Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-19
GREAT
M a s. s. ME ETIN q
STATE HOUSE SCARE,
GOvERNOR OF OHI(
~ -oN THE q
RADECAE TEOKMT
OF THE GENTLEMEN WHOSE NAMES HAVE
BEEN MENTIONED AS CANDIDATES
FOR THE OFFICE OF

Ia RAD1CAh +.
There was not as large an attendance at
the mass meeting of the gentlemen men,
toned az candidates for the office of Gov
ernor as was expected. The kilograms
printed below, read at the meeting, will
explain the reason.
The meeting was opened by ~. NJ
Bill Gibson falling to come to time.
The State House steps were too close to the
Treasurer's Office to suggest pleasant
recollections to sweet William, and so he
didn't speak. 81. NJ" however, assumed
the pressure and lifted the veil. He was
equal to the emergency. But Billy West
assisted. And Bob Sehenck's niger
Bully. s
We made special arrangement. AS one
newspaper wouldn't hold all the speeches,
we agreed to print 81. Ms" speech. The
Journal will publish w. WIS. We always
prefer to print the most sensible. 81. N"
spoke as follows: .@-
Fellow citizens of the State of Ohio-I am truly
such vast assemblage for the purpose of promul-
eating what conceive to be correct principles Of
the cause of which l sm said to be q humble repre-
sentative. am here tonight to proclaim no new
PRINCIPLES respecting the late war; the mystery of
% which haye sinc7 the the commencement atteppted to
s6ive s s true teel better Ireparet to eI1cidate
fully do justice to the aud valor they both
Of oSdr: pUsSn
unpopular, and from time immemorial has ever been
Truth cannot consult prejudice. hence the rea-
son that its advocate cannot take political part in
the affairs Of this Government. politicians will ever
party with which they identified. felt satisfi
ed at the commencement of the late war that there
exercise OF elective franchise nor union Of fee ing
between the bellieerent parties by the power of
arms. Heuce the reason that stood neutral amidst
the whirlpool of passion which enshrouded the two
armies that were eontending for the mastery whilst
viewing the conflict only from their own standpoint
and thus ignoring each others claims.
world in which the soldiers Of the two contending
entiousness Of the patriotism # their own astions
than the one from which this bleeding nation has
getfulness of the past should now be the end ard aim
of all both North and South elimination auI re-
bered oniy as an error on he nsrt Stu Of SotS
politician of either party should now attempt. and
cannot in justice to TRUTH make political capital at
the sight Of the wounded. heroic soldiers the
graves OF the gallant dead of either the Federal or
Confederate armies. They. both acted their part
patriots from their own view. This fact, by the
impartial historian, when he calmly views the mo-
tive of EACH will be fully established. .4H
The North had the advantage of the South in
aod munitions of war. but in gallaLtry aud he
roism no distinction can justly be ma1e.A
uness he nresenfs es nS raconc;siis III
will lift the veil which enshrouds both. | wish no
IT, sS Ssn T s ia winch for hs
she'll be careful here tonight not to make any
marks thatwil tend to ALLEVIATE the sympathy of the
North from the South. l have ever thought. and
think now. if my theory understood by all, the
pref ldce of the North would be sacrificed that
the clouds of ror which now hover over the nation
would be dispelled, and the southern people woull
then stand in the light in which they fought their
Fellow citizens truly both armies were fighting
f. the uion, the Confederate soldier answered to
the call of his country upon the idea that State
had the right to sece Q, and in choosing secession
his state was maintaining the same con ,titutional
principles granted them. when this government
framed, and to secure this they held that their
independence must be recognized. On the other
han the Federal soldier ignoring this right of
cession claimed that the South rebelling against
the government aud this rebellion must be crushed
in order to restore the U Union. Thus you will see
there TeSson tbs at .n II
was attempting to crush. and an invasion from a
Southern standpoint which the equally gallant sol
der of the South was attempting to repel
No change could take place in the different rela-
tions the armies held toward each other.
Thus they fought upon the hard contested bsttle-
fields for four long years, without any change.
With different flags, each separate Govern
own cause. There were their gallant commanders.
both American heroes, Gen. Ulysses 5. Grant and
General Robt. E.. Lee vindicating to the world the
arms. and in the case of their respective Execu-
tives patriots from their off :ial positions and
riors the bloody carnage unless each yield
ed to the others claims which the prejudices Of
sIIew And although the. Federal Con-
gress never recognized the existence of
. southern ConfeGeracy. its laws; and acts were
had acknowledged them a separate nation. And
hal there been enough men to have filed their g.
kaA ina 10 aoAh
war could never have ceased Thus the war ~ went ea
on. Iappeai to you. gallant soldiers of the Federal
sta and stripes. for tn your flags and whi,h
are now in the archives of this Ca ita as EN- lens
to you, # even the Confederats Government uS sd
had power, and saw proper to have subj ugated the
North and held it as q military district? say
cred as you now do in your hour of triumph?
Soldiers, /! ow address you particularly. Was
were right from the manner in which they met you
whilst on the field of battle? Thus have otter
addressed them and appealed to their reason to d.
justice to your position If there is reconcil
lation effected, it must come from the basis frou
which each have reasoned. Reconstruction can bt
healed which were crea ed by this war. and tht
sympathes ever fully res ored. it must be done b.
not till them will the Federal and Confederate sol
der meet upon the common platform of truth. Th'
political aries during ths war were only Ferin:
about policies to tr umph over the South
for the principles which either advocated coulC
not have restored the Union. During the polite 4
campaign IN which the Hon Clement l.. Vallandig
BAN and the ate Hon. John Brough were candidate
of their respective parties for Governor of the at
thrown on him and taat of his party as traito
through misapprehension of his p' sition, willis
neither wonld have lif ed the veil from the Soutl
and viewed them in the light which they tough
| think the Government in the hour of her tri
umph. whist the South is in her present distress
nj trli h. W. nd nan
sion the wounded soldiers and the widows aud or
phans of the departed dead that fought in the Con
federate army the same thos3 in the Fedora
army-the burden of taxation is now equal, an
they have lost four thousand millions of property il
wealth ', are now psnnyIess, The North can olsi1
credit for the freedom Of the slave than tn
were necessary for the abolition Of slavery, wSic
God In his infinite wisdom had decreed as the fina
Had Davis, as President of the Southern Confeie
racy listened to the appeals of Lincoln to the Sout
to throw down their arms, and come back to thei
been in bondage forever and if the South ha
achieved their Independence, the same would hav
been the esult: No litician should ALLEVIATE tn
freedman from his former master. Should this b
persisted in there may be civil war. wish to con
ciliate the prejudices of both parties in order t
establish truth that differs from each.
sincerely wish that my life offered up on tn
altar 9f prejudice would fully establish my truths
would consider it well sacrif ed. thank you a.
for the sympathy shown me whilst listening to pri
cples that must resist the general Prejudces of tn
people. would rather be hated by the whole worl
for being right, than to compromise truth in orde
to gain The ,plause of public opinion. think a
principles as do. is to look at it disinterestedl
from both stand points. having no other aim i
view but to unite our distraoted country into on
common feeling of brotherhood.
Music by the Band. Band, Coates Kline!
The kilograms alluded to above were a
follows:
BELLEFoNTAINE. June 18th.
nE'R C-w-N; Tell Scnenck he must chang
out en- nldsSo for Governor. They'll butcher me
come up Besides. this dish road won't carr
mo for ha e fare The "Mac-a-cheek" amt ma kin