The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-24
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
A Few Remarks by Governor Allen.
GREENFIELD, August 20,

... GREENFIELD, August 20, 1875.
A "grand demonstration by the Dsmo-
ctatic masses of Highland, Fayette, and Ross
counties WIS announced to tsk- place here
.o-tay, aud the arrangements we're with a
view 10 make The gathering as large and en-
,hu>iastic as The ncighborhood could pro-
duce. The consequence WIS that some.
| what over q thousand persons were assem-
bled on the fairgrounds at 2 O'Clock, when
the meeting was organiZ d by the appoint
ment of Hon. II. l.. DIckpy as chairman.
MIR. Dckey made q few appropriate remarks,
and at toe request Of Governor Allen read a
letter published 10 the Toledo Blade Of An-
gust 10 stating that the condition. OF Cove
nor Aliens health was such as to render il
advisable that be should withdraw from the
guhernatorial contest. The Governor was
then presented to the audience aud spoke as
follows: ..-...
NV Friends, Ladies', and Gentlemep,-In
answer to the article that has just been read
in your hearing, am happy to announce to
you that have Dever in ny life been seri-
ously sick {; that / have never spent three
days from necessity upon bed; and that
now stand before you with five perfect senses,
and with vital organization which promises
to NE as much lite as any man has right to
expect who has lived to my age without eX-
periencing in any particular the impairment
of his vital organs. With regard to those
rumors, Of course it is as easy, when man
sits down TO manufacture a story, to put tSo
things in it as one. l capnot reply TO all the
rumors which are put afloat, but can say to
you this That never have and never will
withdraw from conflict in which the liber-
ties of my country are involved. Zap Jlause.]
Sick Sick OF what? If l could be rem.
dered sick by anything, it would be by the
nausea, by the malarious Influences which
this Administration has inflicted upon the
country. There Is something for the pure
minds and stout hearts of the freeinen of
this country TO be sick of. But you have it
now in your power to pass this nuisance off,
You have it now in your power to purity
the contaminated air by breathing in Its
place, through the free lungs of d free peo-
pie, purer atmosphere.
Retire! Nothing would please the ene-
mics of the people more than my retirement.
Retire, while my eye is fixed upon approach
ipg dangers that threaten the liberties of my
couutrymen? HaveI ever been known to
retire when patriotic act was possible Did
1 retire two years ago? Everything was
then dark and lowering. I was called into
the ring by responding party-s party
that had been rendered respondent By the
unchecked domination of the enemy, lasting
through fifteen years Of peace and of war.
The old, gray-beaded Democrats had become
respondent, and many of them so des pond
ent as even to avoid the trouble of going to
the polls, because they thought it useless.
They bad stood without breaking their or
ganization for fifteen years. They had bad
no privilege but that Of paying taxes, and
every dollar of the tax they paid was eaten
up BY their enemies, the Republicans. The
Democratic party did its part of the fight
ibg, and did its part Of the tax-pay;ng, and
notwithstanding that they were turned out
10 pasture where there was no grass. ZAP
plau,e and laughter