Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-06
,ast, stood firmly and truly by you

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iidn't make war on the proclamation: 10 l
whom it may concern" but they called s'r &
/ cessation Of hostilities and 8 conVen' bn {
If the States to form new Union Of be
their real meaning, as is ea ly
was to form Union en- ID
posed of the Northern and Northwestern ]
States. But how impossible such con- {
vention would be When we give up our
army do we thus cement the Union When
we acknowledge ourselves whipped, will
that bring JEFF Davis back Why all he
asked was to be let alone, and should we
submit he would never come back. The
result would be dissolution of the Union,
or a new government on terms dictated by
traitors in arms.
/ don't wonder that the soldiers spurn
the idea of recording their votes in favor of
a set of men who cast this aspersion upon
them-who call the war q failure, and
charge it upon them. If there has been
any tailure-and l will admit that the first
year of the war lgdS failure-the fault lies
with the leader, and not with the army. |
But when do they call the war a failure2 |
When we have been in the wilderness four |
years and begin to see the day
light breaking in our path, they |
call on us to turn around and |
march back into the wilderness again. 1
am peace man, but I believe that the
shortest road to peace is right straight
through in the track of our army. lap
plause.l The declaration of the Chicago
platform shows purpose to give success
to the rebels in arms which they could
not win against our soldiers. [Applause,
The speaker related an anecdote OF
an old Democrat who was claimed
declared that he loathed the Chicago
platform. He said: When l read the treas
enabled speeches mae at Chicago and the
comments of the rebel junto at Niagara, /
don't wonder that patriot mould say he
loathed it and all connected with it. There
is no democracy in it-noneof the old Jack
| sonian Democracy. JEFF. Davis might have
gone to Chicago and been in full fellowship
with them. They don't say a word against
him. While we make war on rebellion for
| the sake OF the country, they make war on
/ the country for the sake of party APP
plause.1 The time has come when the last
| remaining hope of the rebellion ia not in
their army, but in the ballots of the North
ern people-when, if we fire our ballots as
! Loyalty and patriotically as the soldiers do
their bullets, the rebellion will go down.
But if we fail, or win only by a small ma
/ jority there will be rebellion in the North.
And canlI, as life long Democrat, liUe in
| an organization which declares rebellion
4
/ These men are not Democrats or patriots,
they are rebels or rebel lsympathizers. They
belong to the grand army, not of patriots,
but they will be and are correctly enrolled
in history as part of that grand army whose
lead they follow-the great army of trail
tors.
But they wanted to sugar-cost the pill,
and they baited their hook with Little
Mac. In this connection the speaker ex-
| posed the fallacy of supposing that Nc
| Clellan would not be like his chief suppor
ters. He compared the party to that foul
shape which sat at the gates of hell-lair
| woman to the waist, but descending below in
many a snaky fold. So the Democratic
party commencing fairly with Mcclellan,
decends in Shiny folds to Chicago and
wiggles around to Richmond-and the
whole animal is traitor. [Applause.l
God has not deserted the Union party and
the Union cause. The ink was hardly dry
oI On W. El-tfnrm penned by Vallandigham
across our flag, before old Farragut, thun-
dering at the gates of Mobile, flung back
from the mouth of his cannon that word
Failure" in their teeth. [Applsuse.l ]
And, as if to make mistake impossible, the
clouds lifted again and let in the sunlight,
and the gallant boys of Sherman bore the
glorious flag into Atlanta with
no word Failure written upon
its folds. [Renewed applause. And
as out Ofthe mouth of two or three witness
es every word should be confirmed, there
comes news from Sheridan, another Ohio
boy, and his gallant soldiers bear the flag
right over the crest of Fishers Hill, its
folds all clear and bright. Immense
cheering.]
Our losses are sent to us as trial of our
faith. So the Christian is tried--so the
patriot is tried. All of US have our trials.
They test our patriotism. And the patriot
| ism which is but hay and stubble will
doubtless be burned, but the true patriot
will come out as gold tried in the furnace.
Our army in the field are doing their
work well. The army at home have also
their work to do. And we are reereant TO
our duty if we do not discharge it faith
fully at the ballot-box, and record that the
word "FaiIure" cannot be inscribed on our
flag.
I will say but one word more. fl had
no other reason than this-that the cop
perhead party is so constituted that its
hopes of success depend alone on the de-
feat of the armies Of its country-I would
leave it. But when the hopes of
party brighten as the cause of our country
gains-there is my place-there is the
place of tho old jackson democracy.
Let me ask you to make my speech out
by giving three cheers for three Ohio boys
Grant, Sherman and Farragut.
The cheers were given with a will.
Judge Days speech was received with
great enthusiasm and frequently interrupt
ed by applause. g. EEaLtE
Judge Spaulding next introduced the
Hon. Benjamin Stanton.
SPEECH OF Mr.. STANTON.