The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-01
II E. UB LTCANISM
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Merchants and Mechanics Speak for
Grant and COIfaN. Ida.


Grant and COIfax.
A vast concourse of ladies and gentlemen assem-
bled last night, at Concert Hall, to listen to the
proceedings of mass meeting of the manufactu-
rers, mechanics and merchants of Philadelphia
The meeting was one of the monster always
gathered by call like that issued for the convoca-
ton in question. Fortunately the night was cool
and the multitude was packed without the usual
necessity for sweltering.
The hall was decorated, as 1t will be for all the
meetings of this campaign; and a fine band of
music discoursed patriotic airs from the balcony
during the intervals of the speaking
The following named gentlemen were named as
Vice Presidents and Secretaries of the meeting;
Hugh Craig, Arthur II. Howell A. G. Cattell,
Joel j Bailey, Everett d. Hall, Washington
VIM. p. Ellison, Samuel V. Merrick, o. Howard
Wilson, james Long, Coffin Coliet, Isaac c. Jones,
Jr, Seth j. Comfy, Edward Sitter, Barton II.
Jenks, Henry Naglee Bruner, Samuel +. Stokes,
David s. Brown, Lemu5l Q. Coffin, VIM, IL. Larned,
lock, Benjamin Coates, Lewis Hayward, THOMAS
Dolan, Charles Magarge, John Dobson, Matthew
man, John Harrison George whitney, Robert
Ervien, Samuel j. Christian, Henry Lewis, James
Montgomery Bond, D. G. McCammon, Jay Cooke,
+. w. Clarke, John E. Fox, Edward G. Knight,
Bispham, William j. Pollock, Andrew NJ. Moore,
Henry 5, Hannis, Samuel ID. Baugh, VIM. Divine,
SecretaTies-Edward T. steel, 7. Morris Perot,
IL p. Atkinson, John s. Stairs, Evan Randolph,
Harry q. Kennedy, Charles Spencer, William 5.
Grant, A. Barker, Edward 9. Markley, Jr., Stephen
A. Caldwell, j. T. Audenred, Charles Knecht,
Derbyshire, @. Fl. Michener, John II. Michener,
George L. Lewis.
The meeting was called to order by Mr.. Mccain
mon, of the firm of Bucknor, McCammon & Co.
This gentleman called to the chair Mr.. George H.
Stuart, who, on taking the chair, made short but
very stirring address.
Mr.. Stuart reviewed his own experience as Presi-
dent of the Christian Commission, in its duties in
the army, and declared his conviction that the
hope of the country now rested in the plain COM
mon sense and signal executive ability of General
Grant, and in the wise administrative talent of
Schuyler Colfax
Mr. f. Harper Jeffres President of the Phila-
delpha Chamber, made an address, as follows:
Merchants, Manufacturers and Mechanics of
Philadelphia-ln view of the present political and
financial position of our country, it is important
that, as business men, we should assemble together
issues of the ensuing Presidential campaign. OBJ
serve, you please the course and the language OF
the candidates of their party, and you will be con-
vnCed that their object is to prepare the way for
Blair SEYMOUR and Hampton's new rebellion to
overthrow the reconstruction policy of Congress,
and to shake the popular confidence in the national
credit, thus establishing national dishonor, des-
troying the financial character of the govern
ment, prejudicng its credit at home and abroad.
The nations credit is the nations capital The
national debt is a debt of honor. And the time
will come in this country with all its resources,
with all its vast public domain, with all the mer-
and with its ability to raise millions of revenue,
when debt, large as it is, will gradually melt
had enough of omens and gloomy predictions We
have had enough, God knows, of bloodshed, car
mage, pillage, and desoaton. We want no more.
Blair pledges war; Grant pledges peace. And I
honestly believe that upon the election of General
country wholly depends; and it is for the business
men of our land to present bold undivided front,
and deal death blow to reputation and treason.
The spirits of your lamented heroes call aloud to
you from their graves to rebuke the Language and
the deeds of Seymour, Forrest, Toombs, Blair, and
their Vaccinations to disrupt and distract, and
even to destroy, the government of this country.
The wounded and maimed the defenceless and
heart-broken widow, the poor helpless orphan, the
aged childless father the frendless ssteral, all,
coDure you to be faithful to your trusts and avenge
will not believe you hear their cries and
heed them not. will not believe that this, the
great manufacturing city of the republic, will
prove recreant in this hour of great national peril
will not believe that my native city, with all its
past enviabe glories and its glorious record in the
days of the reSoution as well as in the late rebel
lion, has reached the time when she is swilling to
bow her head to men who controlled the New York
Democratic Convention, and then returned to their
native south to their people to violence and
bloodshed If we do, we submit to subjugatiOn
more humiliating and enslaving than the ancient
Britons received at the hands of the conqueror.
There is no course for men who value peace, sta
bily and security to persons and property, except
to vote for Grant and Colfax. "Let us have peace"
the blessings Of Heaven g be-
down upon our beloved country. With these few
desultory remarks will now proceed to read the
resolutions and move their adoption by you fellow
citizens, here assembled.
"Whereas, the people of Pennsylvania are again
called by the laws of the country to choose their
representatives in Congress and their electors for
President and Vice President of the United States
AT period of our history have these elections in
vOlved principles and results of so much Importance
to the public welfare. Two political parties have
nominated their candidates and placed them upon
platforms on which they must stand or fall. The
one proposes peace, founded on union, liberty and
justice; the other proposes to nullty the acts of
Congress- overthrow State governments by force,
and revive the issues of the recent rebellion, once
settled by the armies of the Republic, The one
proposes delty TO all the contracts of the national
government and the honest payment of its debts;
the other raises the black flag of reputation. The
one has adopted system which casts the burden of
taxation chiefly upon luXuries, and upon class of
citizens who able to bear il; the other proposes
to overthrow that system, and demands the taxation
of every species of property, including all the
cessares OF life. The fayors the resumption of
specie payments at the earliest practicable perod;
the other proposes to postpone 1t Indefinitely by
flooding the country with paper currency that
can never be redeemed in coin. The one has nOmi-
mated its candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States illustTiOus of
undoubted patriotism and purity of character,
while the other has eXhumed its chief candidate
from the ruins of the rebellion, and chosen its Sc
cond from the highest school OF corrupt and vicious
politicians.
"In view of these facts the manufacturers,
mechanics and merchants of the city of Philadel-
phia now assem- bled in mass meeting, do hereby
adopt the following resolutions:
"First. That in favor of permanent
peace-al loyal citizens desire its blessings; all the
business relations of the country require it, and
liberty, justice and mercy demand it.
"Second. That we are opposed 10 reputation in
every form; that all public well as private con-
tracts should be sacredy observed and carried out
according to their true intent and meaning; that all
attempts to escape from them on mere technical
grounds are dishonorable, if not criminal; and we
regard the proposition that the national debt,
tracted for the preservation OF the government,
hnHNlI ha Nnsh man aud not laVNf.N kl