Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-07
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G EN-. S.. C. HILLYER.

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Ijo On the evening Of the Sd inst, there Was
rheld in the City Of New York, an immense
meeting Of Soldiers and Sailors to appoint
delegates to the Soldiers and Sailors Con-
/ vention, to be held at Cleveland, on the
18th inst OF this immense meeting, Gen,
/ S. G. HIMYER was elected President, and,
on taking the chair, he made the following
eloquent speech and powerful appeal to the
Soldiers, % He shoes sohere General Grant
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diers who nave been in and through the
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| SPEECH OF GEN. s. q. H1LLYER. urp
Gen. Hillyer spoke as follows. ,...'..,.L
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF INEw YORK,
Survivors OF THE WARRIOR this dis,
tinguished mark of your confidence and
consideration, | thank you. | am most
profoundly sensible of the honorof presid-
| UNCOVER those who have laid aside the ire
sistible logic of successful arms, and appeal
to the calm reason, the sober judgment,
| the enlightened conscience, and the chris
tianiZed humanity of their cOuntrymen.-
! On the l4th day of this month there as
sembled in the city of Philadelphia a body
Of representative men from every State and
] Territory of these United States, to take
kcouncil together how they could best cure
the wounds of this terrible war--how best
restore upeace and fraternity to those
brethren who had been so long alienatcd;
but, most of all, how they could best sub
serve that object for which the war was
waged by the armies of the United States
1.-THE preservation OF the Union and the
maintenance of the Federal Constitution.
lfCheers.l 1t was my good fortune to be
Bpresent AT that Convention. and a more
honest, earnest, loyal, patriotic and mag
unanimous body Of men never before as
| semblpd on this continent. TApplause.l
I That Convention has finished its work Its
address and declaration of principles are
Submitted to the country for its verdict;
| and we, fellow soldiers and sailors, are as
| sembled here tonight to pass our Judgment
upon it. ] came back from that COnven-
tibh with the abiding confidence that the
| battles of this rebellion had not been fought
| in vain, that the WEAKNESS of protraCted
] marches, that the sufferingS of hunger and
thirst aud exposure, that the agony Of dis
ease and wounds and death, from which
! you never shank, were but light afflic-
tlons, winch had WORKED OUT ior tne natl0n
"a 1aT more exceeding ana eterhal4 WelSht
| OF glory. Renewed cheers'J Unlty oI
purpose, harmony, fraternity. common ie-
votion to common flag, inspired the
thought and action OF every member OF
that assemblage. That Convention assem-
pied TO determine an appeal from the poi,
tlcians to the people1,trom passion ,Il ana
prejudice to reason and conscience. Ihat
appeal was made at tue suggestion OF the
President OF the Unlted States lapplauseb
n. IL
Ism, ana devotion TO principle ana un-
] sWervlng fldellty 10 the CONSTITUTION, mao
4 enabled him TO Withstand the storms OF
fanaticlsm and drive Dack Inc Vandal
| hOrdes who would nave destroyed the
| beautiful structure OF constitutional lloer-
/ ty for which your comrades died, ana for
which you suffered. thank GOd thaC APP
J peal was not In vain. from Aalne TO
MISSISSIPPI, from the North, from the
| South, from the East, IRON the west, from
the, Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes
and rivers and the gull, from highland and
! loWland, came back the echo ...rasfprtr
| I"we'll rally round the flag, boys, ID.
Wen rally once again"
Thirty-six stars again threw their rays
( into one grand focus, where might be seen
I in letters of living lipht-"JJuion and lib
erty, now and forever one and insepara-
ble.n [Applause.i
| H. is n sad commentary on the weakness
and wickedness Of hunian nature. that no
! sooner had the disunion party of the South
| laidsdown its arms when all seemed bright
and beautiful and happv, as when the morn
| ind stars sang together at the birth of crea-
! ton When you had turned YOUR longing
ewes and hurried steps to home and the
loved ones there. that acloud should arise
upbn the Northern siv. That cloud at first
I was no larger than a mans hand, but
driven by the tempest of passion, it increas-
ed and rose and spread itself until its
| shadow ieII on every household in the
| land. When you came home with the tid-
tings of, peace, YOU were told "there is no
peace" and when YOU exhibited the tro-
phies of your victories and pointed to that
old flag floating over the capitalof every
| Southern State, YOU were answered with a
sarlonic laugh that vou were fighting for
states which had ceased to exist, and you
! were fighting for stars which were blotted
| out for ever, Your Union was myth, your
| iag "a Haunting iieg your war cry and bat
tie song the 6abblihg of fools. Soldiers
and sailors of the war, you put down that
| Southern rebellion by force otarms, and it
deyolvesi on you to defeat this Northern
\ Crusade aSainstt the Union. IA voice. "We
will do it,P and applause l. This most un-
expected insult to the flag-this new trea-
son against the Constitation-they were
! both' born Of the same pnholy ambition,
| both nurtured by appeals to the lowest pas
sions and Vilest prejudices Of mankind.
The leaders OF the rebellion claimed that