The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-01
GENER.At.. A..iiE iEEIiy,IIlLNf 4 IN Il tNE..

GENERAL EwfSG IN MA AJSI.. - Z, +,
We present below a portioTpiof tht
speech of Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jf.
delivered at Portland, Maine, on the
Sth of September; His speech was
one of great ability, as are -alll his
speeches We,sbespeak for this ex-
tract of his speech, an attentive peru
sal: -ir.l cum, l.iS 'i.. :. : 4 Z
MIR. PREsIPDENT::.A As I am A. citizen
of Kansas, living fifteen hundred
i miles west of yonr beautiful eity1oi
Portland, Il trust you viii nos deem
! it egotistical IN me to Say a few words
as to my political antecedents, for ;ati-
4 diences often better understand the
views of speaker when they know
4 the point of observation he has oiccd1
pied. [Hear, hean.]9 was educated
a Whig5;T Teheefs.] 1 cast my first vote
for the Republican party. So mitch
was interested in preventing the 'ek-
Ceitfoll. ofi sIls a.. iilt.s tIirai tsI iitorics
that took an active psrtt15is making
Kansas a free State, The. war found
me the Supreme Bench of the State,'
but at the call of duty this position |
left. I raised.a regiment and to the
best of my ability, served my country
throughout the war. Cheers 1n.i1I have
theiproud homer to belong ito a family
ofseyen brothers and brothers-in+laM,
six of whom followed, the flag! from
the beginning to the -eiidof tile rebel
lion-all except one stood by the flag
to the last, and that one fell disabled
for1ife, at the terrible assault ON Fort
Wagner Cheer - In: 1866 LEFT the
Republican party .[Continued cheer
ing.] If l know y my hear, ut, | ttoookithiissF
course from no motive eeflambifion,
from no personal pique or prejudice
from no hope of higher promotion, in,
the DemoernticFanks ;ifor every yrcon-.
sideration merelyselfisha would have,
led me to - cling the party with.
which my earlyuassociations We're eOn-l
nected. / left it because I'M that year
it willfuily Violated the. great the, SOL
emn pledge to restefe.the Union with
all the rites ief The Several Sfslt9si un-
impaired; that pledge On the strength
of which it obtainedreNerg flDllar of
money and every drop of blood ex-
pended 'i1 tile war! tCheefs.1 And
every day since 7 felt and stiIl feel,
proud ihthe Consciousness that 4 had
the courage to leave it. because / have
seem it 'presfitutfng the vast powers
confidedi to it by'a patriotic people for for
theh restoration of the Z Union to, the
destruction Of ithe, ten Statesgwi9ich
the war stwas waged to- restore.
[Cheers. % .la2I i liqqi be-7n,t
In reading the speeches of'the HRe-Si
publican orators during the canvass In
the STATE f6f1 Maine II have nbeeh IspeuI
ciafly impressed with ithe fact that not
one of them attempts TO meet the vital
issues now to DE decided by the
American people! They devote their
arguments to the discussion Of the
position of tile Democratic party iii
1854, in supporting the 'fepeaf Of the
Missouri Compromise, and in 1861
and afterward through the war, spend-
ing tKeifs ehefgiesi IN. idehuneiation Of
the Democratic party in ISSUES all of
which are dead, aHd failing to meet by
manly argument Che questions ofreE
construction with eqtiafitiesA sAof States
the rights Of States and of theirmcftia ;
zens and the great, financial Questions.
thatnoM present themselves for 0the'
decision of then American people,
[Chrees and cries of g That's 30. .n7 ZIP
read "a few days Ago, in the N lew Z ok
T1I6,tney a report of a speech, seven
columns long, attributed to the Hon.
Henry Wilson; L Ibeg pardoh-G Ge5teroz
Wilsbn-hefwears the tftle6 Of Central;
he.got it verye-cheap [laughfet and
IN those seven long columns was sur sur:
pfised to find that the people got nottdh.-
ing utianilil-digested digest of old
political eserap-books 9It reminds me
of. the keen and epigrammatic criti-
cism of VietefE Hugo on an ambitious
friend WHO had / sent lf hin, him, phliilos0ph7
ical work for revieW-The French au-
thor, said to his friend - 1iffThere are al
great many new: things in youfbook
and great many true things nofneW.1
1 am not disposed to ioayi with Gem
eral Wilson's assertion that the Dem
oeratic party did great wrong In re-
pealing1 the Missouri Compromise, or
that the Democratic party i'll 1861 did
not do itsiduty in preventing the ore4
bellion.c DalMays thought II chat. But
WhehShescomes to- theiHeR:tling iif4iis
speech thattgiSes point ito ailothe aei,
eusations agdinsttthe De1f1oefatie' par
-tX. that theresis dangef- of the South
ern people rising up and fighting the
war-ovef againl-lthSE is aunew9 thing
that certainly soii6t' true.f Cheers Z
Why, fellow4eitiaensyI haveGFtrtr4eled
d good deal ii the South since the
war--inl the, siU OFleighti States along
tile. Mississippi LIN the Stateson both
sides--and a1note PROSTATE, poverty
Stricken, helpless and subdued people
tneverwere crushed blythe strong arm
of military fpower. And yetithese are
tile sort of appeals made to the North-
ern people by Republican, eratorsIl
| Quoting to them a statement Of Wade
Hampton,G (Which Wade Hampton has
since .denied.9 that he would uifurl
Tile Confederate flag AGAIN. orot that.
other saying of Forrest (Which he has
Also deniedD thab,he was prepared to
"toot his horn0againtp' iTheseI iargu-
m ents sod n tn el 1sa I'd co of