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Headquarters Soldiers and Sailors National
Republican Committee, 446 Fourteenth
street, Washington. d. G.
August 1st 1868.
COMRADES The dim of battle has
ceased, but the conflict of ideas still
continues. The shock of arms en-
ded with the surrender at Appomat-
tox Court House, but the struggle Of
principles still goes on. Had Abra-
ham Lincoln lived, doubtless our Ia
bors and tolls, ere this, would have
been over and past.
But the bullet that carried Andrew
johnson into the White House re
vived the dead rebellion and baflled
the advance of peace. Since then
the nations life has been one cease
less struggle with copperheads and
rebels. They have filed the public
offices, they have swarmed over the
land in places where only loyal men
should go; North, they have been an
eye-sore and offcnse to every loyal
citizen South, they have opposed
reconstruction and equal rights, and
now organize their Ku Klux-Klans,
in defiance Of the spirit and civiliza-
ton Of the age. The Democl attic
Party, unabashed by its unpatriotic
and shameful course as party
throughout the war, now again con-
fronts the country with a platform
and candidate which are at once
an insult to every living soldier, a
mockery to every dead soldier, and
a reproach to every patriot in the
land.
On the other hand we behold the
Republican party, with their shining
record of patriotic deeds, the banner
of our country floating proudly over
them, and the great leader of our
conquering army as their chosen
champion. They were our hearty
steadfast friends through the war,
they sustained us in the field, they
defender US at home, they rejoiced
over our victories and mourned
over our defeats they fired no rebel
bullets, they recruited no rebel ar
mics, they gave no rebel votes, and
now they ask us again to aid in
carrying the nation forward to its
natural and logical destiny; to help
secure the rich fruits of the war in
all their fullness, to assist in ground
ing the Republic at last on the i'm
mutable basis Of loyalty and justice,
and equal rights for all.
Soldiers, in Horatio Seymour the
Democratic Party have a fit candi-
date, a representative copperhead
and rebel in disguise. In our own
U. S. Grant we have the simple hon
est soldier and loyal defender of the
Union, The one represents reac-
ton, the other progress. The one
sympathized with the Confederacy,
the other fought for the Union.
The one stands on the platform of
National Reputation, the other of
National Faith, inviolate and invio-
liable. The one summons you to
the defence Of class and caste, the
other declares for the rights of man
as man, for loyalty and liberty, for
equal and exact justice to all men.
Comrades, the issue is plainly made
up, and now choose ye.
Soldiers, it is the old cause, and
the hosts are again gathering for the
conflict. The old Flag is again un-
furled and grant again heads the
column. He is the same brave pat
riotic soldier that led you to victory
during the war. 1t is the same Flag
you supported so gallantly on many
a bloody field. 1t is the same glo-
rious cause for which during the war
so many of our comrades laid down
their lives. Shall it be said, that we
fought all in vain, and that our dead
died thus in vain? No; you will not
reverse the record Of the battlefield
no 3; you will not prove false to your
slain comrades, no you will not now
desert the old cause and turn your
backs upon your old chief and lead
er. You will not forget the shining
record of Donnelson and Vicksburg
of Chattanooga and the Wilderness
of Petersburgh and Appomattox
Court House, no! But as the men
of Lexington and Bunker Hill, of
Valley Forge and Princeton ofTren-
ton and Of Yorktown, afterwards
with their ballots made Washington
the first President of the New Re-
public, 50 you, remembering our
common victories, will by your votes
make Grant the first President of the
restored Union. The Tories and
Cowboys Of '76 of course voted
against General Washington, but
what true soldier of the Revolution
would not have blushed with shame
at the thought Of casting a vote
against the Savior of his country !?
SO the Rebels and Copperheads Of
to-day, will oppose Gen. Grant. So
will the deserters, the bounty jun
pers, and draft sneaks, but surely, no
soldier or patriot will follow their
| ignoble example-who wants it said
of him in future years, who would
have his children, and his children's
children suffer the reproach, that in
'6S he voted against the great Sol
dier and honest man, who in '65
crushed the Pro Slavery Rebellion
and saved the Union? Surely no
one who loves his country, or is
proud Of his country's proudest his
tory.
Soldiers, Grant will be victorious.
The omens are all auspicious. He
has never yet been defeated-let us
then again form line and move into