Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30

he told TOOm0s to his lace. Wigfall to his
face, Mason to his face-every one of these
blame you for destroying this government
and erecting another more conducive TO
your interests, whenever you think, mot
when think. not when the Government
thinks, not when the people think, but
!" whenever you think that the contingency
has come" And yet this man, who told
them hesassailed no mans motive; that II
he had been born South he would have
been just like them; who told them that
they could erect on the ruins of their gov
ernment another more conducive to their
welfare.-he is the very man that, when
these people followed his advice, was the
loudest in his cries for blood, for plumber,
FOR contiscation and for banishment; and
he is the man whose appetite for blood Is
not yet satiated. but he still goes on cry
ing like a famished tiger for his prey, and
not only abusing those men who followed
his advice, but abusing the eighteen hum
'dred thousand Democrats of the North who
never had any opinions at all inconsistent
with the preservation of the Union. 1 70 %
THE EPoLIcY OF COERCION. ~
But they say, Here, some Democrat said
that you could not keep the Union tOgeth-
er by force of arms" There were Demo-
Gratis in the North opposed to coercion
What did Mr.. Benjamin F. Wade say in
this verv speech upon that subject? He
said; You can not forcibly hold any men
in the Union"-that is what he said under
the solemnity of his official oath-.'for the
attempt to do so, 1t seems to me. would sub
vert the first principles of the Government
under which we live" Now, amt that a
beauty? The man who says that the attempt
to hold people forcibly in the Union would
Jsubvert the very principles of the Govern
ment under which we live, that the man
who is now seeking your votes to send him
back to the Senate of the United States, by
crying out to take the lives and property
ofthese men who followed his advice, who
believed that he spoke his real sentiments,
and, following his advice, were precipita-
ted into that madness and folly of seces-
sion.- is the very man that is doing it
now. He is the very man now that can
put the stupidist negro down there at the
South. and set him as ruler over the most
.virtuous, intelligent, refined man that can
be found in all that land-that man who
believed that Benjamin F. Wade meant
what he said, and who followed his advice.
6" Well, now, enough for him. 1 should not
have wearied your patience solong in deal
ing with this man, but for the fact that he
is now canvassing this State, for what pur-
pose? To get you to send to the Legisla-
ture men who will re-elect him to the Sem
ate of the United States. That is what he
is doing, and If he will go into the past. it
ia right, when he says that Thurman, and
Vaifandieham. and Pendleton are afraid of
the record of the past, for me to show
whether he has not a record that he ought,
If not afraid of, at least to be ashamed of.
[Applause.]
So much for President and Vice Presi-
dent. r.y' .
CHIEF JUSTICE s. P. CHASE.
Now, let us look to the next highest Of
ficer in the Government, the Chief Justice
Of the Supreme Court of the United States
Mr.. Salmon P. Chase. What was his course
upon this subject? Why, my friends, it
was this, as we all know: no.
You remember that Old Virginia, cling
ing to the Union, and endeavoring to rec
ohcile all differences, in the winter of 1860
and 1861. proposed that there should be
or Congress of States held at
to try if possible to devise
some means by which disunion and civil
war might be averted. That Congress was
lfterward held, and was called the Peace
Congress. A resolution was introduced
into the Legislature of our State to appoint
to that Congress. Mr.. Chase,
am authorized in saying, did all that lay
in his power to prevent the appointment
Of commissioners to that Peace Congress.
am justified in making the assertion be-
cause that paper was in his interest, and
never would have uttered one word against
nis will, that he brought outin his especial
organ, the Ohio State Journal, in March,
1861, leading article, the whole purport
and effect of which was that the Union had
failed, that it was not worth crying over,
md to let the South go in peace. But he |
ailed. The Legislature would appoint COM |
nissioners, and then his next step was to |
ret himself appointed one of them, and he |
vas appointed one of them. Now, accord |
ng to all the revelations that we have wit /
lessed, that Peace Congress, from the time t
olution, opposed every reasonable and |
PRACTICAL measure that could possibly have |
verted disunion aud civil war, and pre-
erved the integrity of the nation. Why |
lid he do it {? We have the reason in the
tatement of General Frank P. Blair, and /
hey ought to take his statement, for they
rotted him all over Ohio few years ago
making speeches for them. L don't say
hat that is any high proof of a mans We
acity, still they ought to take their own
Titness. We have the written and pub
shed statement of General Frank Blair
hat Mr.. Chase, even after he became Sec
etary of the Treasury under Mr.. Lincoln,
aid that the South was not worth fighting
Or, and to let her GO. To the same effect L
e spoke to the Mayor of Baltimore, and
D the same effect he spoke to others, as ad-
hen. is the record of the Chief Justice of
ne United States. IN a1lEW 9i T-cG
HIGH SAINT IN THE RADICAL CALENDAR
Now, let, US come to another, aud the
ext one / come to take up, is saint high !
] the Radical calendar, Saint Edwin NJ.
tanton, Secretary of War. He says he is
ecretary of War yet. Andy johnson says
e is, not. [Laughter.] Grant says he is
OF, but "Ned" says he is. He must par
on Inc for speaking familiarly of him, but
e and | used to be chums. Ned says, Il
% Secretary of War, AMI only yield un-
er protest to superior force.",., Andy says
e is not Secretary of War. 1 suppose the
)lutiOn of it is, that he is in the same po-
tion that my friend Sam. Galloway de-
,rbed the Lieut.. Governor of Ohio to be-
state of suspended animation. Now, what
the record of this Edwin. NJ. Stanton on
le subject of giving aid and comfort to
le South to get out of the Union? But
t me go back. When l first knew him we
ere two young men just commencing the
raetice OF law, pretty ardent lawyers and
retty ardent Democrats. 1 thought was {
good enough Democrat, but Ned went so
uch further than l that, upon my word,
began to inquire whether / was any {
emocrat at all. Laughter.l Ned was |
zen such an ultra Democrat that he was
20 strong for Sam. Medary,. and he put a
IL Ou Iliu1 lO Keep IllIn from running away
)ithe devil. lRenewed laughter. Well, a
wv years passed away, and the Democracy
ominated that glorious old chieitain. Lew
: aCass, for President of the United States,
nd Martin Van Buren,, abandoning the
arty to which he owed every thing of rep
tation that he had, was brought out as the
head of a fragment of the people
the country, though it was known that
e could not get the fourth of the vote in
nv State. Then the celebrated Buffalo
the Free-Soil Convention, at
uffalo, was held. That was free speech
nd free soil. They have beautifully ex-
mplified that down here in ten States OF
ne Union, these same men. That party
ras formed, and ali at once this ultra DEM
crat, Ned Stanton, turned somersault
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