Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-17
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THE SERENADEsa LAST SAT
,,.,.,.,a s,..sl ,URDAY EVENING"
Over Two Thousand Persons
March i'm Procession 10 the
- Residences of We ssrs.
hsartH rge Jewett and Hall
q aG aateF and Serenade
isT isIs s7si3o If Them :!
nv MESSRS.e OsN ELL,
Wv JEWETT AND BALL.

EF7 JEWETT AND BALL.
Z As late in the week as Thursday even
ing, it was proposed by few to sccuure
the services of band and repair to the
residences of Messrs. Jewett and Ball, on
Saturday evening, and by means of a SER
enade, congratulate those gentlemen over
their election as Representatives of Mus
kingum county. Although no public an
nouncement was made, at an early hour
in the evening large crowd OF over two
Thousand had gathered in and about the
Hall for the purpose of marching in pro-
cession.a asla .!lJTA&3a !t!25 3 o.
By half-past seven clock the procession
started, and marched down, through Put
nam to Mr.. Jewett's. Arriving there a
tremendous bonfire was built, which illu7
minated the entire grove surrounding the
residence of Mr.Jewett. After halt was
made the band played several tunes, when
Hon. John O'Neil, in. a short and able
speech, congratulated Mr.. Jewett upon the
success of liberty over tyranny, when Mr..
Jewett made the following 77f
soma aofsatdEs'f = SPEECH: . G'l T. -
You will pardon me for being unable to-
express to you in becoming terms the sem
timents and feelings excited in my bosom,
by the assembling of so many ofmy neigh
UOES duu ITlcuuS db uly QOOI dnO uLdCI by
roof, and by the kind, but fear, more than
generous p:aise, you have bestowed upon
my exertions in the late canvass, in COM
to me the message you were
directed to deliver by these thousands of
our mutual friends. "a 80, 7t.i- 7i~
And to you, my countrymen and friends,
what can L say? That thank you most
profoundly for this visit, you are all, l
trtst, perfectly assured. ] thank you for
fbo flolirhfff11 have hrnII Orhf tn
my door. Ithank you for this evidence of
your personal regard, and for thus mani
testing your approval OF the part have
taken in the canvass, which has resulted so
gloriously in your favor. .1nga
1t becomes you, my friends, to rejoice,
and most heartily do / ,mingle with you in
your rejoicings and congratulations. We
have achieved victory; great victory
not personal, not merely partisan, but
victory of policy, of principles, over the
widest fanaticism-the most iunblushing
corruption and unmitigatedtyran with
which any people were ever cursed.
We entered the canvass with large odds
against US, with an opposition accustomed
to success and confident of the result. We
knew that the monied and office-holding
interests OF the country were arrayed in one
solid phalanx against us. We were soon
admonished that without regard to age or
sex, no position in life, no conduct, howev-
er pure,s patriotic or self sacrificing in the
past, or devoted to the present interests of
the country were any protection against
the tongue of the traducer or the pen of the
libeller. We soon realized, that by appeals
to the 4prejudices and passions of the peo-
pie, the opposition hoped to close the door
to argument, and against its reasonable
frHfts.-We had confidence, and they knew
that the conduct, policy and measures, of
their party were indefensible and that upon
any thing like fair hearing before the
people, the reaction in our favor would be
Disregarding, thefore, all
attacks OF q personal character, we persist
ed i'm the fair, frank and unanswerabie ar
gument of the questions at issue, until
finally, the public mind was stimulated t.
enquiry and reflection. Although we may
have lost our gallant standard-bearer, the
verdict of the people in favor of the princi-
ples he so nobly. advocated throughout the
entire canvass, is emphatic, neither to be
misapprehendedo or misunderstood by those
whose duty it is in the future, to be gov-
erned by the judgment thus rendered
From the day of the surrender of the ar
mics of the Confederacy,,a period of up
wards of two years, there has been no re-
sistence to the authority of the Government
in any section of the Union. The people,
the whole people of every State acknowl-
edged its power and submitted to its au-
thority. There Is, therefore, no apology
for the existing state of things in the South
ern States, and If it had not been from a
desire, without regard to the great interest
of the people, to perpetuate in office those
now enjoying their emolunents, instead of
military rule and military despotism in ten
States, we would be witnessing perfectly
restored Union, in every State of which
the people would be enjoying peace and a
returning prosperity. But for the sake Of
power and for no other purpose, at a cost
of incalculable millions to the people, Con-
gress must lay it's sacriligeous hands upon
the domestic concerns and inter nal regula-
tions of the Southern States; prescribe tor
them forms of government not adapted to
their interests or suitable to their condition,
and as prerequisite to their being ad-
mitted to any of the rights of States, or to
their people receiving the protection of the
laws, they are required to acknowledge
the, negroes to be their equals, and for the
future to surrender their State govern
ments to their absolute control. Having
thus under the miserable pretext that they
were dealing with rebels, outraged every
provision and principle of the Constitution
they were sworn to uphold, they deemed
| it necessary to accomplish the end had in
view, that the people of Ohio should de-
grade themselves, as they had degraded
the white people of the Southern States.
Hence the proposed amendment to our
Constitution upon which we were called to
| vote on Tuesday LAST .:e, ~ I'D, t.al..
The Republican majority in Ohio being
large, it was supposed to be fitting anu
proper to have her first make the expert
ment upon negro suffrage, and if it ha6
been successful, the remaining Northern
States in their order would have been re.
quired to yield to the same degradation
| In the platform of the Radical party In
Ohio. the issue in this canvass was made
broad and strong. Itincluded not only the
proposed amendment of our own COnstltu.
| tion,1 but their whole policy toward the
Southern States. Their Senators and Rep.
resentatives admitted. that, unless Ohit
adopted the amendment. they were :. dis
graced," and their reconstruction policy
condemned" Thus, they made the issue
thus, we accepted it, and although we hac
a large maj ajority to contend against, with
the pulpit and lecture room warning upon
| us, we entered the canvass praying as die
the great Grecian champion, when envel-
oped in clouds to almost utter darkness,
I ''Dspsl this cloud the light of heaven restor,.
| Give me to see. and Ajax asks no more;
and thanks to wise and patriotic people
that prayer on Tuesday last received IA
vorable response, and the cloud upon which
tile politicians OF the Republican party
thcught to renew their leases to Office and
to power, was rolled back, and light az ain
dawns upon our country promising q
speedy return by our people to the princi-
! Piles upon which the Government was SO
long and sc. happily administered.
| My friends, for this grand and glorious
result we ought to rejoice and be thank
tul; but in rejoicing and congratulatine
ourselves upon the unity with which the
Democratic party met this issue, we must
not overlook or fail to tender to those no.
BILE hearted Republicans who came to oul
rescue, cordial greeting. and to the
White Boys in Blue" who contributed
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