Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1872-04-26
was "to control the destiny of our com.

was "to control the destiny of our com
mon country"
The platform adopted contains literally
nothing but the veriest platitudes. Only
single question is raiscd-the one-term
principle-upon which men Or parties
differ. Every other sentiment expressed
by it is the common doctrine alike of all
politicians and of all parties.
The unities of the meeting were adj
inirably preserved, a fine illustration of
which was the entrance with Mr.. Trum.
bull and Mr.. Schurz, of John Wentworth,
of Chicago. There is no man in the
United States who better represents the
reactionary element in politics than the
man popularity known as Long john
He has lived in Chicago thirty.five years,
is worth millions of dollars, and at the
time of the great fire owned only one
rickety building, called Jackson Hall-as
old as his residence in the city. He is
opposed to all taxation, opposed to the
development of the resources of the
country, and opposed to the moral, re-
ligious and materiahadvancement of the
people. 1t was peculiarly appropriate
that he should accompany Messrs. Trum-
bull and Schurz upon the platform, where
they were about to urge the American
people to take long step backward, and
throw themselves into the arms of q
party guilty of protecting slavery, guilty
of rebellion, guilty of the assassination
of Abraham Lincoln, and guilty of apol-
ogizing for the brutalities and murders
Of the Ku-Klux bands of the South. Mr..
Trumbull's speech did not rise to the dig
nifty Of craftsmanship. We do not desire
to belittleit We are willing to give ii
all the force and effect it deserves. But
Mr.. Trumbull made no points worthy the
serious consideration On of the people or the
criticism of the journalist. AS an eXord-
ium, he hastily reviewed the history OF
the war in dry, cold way, peculiar tc
him and his icy nature. Then he plunged
into unqualified abuse and denunciation
of the Republican party In the out
set he tried to assume an air of virtuous
indignation; but it quickly degener.
ated into bitter cynicism. The
spleen and spite of disappointed ambi.
tion was only relieved by argument on a
single point. On the States Rights ques
tion his old Democratic ideas reasserted
themselves with great force, and he com
mitted himself unqualifedly to the doc
trine maintained by John G. Calhoun and
jeff. Davis-that doctrine which cost the
country long and bloody war, and sad
died upon the nation the present enor
nous debt. We do no injustice to Mr.
Trumbull in charging that his speech
abounded in the arts of the demagogue
He magnified the petty peculations OF
subordinates into heinous otlenses, involv
ing the integrity of the Administration
He alluded to the corrupt practices OF
certain officials, who were promptly dis
charged upon the discovery of theil
crimes, as If they were still in office and
retained the confidence and support OF
President Grant He descended to the
use of vile, epithets, calling men "plun
derers, thieves, robbers and hirelings. "
These are tricks only resorted to by des
perate demagogues, and if the audience
was respectable, as is claimed, large por
tion of it must have been disgusted al
the prostitution of powers so great to q
cause SO base. 1t is probable that the
violence of Mr.. Trumbull's harangue
was greatly increased by the advantage
0utIssO ID s--s7i- 49, .r>s@a-as,tly s0anrol nsos
him in procuring the indors 2ment of the
Pendleton caucus for the Cincinnati nom
ination, The entire effort was evidently
desperate attempt to outbid all other
candidates for the favor of the few Dem
ocrats who stand behind the scenes and
pull the wires which control every steu
in the Cincinnati ChtcdgC
Inter- Ocean,