Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-18
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INTRODUCTORY ss-fpeasi
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN 1t will
! be impossible for me to make myself heard
Z in this immense audience unless you keep
( quiet; and i shall ask that while i am
speaking you will allow me to proceed
without Interruption. I thank you. gem
tlemens for the very cordial reception you
have just given me. The Chairman of your
State Executive Committee, who invited
me to attend your meeting to-day, told me
that i had no truer friends m the Union
+ than I would meet here in West Virginia,
You have proven his statement true. L
came obedient to your bidding. desired
to see you; to make your personal ac-
quaintance; and to return to you my
thanks for the warm and constant support
( of your delegates to the National Conven-
tion. L came to show you that no personal
disappointment fingers in my breast or
+ dampens for an instant the ardor of my
efforts for the success of our party that
far above all personal considerations rate
the success of the principles in which i
believe, and that whoever shall bear the
I flag on which those principles are inscribed,
1 shall be found close by his side, in the
thickest of the fight. to cheer him with my
voice and to aid him with my arm. came
to urge upon you, Democrats and Repub-
licans alike, to trample under foot every
prepossession, and prejudice, and passion,
if it were as dear as life itself, and, rising
to the height of this great struggle, to re-
member that we have only a,little life to
give and noble, enduring Government to
save. s-r =. sr -.-.s 5s.r,. = -
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE PARTY OF LIB
ERTY AND PROGRESS. -
1 am party man, I avow it, but not,
trust, in any narrow or seetarian sense 1
am attached from conviction to the princi-
piles of the Democratic party. / have
studied its history from the foundation of
the Government. In the States | have
found it to be the party of liberty and pro-
gress. In the Federal Government have
found it to be the exponent of that funda-
mental principle of the Constitution that
tall powers which are not granted are re-
served" 1t has been the consistent oppo-
nent of consolidation in the one system, and
OF excessive administration in the other
1t has been at once the firm supporter of
the rights Of the States and of the just pow
ers OF the Federal Government. In every
vicissitude of our history it has appeared to
direct us with its wisdom, and to extricate
us by its courage. and to-day it stands as it
did in 1898 and 1893, under the guidance of
Mr.. Jefferson, pointing us to the path of
safety. which is now, as it was then--the
Constitution-the path of fraternal har-
mony and peace. ftid p -s.taEg- ;
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION THE sYMRoI
OF RESTORED UNION. 5s,.-
The Convention which sat in New York
was an august assembly. 1t was the true
council of our party. 1t embraced our
best, and purest, and wisest men. The roll
of the States was called, and not one was
without representative. The roll of the
districts was called, and not one was miss
ing. The doctrine of State suicide was not
recognized. The dissolution of the Union
was not acknowledged. Every State was in
vited to be present, and every State ac-
cepted the invitations. Every State Sc
lected such citizens as she chose; and thus
it happened North Carolina, and South
Carolina, and Georgia, and Virginia, sat as
in the days of the revolution, in fraternal
council with Massachusetts, and New York,
and Pennsylvania, and New jersey: and
that Hampton, and Preston, and Forrest.
sat side by side with Steedman and Nor.
gan. The Convention was the sign, and
the symbol, and the prophecy of a restored
Union, and harmonious people. 1t rose
to the dignity of its high duty. The ewes
of the world were upon its proceedings
greater than the Holy Alliance, which
subjugated peoples and divided empires
Its mission was to enfranchise the people
OF our own race; to restore the Union ol
our States; and to maintain the instittl.
tions of civilliberty. For the first time ir
their history,-the American people realized
that free. government was in danger. anC
that the fate of the Republic trembled in
the balance. They had been taught to be.
lieve that freedom was indigenous to oul
soil, and. shutting their eyes to the teach.
ings of all history, shutting their ewes tc
the facts connected with our revolution
they Rugged to themselves the delusior
that whatever the storm of faction, or pas.
sion, or revolutionary fervor, liberty al
least was safe. They had awakened from
the dream. As they sent representative.
to the Convention, they charged them, a.
the dictator of old was charged: /" See tC
it thatno detriment happens to the Repub.
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THE PLATFORM.
By unanimous vote they adopted dec.
laration of principles-''fidelity TO the Con.
stitution;" Fidelity to the Union;" fidelity
to the rights of States :" Fidelity to the
rights OF the citizens - ''fidelity to the
principles of civil liberty''--s'fidelity tc
that policy in matters of finance and tax.
alton, which, by paying the public deb
in legal-tender notes, will litt from the
shoulder of labor the burthens which op.
press it, and by Tightening the measure o
taxation will secure it the just rewards o
cheerful and cOntented industry" [Ap
plause.] Il. @ E fls=-1 Z E-,t.l =
Z THE NOMINEES.
. And the assertion of these principle.
was also, by unanimous vote, confided to
J one who is worthy of the trust, by his age
/ ton; by his honesty, his patriotism and his
\ unsullied reputation By the possession
of every virtue which adorns a public OIL
private life. Horatio Seymour stands the
firstof statesmen; and his explicit decla.
ration that he approves every line of those
resolutions; that he will stand upon them
in the contest; that he will carry them out
in future, wherever he may be placed
gives full assurance that he will maks then
effective in his administration. [Tremen.
/. dous applause.
MIR. Blair is an accomplished and expe.
rienced statesman; brave and able sol
dier. His father was the nearest friend o.
p General Jackson-his brother, the conf
dante and adviser of Mr.. Lincoln, and he
himself the disciple and protege of Benton
[Applause,