The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-10-06
Ex-SeCretary Chase on the Four Years Fail

Ex-Secretary CHASE deli vered rousing
speech at an immense Union meeting in
Cincinnati on tie 25th of September last
After talking of the commencement of the
war, and showing who were responsible for
it, he reviewed briefly the coppernead asser-
ton that the war after being prosecuted
four years is failure. He says:
''Ihus it was that we went into this war.
And now they tell us i'll their Chicago plat
form that the war has been prosecuted for
four years, and that it has been failure. A
voice ''Oh what a failure!"1 And because
it has been prosecuted for four years. and is
failure they propose to, US to take General
Mcclellan and let him finish it! Tderisiye
laughter
Now,in the first place, has it been prose-
cuted four years? 1t began in April, 1861,
and this is September 1864 l think anv
child can make the calculation and show
that It's not quite four years yet Well,
then has it been failure voices, ''no,"
mot at all. To be sure we have not at
tanned all the successes we desired Some
things have moved a little slower than we
thought they should. 1t was certainly so
during the famous campaign of which the
General they hurrah for was the beginning,
middle and end, Laughter and ieers.1 I
certainly thought that failure; but has it
been a failure throughout Don't YOU re-
member here sometime ago. when you
could not send a boat to the Mississippi,
when the whole territory on either bank of
the Mississippi, from Cairo to the mouth,
was lined by rebel batteries ? Well, tn csc
have all disappeared When Farragut went
past the forts, jackson and Phillips, and met
their ''lnvincible fleet upon the Mississippi
and by one OF the grandest achievements
known i'll history, took New Orleans and
afterwards Vioksburg fell before Grant, and
afterwards Hudson was taken by Banks,
then the mississippi was opened from the
source to the mouth. Was that failure
Voice, sit was rebel faiIure"1 On the
sea coast, when Burnside went down and
took Roanoke Island, and established the
Union flag at Newbern, was that failure?
mo, MOI When Dupont went in between
the forts at Hilton Head, and siIenced their
guns by his mastery achievement, was that
failure [''No."1 Well, these results are
what those gentleman call failures.
Three years ago Kentucky was doubtful;
but Kentucky | think will vote the Union
that That, then is not failure. Tennes-
see, SO far as disunion Legislature could eff
feet it was taken out of the Union; but now
Tennessee. has Union Governor in Andy
johnson, about loyal as man as breathes,
and that is not a failure. Missouri was
doubtful; but Missouri is loyal to-day. So,
West Virginia was taken out of the Union,
but West Virginia is State in the Union to
day. In short we have taken back from the
rebels of that which they suddenly usurped
from us, at least one third of what they had
and that is not failure
| But more recently, Farragut. who accom-
plished the sublime victory at New Orleans,
had himself lashed to the main-top and
passed by the rebel batteries at Mobile, and
established himself in the harbor there. This
is not failure, CCheers. And Gen. Grant
| is holding on, with that characteristic obsti-
macy OF his, to Peterburg, and has taken the
Weldon Railroad, and broken up one of the
most valuable mems of communicating with
Richmond and now, as a part of this same
plan which has been as successfully carried
out, Phil. Sheridan, tumultuous cheers and
shouts, another Ohio boy, Tcheers. has
wrapped one of their chosen leaders in the
Shenandoah Valley and after having whip
ped them till they fed and made another
strong stand, in what was considered an i'm.
pregnable position, he whipped him again,
and sent him rushing off toward Richmond,
[Cheers And if am not deceived. gen
tlcman-though boast no prophetic saga
city this action of Sheridan, in breaking
up Early's army, makes it impossible for Lee
to hold Richmond. [Great Cheers. |
trust we shall hear good news before the
October election from Grant at Richmond.
feel very confident we shall before the Pres
! idential election and when you have strick-
ell down the rebel power at Richmond the
rebellion perishes. [Cheers.
| Now, there is another great failure | want
to speak Of. 1t is the failure of Sherman.
| LCheers.l lie is another Ohio boy and how
strange it is that Ohio sends forth such fail
ures. He began at Chattanooga, and forced
Johnston back step by step until he had
driven him to Atlanta, and then the rebels
| displaced johnson and put Hood over their
army, because he was fighting General
and then Sherman put hood over Hood.
lCleers and laughter and now Hood is
somewhere between Atlanta and the ocean,
and Sherman is getting ready for another
advance. 700
Now, gentlemen how can men who have
patriotic hearts in their bosoms be content
to put upon record in this year, 1864, such
mons rous assertions as that the war has
been prosecuted for four years, and that it
has proven failure!