Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-01
Hon. Samuel Galloway I'm Chi

Our eminent citizen, Hon. SAMUEL
GALLOWAY, has been up to Chicago f1lling
q political star engagement. At the last
municipal election that city swung from its
Republican moorings and landed on the
Democratic side. Great efforts are being
made by the Republicans to take it back,
and to assist in this work Mr.. GALLOWAY
went to Chicago. His labors must have
been effectual, as we infer from the follow
ing notice in the Chicago Times: ,-
The North side Republicans held meet
ing in Turner Hall, last evening, for the
purpose OF listening to the Hon. Samuel
Galloway, a former member OF Congress
from Ohio, and at present candidate upon
the Radical electoral ticket for that State.
The hall was tolerably well filled, prin-
cipally with Germans, save upon the plat
form. where were large collection of Rad
ical notables, among whom were John G.
Dore, General T. o. Osborne, General Has
brouck Davis A. G. Hesing, Jacob Rehm,
General Solomon and many others.
Julian S. Rumsey was called to the chai' 4,
and Hon. Napoleon Bonaparte Judd pro.
ceeded to address the audience. What e
said was of no special consequence. SUI
flee it to say that it was made entirely in
the English tongue, despite the fact that
his hearers were mostly all Germans.
Some of the unsophisticated ones who had
heard that the orator was an accomplished
German speaker, having learned the Lam
guage while in Berlin, called out for an ad-
dress in German. Mr.. Judd, however, did
not seem to hear them.
Mr.. Judd having finished, the hero of
the evening was then called out. Mr.. Gal
loway has a physiognomy bare sight of
which is enough to cause shudder in any
healthy person. Lean and lank as rail,
or, II possible, as the great rail-splitter
himself; with a skin that looks like the
hide of a rhinoceros, with eyes like those
of an OK, looking down beneath and be-
hind pair of shaggy eyebrows; with dirty
looking hair standing out every way from
his Uranium, with lank sunken cheeks,
with dirty shirt and collar, and a
seedy, makeup generally; with grim
aces of countenance and an OUT
landish drawl in his voice, intended,
probably, for effect, Mr.. "Sam" Galloway
got up and proceeded to speak. Commence
ing with rehearsal of the woes of "Bleed-
ing Kansas" he passed on to the war and
regaled his hearers with rehash of all Il c
old cries used to promote volunteering, to
excite Radical riots, to sack Democratic
newspaper offices. The Democratic party
had resisted the draft. had run away from
the draft, had opposed negro soldiers, had
derided Lincoln, had aided the rebels, had
opposed the emancipation proclamation,
had in all ways tried to injure the cause of
the nation, &C., &c. Having exhausted all
the events of the war, he proceeded to in
vent all sorts of charges against Democrats
and the Southern whites at the present
time. Horse-thief" and "sceundrel y
formed full one-half of his vocabulary,
Another war was topic upon which he
delayed long, and was 10th to leave. II
there should be another war, he said, sin
the Providence of God" it would be the
end of the rebels and the Democratic
party. Every last man of them were
scoundrels and ought to have been hung.
These were the words of the speaker.
The speech, from beginning to end, was
tissue of blackguardism, an attempt to
revive the fires of the war and to promote
ill-feeling between the sections. There was
not single sentence of the address thai
rose above the level of the lowest pot hSdse
politicians appeal, and this character was
heightened by the unkempt appearance o.
the speaker, and his loaferish tones. Decen
Republicans upon the platform were dis
gusted with the whole performance, ant
sat in evident uneasiness, wishing for the
end.
The Democratic party could do no bettel
thing than to employ Mr.. Galloway tC
travel around the country delivering
such speech, and making just such an eX
hibition at every town in the State.