Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-02

of races constantly affiicts them. Talk
about rebellion There is no more danger
of it than there is In this audience; and If
there were danger, would you pay three
hundred millions year TO avert II? Why,
I in thirty days your noble volunteer 'ele-
tunent here would spring to arms to put
down another rebellion. and with no effort
compared to that before. But there is
not the slightest danger. This stand
| ing army is the shift OF schemers
to place negroes gin, 7 authority, sol
as to control the balance ofApewer with
which. to elect a President to- shape and
control the Electoral College for the next
Presidential election. i1ldti has no other
foundation. i would relieve the people of
this mighty burden.na1 would say to the
black man; work, for YOU were made to
work as we'll as the white man. but you
shall be protected in your life and proper
ty.d WbenI got the negro at work away
would go $65!000000 of the public debt, in
the shape of Freedman's Bureau When
| you lop off this Congressional policy insthe
South, you lop off burden of million a
day to the laboring men of the N orth.
Then l would equalize taxation here as
have already indicated, and 1 would give
peace and harmony to this country. Let
there be universal amnesty, an opportu-
nifty for the people to love one another
once more. But the platform of the Re-
| c.
in all the gospel of Christ, can you find the
doctrine proclaimed to hate your fellow
man. I saw the Cincinnati papers as /
came along, and read that certain speak
er's denunciations of the rebels were very
severe "Thundering denunciations, says
one dispatch, referring to General Gibson.
man whom L remember as connected with
your State finances. (I.aughter.l
/ Where Is the necessity of keeping up
this old hatred? How little and poor such
a course appears, when we recollect what
we are1-the creatures of an hour, here to-
| day and away to- norrow-all hurrying on
to that great world where all hate must be
banished from every heart, except in the
depths of he'll, where fiends liowl.and II
sometimes think that the Inspirations of
the Radical leaders come from the domin-
ions of the demons that howl below our
feet, and not from the bright regions of
/ celestial purity and love above our heads.
None of the gospels of Christ apply to
their teachings. 1 am commanded to love
my fellow men, and with universal heart,
embracing my whole country, try to obey
fits precepts. hail the day when we shall
love and not hate our countrymen. God
and all good men are fastening that day
4 The saints in heaven will speed it. along,
and the gallant and heroic dead that fell
from both sections, in the late unnatural
war, who have met each other where there
are battle fields no more, are sending back
from the fraternal plains of immortality,
their influence upon the estranged hearts
lof their yet living country men, saying to
lyou. ole and all. peace, be still; peace on
earth and good will to men," It is the
sound of heavenitself. A heavenly maxim
underlies the unity and harmony of this
great Government. Woo it to your coun-
sells, embrace 1t as a bright spirit Rancor
and anger and bitterness and prejudice are
easily aroused, but they are Improbable
nests in any heart. They hurt the posses
sor worse than those against whom they
are leveled, but charity that suffereth long
and is kind, finds excuses for the infirn-
tiles of human weakness. 'N.ii '''
/ 1t is blessed angel; it comforts the man
who cherishes it. I hail this spirit as my
guiding star, / shall follow it now as L
have followed it in the past, as my politi-
cal cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.
l shall not err under the teachings of be-
fnevolence. Take history; other civil wars
have ragged. Look at the course this Con-
gress has pursued, and compare it with
what other parties and with what great
cohquerors have done in times gone by
The names tnat are brightest in history
my friends, are those that were most mag
unanimous TO a foreign foe-the Washing
IONS, the Scipios, the Caesars. The great
men and bright names that shine in tile
sky are those that never trampled upon a
defeated and PROSTATE enemy. The hate
ful names that blast our vision along the
page of history, like demons breathing out
fiery slaughter, are the Inen who have pur-
sued, like this Congress, pc ople at their
mercy-the Robespierres, the fiends of
history. So will this Congress take its
place among those that had no magnanim-1
ity in the hour OF victory, betraying every
pledge they had made, in order to wreak
their vengeance when they could wreak it
without resistance go 'f 70 7eGHnl L!9t
But, my fellow citizens, must draw to
a close. There is no question about the re-
suit of the natter 1t may not come this
year, yet much Of it will come even this
year. The mighty re.iction has set in Y on
may not carry the State of Ohio, but smy
Judgment you have the best chances TO do
it of the two parties that are now before
the country. You have mighty majori-
ty to overcome; but if. every man goes to
the polls, and takes every other man to
the polls who, will vote the Conservative
ticket the sun will rise in Ohio on vic
tory tor the Union, for. the: white mans
party, for the white mans supremacy, and
Tor equality in taxation. If the full victory
don't come this year, it will come next
year. There is mighty underlying prin-
ciple that is as strong as heavens eternal
Justice. We are the only friends of the
Union that exist to-day; we are the only
friends of thelving States that exist to-day
Voices, That's SOL; we are the only
party that wants TO place all the
stars on the flag that exists to-day; we are
the only party in favor of that supremacy
for the white man, which alone can pro-
mote civilization,a letters, art, or science
upon this continent We are the only
party to-day in favor of equal taxation.-
We are the only party to-day that is the
friend of the Iaboring man, the friend OF
the poor man; and the enemy ofithe aristo
erat, because ofhis wealth. We are the only
friend day of the soldier who came back
with his honorable record, aud who fought
fora restored Union. We are for giving
him the fruits of his blood and of his toll
We are his friend in trying to relieve him
of unjust taxation. THIS is our platform,
and whether it triumphs this year or the
next, my faith is as strong as if it were
founded upon Gods eternal promise. 5a
Ladies and gentlenetf, thanking you most
sincerely foryour patient attention to the
remarks thatI have made. under consider
able difficulty, 1 take my leave of you!"ss
.DEMOCRATIG MEETINGS. no1