Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-03-06

Before the Central Pendleton Club,
Thursday Evening, March s. 1868.


Follett to,be present. as looked to,him to
make .the principai speech Tonight .95l
Although stagnation holds in thrall the
business energies and enterprise of the
country, thereby causing widespread dis
tress, vepeverfhe have cause t9r con-
gratulation. There are many who, IN their
efforts to penetrate the future, discover
nothing to cheer or make glad. To them
the future looks dark and forbidding-
promising no resurrection to the C0nstitu-
tion and the ancient good fellowship of the
States and that healthy and buoyant pros-'
peritY that distinguished every depart
ment of trade. enterprise and industry.
They even sorrow lest we have contribu-
ted our testimony to that which has been
accumulated in the past ages. that man.
Hhd iafncapable Of self government; and
that never more shall we. as people,
know the bene6cence flowing from Con-
stitutional Government, administered with
rigid simplicity and austeEe economy. In
the past seven years, there Is much to en-
courage this despondent view as to the fp-
ture; but the storm and tempest of Radi-'
cal fanaticism and hate are abating.
Cleans of sunshine are breaking through
the dark thick clouds OF oppression which
have 60 long hung over our beloved coun-
try, charged wfshanelectrictty that threat
ened the complete destruction of civil and
Constitutional liberty. 1t has rained blood,
instead OF WATER aud the devastation has
been terrife-terrific in the loss of life
terrific in the destruction of the material
interests OF. the country-terrifc in the de-
moralfzatton of society. Hell has been eu-
abled to garner q richer harvest than since
the days of Noah's Hood. This Is over. No
more upon the field of battle do our people
contendswith the murderous implements of
war;. The passions engendered by sthese
conflicts have subsidized. Reason, stunned
and senseless during these conflicts, Is re-
covering, slowly perhaps. 1t may seem, and
is beginning to exercise its high functi0nss
That this Is so is made manifest in the dis
inclination of the people in haste and heated
passion to precipitate themselves into
beeody strife over tse, qaarrei between Con-
gress and the President, He who imagines
that this disinclination arisesifr from indiffer-
ence, misapprehends. Never before were
the people more watchful or interested and
they are looking on cody and deterlnined-
". In this cool frame of mind they should
be kept. Dependent upon it is the saliva
tion of the country.
Were the country tobe pnecipitated sud
denly into another civil war by the party
in power, the people, in the heat and
anger and confusion consequent upon such
war would forget that the Republican
party secured the Presidency in 1850 by
entering into an obi igation that they would
give to the country more economical ad-
ministration of the Federal Government
thaffrhad BEEN given 70 il for many yearsl
before, and that instead OF sbaving fulfilled
this partlef the obligation, they iuaugur-
ated an era of corruption, profiigacy and
thievery that Washington City would un.
dpubte1ly have before this been handed
over to the swift and "red hot" destruc-s
tion that was visited upon Sodom of old.
had the Lord not concluded not TO punish
the unrfghteous thereafter in this world in
that manner. On the floor of the House
OF Representatives, Represeptative-D Dawes.
one of committee to examine into the
frauds upon the Government. after it had
been run a. year by this party that came,
into power upon loud professions Of re-
trenchment and reform, declared that some
6odklbada stolen from the Government IN
that year as much as 1t had cost to carry
on every departments of the Government
under the most expensiye preceding admin
istration. ThisMf. Dawes was Republi-
can of orthodox faith. and in, full COM,
munion in the party. In April. 1852,
Senator John p. Hale. from New Hamp-
shire, he who was the Freesoil candidate
publican, was so shocked and OUT
ragged It the rcorfuptlon and profiiga-
cy that characterized the party in power,
tha8 he felt It his duty to rise in his seat in
the Senate, and declare, that our liberties
were more endangered from this corrup-
tion and profigacy atan from the open en-
sent Minister to the Spanish Government.
Donht Piatt, the leader of the Republican
party in the last Ohio House of Represent
atives, in an, editorial in his lMdc-a.cheek
Press last June. declared that from the
hour of Lipeoln's Inauguration until his.
death The thieves soere all IN Office, and that
they st0IeI-stOle With snch unblushing ef-
fr0ntery, that it fairly made the cold cbills
run over the honest men Of the party But
lwh4t OF thatP Did their protests amount
TO anything No. Dom Piatt says that
II one OF these thieves was turned out an
other thief was put into his place who stole
with With e much industry and 5v vigoE as the
Lincoln angered at this? Not If Dom Pi-
aospeeke tsuly{ Hs "cfrcked Jokes" over
tbe9G edecdllv thieves, and said that In
making hia appDintnents it was like run
ming his hand into sack of fifty snakes to
get one eeL This may have been afit subs
Ject for President Lincoln to Joke about
but 1t was mo- joke 70 the people. In fts
best aspect. it is not complimentary to the
Republican party 1S is equivalent to saw
ing that opt OF every fifty applicants for
Office. but one tods honesti
These corruptions of the Republican off,
cieasWeee pointed ont and dwelt upon by
Democratic journals and Democratic
stumpers.;. How were the exposures met
and answered. The editors and speakers
in the Democratic party were denounced
s!Laignsway heoPperneaus, as seces-
slonIsts any ~ 3 msn ui Wu0 MAnteo tpe south
70 succee1 IN ngnung tneir way OUT OF the
o onlon. MoDs W, weLe ses upon tnem tney
s;, me.S usslaas1sls a. us lseI socseey ana the nigh
cials went on. These thieves have about
Sa lent in 3 ststn - Ua t1e country can
soain thrown into Wa thev =. LII, ~ should De
their vocation with assiduity and ~" aga,n Ply
R<r0a In h. Il