Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-11

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ern whites and over our own Govern /
ment, in burdensome taxation, which
Paralyzes industry, robs labor of its just
reward, and Expresses our entire people
in all their interests and all their rela-
tions. This is the question you are to
determine. IF you are tired Of that sys-
tenn of governmental policy; if you wish
to overthrow it; if you wish to reeur to
The grand old principles and policy
which made the Republic prosperous
and the people happy-youmust make
complete change. You must demand of
your representatives that they shall
change this whole system. Will the
head of the army do it? Will General
Grant do itQ Cries of"No, no I''I Is he
the best agent You can employ to make
the military, subordinate to the civil
authority; to disband, to the utmost rea-
sonable extent, our present costly mill
tary system; to beat the swords of his
own military satraps, under the congress
-sional reconstruction policy, into prun-
ing hooks; to discard the system Which
Ile has consented to become the head OF,
in contempt of the constitutional and
lawful powers of the chief magistrats of
the republic elected by the people? D
Can he change all his own ideas and his
military associations, and abandon his
military companions, to become mere
civil magistrate, and to carry out the
policy of retrenchment and economy
which the necessities of the people re-
quire, at the sacrifice of all the natural
tendencies of military life2 VIII he cut
up unsparingly the fungus-growth of
anti-American- ideas, habits, and sys-
TENS which. has sprung up during the
war2 Cries of "No! nol''l Can we
expect such result from a man whose
whole public life has beenpurely military;
who has had no knowledge, experience
or training in civil government Can
he be relied on to work out the, difficult,
butlneeessary transition of ideas, meas
Irres and systems, from the stata Of.
war to the state of peace, to which as
yet we have made in three years of NOM
inal peace no practical approach? Or
must we elect a Hlan-who understands
and believes in the old system under
which our country became great and
prosperous, and under which all the peo-
pie were happy, lightly taxed, and thirty
ing in all their business affairs? That is
the question you are to meet. Gentlemen,
[ can communicate to you. the most
ituspicious indications from the East.
We of the East ask only that you stand
with us, and we will accomplish peace
ful revolution in the policy Of the Gov
6rrnent, which will carry gladness to
every home and relief to every industry
in the land, and will give new hope to
human nature in every clime,a because
Che prediction will be falsifed that, by
the Consequences of civil war, we
shall lose our freedom and submit
ourselves to a system of military gov
ernments.- We believe that the Ameri-
can people are wise enough, and good
enough, andpatriotic enough, to be able
to emerge out of the greatest civil war
known in history, and restore and re-es-
4 tablish a government by. the people for
the people. [ admit that it has been
thought, and was thought by our wise
I forefathers, that by civil war we should
deeply imperil, if not lose, the estimable
blessings of liberty, constitutional rep
resentatiye Institutions, and local self
government. L am one of those who,
though alive to the perils of that dire
alternative, yet hoped, yet believed, and
Yet trusted in the people. And I now
believe that in their own good time the
american people will rouse themselves
and rescue the best hopes of mankind
IN every country and in every future
age from the destructive consequences
of. the habits which are engendered du-
ring a period of civil war-(applause)-
Fiat we will again establish the civil au-
thority in supremacy-(applause)-
we will again restore to every State all
its rights, and revive local self-govern-
rient everywhere, and give once
more to every individual that
freedom in. the sphere of his .,ae-
tion, that security p in his person
al rights. which he enjoyed before the
civil war began; that We will obliterate
slavish precedents, and re.establish the
authoritygthe maxims, the manners, and
the constitutional guards of civil free
dom. 1 do not now relinquish my conf
dence. believe that the American peo-
Pile are competent to do all this. 1t is for
rs and for you to say whether we will do
it now, or whether we will tread another
4 four, years of the evil and dangerous
road which we have travelled forthe past.
Citizens, you of this part of our country
are, and ohaye been, in condition of
more than ordinary advantage. oaY ou
haye been less sufferers by taxationf and
waste of productive industry in the
| South, which the present Congressional
policy seosts you, than you would Have
4 been except for the high prices which
agricultural products have brought in
Europe. Farmers have felt these evils
4 less because they were able to sell
their crops at higher rates than
cam be ordinarily expected. The
time may come, and that speedily,
when large crops abroad ! and
/ large crops here win make it absolutely
essential tonyou that the greatest econ
omy should be prsctised on the part of
the Governments. BE wise in times
Adopt your remedy while wheat is 81 so
or 50 bushel. Remember that it is not
always there; and if you suffer your
selves to be burdened by taxation to such
an extent that you can scarcely save
anything when prices are high, what will
be your condition when, as will happen
in the ordinary course of events, by a
change of the relation of supply and de-
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