The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-09-23
General Ewing in Maine.

NI Liit ObIl AsA'Iit'I ttl -" ~ /
Jr., made n spCcch to monster meet
ing in Portland, Maine. The speech
he then delivered is one of consuhl
mate ability. This is the character Of
all his speeches, and he is, too, one of
the first orators in the United States. |
AS our people will have the pleasure
of Learing him on the I'd of Octobers
we simply to-day give that portion O
his Portland speech which feals with /
Senator Fessenden, General Wilson
and Horace Greeley, and we ask for
this extract attentive perusei. 1t |
ought to shame into silence tho liars
who defame the Democratic party. |
General Ewing, amid renewed and
prolonged cheering, proceeded to ad-
dress the meeting. He said:. /
Mr.. President: AS am citizen of
Kansas, living fifteen hundred milos
west of. your beautiful city of Port
land, trust you will not deem it ego
tistieal in me to say few words as to
my political antecedents, for audiences
often better understand the views Of
speaker when they know the point OF
observation he has occupied. Hear,
hear I was educated Whig,
[Cheers.l cast my first vote for the
Republican party. So much was ] in
terested in preventing the extension Of
slavery into the Territories that took
an active part in making Kansas, n
free State. The war found me on the
Supreme Bench of the Stateg but at
the call of duty this position 1 left. /
rlised a regiment and, to the best of
my ability, served my country
throughout the war. Cheers. l
have the proud honor to belong to q
family of seven brothers and brothers.
in-law, six. of whom followed the flag
from the beginning to the eud of the
rebeilion-all except one stood by the
flag to the last, and that one fell, disa-
bled for life, at the terrible assault on
Fort Wagner. Cheers. in 1896 I
left the Republican party. lContin-
ued cheering If know my hpart, L
took this course from no motive of
ambition, from no PERSONAL pique or
4 prejudice, from no hope of higher pro-
motion in the Democratic ranks; for
every. consideration merely selfish
would have led me to cling to the par
ty with which my early associations
were connected. I-1eft 1t because in
that year it WillfulIy violated the
great. the solemn pledge to restore THE
Union with all the rights of the seve
raj States unimpaired that pledge or
the-strength of which it obtained eve
ry dollar of money and every drop o.
blood expended in the war. [Cheers.
And every day since I felt, and still
feel, proud in the consciousness that
had the courage to leave it, because
have seen 1t prostituting the vast pow
ers- coniided to it by a patriotic people
for the restoration of the Union to the
destruction of the ten States which tn,
war was waged to restore. [Cheers.
In reading the speeches of. the Re
publican orators during the canvass
in the State of Maine have been spe
cially Impressed with the fact that no
one of them attempts to meet the vi
tai issues now to be decided by thC
American people. They devote theil
arguments to the discussion of the DO
sitiOn of the Democratic party in 1854
IN supporting the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, and in 1861 and al
forwards through the war, spendin,
their energies in denunciatIon of In
Democratic party, in issues all O
which are dead, and failing to meet b,
manly argument the question of re
1 construction with equality of States
the rights of States and of their citi
zens and the great financial question
that now present themselves for til
: decision of the American people
Cheers and cries of "That's So"
read few days ago. in the New Yorl
Tribune, report of speech, sever
columns long, attributed to the Hon
Henry Wilson, beg pardon Gent
rat Wilson-he wears the title OF Gen
eral he got it very cheap IlaughterI
and in those seven long columns
was surprised to fad that the peopI
y got nothing but an ill-digested diges
: of old political scrap-books. 1t II
Il minded me of the keen and epigran
matte criticism of Victor Hugo on a
3 ambitious friend who had sent him
a philosophical work for review. Th
d French author said to his friend
u "There are q great many new thing
y i'll your book and great many tru
things, but the difficulty Is that til
ii new things are not true and the tru
ii things not new" / am not dispose
to cavil with General Wilson's asseI
y tIon that the Democratic party did
I. great wrong in repeating the Missou
re Compromise, or that the Democrat
2. party i'll 1861 did not do its duty i
3 preventing the rebellion. l alWay
A thought that But when he comes
III thenew thing in his speech that give
u point to all the accusations against til
"a Democratic party, that there is daugt
\. of the Southern people rising up an
III fighting the war over again-thatis
new thing that certainly is not tru
u Cheers. Why, fellow citisens,
y have travelled agOod deal in the Sout
Si since the war --in the six or eigI
+ States along the AGississippi-in IL
States Oh both sides and more pro
> trate, poverty stricken, helpless an
u subducd people never were crushed b
" the strong. arm of military pOwe
d And yet these are the sort of appea
" made to the Northern people by r,
III publican orators--quoting to them
y statement of Wade Hampton, (WhiQ
81 Wado Hampton has since denied
~ that he "Would unfurl the COnfed
" rate flag again." or that other sayin
2 of Forrest, (which he haa, also, d.
AS MED, that ho was prepared to tot
'e his horn againW These argument
Il addressed to the cowartlice of IL
10 Northern people, trying to alarm tt
= victorious twenty-five or thirty mi