Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-29
Hon. s. 9. Cox's speech at sfs. !

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A ". N. S.
Hon. s. s. Cox addressed an 1immense
meeting at Mt. Holly, Burlington county,
N. J., on the 22d instant, which is reported
In the New York papers. -
The writer of this well remembers the
fact noted by the son, when the father of
Mr.. Cox, came West with his printing z
materials, and settled in GAINESVILLE, anc
ne remembers, too, the time when this
same EzEKIEL T. Cox was dismissed from
-protessedly Christian Church, for the,
great crime of yielding obedience to law
OF Congress, which the Radicals, of the.
present day, under different name, de;
termfned to nullify., 1t is but justice to tht
men who expelled him from the House OF.
God. which by their conduct they had con-
verted into a den of fanatics, to say, that
they afterwards tried their prettiest, using
the most ihpneyed words and most abject
of apologies, to get him back into the
Church, of whirh, from the blameless purity
o. his life and his walk as christian gem,
tleman, he was the brightest, if not the
only, ornament, dit is but equal Justice
to Mr.. Cox to say they, signally failed. he
still holds to the creed of his fathers and OF
bis own matured conviction, but he no
longer worships in that particular Church.
| The speech of Mr.. Cox. which we, give
below, will be read with unusual interest
by his old friends and supporters in Central
b o. He said: .sifii-H f.!ara9 nos
| JERsEYMEN: speak in, a neighborhood
made Interesting by earliest recollections.
| These recollections are those related by
my father He was born in this vicinity
| May be- allowed, without either pride OF
ancestry or self, to make. some diversion
from ordinary discussion, to call to many
here my connection with them. / am
aware that many of both parties are here
because of those associations Such asso-
Citations have nothing to do with the right
I or wrong of political ethics. They do,
however, give some emphasis to the
speaker when he dwells on the motives
which inspire his thoughts. No Just or
patriotic man will judge me harshly for
| indulging in some pride ON this occasion.
| 7 -. A LITTLE ANCESTRY I.---..- i
| Fifty years ago my father emigrated from
this neighborhood. where his fathers lived
before him. He carried on a pack horse
over the Alleghanies the old Ramage prin :
| ing press. He was apioneer printer. Short
| ly after the late war, he bore his trade with
his Democracy to the Western wilds. cloud
applausa.) There he set up his household
goGs. lam the poorest product of his en-
terprise (Great laughter.) His father, a
descendent of the proprietor of East Jer-
sey, was General james Cox, one of the
heroes of Germantown, Brandywine and
Monmouth. He fought the good fight.
His lhouse-BoX Grove, 6 Box and Cox"
you see, is no new play-Qaughter)-
Upper. Freehold, Monmouth county, was
burned down by the Tories. have seen
its ruins. The Tories never loved him as
a Whig in the Revolution. They hated him.
as Democrat, afteri For nearly twenty
years he was member, in fact, the speaker
of one of your houses of legislation at
Trenton. He died as the Democratic MEM
ber of Congress just before the war of 1912.
He was an honest, just, courteous, coura-
geous and fearless Democratic champion.
(Applause.) He was the warm friend of
Jefferson and the devoted advocate of
Madison He believed in the Democratic
rules of Interpreting the Constitution
His hatred of restraints upon personal and
soulliberty ) his diatribes against the alien
and sedition laws; his steadfast dislike of
Englishmen and English policy, have been
handed down as heirlooms. In this county
of lington-doubtless in this immense
audience-there must be many of his blood-
relations-(.' there are" Applause) lard
some perhaps, who may not be so proud of
this relationship in connection with his
politics. No matter. My grandfather was
married at Mansfield, in this county. My
great grandfather was Mr.. Borden; Bor-
dentown perpetuates his good name. (Ap-
iplause.) Some of these good people were
Baptists, whose motto was 'sLet us have
war,3 while war was fragrant; and some
Quakers whose motto was 'Let us have
peace" when peace was needed. Great
laughter.) If any of the Potts. Harveys,
iVandeveres, Wainrights,2 or others of the
old connection are here, beg them to re-
member the old stock and with patience
hearR voice speaking out of their blood,
whose only motive is their own welfare.
Although Ihaye not tseen so much of active
publiclif as the ancestor whom your faith
ers honored, yet often when engaged in !
duty in Congress when hissed by the
parasites of power from galleries, crowded
by corrupt Lobbyists, placemen and dbigots;
often when driven by bayonets from camps
where was honorably endeavoring to do
my duty; when beaten bioodiiy and cow
ardly by mobs of hundreds on one not very
stalwart man, simply because ! was the in
heritor of the Democracy here taught by
my ancestors; often 1 have turned, some-
times in tears, with the spirit almost, if not
the language OF tprofanity, to those rational
methods of government taught by the mend
of the elder day, and / have thought there
old red church Baptist grave yard, in Up
per Freehold, which would put on their
flesh again and, rising before the blessed |
resurrection, would shield from insult and
violence the defender OF truths once cher-
ished here. Great sensation and loud
cheers.) L would not have mentioned these
associations through personal qualification. |
l design only to illustrate principle. You
see before you one of yourown, dashed by
the ''refluX wave of circumstance" back
again to the ancestral source. For two
generations the yagrant has been peripa-
Observation-Disclosures here he. is, before
you'll Am / not a veritable carpet t-bagger
in the land of my ancestors! (''You're the
right sort.'D Am not a living illustration
of Democratic principle, whose abuse is
so much to be deplored that | beg to dis
criminate moment with reference to it?
eyes" and cheers.)
TRUE AND FALSE CARPET-BAGGERs.
Immigration is part of the history of
these last few centuries. We have many
millions of people now living in America
whose homes, or that of their fathers, were
along the Rhine, the Liffey, the Danu be, or
the Thamesl We affect to believe in the
utility and beauty of this exodus of the old
world to the new. We feelingly understand
the grandeur, not to say the value, of the
movements of the masses from the other to
this hemisphere. If we had had no foreign
population in this country from 1890 till
1868, our population would be now but ten
millions. The difference of twenty three
millions is due to emigration and its prog
eny J But for immigration our values
would have been immensely less. Each
immigrant brings to us about $3.50. Will
you believe it? The largest accession to
our wealth during any one period of five
years was from 1850 to 1854. During that
period we had 1,9l7,527 immigrants, who
brought with them in goods, gold and sill
yer $479, 3S1 ,0OOl Nearly five hundred mil
lions of wealth No one surely will fight
of Government and to establish me-
gro rule; if it came to change by new
codes the form and substance of our gov
ernment and displace in one third of the |