Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30
AUGUST 80, 1867.
coppERHEAD, BUTrERNur, rRAIroR.

SOME exceptions, some honorable excep-
| tioDs; there are some gentlemen among
them who argue as well as they are able to
argue upon side that is wrong, who argue
ldecently and present their side of the case
as strongly as they are able to do it; but
what is the course Cof nine-tenths of the
Radical speakers ask you if it is not
with every one of them mere TRADE from
| beginning to end, having for its object to
keep alive all the evil passions and evil
! prejudices that were engendeTed by the
i late war. Instead of seeking to heal the
wounds occasioned by the late war, instead
i of seeking to harmonic the people once
i more, instead of seeking to restore brother
ly feeling in the country, instead of doing
all they can to pacify passion and preju-
! dice and let reason and truth have fair play,
] these men are eng; ged day in and day out,
4 by the worst inf1ammatory harangues and
the most foolish charges, in keeping up.
1among the people not simply of the North
4 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? Why. my friends, suppose q Demo-
icratic speaker comes upon the stand and
IprOves as conclusively as any thing can be
lproved that this military reconstruction
plan of theirs, this despotism that puts ten
States of this Union under the iron heel of
five military dictators, that this despotism,
One-third of the country, and the remain
ling two-thirds remain free !; suppose him
! to prove that as clearly as any proposition
can be proved, and what is the answer that
nine tenths of the Radical speakers give?
11t is comprised in three short words; it is
simply here and every where, sc Copperhead,
Butternut and traitor" laughter.
Let Democratic speaker come before
you and undertake to show by the official
1reeord of the Treasury Department itself
that we owe more at this instant than any
other equal number of mankind, that we
are the most heavily taxed people on this
globe-let5 him prove that by the official
documents themselves, and the answer is
still: "Copperhead, Butternut, traitor
Let him prove that this fragment called a
Congress is every day violating the Com
stitntion W hlch its members swore solemn
lily to support, that it is treading under its
heel the great charter of our liberties and
foundation of our free institutions; let him
show 70 an audience that that disregard OF
the Constitution cannot long prevail with
out this country ceasing to have even the
semblance of freedom-let him make this
lever so apparent, and the answer is still
l"Copperhead, Bntternut, traitor.' Why,
my friends, affirm that l can take the
\ lstupidest parrot between here and the south
ipofe, and in twenty-four hours make him
a fair average Radical speaker; for in
ltwenty-four hours can teach him to say,
"Copperhead, Butternut, traitor.' Laugh
ter and applause.l ~15i'2 .'H'. i'l-
CHARACTER OF DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLI-
'.t .s CAN oRAToRY.
You have seen what kind of speeches the
Democratic speakers are making this very
year: say nothing about my own; bu
lyou have seen what kind of speeches Ran
ney, ,Jewett. Vallandigham, Van Trump
Pendleton and others are making, and you
have seen how, like statesmen, they argue
the great questions upon which your lib
1erties and your prosperity depend. You
have seen all this, and now ask you tt
4contrast their speeches with those that arr
published ON the other side. CONTRAST tina
mighty speech of Ranney's lat Mansfield
with the speech of my amiable friend, Gen
Hayes, down here at Lebanon, with which
he opened the campaign, and which con
Isists for the greater part of slips cut out o
newspapers and pasted together, in orde
to show, as he says, what some obscur,
man or newspaper said on some occasion
or what Pendleton said on another occas
ion, or what Vallandigham said on q thirC
occasion, or what, on another, somebody
was heard to say. that somebody else haC
said, that Judge Thurman was reported t.
have said: [ApPlause;l Why, canno
help thinking that my excellent frient
Hayes--and / am very proud to call hin
my friend, for a very respectable gentle
Imam he iS-when he set about making tha
bspeech, must have got an Abolition sewin g
tcircle, with their scissors, to cut slips on
:of newspapers and paste them together an,
call it speech. ILaughter.1 But that, t,
say the least of it, is something of a decen
speech, although the whole scope and ami
|, mus of it, from beginning to end, is to per
petuate the very passions and prejudices g
!, which l have alluded, and which Genera
Hayes, if he aspires to be the Chief Magis
trate of this great State, Ought to be tn
first man to endeavor to allay. .1 81
! SENATOR wADE's PORTSMOUTH SPEECH.
But if you want to see the very pink G
. their speeches, look at the speeches mad
by the man they call Acting Vice Presi
F dent of the United States, though wher
|, they find any such office in the Gonstitutio
!, is more than am able to discover. GC Loo
+ at the speeches made by the Senator froI
. this State, Benjamin +. Wade, andoif yo
:, are not too disgusted before you have rea
: ten lines to read it to the end, you will fin
] more vile, and incorporate, and scandalou
abuse and language than ever before fe
from the mouth of one man in the sam
. length of time. Why, this Mr.. Benz. i
: Wade, to whose record / shall PRESENT.
: refer you, has made two speeches that
>. have seen-l don't know how many NOR
t. t-one at Marietta, the other at Portsmouth
t and from bad he seems to be going I
!, worse. Bad as his speech was at Mariett;
r Whether it is possible for human ingenuit
5 or genius TO make a worse speech than hi
: Portsmouth speech, remains to be seen.-
What does he say OF you all, of you tw
/ hundred thousand Democrats in Ohio? Fl
7 says that every man of you is traitor. b
t asks the question, did you ever see di:
| loyal niger Y'-and then he asks, ibid 20
i ever see Democrat who was not a traitor:
q and that is the man in the placGof the Viz
4 President, representing a sovereign Stat
7 in the Congress OF the United States, I'll
t man who, if the President were to die {
= were impeached, would tomorrow
!; President of the United States. That is I'll
4 kind of language. tft ..-y 3 -4sflu
r Again, what does he! say in his Port
4 mouth speech, speaking about the taXatio
4 ofGovernment bonds, one-seventh. of th
e wealth of the country, in Governmel
4 bonds, exempt from taxation for Stat
t county or municipal purposes? Sp 2akin
t of those who complain of this inequalit,
: of those who say it is not fair that thes
: men should receive six per cent. in golt
t equal to nearly nine per cent. in paper, an
J, then escape taxation of about two per cen
d more, such as other property in the Stat
Y bears, making their investment yield thel
r eleven per cent. saying it is not fair ths
Y men should receive such profits and pa
r nothing toward the expenses of the GOV
n ernment, he says, "Look in the face of
5 man who advocates taxing these bond
l and you look in the face of penitentar
r bird" Not only that he says, II woul
e 4 not trust such man in my sheep pastul
|, at night" A voice, 81 wouldn't tru
= him."l That is the sort of language th'
: your Senator uses toward the people OF tn
It State, who feel this great and crying il
g Justice that one-seventh of the property
IS the country escapes all taxation for Stat
n county or municipal purposes. The pc
y Pile who say that this is an evil, an iDju
f tice, an inequality that ought not to
r borne, are; denounced by their Senator
penitept tiary birds who could not safely