The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-08-26

IL YOU WANT more tdAhtiO"1 @ '"iSCi
public debt, vote for Lincoln. If you
want renewed drafts of men to carry on
The war, vote for Lincoln. If you want
him TO take your first, second and third
horn sons, 10 carry on the war, vote for
Lincoln. If you want 10 Ind your cur
rency in a ruined condition, your green
backs worth thirty cents on the dollar; if
you want The price OF everything you buy
to go up, and everything you sell to go
down-for the day is no, far distsnt.when
your merchants will be obliged to demand
gold and silver for what You buy, and they
will pay you for Your produce in legal
tenders IF this is what you want, vote
for the republican party.
The speaker here queried as 20 where
The republican party could be found
which of the hydraheads was the simon
pure organization. There WAS old Ben
Wade and Henry Winter Davis. and last,
not least, his old friend Lew. d Campbell.
Laughter and cheers. do not know
thai am right, ou, he seems to be getting
up combination. | suppose TIE fellow
out at ST. Louis, would pronounce it a
conspiracy. Whether it hss five hundred
thousand in it or not, | do not know
l hope it has They have issued Call for
another republican convention to be held
at Buffalo. W hich is 10 be the true re-
publican ticket, and which the false, 1t
will be hard to tell.
Our time has come, and we will pu:
forward man that can be elected. The
looming man will be found, and discord
ic the Chicago convention will no, exist.
He who thinks otherwise, does not know
the heads and hearts OF those who will be
there. -...ts 2. -....r
F. see men of former republican proc,i-
vities here, and would ask them what
was the condition of things four years ago
to-day How was it when you was shout
ing ior Lincoln, when your "Wide
swakes " were tossing high their oil cloth
caps? We had nation of thir.y-four
States, all peaceful and happy; no public
debt, except what might have been wiped
out by the expenditures of two weeks
now. And, by the way, a supporter of
Lincoln, told me to-day that we were 60
ing to have plenty of money soon, as a
wealthy man OF New York was going to
give to the government million of dol.
lars out OF bis own pocket How long
would that last? Just five hours. Why,
when get on the harness, af.er the Chi
csgo nomination. can speak longer than
a million of dollars will las: President
Lincoln. Cheers and laughter.
Ny friends, none but the odes. among
you ever, before the present war, saw
a Federal tax-gatherer; but they swarm
now like ants on mole hill. Previous to
the present war, but few of you ever saw
Provost Marshal but now they are
thick as the frogs that came up ont Of
Egypt, and you, the farmers and laborere,
are required to pay their salaries. You've
50o,0o0 more officers TO support now than
you had four years ago. And that's the
way the money goes"
| do not address you thus because
would appeal to you to say whether it
would not have been better to have elect
ed democratic candidate four years ago
and have avoided these troubles? We
then had no Federal tax gatherers, low
tariff, which man paid if he pleased, or
not if he chose We had currency
which was ei.her gold, or silver, or paper,
convertible into one or the other at pleas
ure, What is it now! A voice." Pos
tai currency."] Yes, postal currency and
greenbacks. And can take thirty three
cents in the old currency of four years
age, and 90 into any Of these stores and
buy more of anything than you can with
dollar of greeutacks. l. will be still
worse hereafter. Two months ago green
backs were worth one hundred per cent,
more than now, and two months hence
/ they will be worth one hundred per cen,
less than now. They repeat the old story
of the continental currency, growing
'from bad to worse"
Is it not better for one and all TO stop
this war, and begin where we never should
have left off, And try 10 get back the
Union, if it is possible; do it be const
tutional means, With peace and quiet in
| the land with no more armies, no more
drafts, no more bloody battles, no more
mourning in the land, no more bringing
| back your sons MANNED or sick from the
camp or the hospital I tell you the
democratic party will, as far as possible,
bring back the ancient prosperity 1, will
| first have 10 remove the great mass of
wrong which has been tumbling down on
your heads for three year past. 1t took
our fathers many long years to rear up
our national temple, and how long will it
take to restore its beautiful proportions
the wisest of US cannot tell. But the
work must be begun. This war must
come to an end 1t has been fruitTess.
| might appeal to any supporter of the
administration, and ask what is there 10
show for the s500,OO0,OQ0, and the o
000,0 600 Of men sent into the army
Where are they? Only when the Arch
angel shall sound the last trumpet will
their bones be found when from one sec
ton of this blood. stained land to the other
shall come flying thick through the air all
the disjoiuted and scattered fragments of
what was once Gods living temples, to
answer in the presence of the great white
throne of Jehovah will these 100000
of men be able to respond. And who
slew them? Through whose instrument
tali,y? For whatl To restore the
Union sa..
Great God! We could have preserved
the Union, With ink and paper, without