Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-06-02
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.
Speech of Hon. c. L.. val,andigham.

Speech OF Hon. c. L.. vaIlandigham.
A full and accurate synopsis of the resc-
Iutions proposed by Mr.. Vallandigham IN
the Democratic Convention OF Montgcm-
cry county, Ohio, on Thursday last, and
unanimously adopted by that body, was
given by US in yesterday's JOURNAL. The
following report of Mr.. Vallandigham's
speech, upon the occasion, will be read
with interest.
In reporting the resolutions. Mr.. VAL
IaDdigham said:
These resolutions, air. President, suf1-
ciently explain themselves. The princi-
pies and poiic1-s which they enunciate re-
| quire the honest censure of those only
whose hostility is sincere. Carpirg criti-
! cism We both expect and condemn. For
more than two years pat the bitter and
| bloody pas sions of war lave been gradual
| ly bat steadily and surely dyi ing out. Con-
! tinual and irreconciable dissent upon the
| new issues nece essarily born of to-day, and
even bitter personal discord among men
of the Republican party who had stood
| together on the questions of the p 1st, in
evitaby followed. The Democratic party
wisely remained client or confined Itself to
these new issues. The Republican party,
having fulfilled it's original mission, was
| EdpluIJ AnGO 4AOuOAaIAOpB
justice and peace were becoming to its
more violent leaders the sentence Of death.
The Administration party, into which.
since the 4th Of March, 1869, 1t has been
wholly transferred, had begun, from causes
thoroughly understood, to be odious and
even intolerable to the people. Upon the
issues of amnesty, of honesty in
ments, of the tariff, of revenue
and civil service reform, of land grants
to corporations. the currency taxation,
st. Domingo and other similar questions
it was certain to be condemned. Neces-
sity required that some decisive move
ment should be made to avert the impend-
ing defeat. No the statemer, but the
mere politicians. the sycophants of the
party, the parasites clinging to and deriv-
ing nurture solely from Executive favor,
were called into council. The Bourbons
of the present hour, the men who forget
nothing, learn nothing, resolve upon one
more appeal to the expiring passions and
, pref judices of their p4rtlsans. The war
cries of the past of civil war, in fact could
not again be inaugurated. Civil war in
f form, with all its legislative end executive
machinery and all it's political appliances,
must be revived in every State to secure,
first, tae denomination, and next the re-
J election of General Grant.
. The belligerent pronunciamento went
. forth. the bloody blast of the war bugle
=. was again sounded. A distinguished Sena-
. tor, the confidential adviser and main sup
a port of the President, himself a consum-
q mate partisan leader. but powerful in pro-
= portion to the unskillfulness and coWar-
dice of his foes, was put forth as the chief
t fomenter of this new crusade; but say to
a him, and, and to all behind him, that the
f hour has now come when neither he nol
they can be permitted to provoke or &c
O dictate issues for the Democratic party, OF
r to ignore those which the revolving years
!. and changing condition of the country
- necessarily bring forth. That which since
S$ 1889 dpSn has beg ~. h9hs suspicious moment
y the golden opportunity, the tide in the
= affairs of men to be taken at flood. has
- now, in my deliberate judgment, reached
r us, when the Democratic party OF to-day
- laying aside every weight and shaking from
I. it the dead body of the past, yet adherine
to it's ancient principles, can and must a
: one bouad place itself upon the vantage
ground of the preseut and defy its enc
i mics to .ttle upon the living issues of th'
20 hour. It is the purpose of these reso-
y lutions to establish the Democratic
"A party Of Montgomery county openl.
>" and squarely upon this frm and impreg
nable basis. Tacitly and in fact we hav
stood upon it for the past two years, ane
J. victory has steadily been ours. Conhden
=, am that we shall p1eet prompt and YER
xa cordial response rom our elSC
= where al everywhere in this aud othe
~ States. Personally, care not for deuun
no ciatio.s or urilst CRITICS rs from an
- quarter. Upon fullest deliberations all
nc ample cou pnel With wise aud brave mon o
m the party, I take the responsibility will
- pride and plea [ add. too, that a
i. these resolutions are the fruit Of the join
!, labors and counsels of tho gentlemen AZ
as eociated with me here at home. so also thi
,r movement meets their hearty concurrence
w. 1t is not a new departure, bat return
-, the restoration of the Democratic part
q 4 once more to the arcient platform of pro
~ gress and reform. establishing the gre'
M fact that that party, like everything else
"a nature intended to endure, II capable
he adapting itself to the perpetual growth al
we cbange which beIoDg alike TO the polite
,ce and ply sical world, and retain yet inta
,re the original principles and laws Of its b.
Ia ing Moreover as to the movement he
we ali bear witness that in it there is not
or ing of merely personal character. eth
All to adva"ce or to hinder any member of Il
on. Democratic party, and nothing except Il
an. earnest and fixed purpose to promote ii
per welfare of the whole party, and with IL
hat the whole country.