Year: 1863

In the restoration OF the thloh az IL wal
be suffered to pass by?


Upon another subject allow me now
word, not volunteered, but called >ou
and made appropriate by those who assail
me.


! The candidate of the administration
party is reported to have spoken recently
at Columbus, in public meeting. in sub
stance as follows:


What will be the effct of electing Mr.
Vallandigham Governor of Ohio !? / will
tell you what the effect of it will be. II
will bring civil war in your State II
will bring civil war to your homes, upon
the soil of your own State; for | tell you
there is a mighty mass of men in this
State whose nerves are strung up like steel,
who will never permit this dishonOr to be
consumated in their native State Another
effect will be that it will be an invitation
to the rebels in arms to come up and take
possession of our soil.


Now have SO often myself been made
the subject of false statement and misre-
port that 1 wi not hold Mr. Brough re-
spOnsible for either of the sentiments above
expressed, or the presumptuous Stiffness
of referring to the election by the people
of his opponent, as bringing ''dishonor'
upon the State. But | know that the
proposition itself is beginning to be urged
by many of his friends as menace to the
frcemen of Ohio; and L choose to meet it
fatty.


FIRST. The ''invitatiou to rebels in arms"
which my election will signify, will be to
lay down their arms and return to the old
Union and obedience to and protection un-
der the constitution, laws, and flag, secure
from abolition meddling and agitation, as
before the war, and from conscription
eonfiscation- emaEcipa, ion, ne
gro equality, and all exertions of arbitrary
despotic power since.


Second There will be no ''civil ~ar"
in Ohio. if am elected Governor. unless
Mr.. Brough and his party inaugurate it;
in which event we will "crush out the re-
bcllion' i'll very much shorter space of
time than they have employed in putting
down the ''slaveholdcrs rebellion" IT,
however, he means that they will ''sccede"
from the State by voluntary exile to Can
ada. or elsewhere, there will be no ''coer-
cion" in that event But the threat, if
intended to intimidate. is as idle as the
winI; if meant, seriously it is time that the
people should know it, that they may afix
the name of Cain upon the foreheads of
these new conspirators against the ballot
box


In any event. he whom majority of
the qualified electors of Ohio may shoosc
for their Governor will be inauguratcd, and
the vast mass of the people, without dis
tinction Of party, will aid, if need be, in
the work of keeping the peace of the State,
and carrying out the fundamental maxim
OF popular government, that the majority
must govern" For let Mr.. Brough and
all others who would defeat the will of the
people take notice that ''there is mighty
mass of men in Ohio whese nerves are
strung up like STEEL" who mean that the
man who is the choice of the people shall
be the peoples Governor. Should that
choice fall upon me, all the duties of the
office shall be faithfully and fearlessly dis
charged. | would myself obey the con-
stitution, and laws, and see to it that all
others obeyed them within the jurisdiction
The courts should be opened, and restored
once more to their rightful authority: JUS
tice administered without denial or delay,
and the military in strict subordination to
the civil power. HaJeos corpus should be
respected, no citizen arrested except upon
due process of law, or held except for trial
by the civil tribunals, and none Kidnapped
from the State.


But while the rights Of the State and the
Liberties Of her citizens should be thus
enforced, the constitutional and lawful au-
thority and rights of the Federal govern
ment should be obcyed and respected with
scrupulous fidelity, no matter who admin
istered it, Whatever the administration
have a right under the constitution and
laws to demand or expect from the State
Executive, should be promptly and exact
ly rendered. In short, / would adopt and
thoroughly carry out the two maxims up
on this subject, laid down by Jefferson in
his inaugural in 1901.


First. "The support of the State Gov
ernment in all their rights, as the most
competent administrations of our domestic
concerns, and the surest bulwarks against
ant-republcan tendencies"


Second "The preservation of the Gen