Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-25
HELD AT HAMIDToN O., AUG. Is
- Large
o1.L.O.Campbe
BY ACCLA-
NATION!
SPEECH OF
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell,
Accepting the Nomination.

now recoliectof which made so profound
an impression upon my gratitude as
Your action of today, of which / have
Just been advised by your Committee
Always hitherto when l have BEEN the
recipient of such distinguished h%onors, it
was when had high claims for past ser
vices upon the party which conferred
them, and when l was ambitions, and
used personal solicitations aud other
means to bring about the result. Such
are not the fats on this occasion. L
have no claims for past services upon
your political organization, and # 1 had
l trust / have too much patriotism to as
sert them to the detriment of our great
cause. Thereaare other facts which great
ly enhance the compliment you have con-
ferred upon me. The names of such dis
tinguished gentlemen as Mr.. Vallandlg
ham, Judge Crane. Judge Gilmore, Judge
McKeuy, Mr.. McMahon, General Ward,
Uolonel Nolan and others, men having
high claims upon the party for services
rendered, have been mentioned in con-
~nection with this nomination. Yet these
have all been withdrawn by themselves
and friends, in order that it might be con
ferrod upo- me by acclamation, and it is
this extraordinary ~magnanimity which
~excites emotions in my heart which l
can command no words TO express
Gentlemen of the Convention. l cannot
accept your nomination because of any
past services, for / lave none. Icannot
accept your nomination because of any
4 clrim for past services, for / rave none.
/ cannot accept it from a desire BY res
son of any personal ambition for the Of
fee, because that was long since graft
fed. l cannot accept it with the expecta-
: ton Of thereby adding to my own happi-
] ness or that of my family. / can notac-
9 cept it in the belief that by the honest ex-
~ercise of the legitimate functions of the
= office l can be pecuniarily benefited, be-
cause know from experience there is no
e money to be made out of it, and l can
not sent under any circumstances to
discharge them in any other way. Were
poor, l should much rather beGueath to
my children, as their Inheritance, my
e poverty than my dishonor. TApplause.
q But 1 can accept it, and l do accept il
cheers !, soley from a sense of public duty
Lowe to my country-duty owe to the
g institutions about TO be subverted by the
r, party in power, for which my ancestrs
q relations fought and bled upon the battle
fields of the Revolution. I accept it be
!" cause of duty / owe to you; my country
linen of this Congressional District, il
d which l was born, and in which i havt
IF spent all my life,-anj in which ! expect
after a few heetiug years, and perhap
months only, to repose my mortal re
"a mains until the day of resurrection.
s, A few words to my competitor. With
"a a day or twoI have read an account o
n an extra ordiany ntterance of the Dem
- ocratic idea made tn a far distant cour
.try. I say extraordinary, because of tn
N character of the man who uttered it, tn
n place where uttered, and the circun
i stances which surrounded him at tn
. time twas made by the Archbisho
Purcell in the Ecumencial Council, as
e. sembled in the Vatican at Rome, sui
n rounded by the Archbishops of ths
= Church assembled from all parts of til
= world. A convention embracing. per
rs haps, a greater amount o. learning tina
any which has assembled during the pres
as emit century. They lad under discussion
the question as to the powers whic
should be conferred upon the Pops
V-lThe Archbishop commended that the rels
ne items of the Pope 10 the people of til
Church should be the same as the rels
tons of IA President of a Republic to I'll
NJ people oe it. he progressive sentmeI
). thus uttered has secured for the Arcl
IL bishop an increase OF my high regard f,
no him. Turning to the place where tt
p~relates of Spain were seated. to giN
Ia significance to his point, he said, "W
.OI10aNG tue 6LIdu2G spectators VI BEc5h Ii
ton hunting after a King without su
ne ceeding in catching hin" It strikes n
that the Republican party of the ThiI
Congressional District are in very mut
in the same dilmma in regard to their ca
didate that old fogY Spain is in regard
nd her King. They have been chsing aftt
their candidate for a long while, al
have not seceeded in capturing hiI
4. When they do, we shall have a merl
time. They will probably succeed
les ~electing him some time after Louis N
~oepoleon and his boy, who picked up |
oA bullet, shall make their trIumphal emit
to INFO the city of Berlin.
"a. The probabilities are that Gener
ote Schenck will be my competitor. / sh;
ylheartilV rejoice if such is the fact, fol
know him 20 be a scholar and a gent
81, man. 1 have known him long and We
We were born in the same village, ne
three-score years ago; and were scho
mates and classmates in boyhood / ba
known him ever since. Although
,al the reason of personal friendships for
ed and cherished from boyhood, a
ace which, to my knowledge, have never be
it changed, [ have reason to regret the
itical a~ntagonisms whicl have be
tn brought about, yet will these regre
lry I confess there commingled something
"That stern joy hat warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel"
,m- 1 do not wish that General Scher
III . should be the candidate because
would be more easily beaten than othe
t a1but because there would be more sa
-;sb faction in defeating him thar any
those who might be called the Flu
heads" of the party. ] should prefer
has acceptance because he is a representa-
man of the imperious party which
ugh rapidly bringing disaster upon our co
ave try. regard him as responsible i
great degree for the injustice of the
construction acts, for the ~usurpatior
Congress of the legitimate rights of
NOT States, for the destruction of the v
principle which made the Supreme CO
her, an independent part of the Governm,
meet for the oppressive system OF high D
tective tariff and taxation and of
'uld injustice and inequalities of the intel
,che revenue system, for the wanton
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