Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-26
BELLEFoNrA1NE, Aug. %, 1851.


ligent Republicans in attendance, who |
have risen superior to party prejudice and |
refused to follow whithersoever- the Radi- |
cal cormorants desire to lead them, is an |
additional evidence OF the fact that, in this |
free Republic, no party that attempts to
establish moneyed aristocracy, a govern |
ing oligarchy and degradation of the bal |
lot-box by giving the control OF it to the |
ignorant African, can long survive. The |
self sufficient politicians who assume that
the American farmer, mechanic or labor !
ing white man has not intelligence enough |
to fathom, and patriotism enough
to prevent their ulterior designs
on our Republican institutions, will
find that they have greatly underated the
measure of intelligence and depth of pa
triotism possessed by the people of Ohio.
Benjamin F. Wade, who seems to think that
he can again ride into the Senate chamber
by divesting himself of the dignity of
statesman and the decency OF gentlemen
to treat tue thinking, intelligent citizens of
this State as vulgar rabble, dealing out to
them his profane and low abuse of Demo-
cratic public men, will fini that his hearers
are fully able to appreciate the difference be
tween manly, statesmanlike and dignified
discussion of the grave issues in the pres
ent canvas, and the not very refined or po-
lite Observation-Disclosures
of hell''-'accursed Observation-Disclosures
BILE emocracy"-"Negroes no lower than
Thurman"-"Jeremiah a hypocrite"-
Thurman and party have served the Dew
ir'-'slimy, insidious Thurman'-and of
that fine old patriot and statesman,
ex-senator Thomas Ewing, the
father of Generals who fought
the battles of the Union, he of whom
Ohio has long been proud to boast, as one
of her most distinguished sons, Poor old
clown"-"he ought to damned"-''no big
ger fool than Thurman"-''devil of trai-
or''-"devilish''-'th adopted citizens
know no more than the horse you drive"
&C., &c.
Is it because the Democratic speakers
are better orators, or because they have the
best side of the questions in issue, that their
speeches are so much more respectable in
tone, and so much, more forcible in argu-
ment?
The speech of Judge Van Trump to-day
was so far superior, in close reasoning,
truthful deduction and pertinent points, to
Senator Wade's TRADE at Marietta, that ev-
cry one who has a regard for the dignity or
decency of American orators and states
men, cannot help lamenting the dirty depth
to which Radical speakers have fallen; and,
more especially. Ben Wade, whose record
for dishonest and insincere encouragement
given to the South in her early prepara-
tions for secession, was shown by the speak
er to be such as no patriotic gentleman would
like to own. y
The Judge occupied over two hours in
his address, the people hanging on his
words as his expositiOns of the bad faith of
the Radical leaders, and the dangerous and
disunited state into which they had brought
the country, was brought into full view.
His speech was delivered in the Court
House, because, fearing that by reason of
his hoarseness he would not be able to
speak in the open air, but so many were
those outside of and around the building
who could not hear, that when he concluded
the people outside demanded that the other
gentleman who was to address them-Hon.
j. F. Mckinney, of Piqua-should speak
outside. The request was complied with,
and never, perhaps, was an audience more
pleased than was the mass of ladies and
voters who heard him discuss the proposed
amendment, the national debt and the
question of equal taxation-for the latter
seems to be demanded by the people of all
parties here.
Your correspondent was introduced to
and conversed with several of those in Lo-
gan county, who have cut loose from the
RAIDS. The case of one brave young man
is so remarkable that 1 must narrate it. He
served in the army, and when he had re-
enlisted as veteran volunteer he, in COM
mon with his comrades who had done like
wise, got furlough, came home to see his
friends, and had been so convinced, through
the malicious ISLANDERS of those bloody
minded Christians that abounded in '63 and
'64, of the disloyalty OF Democrats, that he
assisted in attempting to mob some of
them, for whom he previously had enter
tanned warm friendship. In the attempt
cut by the glass through which he
plunged it, and he came to-day from West
Liberty in company with his repentaut
comrades and Mr.. L. B. Cook, the man
whom they attempted to mob, not very
well pleased with the men who had de-
ceived him and tried to make him, if not a
murderer, at least criminal. Bitter, am
afraid, is the feeling of detestation and dis
like springing up in the minds OF many
brave soldiers, for those malignant deceiv
ers who tried to plunge them into the COM
mission of crime.
May God save them from the merited
wrath of their brave but misled dupes. The
Democratic party, proudly conscious of the
purity of its principles and its love of, and
devotion to the Constitution and the Union,
can afford to be. not only forgiving but
magnanimous and friendly to those whose
moral courage is equal to the demands of
the country. THOMAS.
ssBig Meeting in Caldwell, Ohio.
CALDWELL, NOBLE COUNTY, OHIol
August 20, 1867.
Eshelman's first meeting of this cam
paigu was held in Caldwell to-day. The
roads were very muddy and the weather
extremely disagreeable, yet he had large
and very attentive audience. The rain