues cleave to the roof ofoftheir
mouths, and their cheeks crimsoned with
shame. 1Applause.] l did watch and wait
on the border, and did so to some pur-
pose; and when I saw fit to return, and
wait and watch on this side of the border,
L did so. I came and asked to leave.
ICheers.] Since the year 1863, have not
discussed, except merely by way of allu-
sion, these questions of personal liberty
and constitutional right. My public
speeches, for the reporting of which am
indebted to the gentlemen here present,
will show, that for the last four years have
not made these matters subject of more
| than occasional remark. s-ser -. .oe---.-
The reason is obvious enough, though 1
do not care, upon this occasion, to enter into
any explanation of it. The people then
resolved that migh6 made right, and not
the Constitution; that the strong arm was
tobe the sole standard and criterion of what
might be done, and military or political
necessity the rule by which everything was
to be tested. That was the situation, and
accepted it; but it is bad rule that won't
work both ways. + have confined my re-
marks, in each campaign, to the questions
Eof that particular day. am not here, either
fin this once part of my native county,
among those whom I knew in boyhood, or
their descendants. :. am not here at this
late day, nor at any time, perhaps, to enter
into a personal defense of myself, or my
past conduct. pass by all you have heard
lin regard to me, because you knew me from
lboyhood up there. Born and reared among
you, you had heard and read and knew
what my sentiments were. You knew that
| while L never was "loyal," because had
never heard of the word except in histories
of monarchial governments, that no trueI
patriot ever lived.
II s ETYMoLOGICAL. s&G
In distinguishing between these two
words, "loyal" and patriot" am content
that the Republican party shall claim to it.
self all that is implied in the word loyalty
desire none of it. But [, in common with
the Democratic men, women and children
of this country, l claim to ourselves all that
! is implied in the old-fashioned, Washing
tonian, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian word, pa
triot. The contest, thensEisD between the
, loyalists and patriots. They are the loyal
, linen: we aFeIthe patriots.dt The same dis
, tinction existed in the Revolution of 1776
The oyalists were, the supporters OF the
, old kingly Government of George III
! They were known then as Tories. [Ap-
, plause.l The patriots were the men who
: denounced them as rebels-the Washing
tons, the Franklins, the Jeffersons, The
4 Madisons. the Adamses of the good ole
e glorious beginning days OF this Republic
Of ours. They organized once, banded
5 themselves together in the old town o.
Boston, and they called themselves ther
; the Sons of Liberty. Not having the feal
of the King before their eyes, and not be
+ ing afraid of the Custom House officers
/, thirty-nine of them disguised themselves
? as Indians and went on board of British
ship and tumbled the sea overheard
j into the harbor. and thus brought OF
, the American Revolution. Now / an
content with this distinction. These
/ gentlemen are welcome, so far as / am
VI Concerned, to apply the word '.loyal'' tt
:. themselves. The Englishman Is loyal o
t course, because he has a good woman1!
vi queen to belong to. have none. TINT
e. eIl1Frenchman is loyal, because he has tht
Il Emperor Napoleon to be loyal to. But nj
s slAmerican-no5 true American, from th
,. ,.Frevolution of 1776 down to the year 1861
d lever called himself loyal. The word neve
4 was heard of : and hope to live to see tht
e day, and by Gods blessing 1 will live to SCI
l it, when it will be as odious an epithet a
n it was after the revolution in which j
f originated in 1776. Under the guise. O
: Constitution is trampled unde
: foot. By pretense of loyalty the Union. j
8 permanently dissolved, as far as ia
d party in power can dissolve it. Ten State
e of the Union tried to get out
Y but did not succeed, and the!
:. are now held as military satrapies
II Five military districts with five militar,
o Governors, one of whom but YESTERDAY
Q proclaimed that jury trials were abrogate{
d in North and South Carolina-distric
q number something, forget what, and
u wouldn't remember if could. 1t wa
: -Ifurther proclaimed by this military CON-
d mander, when the Legislature of one o
n these States adjourned to meet in Angus
# that its meeting was forbidden, and i
:, must not reassemble. Under the guise o
s Loyalty, the public debt has been run up iron
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