Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-11
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tleman pure and spotless, of unsuspectI
ed private character, incapable of any
purpose but to benefit and serve his
country; in word, a man in whose
hands the greatest civic trust in the
world can be safely reposed2 Citizens!
There is a topic to which I may for a
single moment advert in this con-
nection,a9 and that is the relations
which, this 5 distinguished citizen
bears to subjects that interest in
apeculiar degree, the people of the State
of Wisconsin. When he was Governor
of New York, he recommended, in his
messages, a liberal, policy in the man
agement of the public works of New
York toward the trade of the West, par
ticularly to that portion Of it which CEN
tiers at Chicago and Milwaukee. Deyot-
ing all his life to the cardinal doctrines
Of the Democracy, he has resisted the
meddlesome spirit which always charac-
terized the Republican party and all the
parties from which it has descended, He
has resisted all that false system of cen.
tralizing the powers of fGovernment, and
extending the dominion of, Government
over personal affairs which belong only
to the domain Of individual conscience
and Judgement, assuming to judge for
the citizen. and debating to him what in
dustries he shall pursue, what he shall
wear, what he shall eat. and what he
shall drink, what amusements he shall
adopt and what religious observance he
shall practice. Repudiating that false
European system, to escape which many
Of you have come here from your native
Landslide was the first man when
Governor ildof New York, fourteen
years ago, to place his official
veto upon the Maine law :" at.
tempted to be enacted over the people Of
the great State of New York. Applause
and whistling in the crowd. Il allude
to these things, in passing, as serving to
characterize the liberal spirit which has
always governed his public policy
Gentlemen, if it be desirable that our
old Americanideas of government should
berestored, we must begin by electing to
the presidency man possessed of the
ideas of Jefferson and j Jackson, the be-
nefcent philosophy of leaving each in
dividual as much as possible to manage
his affairs, and every locality to
manage its affairs--the States to
take care, of their own proper functions,
and the Union only to attend to the few
simple objects that properly belong to it
in the original plan of our American gov
ernment. We must take for President
of the United States a man who is
thoroughly indoctrinated with the ideas
and imbued with the feelings which gave
the republic sixty-aye seventy years of
glorious prosperity, and no civil dissen-
sions. Applause,] We must go back
to the teachings of the fathers. We
must select, as representative of
the people in the greatest civic
trust Of the Republic, a man
thoroughly in harmony with all those
great and noble principles that gave us
peace, prosperity and happiness for the
first seventy years of the life of the re-
public. Applause. We cannot attain
this result by taking an unknown man,
and then rafting for him, and for inhu-
ence over him, after he-is elected. [Ap-
.plause.l We cannot accomplish that
result by taking q mere, military man
without single civic idea in the world.
/ Applause. J Congratulate myself, and
| congratulate the country, that at last
the Democratic party has stepped back
twenty-five years and REQUIRED to its
original and primitive policy of taking
its leader-its foremost statesman to
represent it in the councils of the nation
and in the greatest civic trust of the
country applause ]-and as its candi-
date before the American people. Zap.
plause. 1t perhaps is a bold-perhaps
even daring policy; but it was. slowly
evolved in the councils of the Conven-
tion, and through its deliberations, till
at last they thought it to be practically
necessary and practically wise also
the grand old historic policy Of the Dem
ocratic party to take its real chief to
lead il in the contest before the people,.
FApplause,l,, Citizens, some criticism
has been made on our nomination for
Vice President. AT least this signifi-
canoe attaches to that nomination: we
have taken q man originally a Demo-
crat and trained in the best schools
of Democracy, who for some years past
has not been among us. / am glad that
we Have, because consider it tender of
fraternity and of fellowship on the basis
of liberal equality with all those we
expect to join us, whatever may have
been the past, in redeeming and saving
our country. Applause. And I am hap
py that we have given to them a pledge
IN advance that all who stand with us
now for the sake of our cause and our
country shall stand with us as equals
and as brothers ever hereafter. 70, APP
plause Let MS look still alittle further.
Who is General Francis p. Blair, Jr.3
Our Republican friends-about half of
whom are on the eve of voting with us
if we will only take a man of a good
war record-why don't they come over.
and vote for Blair, especially as they.
tell US, since the nomination. that Gov
,ernor Seymour is in rather frail health,
and will probably die pretty soon, and,
then Blair would come in as President
Why, under these circumstances, had
not. they better vote the Democratic tick
let and have General Blair for President
instead of General Grant applause -
have a man who has a policy
in place Of a man who says he
has no policy; have a man trained in the
school of Andrew Jackson, whom we hear
praised by them so loudly and so long2
1 have thought often in the last eight
years Andrew Jackson's bones would