Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-30
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10 sman s1s DAYTON, July %, 1868. ~
g g The mere announcement that Mr.. Val
landighaml would address the Democ-
racy of Dayton at Beckel Hall tonight
filled the Hall to repletion.q 'sqmo19 Il
The meeting was not intended as a
great demonstration, and no effort was
made to make a big show of numbers or
/ display. An impression had prevailed
in the early part of, the evening that the
meeting would be held in front of the
Court House, and a considerable num-
Der gathered there about, dark, SO that
there were really two meetings assem-
bled at different points to hear the same
speech. Finally y, the heat in Beckel Hall
became so oppressive that a motion was
made and carried to adjourn to the Court
House square, where the concluding por-
tionof Mr.. Vallandigham's speech was
delivered. l7'fi'2 is-l7sIs-. .ir o. -li'a 27.
The mention Of the names of Blair and
Seymour was the signal for the most un-
bounded enthusiasm. aa 5ss.=7ss-u 81. I'D
ffi MR.. vALLANDIGHAM's SPEECH. -.-.,
AS delegate to the recent Presiden-
tial Convention i report to you, my Dem
ocratic friends, officially tonight, the
results of its labors, and propose to con-
slider also, briefly and without rhetoric,
the political situation and prospects.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
Not originally member of that Con-
veption, but called to aid in its deIiber-
ations after its sessions had begun, l
wrought with fidelity and earnestness to
secure that object which. next to princi-
pie, seemed nearest the hearts of the
Democracy of Ohio for the last six
months-the nomination of Mr.. George
II. Pendleton. We failed because of
reasons not necessary nor proper now to
consider But in all else, the labors of
the Convention could not have termina-
ted more in accordance with the wishes
and purposes of true patriots and Dem
ocrats, or better for the country. For
President we have nominated Horatio
Seymour, an eloquent orator, an able
and experienced statesman, an accom-
plished gentleman, sober and righteous
in the enlarged catholic sense of the
term, q man of the strictest pecuniary
integrity; the candidate of no "ring" or
faction, and one who will neither him.
self steal, nor permit theft in others.
And this, after the larcenous expert
ences of the past seven years, which
have Knocked and dwarfed the gigantic
peculations and corruptions of even Ro-
man or English history, and wherein, as
in periods of physical epidemics, every
phase and species of public crime and
ofense speedily assumed the form and
type of robbery or theft, is high, exalt-
ed eulogy upon any candidate and gives
promise of return to honester times.
Nominated, to my personal knowledge,
against his will and without pledge or
promise to any one, upon any subject,
he is under no obligation of any sort,
other than that which binds the patriot
and gentleman. And if he be s'insane,u p
as little creatures with false, malicious
tongues insinuate, I would that the
same method were in the madness of all
other public men. f1s RI F.
. For Vice President we have nomina-
ted General Frank P. Blair-a civilian
and soldier, bold in the Cabinet and
brave in the field; ready to take all just
and necessary responsibilities; skillful
in adapting means to ends, and prompt
in executing his purposes; liberal and
tolerant of the opinions of others, and
in the very midst of the Juror of the late
civil war, capable, as I well know, Of
discerning and conceding the highest
/ patriotism of motive in those who differ
ed widest from him. 1 -
Such are the candidates put in nomin
alton; and in view of their superior ex-
cellencies and qualifications, 1 may
justly say to you that voting for them is
the highest exercise of true, genuine
"manhood suffrage" and moreover, that
in my deliberate judgment and deep con.
viction, this ticket is a winning ticket
and will receive decided majority OF
che entire Electoral College, even with.
out reckoning upon single vote from
the States lately composing the "Con-
federate Government"
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
As to the candidates, General U. S
Grant and Schuyler Colfax, who make
up the ticket of the Republican party,
have not word personally of denuncia
ton or detraction to utter against them
leave that whole style, fashion and
system of political warfare to our enc.
mics, and pray Heaven to put it into
their hearts to devote every hour of time
and every instrumentality as to manner
through the press and upon the hust-
ings, to it in its widest, amplest scope,
and foulest, falsest, bitterest malignity
And I pray further that the war and the
things of the war may make up the sole
subject of their speeches, their docu.
ments and appeals every way to the
people, leaving to us, as they did last
summer and fall in Ohio, the exclusive
discussion. in every form, of the great
living questions of to-day-Restoration
Negro Supremacy, Taxation, Tariff,
Debt, Currency, and whatever else re-
lates to the civil, the political, and the
material prosperity of the country
These be our topics before the people,
while to them we give amplest license to
howl on about "Rebels, Copperheads,
Ku Klux, traitors, convicted traitors, the
life of the Nation" the glory of the war,
and all similar subjects of denunciation
OR of praise. As for my single self