Year: 1866

result then was COMMENSURATE WIN Tn


anticipation when the majority was re


dueed to 10000. He would only promis


that it might be possible to elect thi


ticket, and he trusted it might be anC


he wanted to say to the people Of thl


Democracy Of the North and South tina


Ohio would send to the Fortieth Con


gress from eight to ten Representatives


and perhaps twelve. A majority in tn,


Fortieth Congress is the one thing need


full in order that the States that onet


shot from their political orbits, but nov
obey the laws of political graTitatiOn


may rejoin the National Government


that the States now shut out may be re-


ceived home again. It was the mission


of the Democratic party to extend tbs


principles of free government. The


platform had said that it was the deter.


mination of the Democracy to maintain


its organization. It had been said that


the Democratic party would die; but


this was mistake. He speaks as fool


who talks about disbanding this party OF


yielding one single principle. But lit


tie while ago we came to conventions


with our lives in the hollow ofour hands


Heavily armed the Democracy came


here. To-day they came unarmed and
in peace. A new Administration has


been inaugurated in Washington that


man who had been stigmatiEed by the
lately loyal papers as a Tennessee Dem
ocrat. The Democratic party, with an
unselfshness that ought to make it stand
higher than any other party, has given
its support in this work of restoring the
Union, and the Democratic party Of
Ohio was prepared to stand or fall upon
that issue. 1t understands itself. The
late Union party, so-called, claims that
the President has gone over to the Cop
perheads. Who were those Copperhsads
They were the men who, for five years,
had stood in the breach like the men
of Rome, Greece, Italy and Switzerland
and amid abuse, and contumely, and op-
preston, defended the principles OF lib
erty; such men were Vim. Tell and
Bruce, and Washington although the
term Copperhead was not then known,
and the Copperheads of the present day
were the legitimate descendants. He
was a Copperhead, and he gloried in it
and he would tell the Republicans that,
in five years, they would be making af6-
davits to prove that they were the real
Copperheads, and we the pretenders; but
the Copperheads did not intend to be
swallowed up by the President, nor the
President by the Copperheuds. The
President was not going over to the Cop
perheads, for they would neither ask nor
take offices at his hands, although they
intended to hold all the offices after the
first of March, 1869. The support given
to-day, by the Democracy, to Andrew
johnson, was the most honest ever given
by party to a President it was unself-
ish support with no demand for Office
1t was no arrogance to say that the name
of the President Of this Convention would
go as far as that of Stevens or Sumner,
and 100000 Democrats would give the
President a much more honest support
than that of the 300, 900 mercenary hire
lings whose support depends on the
length of their offices. The Democracy
owed nothing to the Republican party,
and it don't intend the Republican party
shall owe them anything. The battle
would be fought out on the line of De-
mocracy we are in the midst Of critical
times, and the clouds were surcharged
with the lightningof commissions, and we
would not say that we were not to have
more civi! war.


The abuse of an existing power was as
bad as a usurpation. This Congress had
not the constitutional authority to i'm
peach now, but they have had it, and
they may again have it but if they do
we must have an appeal to the people /;
and, to-day, every desperate measure
possible was being taken by the men in
Washington to gain power enough to de-
pose the President and place Salmon P.
Chase in his place. There was a bill
ready to be brought forward to depose
Andrew johnson as a e-President in
he position of President, as successor to
4 President deceased. This was the
scheme of those Internal things who con-
.rol matters in Congress, and they pro-
posed to give succession to children and
grandchildren, it might be, and to wind
Up with an Emperor. But the speaker
7entured to say that they would not sue
,eed. He knew the President would not
lttempt any violent measures to drive
hese people from Washington, although
hey were not a Constitutional Congress.
# they should attempt his deposition the
President would be right in bringing to
oear against them the whole power of
he army and navy of the United States.
1e for one would sustain such course,
or Andrew johnson had the right, con-
to be President until the


st of March, 1869, and if they were
bout to expel him, he would be justified
n bringing against them the strength of
he purse and the sword. There was
ixed in his bosom the desire for peace,


nd he wanted to accept at the ballot box
he decision of the people. The contest
vas begun to-day, and nobly begun. He
lad attended many conventions, but
lever before had he seen such unanimity
s to-day. There was never seen spark
ing in every eye the gleam Of hope
The hour of triumph had begun to dawn.
The Ohio Democracy are the Spartan
'and, and the Macedonia phalanx looked
o by every State in the land, and this
they had dared to do, dared to
meet and dared to vote. 1t was not for
he paltry spoils of Office, but for the
that this was done. The Pres
dent of the meeting might have been a