Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-28
Change and Men AChange-W with
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Change and Men Change with
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! At the Radical meeting on Saturday |
night, during the short time we were pres
eat MIR. HENRY c.. NOZZLE was the speaker.
We had not heard Mr.. NOBLE for many,
many years, but that last time is deeply
impressed in our memory, as no doubt it
is In his.
The time was, when the old Whig party,
or rather the. leaders of that organization,
was passing from the extreme of anti-Abo-
litionism to that Of its antipodes. Mr..
CLAY, for many years the great leader of
that party, saw in the near future, that the
efforts of the leaders of the Abolition par
" to disrupt the Republic would be at
tended with success. With this belief full
upon him, in 1S4S-we are not certain as to
the exact time-he introduced certain res
oiutions. in the United States Senate, which
met the decided opposition of those who
aDxiously sought an alliance between the
Whig party and the Abolitionists.
On the receipt OF the news Of these reso-
lutions, by telegraph, meeting was called
by the Whig leaders to denounee Mr.. CLAY,
prominent among whom was Mr.. DENIM
SON, who seemed to be the. leader in the
conspiracy The meeting was called at the
old United States Court House, and, by the
torce of numbers, was carried into success
full effect. Mr.. HENRY CLAY NOBLE! and
VIM. GREGORY, since dead, stood, solitary
and alone, of the Wings of Columbus, in
their attempts to parry off the kicks which
the jackasses of the. party aimed at the
dying Lion. 1t was then and there we heard
Mr.. NOBLE speak for the last time, until
we heard him on Saturday night. His
speech in defense Of his illustrious name
sake, was learned and eloquent and SEEM
ingly came, as we are confident it did, from
the best feelings of heart beating for
his country and for him who had for years
been the acknowledged embodiment of the
principles of his party. 1t was bold and
an aggressive speech, and in itsMr. NOBLE
scored the GALLowAYs, the DENNIsoNs and
other recusants withmerciless and we'll de-
served severity. a. - 1os aai5sg-
The contrast between that speech, de-
livered by Mr.. NOBLE, and the one made
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of the great leader of his party, Mr.. n oBLE,
in 1s4s, spoke in defence of his life long
principles-for the Constitution, which, the
Abolition leaders wished to violate, and
with it for the country which gave him
birth and the great leader whose name he
then, as now, 10 proud to bear. He spoke
too of the Union of the States, and for it, end
against the very principles which the Radi-
Gals in Congress have used to disrupt It.
On Saturday night his speech was different.
The twenty years which have passed
brought with them great change. From the
platform on which he stood, Mr.. NOBLE de-
Tended the party he attacked in 1S4S, and
gave in his adhesion to principles which,
twenty years before, he denounced with
burning eloquence as patricidal in the ex-
treme. 1rt{fE |S5 EEf fB3
Like the fated CAssANDRA, Mr.. CLAY and
Mr.. NOBLE were doomed to prophecy
truth, but not to be believed. The warnings
of the twain, to their fellow Wings, then
Just passing into Abolitionism, passed un-
needed or fell upon ears which deemed
country but as dust in the balance when
weighed against political power. HENRY
CLAY passed from earth and earthly things,
with sad forebodings for the country,
which have been more than realized, and
HENRY CLAY NOBLE has taken the stump
to defend the party that has disrupted the
Republic-which has exalted the negro
into a,demi-god, a, and keeps the standing
army Oft the Republic in the South to en-
force the doctrine that the negro, not the
white, is to be the master of the situ-
alton, and this, too, while the white pio-
neers of the. West are being butchered by
the merciless savage, for want of the pro-
lection which the Standing Army of the
Republic should give them-that holds the
South, as conquered provinces, and denies
the people, Union and Secesh, their Cons l.
tutional rights as American citizens. The Sc
outrages having the direct tendency to sub
vert the Republic, greater than sGIDDINGs
and GARRISON ever dreamed of, and more
monarchial than HAMILTON and the elder
ADAMS ever wished, Mr.. NOBLE, as an
advocate of that party, must now defend.
Times change and men change with
them. and Mr.. NOBLE, it would seem, Is no
exception to the general rule. aeaiq 4
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