The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-08-05
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
S p e EcH
(FrOm the Cincinnati Enquirer,

NtrOm the ClnclnnAil Enq1!rcrl
DAYTON, July 2S, 1868.
The mere announcement that BIr. Vallan-
digham would address the Democracy of
Dayton, at Beckel Hall, to night filled the
Hall to repletion.
The meeting was not intended as great
demonstration, and no effort was made to
make 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 considerable
number gathered there about dark, so that
there were really two meetings assembled at
different points to hear the same speech
Finally, the heat in Beckel Hall became so
oppressive that a motion was made and car
ried to adjourn to Courthouse square, where
the concluding portion of Mr.sVallandig-
hams speech was delivered.
The mention of the names of Blair and
Seymour was the signal for the most unboun-
ded enthusiasm.
Mr.. Vallandigham's Speech.
AS Delegate to the recent Presidential
Convention, report to you, my Democratic
friends, officially tonight, the result of its
labors, and propose to consider also, briefly,
and without rhetoric, the political situation
and prospects.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
Not originally member of that Conven-
ton, but called to aid in its deliberations af-
/ ter ils session had begun, wrought with fl
deity and carncstness 10 secure that object
J which, next To principle, seemed nearest TO
the hearts of the Democracy of Ohio for the
I last six mOnths-the nomination of George
I II. Pcndlcton. We failed because of reasons
/ not necessary nor proper now to consider.
| But in all else, the labors of the Convention
/ could not have terminated more in accord
ance with the wishes and purposes of true
/ patriots and Democrats, or better for the
/ country. For President we have nominated
| Horatio Seymour, an eloquent orator, and
/ able and experienced statesman, an accom-
| plished gentleman, sober and righteous III
! the enlarged, catholic sense of the term s
man of the strictest pecuniary integrity tho
I candidate of no ''ring" or faction, and one
who will neither himself steal nor permit
theft in others. And this, after the larcen-
Gus experience of the last seven years, which
have Knocked and dwarfed the gigantic pee
! ulations and corruptions of even Roman ol
I English history, and wherein, as in period!
( of physical epidemics, every phase and spe
cies of public crime and offense speedily as
sumed the form and type of robbery or thief
Is high, exalted eulogy upon the candidate:
and gives promise of return to honest times
Nominated, to my personal knowledge
against his will, and without a pledge o
promise to any one, he is under no obliga
ton of any sort, other than that which bind
the patriot and gentleman. And if he b
''insane," " as little creatures with false, ma
Hcious tongues insinuate, would that tn
same method were in the madness of al
public men.
For Vice President We have nominatet
General Frank P. BlsiE-a civilian and
soldier, bold in the Cabinet and brave in tn
field ready to take all just and necessar.
responsibilities sl1illful in adapting mean
to ends, and prompt in executing his purpose
liberal and tolerant to the opinions of Others
and in the very midst of the furore of til
late civil war, capable, as 1 know, of dis
cerning and conceding the highest patriotism
of motives in those who differed widest fror
him. ..- .. .-.
Such arc the candidates putin nomination
and in view of their superior eXcellencie
and qualifications, l may jnstly say that vc
ting for them is the highest exercise Of true
genuine manhood suffrage )" and moreC
yer, that in my deliberate Judgment an
deep conviction, this ticket is Tinnin
ticket, and win receive decided majority {
the entire electoral college, even witho,
reckoning upon single vote from the State
lately composing the Confederate Cover
ment." i.-.a..