Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-05
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At the great Democratic meeting held
at Hamilton, o, on the, 3oth, General
Durbin Ward made the following able
and eloquent, speech :e5ai9qqa 3sIlimaid.
MY FELLow-CITIzENs It is not my
purpose to ,oeeapy your time at any
great length now! You have been ad-
dressed very ably upon the current is
sues of the day. saeY You are also expecting
to be addressed by a distinguished citi-
zen of Indiana, whom 7 know well, but
have not the good fortune to see present
here now. 1 knew him in lis own home
in Indiana, and in truth it is appropriate
that 1 should help to melcome him, an
asmuch as the greater part Of my own
boyhood was spent=in the same neigh
borhood with that of Eafe Devlin. SIiT
otNow, my fellow1citizens, what are we
together for2 Why have we assembled? ,?
Is it that we may congratulate each other
upon the prosperity that covers the
eountryo2 lis it that we can look each
other and our neighbors in the face, and
say that those oceans of blood and those
millions of money which, within the last
seven years, were la1ished by the Amer
lean people for the restoration of this
glorious Union of ours, we're not spent
in vain? Is it now restored, and I'M
peace and orderl Can we say that2 No,
my fellow-citizens, we must look each
othersadly in the face-both the man
that supported the ewar and the man that
opposed the war-and say that, thus far,
the fruits of that war have been imper-
fectly reaped. Whereas you fought to
restore the Union, it is. not, restored /;
whereas you fought for the constitution
alrights of the people, these rights were
notirestored. But instead of that, there
exists in ten States of this Union des-
potism-ay despotismo as CALLING, nay
more calling than everawas heaped upon
any civilized people in the world My
Democratic friends, / know that You did
not fight for thing like that. 1 know
that although the. army was full of sol
diers and full of generals who believed
in the Democratic party, there never was
one Democrat under arms so recreant to
the memory of Jefferson and of Jackson,
so forgetful of the situation of his coun-
try, and Of the rights of the people as to
assent, for one moment, to this misera,
BILE Radical misgoyernment that is. now
put down upon Southern States. Ap-
.plause. 1t was not the Democratic
party that favored that. - i a.o4.
1t was not the Democratic party
which sought, when the Southern men
had Laird down their arms and acknow7
lodged the supremacy Of the Federal
fag,to humble them, to demand condi-
itiops which had never been heretofore
demanded. 1t was another party which
demanded all that. 1t was a party
which, not content with having accom-
plished the object for which it professed
to carry on the war-it was so eager for
power, SO ,determinedito to retain its grasp,
its hold upon the, government of this
country, its offices, its revenues, its pow
er-no sooner was the war over than
they violated every promise which they
had made to the people of the North in
order to raise men andNponey to carry
on the war, and to the people. of the
South in order. to induce them to lay
down their arms, and to the world in or
der to prevent them from intervening in
the conflict in, this country. ,7,.
| I boldly affirm it, my fellow-citizens,
and I announce that the Republican
party ssince5the close of the war-IIin
tend to GO further back than that-have
proved. .ffalse to every promise which
they made to the people in connection
with the war itself. And that is the
task my fellow-citizens, which. is i'm
posed on, us, not to look each other in
the face with congratulations on the
prosperity of the country. But the task
is imposed upon us to call to account
this party thathas thus brokenits pledges
to the peopleLits pledges to the world.
The Republican party is now in pow
er. 1t is now ruling the country, and at
this Presidential election we are called
upon, as honest men, as patriots, to de-
mand of our public servants to give. an
account of their Stewardship in the past,
and let us see to it that they are made,
like, the man in the Scripture, to account
to the uttermost for the money that was
placed in their hands, and to account to
the uttermost for the power for good and
for evil which the country put in their
hands. 10 IaTt-e5- -5fsrt I1s -7sag @
In the brief space that / propose to
occupy, itswould not Inappropriate that
/ should go over all the discussion con-
nected with the old issues between the
parties. You have heard them again
and again, both during and since the
war. You have heard them even to-day,
you know that what, is said is true.
So fully is this recognized that the
ablest man that they have, the clearest-
headed man, though he is a perfect devil,
! will admit, avows that they have not
lived within the Constitution, nor do
they pretend to do, so. He treats it as
waste paper; he disregards all its in
functions, and avows that it is just, and
right, and proper, that the American
people should trample upon the institu-
tions Of their country, and not abide by
the Federal Constitution any longer. 1t
is, then, undeniable, as I repeat, that all
these charges we have made for years
against the Republican party of violat-
ing the Constitution, of trampling down
the rights of the people and the States,
are true and we'll founded. But they
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