Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-29

pressed, bruised, and crushed under the
heel OF military despotism, established,
not under the Constitution, but by
warrant of the right of con-
quest, attest the prescienf truth of the de-
claration. "Order 3Sa usurpationof pow
er;' and such it was, soon after trampled
uhder foot, despised and spit upon by thirty
thousand freemen assembled in OhiO's cap
ital. '"Fhat L was, at all times and upon
all occasions, resolved to do what 1 could
to defeat the attempts which were being
made to build up monarchy upon the ru-
ms of free government" Was ever proph-
ecy so fulfilled? And here. to-day, in
presence of twenty thousand freemen of
Ohio, on bended knee, and upon this, the
self-same spot, thank my God that have
been enabled to keep the resolution; and
now, in His presence, and before you, my
witnesses, renew the boly VOW aud swear
by the great white throne, and Him who
sitteth thereon, that, slavery having per-
ished, the Union of our fathers, and the
Constitution of our fathers, and the lber-
ties secured by them, shall be preserved to
us and our children's children forever
[Applause. -r-.
Another scene, men of Knox, is witness
ed here now. In the calm of an autumnal
day. with mellow October sun shining
down cheerily upon Us, not ten, but twenty
thousand freemen greet the return of the
exile, and bid him good cheer! [Great ap-
day; no military despots here; no arbitrary
arrests; no military trial; no ''orders" of
whatsoever number, no provost marshal,
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bastiles, no mobs no oassassinations, no exile.
no scaffolds. [Applause.] There are no spies
here to-day to pollute this sacred presence
In peace, in ease of mind, in the truce of
God" in security, with joy yelling from
every heart, beaming from every eye,
and speaking from every tongue, in shouts
such as only treemen can send up. till the
hollow concave above us rings again, we
are assembled to celebrate the grandest po-
litical triumph ever achieved. Applause]
And now, my friends, without further
eXultation, allow me, in humber and more
measured tread, to recur to the lessons
which this extraordinary victory teaches
us. And, first of ali, L reckon faith in God
and the right, and along with these the
patience which, steadfa fastly and without
doubt or question, abides the leisure of Him
who doetn all things well. There is some
thing more than sublime in that faith which.
walking not by sight, sees yet the future
as the present, catches the first faint echo
ing of the footsteps of the Hereafter as he
treads slowly but surely along the corridors
of Time. Such has been the faith of the
heroes and the martyrs, the actors and the
sufferers of every age and CLINE.
Next, this great triumph teaches us con-
fdence in the people. 1t was Burks-was
it not ?-who said that when people do
wrong it is their error and not their crime.
And yet who among us, within the past
six years. has not questioned i'll his heart
whether the people were capable of self
government? Thank God, that doubt is
being resolved. The people of the United
States so loved the Union, which they had
been taught to regard as the country itself.
that in an impulse OF patriotism they sur
rendered their liberties to the leaders of a
party unworthy of trust so great, so sa-
cred, so delicate. They believed. As | did
not, that war could restore the Union and
maintain the Constitution, and that for
these purposes it was being waged; and so
believing, they lent 4 terrible support to
the ADMINISTRATION OF Abraham Lincoln
In it's motives it was worthy of the heroic
ages OF Greek and Roman patroitism.-
And, after the war had closed, they natu-
rally, fairly and justly, gave to the leaders
of the Republican party time and occasion
to redeem their pledges. and restore the
Union under the Constitution. with all the
dignity. equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired. And so total
ly in earnest were they in this purpose
that by overwhelming majorities in 1866,
they rejected the Vice President (now
President) of their own choice, lest he
should be found an obstacle in the way of
their intended good work. But now, when
ter two years of experiment, these lead
ers have repudiated every promise and be-
trayed every trust, seeking self an ID party,
and not the country, as the end and aim of
every act of legislation, of every thought
of their hearts and every operation of their
hands, the people, with indignant wrath,
are hurting them from power. Trust the
people, and learn, oh scurvy politician
thou who reliest upon trick and artifice.
upon money and bargain, upon falsehood
and fraud, upon glass eyes, seeming to see
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young man, who wouldst devote thyselt
to affairs of State, that the calm, the sober,
the well-considered voice of the people, is
as the voice of God. Applause. E orr
Another lesson of this great victory, men
of Knox, is not the duty merely, but the
protitableness of a stern, infieXible adher-
ence to principle. The Democracy of Ohip
turning deaf ear to the glozing, whisper
ing, CHASTITY delusion and snare of poll
cy," so-railed and miscaIled, which would
tain bargain, and cheat, and steal into Of
flee and power only to raven like the wolf
and divide the spoil, and fought and won
this fight. upon the ancient, the straightest.
sternest, ruggedest issues and doctrines OF
the party. They yielded not an inch, and
throughout the entire canvass, as for years
past, they stood by and upheld the men
who had been singled out as the special
objects of Radical odium and reproach.-
They loved and honored. above all, those
whom the Republican party hated and af-
fected to despise. They murmured not
against their leaders, though they had
neither mama from heaven nor water
from the rock. Aud, to-day, they possess
the heritage of their enemies. Courage,
men of Knox, courage! Stand bv princi-
pie, and by the men who represent princi-
pie, and not the mere policy and spoiiS of
political warfare.
And, just here, let me add that, while
Ohio was canvAssed in the late strug gie
from the east to the west, and from the riv-
er to the lake, throughout her entire length
and breadth, and in every county, by Re-
publican speakers of every degree and
from every quarter, yet excepting less than
half score, Including the gallant Vor-
hees, of Indiana, this great victory wis
won by our own native or adopted orators
and statesmen. And what a splendid gal
aNy !! The whole country to-day resounds
with their praise. Pointing to them, and
to some among them who are against us,
and to her great military chieftains, well
may Ohio, like the grand old Roman mat
ron, eXclaim. ''These are. my Jewels ~
And here, i'll his own native county, sur
rounded by the companions of his boy hood,
may | not, without stirring envy in any
bosom, refer to my gallant young friend
near me frank III. Hurdl as among tho
choicest ana brightest in h1r oeslset ?
But to return: Without money, without
aid of any kind, almost without sympathy,
certainly without hope, entertained by any
one ousslde of our own limits, we fought
and conquered. And now, while ready
cheerfully to accept honest congratulation,
whencesoever itmay come, the Democracy
of Ohio proclaim to the world that, sub
mitting to no dictation from any quarter,
the strong hands which won the victory
know well how to apportion and award the
hunors. [Applause.l
And now, my friends, allow me here, as
elsewhere. to say that while this eXtraor-
dinary triumph was won by the DemOc-
racy, as strict party organization, yet it
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