Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-11
An ,AppeaI to Reason-The II Einapcial
. SWindles OF the Radical Admin
- istrarien-The Return of the De- n
mocracy TO Power Essential 7(f-
To the Safety at thesR
~,0 public.

M Mr. Mayor Mayo and Citizens zss1af of Milwau-
kee,: + felicitate myself that. among
You am not, or at least do not feel my
self to be stranger. Wisconsin is the
child of New York. OF her population
New York has contributed in larger
proportionthan any other State. Every
where meet aequaintances and friends,
everywhere receive the cordial greetings
that come from common nativity with
,enterprising men, who, in this rising en-
pire of, the West, have found new
home, yet cherish grateful memories of
the earlier home which they left. If !
look, as have had frequent occasion to
do, to your civil policy, to your Consti-I
tuition and your laws, I find there an
identity of thought and feeling with
those Of my own State, that have been
largely the studies Of my life. I see
teverywhere, also, a community Of busi-
ness interests, intimate, close, and bene-
fetal to both parties. Citizensl this
identity, this community has its. origin
in the great primary fact that your State
and the State in which I live are bound
together by links indissoluble of phys
,ical necessity. We are partsof the same
great system of internal commerce and
industrial exchanges. During the Amer
ican Revolution the Gulf Stream was
discovered, which determined the course
of commerce to the City of New York
from the Southern ports of this conti-
nent. That capacious harbor, accessible
in all the prevailing winds, and open at
all seasons of the year. connected with
the Hudson-the easiest and best ofriver
navigation-made accessible to you by
the great and proud achievement of New
York, the Erie Canal, which united it
with this great system of inland lakes,
the most remarkable that exists in any
part of the habitable globe, by which
the distance of 1000 or 1,500 miles is
almost ,annihifated; SO that a man at
Milwaukee is within, perhaps, if you
count it by cost of railway transit, so
miles of Buffalo, or, if you count it by
cost of wagon conveyance, within Is
miles; and .superadded to that the great
network of railways that has brought
this garden of the world into such close
lakes; the products of your daily in
ldustry, leaving your farms to go not
merely. a thousand miles to the Atlantic
coast, Eut 5000 miles beyond to feed
the. population of Europe, and reach
them at cheaper cost than the same
supplies could come from the regions
tributary to- the Baltic and Black Sea-;
/ say this combination of natural and
artificial advantages is the most remark
able that, any country or any age has
ever seen; it is the foundation of the
marvellous growth and of that stupen-
4dousI prosperity which astonish while
they Yldelight every man who visits this
region of our country. Citizens! In
this bond of united interest and common
lineage, in all those ties that bind us to-
getherowe find motives toJthat unity of
action which l trust will characterize US
in this great crisis of our country's af-
faiss. New York now summons all her
children to her side, when she fights the
battle of civil liberty on the American
continent. 4 Applause. r. Ifsel eommis-
stoned to say to my fellow Democrats of
Wisconsin, that she expects your elec-
toral vote in November. [Applause,]
AS file partaker Of. your prosperity
proud of your growth and of your de-
velopment-feeling warm in her veins
the asympathies and sentiments that
have bound her to you and you to her
she inyokes your aid as she shall lead
this 6ghtfor the common benefit of hui
manity everywhere. Applause. Cit
-izensAAllusion has been made to the
nomination for President Of the. Uni
ted States of distinguished son of New
York. It5is true that. of him New York
feels an honorable and Just pride; but
st ss.oply far to sag that his n0manqtion
soas not the aoork Of Neao York. 1T was
the voice Of all her. sister States in counu
cilconvened to deliberate upon the great
concernsaof our common country. NeU
York entered that aConoention. to deJi6er-
ate aoiA here Jel1oao States ofeuery part
+ Of the Union, and to seek out aohdt aoas
/ soisest and best for as to do IN this great
CRISIS of our co3wtry's destiny. She en-
teredit without a selfish desire, without
apurpose to effect any result but what
should conduce to the common good of
our whole country. And 1T so happened
that, s0itsont any act of hers, but blythe
act Of Ohio. concmrred' sm first of all By
/ Wiscomsin, this nomination soas nude
We believe that it was a wise nomina-
tion; we believe that it will result in
great good to the country; but, what
ever may be the consequence of it, New
York may say to Wisconsin,, that it is
her. work more than it is the work of
New York. 1t was your delegation
the chairman of that delegation who has
addressed you to-night-with his asso-
ciates, Mr.. Clark, Mr.. Bouck and others
ali of them-who took the first step
in the Convention to follow thelead Of
Ohio on this subject which resulted in
that nomination. Citizens, 1
need not say that we were
only too happy to concur in it
Need speak to any man in Wisconsin
of Horatio Seymour? Great applause
Is he not almost as well known to you
as to us? Is he, not known to you as a
man without reproach; and citizen en-
titled to the peoples trust2 Is he not
known to you as statesman of high
and educated capacity, skilled, trained,
and accomplished in all these things
I which fit a man to govern; above all, i'm
! bued in heart and mind with allthe.gr
traditions of American free government,
handed down from the times of our great
statesmen who shone amid the imperial
glories of the republic-the thoughts,
the logic, and doctrines of Jefferson, the
spirit Of. Jackson, the teachings of our
own great statesmen of New York
now, alas! no more.-Edward Living
ston, Van Buren,, Silas Wrightrand Mar