The Van Buren press., 1868-09-18
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO!
General Joseph Geigsr Rsnoaaes the
Radical Party and Comes out for
.. Seymour and Blair.

| Juugc lnth hMAN Ha'' SP'VS" NJ o""
duska, Ohio, on the Eth, at which time
Gen. Jos. GEioER comes out in a speech
for the Democratic nominees. The fol.
lowing Is an extract fromi Il;
MY FELLOW CITIZENS: do not feel
quite so much at home among Demo
cratic audience rs my friend Judge Thur
man. He has always been with the par
y; wintercd aud summered with it.
When get into a large Democratic an.
dience 1 feel a good deal like man in
Weetern Pennsylvania, who inquired Of .
boy whether he knew where Jake Klein
fcltcr lived. The boy said he did Says
he, "Cad you tell me- " Yes. sir, says
the boy. "Do you see our barn down
there Z" Yes says he. Go to that.
About three hundred yards beyond the
barn YOU will find lane. Take that lane
and follow along for about mile and a
half. Then you will come TO a branch.
Go up the baanch about quarter Of q
mile and then you will come to slippery.
elm log. You be mighty kcerful, stranger,
about going on that log You may get into
the branch and then you 90 on up until
you get to the brow Of u hill, and there
the roads prevaricate, and you take the
left hand road and keep that until YOU get
into big plum thicket; and when you
get there, why en-then-then--"
"What them" Then, stranger, I'll lie
damned if you amt lost" Loud laugh
! ter
SO | scarcely know how to navigate
when get into Democratic audience,
because was raised an old line Whig,
and have stuck to the party faithfully,
| believe. ever since, and don't profess,
even in talking to YOU to night, to be a
Democrat. have never asked any thing
from The party and ] never expect to So
licit anything from the party. stand
by the Democratic party this time, simply
because | believe 1t is right, cheers, land
whenever | believe il is wrong, will turn
from it just as rapidly AS the Irishman
wheeled, and he wheeled so fast, Judge
Thurman, that he left the scat Of his
brecches in front. Laughter. | am
not ashamed to he called turncoat." I"
| will turn my coat every day, if believe
it is right. All / want to do, at every
election, is to feel like man, to speak
like man, to think like man, TO vote
like man, to be man in the presence
of my fellows and my God, and lot my
heart tell me ! have done my duty. and !
d6not ask your Democratic party nor
your Republican cabals to speak for me
Applause
/ want no body Of men TO draw the
blind-bridle over my eyes and put the
breeding over my back, hitch the traces
to whatever load they choose to put on
the wagon, ann halloo, "get up aud
make me pull. But know and feel that
the Democratic party at the present time,
is drawing the right kind of load. and,
therefore, | am willing to 60 in the lead,
or to act as whecl.horse, or perform
any other duty for the success Of the
cause Loud cheers
| Now | know that man is claimed to
be disloyal because he belongs to this
party, but am not afraid ofterms. They
can just call me what they please. What
] want to do is to do my duty, il it is dis
loyalty to stand by the Consultation of
the United States, when il is now to be
overthrown by this Radical party. emil
me disloyal. [Cheers. have been
taught to respect the old instrument. !
have read that Washington and Madison
and Jefferson and Franklin and the old
men that came up from the battle. fields Of
the Revolution, and welded the country
together in a communionship of suffer
ing, met together as friends. and made
that old instrument am fool enough
to believe that George Washington was
as good man as Ben Wade Cheers. |
| am silly enough to think that James
Madison was as pure patriot as Ben
Butler. Renewed cheering And be
lievc that Ben. Franklin was as honest
and as patriotic as Jim Ashley. Laugh
ter and prolonged applause. -i
cling to the Old instrument. may
have old fogy notions. They may not
suit the progressive spirit Of the times,
but they are mine. MY father lived aud
died under the old instrument. have
lived thus far under it, and trust that
there may be but few changes made in it
while live. | do not want any more
Congresses that are Radical, and have to
suggest sixty. nine different amendments
to the Constitution Of the United States
in one session. Laughter She may
have her faults and defects, but, in God $
name, let us stand by her, for she is the
Constitution, and that is every thing to us
now. Beneath our country's Constitu.
ton, IN the eye Of God and man, IL the
temple Of the patriots love and honor.
And yet the leader ofthe Radical party.
Thaddcus Stevens, the man over whose
memory convention after convention has
been called, for the purpose of making il
holy, declared that the legislation of Con.
2ress was outside Of the Constitution of
the country. And every man who has
studied it knows it ann feels it, that they
have gone beyond any precedent estab.
lishcd by the action Of the fathers. Now,
we call upon the men Of the country to
stand by the Constitution; TO forget their
prejndiccs and their passions, their party
affiliations, and to act according 70 the
necessities Of the times and the require.
ncnts Of duty.
II men say they are to be simply parti-
sans, nothing more, are to disregard the
action of this Congress, there IL no use
in talking to them, whatever, But II men
wish to act according 10 duty, to right,
with proper regard for their own interests