Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-26
Democratic Rally in MarysviIIe.
Fine Turnout and Great Enthusi.
asm-SPeeches by Hen. p Van Trump
and Hon. Frank h. Husd.
ldence of the Ohio Statesman.l
MARYsv111r. Aug. q, 1867.

| and Hon. Frank h Husd.
| Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.l
MARYsvILLE, Aug. 81, 1867.
The meeting here to-day was success.
Your correspondent heard the question
repeatedly asked by Republicans, "Why is
it that the Democrats are having such large
meetings in this campaign, and our peo-
pie don't seem to turn out at all as they
formerly did?"
The answer to a question of this kind,
that greeted the ear of the interrogator, if
full and ominous: This Niger question
and the untaxed bonds is playing the d-l
with our party; wish they had let the
nigger alone. We gave him his liberty l
think we have done enough for him. And
besides our speakers are depending too
much on the old style of abusing Demo-
Gratis. Copperhead and traitor is played
out; neighbors have something else to
think of besides quarreling with one
another now, and the people would rather
hear something else"
The Democratic County Convention was
held to-day in the court house, and Thom-
as ii. Bodley was nominated as candidate
for Representative of the people of Union
county. A better Democrat or more high
toned gentleman will not sit in the Legis-
lature of Ohio, if he be elected, than Mr..
Bodley. The convention adjourned till
four o'clock P. NJ, for the double purpose
of hearing Hurd and Van Trump, and OF
holding the meeting in the court house ac-
cording to previous arrangement. But
such was the size of the audience that the
meeting had to be held in the open air.
People who had heard the eloquence of a
Hurd, and the forcible argument of Van
Trump, in Delaware, came all the way here
in their carriages to hear them again. Even
the members of the unequalled Delaware
Brass Band voluntarily came, as musical
escort, with these fine orators to Marys-
vile.
What surprised your correspondent most.
was the indecision and "halting between
two opinions" here in the very hot-bed of
Central Ohio Radicalism, of so many Re-
publicans. The conflict in their minds
seems to be a patriotic duty which they
owe to their country and to themselves and
their children on the one side, and the mere
qualification of party feeling on the other.
1t needs no very deep reasoning on the
part of the observer who has an abiding
confidencein the patriotism and intelligence
of the great mass of Ohio's thinking white
population, to see where the decision will
rest. Radical leaders and stump speakers
who see good sense, sound reason and
christian charity ejecting animosity, party
prejudice and unchristian hatred from the
place they had usurped in the hearts of the
people, may try as they please to keep
alive such feelings and divert the public
mind from the real issues of the day, but
they cannot be successful. In fact, the
masses-the people begin to look upon
such course of conducting campaign,
where the very existence of Republican
institutions and the liberties of freemen are
at stake, as an outrageous insult
to their intelligence and patriotism.
The great waking up of the over-taxed
people who see their property mortgaged
for huge national debt, and are now ask
ed to yield the Government into the hands
of ignorant negroes, is not confined to any
one locality of Ohio, but exists all over the
State.
The vote of Ohio in October will astonish
the friends of civil liberty, equal taxation,
and white Constitutions, as well as the rev.
olutionists who are trampling on them all.
THOMAS