Year: 1865

Among those who retire from public life
with the close of the last Congress there are
none with whose eminent public services
the public will part with deeper regret than
those of the distinguished gentleman whose
name heads this article. Mr.. CoX's career
in Congress commenced some eight years
ago, when all the country was at peace
The great storm of passion which has since
swept with resistless tide over the country
was just then appearing above the political
horizon, and he, among hundreds of others
in those times, as now, were among the
foremost and the ablest to battle in behalf
of the Constitution and the Union. There
is not single question connected with this
great struggle and the causes which led to
it but what has been most thoroughly and
ably discussed by Mr.. Cox in Congress and
before the people. Hisvoice before the war
was always raised in behalf of the Union.
Every proposition that was submitted to
Congress to stay the tide OF revolution and
civil war received his cordial and jealous
support; and finally, when the war cloud
broke forth, threatening destruction to
the country, he was found the worthy
compeer Of the lamented and venerable Crit
tenden to lessen its horrors, and at all times
laboring with single purpose to restore
peace to distracted people and to save the
Union. During the progress of the war he
made more speeches on the different sub
jects connected with the rebellion than any
other Democratic member of Congress, and
he always spoke, too, from true Demo-
cratic, standpoint, upholding the right and
denouncing the wrong. His speech on the
Winter Davis Construction bill; on the
proposition to admit members of the Cabi-
net to the floor OF Congress, as well as
many others, command the admiration of
all true patriots, and place Mr.. Cox, as a
debater and statesman, on a level with the
first men of the country. Nor did he dis
regard his duties to the gallant soldiers of
the army, who have made such countless
sacrifices in behalf of the Union of the
States. Not bill was ever introduced in
their behalf but it was warmly and ably
advocated by him. To him more than any
other man. are those who were languishing
in Southern prisons last winter indebted for
their exchange and deliverance from the
horrors of prison life. To enumerate his
public services would require q volume,
which we hope some day to see published.


We regret to hear that Mr.. Cox contem-
plates leaving the State, to take up his abode
in. the city of New York. We earnestly
hope 1t is not so., As a political stumper
and campaigner he has scarcely an equal,
and gladly would we hail him in the North
west this fall as the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio, for if any man has
the nerve and, power to redeem the State
from the hands of the opposition, that man
is Samuel S. Cox; because his public record
is free from blemish, and must commend it
self to every candid citizen. Ohio has no
truer OF lnobler son, and the Democratic
party none more able and jealous in the
good cause than he, and we hope it may
vet be the privilege Of the Democratic
party Of the State to place him in yet
higher position than that from which he
has been SO unfairly deprived by the waves