The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-08-29
Gods Dealings with the Nation,
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati GaSstte.

Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati GasFtte.
MARIETTA, o., August 20.
A large concOurse of people assem-
bled here to-day, to hear Senator
Wade speak on the political issues in
the State.
The Senator on being presented tc
the people by Mr.. VIM. Woodbury.
was greeted with cheers, after which
he spoke as follows:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GEN.
TLEMEN-It is with some embarrass.
ment that 1 come before an audience
at this time. It has been some time
since I addressed an assemblage Of
this kind. One feels somewhat at a
loss, when he comes to contemplate
the the great field which lies now be-
fore him politically, to know what de-
partment he should take up; for it
would be absolutely impossible for
any speaker at one time to go through
all that might, and perhaps ought to,
be said in reference to the condition OF
our country at this time. It becomes,
therefore, necessary that u speaker
should select some particular topic, to
the exclusion of all others.
THE Speakers TEXT.
have an old text, my friends,
which 1 have preached from for more
than thirty years. I never have
varied it, and 1 never expect to vary
it. Exact and equal justice to all
men, without reference to color, con-
dition or race, is my political creed,
which now for thirty years I have
proclaimed from almost every stump
in this State, and the people have
stood by me during all that time, and
1 expect as long as l am faithful to the
doctrine of that text they will con-
tinue to stand by me. 1t makes no
difference whether things in the future
look dark or hook cheerful. 1 stand
by that because / believe it will enable
us to go through triumphantly under
any and all circumstances. I believe,
sir, that this is the doctrine favored by
Almighty. I believe that he who
breaches from any other text will not
be favored by him who is the Father
Of us all.
WHO WILL NOT BE CONVINCED? ?
Who will not be convinced now in
any discourse that 1 may address to
you to-day? I do not expect to con-
vince any man who, throughout the
terrible struggle and revolutionary
process through which we have pass
ed, has stood by the enemies of his
country; the men who, in 1863, with
their eyes open, and the question fully
discussed before them, stood with Val
the convicted traitor, and
to put him in the Cub
ernatorial chair of OhiO-I say don't
expect to convince any such man that
he ought now to fOregO the course ne
then marked out for himself, and that
he will turn and be persuaded to
adopt the principles we then held, and,
I trust, hold to-day. They are Joined
to their idols, and argument is vain
with them.
THE CAUSE THE SAME AS EVER.
All I shall expect to do with this
is to convince it that the
great and glorious doctrines that we
to then are as worthy of our
support now, yea, more essential, if
possible, than then; that if you are
ready to stand by these great prinCi-
pies, there is no danger as to the re-
suit. What, my friends, has transpir-
ed since then that should lead any
intelligent man to falter in
the course he took on that great Oc-
casiOn ? There stood Vallandigham,
a deliberate, condemned traitor before
the nation, soliciting votes to advance
him to the highest Office in the State.
was not here, but I was around the
State pretty generally, and know
there were men i'll this State, great
Of them, that stood by him
then, as they will stand by his great
cOadjutor now, for there is no differ
ence between the political principles Of
Vallandigham, and Judge Thurman,
the candidate of the Democratic party
now. Vallandigham was then put
forth as the candidate for Governor,
and he was maintained and supported
in all parts of the State in all he had
done and all that he proclaimed he
would do, by this candidate of the
same party, put forth for your votes
to-day. They have not changed in
their bad course. Have any of you
in that glorious course you
pursued then, when we swamped the
traitor by more than a hundred thOus-
and majority? Are the issues now
different from what they
were then? Not at all. This makes it
seem unnecessary for a man to argue
over again all those old issues. And
let me say, my friends, if ever mortal
men had reason to congratulate them
selves upon a glorious triumph of their
great principles it is the Republican
party of Ohio, that, throughout all this
terrible period through which we have
passed, stood as wall of principles for
the right on all occasions, not deviating
at all.
THE ADVANCE STEP IN PROGRESS.
There is a new element in our can
vass now that causes those who Op-
posed us to make one more struggle
for the ascendancy, but it is only the
logical and legitimate conclusion of
all you have done before. The right
of the cOIored man to suffrage is but
the legitimate and logical deduction
from what you had done before. Is
there any man so blind to what he
was doing one year ago by voting to
sustain the Republican candidates
then, that he can be induced to change