The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

address he very adroitly excused himself
from the consideration of any of the
issues that have divided the parties in the
past, on the ground that those questions
were dead issues, of as little conse-
quence TO us IN this campaign as those
that led to the Revolutionary war, the
war f18f2 or the Mexican war, and
with . wave of the hand brushed aside
all the history Of the last twenty years as
so thoroughly settled as to make any
mention of them at the present time in
excusably absurd. So the task he had
set for himself after this was compare
lively easy one. As he was among stran-
gers who knew little or nothing of his
history, many of whom had been prepos-
essed in his favor by reports commenda-
tory of his private character, his audi-
ence was poorly prepared for critical
analysis of a speech abounding in rhe-
torical art, conciliatory and complimen-
tary to his hearers, and aside from brief
reference to national issues which do not
divide the parties, consisting mostly of
q defense of his political record from
1860 to the present time He spoke of
internal improvements, OF railroads, of
banking and of monopolies, all with such
fairness and candor and tolerance, so ex-
oSbty AAAC hAO e~oSAAh5 VI th0 DCSt AAN pun
lican statesmen, SO entirely unlike the
utterances of Democrat. that if one had
not known with what party he was iden-.
titled, he might easily have mistaken him
for a Republican. Aside from the fact
that in his condemnation of the abuses
in our national legislation he left the
very broad inference to be drawn that
he was exposing the sins of the Re-,
publican party, and that the Democracy
was entirely innocent Of any comp iciiy
in them, there was little of which to
complain. To be entirely fair he should
have said that those were questions on
which the party lines were not closely
drawn; both Republicans and Democrats
being divided among themselves, and
that the appropriation bill for rivers and
harbors, which he justly denominated as
stupendous fraud, was supported hy
even larger percentage of Democrats
than Republicans. His defense of his
record during the war was as fair and
truthful as it could be and rot criminate
himself. That in the beginning he was
war Democrat and loyal to the Union
cause, and that about that time, when
party lines were ignored, he was nomi-
mated by the Republicans for the office
of Judge is true, but It is also true that
about the time of Vallandigham's trea-
son. when the copperhead movement
originated from growing conviction
that the successful prosecution of the
war meant the destruction of slavery,
,,-sd rr,. tey,ss that he = shnssd and 1i1;fed
our martyred President Lincoln, that,
although he made no speeches for Vdl-
landighau in the campaign he did make
cfsrsJ WITH ali ,hs nowar and ;nS,;anat,on
~ ,rss;,,, ha ,sra,,,e tha. ssT6a
~ ,as,, &c., Sc o-;,r;,st ~
S s;r,, s,S r -, - for the l;hertS ~ nc
- ~ - ~ CO. s,,ase, ~
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ho,h worrsd s-5 rots,, for Vlis,d;s,
bs, s,,ss ,,rs he e
hcn;ons that i5 ,n;obt NOT he foroiven on
renentance ,, and co5fess;on the onestions
and events ef sbe war are not "a dead
"a ss.t1aS s,,at ~, lo,aI a,5 Ir,,;o,, lo1-
;r.s Ssoi,,,a- ar5 c;t;5a,, con a,,t;rolv
;o,,or ther, -he,, nconfessed and un1s,
Rented of His o,-,,es;t;or ~ F,;s recr,r5
vas sas'v ve,y comnI;ra5tary 10 b,n,saif ana
genarsIiv sati sfactorv To his hearers nTtil
e., sef ~, :,
~. :. -
. ',ias 10y u
port or anu Foteu lor, saiahuingnam-
In answer, ne denied tnat ne mace any
speeches, but falled TO reply as 70 the
voting and by witticism and iawyer.iike
evasions and complimentary quotations
from Republican papers as to his decis-
ions as Judge on the bench, sought TO
divert attention from an unpleasant ques
ton that pricked him between the Joints
of his armour in so vulnerable place
that he seemed afterward much less con-
fident. and bastened 10 his Conclusion.
in which he reminded bsa andience thar
he nod ~ l., nc ran,arts.s rtterali 81 .
- ~ :. - ~. "a
Moie .ns. eouie sne lHess
sensipiiiuss Oh Any one, ol NIa.esel
pon.lca ial.n ms was .lues pas nS
nPilshsu enns =, nas ~
success py ignoIine an party ISSUES, pas
present anu IutuIe, anu aeHseflhs
spcech MADE ior hepuoncan cars, oub.
which contained such fnlseme eniogy
OF himself as to lead one TO wonder II ne
had ever read that scripture which says,
s'Let another man praise thee, and not
thine own self. -
Altogether his speech was the artful
work Of demagogue posing before an
audience, four-ffths of which were Re
pnblicans, sounding his own praises,
denying or ignoring his record, and
while failing to defend the reasonable
record of his party, ON the ground that
its acts were dead issues, equally neg