Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-21
from the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
CAMPAIGN In THE SlA DISTRICT.
Democratic Meeting at
Delaware.
Speeches of Col. 3. Burns
and Hon. J. r. Hubbell.

Accessions from the Republican
Ranks the Order Of the Day.
TRIUMPH OF The DEMO-
CRATIC TICKET CERTAIN.
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The Democratic meeting at Delaware,
on Saturday, is conceded to have been the
largest held in the district. sMiller's Hall
was full. Though the weather was very
cid, numbers were in from other parts OF
the county. Such a stir among the De-
imocracy OF that region has not been wit
messed tor many a long year. Every one
is confident of victory or sslss=5r s.ss-s'
Mr.. POppleton, of the Dela,odre, Herald,
moved that DR.. Blymyer be called. to the,
chair. The motion was carried unanimous
ly. The doctor Is a convert and casts his
first Democratic vote for Colonel Burns.
May the Lord bless him and all other hon.
est men who dare to sacrifice party for
truth and justice.
The Chairman introduced Colonel Burns
to the audience as the Democratic candidate
Tor Congress. ff--
Speech of Col. b. Burns, at Delaware,
j g saturday, Jan. 1S. Jt54
+ The speaker said:
MR.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS: : In
appearing before you as L do this after
noon, as the candidate OF the Democratic
party for Congress in this district, L am
agreeably surprised find my old friend
DIR. Blymyers acting as chairman, of
your meeting. Many, long years ago
formed his acquaintance, and our friend
ship has been uninterrupted to the present
time. .Es -Esfa AIS sss-sos- zssssiss
am happy, fellow-citizens, to meet so
many of you here on this cold, inclement
day. It is an indication to me that you are
In earnest, and that the occasion which has
brought you together is one which calls
forth your energy and your judgment.
We must fellow-citizens, in this brief ad-
dress, wsive preliminary remarks and for
to be considered. Speaking, as have been
for the last six days, twice each day: and
riding from ten to twenty-five miles
day, through the cold, l am necessarily
Obliged to husband my strength.
The great contest in Ohio, which culmi-
mated on the second Tuesday of October
last, was of such vast Importance, and the
issues that were involved in that contest
were discussed SO fully and SO ably by the.
best talent of both political parties, and
were so fully circulated among the people
through the press, that the issues then dis
eu>sed and the arguments used must, to
considerable extent, be still fresh in your
memories.
can not hope, fellow-citizens, humble
as | am, to bring to your notice any thing
particularly new on these questions. In
deed / will not undertake to discuss all
these questions at large, MOI. will / under
take to go into any of them in detail. There
are two or three questions to which 1 shall
briefly call your attention.
1 will here, refer to report of my re-
marks in the Cincinnati Commercial, at Gale
donia, in which typographical error oc-#
curs-of course it is typographical error,
for the gentleman who reported me is fair
and honorable. andwould not misrepresent.
In that report am made to say That it is
claimed the old issues are not dead, to which
doctrine / do not subscribe" did say:
1T is claimed the old issues are dead, TO
which doctrine 1 don't subscribe" Many
of the old issues are still alive, but they are,
for the time being, thrown aside and held
in abeyance, and public attention is Occu-
pied in discussing the more important
questions which lie directly before US.
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE wAR?-
In this contest. short as it is, and honora-
bly, as / am determined it shall be conduct
ed on my part, don't intend to be thrown
upon the defensive; but in my remarks
see, fit to reply briefly to The charge made
General Beatty on the 10th. He says: .
81 charge the war upon them 1.-THE DEM
ocratic party]. charge the great public
debt upon them. charge upon them the
taxes which burden our people, charge
upon them the calamities which have re-
suited from the war;" &c. 1tsilstif4 q r
Now, my fellow citizens, no man, who
has lived as long as General Beatty has in
this country, with the intelligence he pos
sesses, can honestly and with truth make
such a charge as that. You will recollect,
my friends, for many years before this civil
war that, the Democratic party all over
this land, and especially in the Northern
States, were instant in season and out of
season, in Congress and among the people.
in high places and low, in all gradations of
society, unanimous in their efforts to avert
this great civil war, and all the calamities
attendant upon it. And so persistent were
they in this direction that the epithet
Union savers" was applied to them in de-
rision. The Democratic party was willing
at all times, and under all circumstances,
to make every reasonable sacrifice, which
the principles of civil liberty required US
to do, to avert the gathering stormof civil
strife-a storm we saw mnst come unless
these mad intermeddlers in other peoples
business were stopped in their career.
Perhaps no one of the political parties
was responsible originally for the introduce
ton of slavery into this country, 1t had its
origin long anterior to the Declaration of
Independence, and the formation of this
Government. When we became a free peo-'
pie, we found the institution among US, and
the wise men who framed the Constitution
permitted it to remain, restricted by con-
stitutional enactments. The time is too
short for details. The subject is familiar to
you. T. c ,-7,.7- l-tsa.g. al5a sa ..=ga1
Perhaps twenty or thirty years ago the
Aboiitionists of the North commenced this
war by their attacks upon this recognized
institution of the Federal Constitution, and
continued pertinaciously to push their
plans for its final extinction, even at the
risk of sacrificing the Federal Union. 1
might quote Horace Greeley, Charles Sum-
ner, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Thomson,
and other old apostles of abolition, who
continued, persistently, to urge this ques-
tion, until it finally eliminated in civil
strife and bloodshed.
Look back over tine history of this party,
and who do you find opposing the. laws in
the Northern States, resisting Federal au-
thority, arrayed in mob violence, planting
themselves squarely against the enforce
ment OF the laws and the Constitution?
With the history of these men before me, i
may well hurl back upon General Beatty
and his friends this charge upon the Demo-
cratic party. 1 might well charge them
with responsibility for the war. But l
charge it not upon the Republican party,
but upon the bad men whose bad counsels,
in an evil hour, prevailed, and swallowed
up that gallant old Whig party. s
When the war broke out by acts of hos
tility: when Fort Sumter was fired upon,
you all know, fellow citizens, how the
North responded. We believed, many of