Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-11

Otfense in all that time no man was de.
prived of life, liberty or property with
out due process of law; in all that time
no law was passed or act done to restrain
the free exercise of our holy religion
in all that time freedom Of speech and o
the press was never interfered with eth
er by the Government or by the people
in all that time we were the least indebt
ed and the most lightly taxed people or
the race of the earth and in all that
time the sun in his annual round shone
on no part of the earth that exhibited
such advancement in civilization, such
advancement in prosperity, and so glori.
Gus and happy and contented a people as
ours. That was what this country was
under Democratic rule, and a party that
can point to such a record as that needs
no defense. I will not say what this
country has become since power passed
from our hands, but yet I may briefly
remark that when we lost power then
peace departed from the land when we
lost power then came an Indebtedness
such as the world never before saw; then
came taxation such as no people ever
grOaned under before then came the
silencing of ministers, of the gospel, of
public speakers, and the public press ;
then came the bastile and Punishment,
where bastiles and Punishment were new
er heard of before; and then came a
suffering among the people such as this
continent never witnessed, and I trust in
God never will witness again. Now, my
friends, I say once more, that this party
of OURS needs no defense.
THE RECORD OF THE PAST.
But these Radical speakers say. You,
Thurman, Pendleton, Vallandigham, and
the rest of you'-for they are particu-
larly glad to couple our names together,
and I am sure I am not ashamed of it
laughter and voices, No. -'are seek
ing to avoid any inspection of the record
of the past You seek to avoid it.
says Mr.. Senator Wade, in that euuisite-
ly courteous and chaste style for which
he is remarkable, "for the same reason
that horse thief seeks to ignore that
hIl may Dt lbIGbllBu anu lOE3lNGu.
Laughter WE'LL now, before 1 get
through I will let Mr.. BENJAMIN F.
Wade know, and all who make a similar
Charge, that one am not afraid to look
into the record of past. And first,
give him and all of them this bold and
unequivocal defiance, that there is no
one act of my life, or one sentence that
I ever uttered that I am not prepared to
have investigated before the American
people and wish them to stand up to
the same rule and see what is their past
record, and see how it tallies with what
they at present say to the American peo-
pie.
COPPERHEAD, BUTTERNUT, TRAITOR.
Yet 7 have no idea, my friends, that
they will enter into any such discussion.
So far from that, what is the course of
nine out of ten of the Radical speakers?
There are some exceptions, some honor
able excptious there are some gentlemen
among them who argue as we'll as they
are able to argue upon a side that is
wrong, who argue decently and present
their side of the case as strongly as they
are able to do it; but what is the course
Of nine-tenths of the Radical speakers ?
I ask you if it is not with every one Of
them a mere TRADE from beginning to
end, having for its object to keep alive
all the evil passions and evil preiudices
that we're engendered by the late war
Instead of seeking to heal the wounds
occasioned by the late war, instead of
seeking to harmonic the people once
more, instead of doing all they can to
pacify passion and prejudice and let rea-
son and truth have fair play, these men
are engaged day in and day out, by the
worst inhammatory harangues and the
most foolish charges, in keeping up
among the people not simply of the
North and of the South, but among the
people of Ohio itself, between one party
and the other, the utmost bitterness of
feeling that can possibly be provoked. |
Is not that the truth B.? Why, my friends, |
suppose a Democratic speaker comes
upon the stand and proves as conclusive
ly as any thing can be proved that this
military reconstruction plan of theirs,
this despotism that puts ten States of
this Union under the iron heel of five (
dictatOrs, that this despotism,
I say, can not prevail in this country, |
in one-third of the country, and the re-
two-thirds remain free suppose
him to prove that as clearly as any pro-
position can be proved, and what is the
answer that nine, tenths of the Radical
speakers give? 1t is comprised in three
short words; it is simple here and every
where, Copperhead, Butternut and
traitor" Laughter.
Let a Democratic speaker come be:
fore you and undertake to show by the
official record of the Treasury Depart
ment itself that we owe more at this in
slant than any other equal number cf
that we are the most heavily
taxed people on this gIobe-let him
prove that by the official documents them
selves, and the answer is still: Cop
perhead, Butternut, traitor" Let him
prove that this fragment called Con-
gress is every day violating the Consti-
tuition which its members swoTe solemn
ly to support, that it is treading under
its heel the great charter of our liber
ties and foundation Of our free iustitu-
tions let him show to an audience that
disregard Of the Constitution cannot
long prevail without this county ceasing
to have even the semblance of freedom
let him make this ever so apparent,
and the answer is still: "Copperhead, /
Butternut, traitor" Why, my friends,
affirm that 1 can take the stupldest