Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-06

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men aud money, but when the war wa
over they threw off the mask. Then thel
discovered that their hideous plot was no
complete. There were still some standin,
guarantees OF the old Constitution not ye
abrogated, and of which the Southern peo
pie, like all others, enjoyed the benefits
Therefore they invented new hypocrisy
saying that the trainers of the Constitution
never contemplated an immense rebellion
| and therefore did not provide sufficien
| power to Congress for meeting such emer
| gencies, and consequently agreed tina
they (Congress) can and must ac
| outside OF their Constitution. 1t was lik,
the exposition by French savan of th,
same new doctrine of transmission of light
His listener, Prot. Faraday, objected tina
it was totally opposed to well known fact
| in natural philosophy. t"Well." calmly re
| piled the Frenchman, 'sso much the wOrs,
for the facts" So with the Radicals, wher
| it is shown them that their dogmas violat,
| the Constitution they iDsolently answer
| $50 much worse for that instrument" anC
military despotism had trod with iron hee
| upon the powerless neck of Southern. peO-
| pie and terrible cries were heard because
| one of the Military Governors had tried tC
| temper his hated task with mercy. Thai
| one was General Hancock. Loud and re-
| peated cheers Z 81. 81 rsaE
The speaker continued that he could moi
see how any one can look without COM
mingled anger and disgust upon the pro-
cess of Congressional reconstruction. Ten
of the United States debarred o.: all their
rights, the hungry markets of the world
closed to the products of Southern fields.
sugar rotting in the cane, the Mississippi
river plunging over broken levees, and the
boorish plantation negroes pampered with
the delusive hope of sitting in mockeries of
conventions.
He srid that Radicals argued that such
acts were needed to prevent Democratic
accession TO power, and consequent repu-
diation of the National debt, but he thank
ed God that the National power still was
( safe and no reputation would be attempt
ed, although if anything were calculated
to drive voters to that alternative it would
be the spectacle of all the national bond
holders hocking to one party and advocat-
ing all kinds of outrages under the bugbea
cry of down with reputation.
We contend that with the Democratic
Conventionlays the duty of saying what
shall be the policy of the next four years,
and who shall be its exponents, and to say
whether they shall be victorious on living
issues, or beaten on dead issues. Two mil
lions of men were in our recent armies-of
these five hundred thousand have died
during and since the war, and there are
now one hundred and fifty thousand SOL
diers living. OF these voters this Conven-
tiOn represents at least one-half, and of
that half one-h half or more are of so strong
conviction that they will vote for any Dem,
ocratic candidate that has yet been named.
[Cheers.l But the other half, he declared,
might be lost or won to the Demo ratio
party as the nominations might be wise or
or otherwise. He did not doubt the wis.,
dom of the Tammany Convention, nor
that they would nominate standard bear
erwho, whether he was or was not SOL
dier In the recent war, was without doubt
an advocate of law. fApplause.1 $50 5eA|
The issues of the present crisis were not
In any respect the issues for which they
fought. No one man who died in the de-
tense of the National flag, laid down his
life for negro suffrage, and the other radi-
cal dogmas. The Democratic party is now
the only party which adheres to the Con-
stitution and the law, and in the path that
it now treads can be discerned the foot
prints of Washington, OF Jefferson, OF Clay,
and Webster, and while it keeps their track
it can be followed with pride and with un-
faltering purpose. [Applause.l r,-- ---r-s
At the conclusion of Gen. Ewing's ad-
dress, the band struck up the air "Rally
round the Flag" the chorus being sung
by the audience.
The committee on Permanent OrganIza-
ton then reported the following list of
regular officers
For permanent Chairman; Mai. Gen. VIM.
B. Franklin, of Connecticut.
States-Vice Presidents and Secretaries
Maine. Maj r Hasting, Col FL G Staples;
New Hampshire, Gen M T Doubor. Capt
Coggswell; Massachusetts, Gen Luther
Stephenson, Maj 81 G Waymouth; Connec-
tict, Col L G Kingsbury. Capt,H l. Schlut-
ter; Rhode Island, Gen G Haz ard: C,l T
Ford Brown; New York, Gen w Blan-
chard. Col c Bronson; District of Colum-
bia, Col 2 FL Allabach, Col Jno r Obernia;
California. Gen w Denver, no secretary;
South Carolina, Lieut. Medarv, no secre-
tary; West Virginia, DR. r A Vance, Capt
o g Chene; Iowa. Gen j III Tuttle, Lieut.
r A Eddy; New Mexico, Gen R B Mitchell,
Capt G w Cook; Illinois, Col r A Schartz,
Private Hildreth; Missouri, Gen 5
Fullerton, Col S M Jewell; Michigan, Maj
J Wixan, Maj Foster Pratt: Kentucky,
Major w 81 White. Colonel w q
Starr Florida, Colonel J G McKibben no
secretary; Wisconsin, General NJ Mont
gomery, Lieutenant G w Bird = Tennes-
see, General Theodore Trauronieht, Lieu
tenant d Walker Alabama, Colonel A Ed
wards, Colonel Rutter; Arkansas, Captain
c L Cameron, Captain William Mcmahon !;
Minnesota, Major G Rhodes, Major Geo
A Clarke; Indiana, General John Love,
Colonel 81 S Grove; Dakota, Gene ralaJ B
Todd, no secretary; New Jersey, Cen
eral Theodore Runyon, Lieutenant Colonel
j J Crapen; Nebraska, Colonel John Pam
lex, Captain G B Smith; Pennsylvania,
General Pleasant. Colonel p Linton !;
Kansas, Colonel Y II English, DIR II Nj
Savage; Ohio, General A Wiley, Captain j
r Santeneyer; Maryland, Major Leopold
Blumenberg, Major A Williams; Louis
lana, General j B Steadman, Captain R S
Dunrius; Texas, General Horace Malnen.
This list of officers was elected by ac-
clamation.
General Franklin was escorted to the
chair amid cheers.
General McClernand introduced General
Franklin as favorite of the volunteers
lYells and cheers.
General Franklin thanked the Conven-
tion, and alluding to his want of civil ex-
perience hoped no very difficult questions
of order would arise. Several military
organic itions were justly looked on with
distrust. They were dangerous, and SOL
diers had no right to use their positions as
a political power. What then were they
diers! First, 1t was not secret organiza-
ton, but there was secret
organization thoroughly organized
throughout the West, and probably the
South. the Grand Army of the Republic,
organized for political purposes, aud oppos-
ed to it another, and those two might at
any time fly at each others throats and
declare Conservatives would enter into
no such organizations was one purpose, to
show the country that the Chicago Soldiers
and Sailors Convention, so called, did not
represent them, was another.
The Radical party pretended to be TIE
friends of soldiers, but the Radical Senate
rejected the soldiers nomination. He in
stanced the case of Gems. Mcclellan, Slo-
cum and others. No less than 1000 soldiers
and sailors had been nominated to the Sem
ate and been rejected. The Conservative
soldiers felt certain things had
been settled by the war. They had
felt conciliation toward their former
opponents. The Radicals had been ami
mated with enmity and hate, and, Judging
the future by the past, the only hope for
peace was in the success of the Conserya-