Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-20
Great Radical Rally in Newark,
Speeches by Hon. } C. Lee, Congress
man Hamilton, of the Delaware
District, and a Crazy Man who
Halls from Indiana.
NEWARK, O, August 1e, 1867.

| District, and q Crazy Man who
! Halls from Indiana.
| .H ICorrespondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
| NEWARK, o., August l6, 1867.
The great effort made by the Executive
Committee of the Radical party to get up
a monster meeting in Newark, tor Gen
John @. Lee, the man whom they are
seeking to put into state of suspended
animation, induced men to stop off at this
place to ascertain the fact as to whether
county who considered the Negro as good
as themselves, and little more sensible
than the General. found a few people in
the Court House, just 135 by actual count,
| abont one-third of whom were Democrats,
and to whom the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, or, as Sam. Galloway has it, for
ga state of suspended animation" was de-
claring that sit mattered not to him how
far the Negroes heel protruded no matter
how thick his lips; no matter what the
length or shape of his head, or how muc h
wool he had on it, as long as he had the
courage and loyalty to shoulder a gmusket
and fight for the Union, he was better
kqualified to vote than any tall, slim, genteel
white rebel or rebel sympathizer in the
land" Gen. Lee evidently seemed to have
lost his temper, and seemed not to enter
tain very high opinion of the people of
Licking county. Almost anybody would
feel sore under the circumstances and come
to the conclusion that the white men of
Licking were all Democrats. Hence he told
them that it wouldn't be very hard job to
make the Niger their equal; and, if now
the ignorant white women, daughters and
sisters OF Democrats, did not know Niger
from Democrat, the Negro had intelli-
gence enough to enlighten them. The
General was bound, if he stood alone. to
prove his gratitude to the colored man, for
he exclaimed, with wonderfully dramatic
effect: I" May my arm become paralyzed
in its socket; may my tongue cleave to
the roof of my mouth, if L ever forget his
race" rr..t.- e~e.
The number in the court room was so
small that Mr.. Hamilton thought it better
not to speak until another effort would be
made to get somebody to hear him. He
consented to speak in the evening on con-
dition that any thing of respectable
meeting could be brought together.
Evening came and so did several Demo-
Gratis; and so did a few that are still in love
with high taxes, and, it may be, with Ne
gro equality, and so did Mr.. Hamilton.
And so did he hold conversation with some
absent beings whom, no doubt, he imag-
ined present. He chatted with Vallandig-
ham and told him his record was bad. He
talked to Judge Thurman and politely told
him that he (the Judge) was the very worst
man in Ohio. He told two little anecdotes
about two spotted dogs, one had more spots
than the, other, wonderfully. He told
something else that is too serious in its
consequences to be joke. 1t is, that
tho ugh he had not been in favor of the
Reconstruction act, every letter of it would
and should be enfo reed, for unless the Ne
gro get the Suffrage the Union men in the
South would be crushed under the heels of
the Copperheads, an d all the blood and
treasure that was shed and expended would
be in vain. Unless the black man should
vote the Copperheads would get into power.
(Ha! ha there is where the shoe pinches.)
Gen. Lee spoke his piece in the evening
also. He spoke of the great height of Lin
| coin, the great length of his arm, how he
could stretch it over the Rebel lines and
pick up the Negroes behind them. n But he
never limited at the length of the Ohio, Fund
Commissioners fingers, or how deeply they
had got them into the Soldiers Relief Fund
NOT syllable about the best means tosave
the pockets of the people, or toTestore the
Union. Verify, there is little sympathy for
Radicalism in Newark. THOMAS