The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-09-17

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Battle. RI
Gen. Cullen A. Battle, of the
late Confederate Army. was intro
duccd@to the late Seymour and
Blair ratification mectihgat Mobile,
by the Hon. John Forsyth Of The
Mobile Register, who commended
him as follows:
"Gen G. A. Battle nobly did his
part in the fields of the South.
when a holy libation Of blood and
valor was poured out 10 the com.
mon renown. AT Seven Pines. at
Charlottesville, Winchester, Get,
tysburg, Fishers Hill, and on scores
of fields, he led his brave Alabami.
ans where glory was to be won, and
his gray coat and flashing sword
were found nearest the flashing
of the guns. Our worthy Prcsi-
dent. Colonel Herndon, himself
bearing tho scars of the mighty
conflict, will introduce TO you one
of the heroes Of this gigantic war"
In the course of his speech, Gen.
eral Battle addressed his fellow
soldiers of the late G.. s. A MS FOL.
lows: '3F2, h.,-.lLi iatas.,I
d "Comrad, s brothers! year af.
ter year you bore the Confederate
flag through fire agd tempest, and
upon more than two hundred bat
tie fields covered it with victory
Imperishablc gIorics are intrench,
ed ir the impregnable fortress Of
the past, and no power can dim their
cffulgence. Hate, malignity, and
tyranny, are impotent to trans
form patriots into traitors, and he.
roes into slaves. You, may COM
radios, and you alone, can obliter.
ate the glorious record. Will you
do it or shall itremain a perpetual
heritage TO your children? What
though your flag went down bath.
cd in woman's consecrating tears
and baptized in the best blood, Of
the nation? This is still your ma.
tive land. You all did love her
once, not without cause. ller
mountains are as grand, her val
leys are as fertile as ever; heI
daughters are as fair, her matrons
are as vir:uous. Is she less dcaI
TO yol because she has opened hel
maternal bosom and received to hcl
embrace the noblest and braycst O.
her sons? Is she the less your moth
cr because she has been insultct
and wrongcd? Oh, she is dearel
"a thousand times deaIer-that
she was in her strength and glory
Her lortitudo in the midst OF hcl
desolation has attracted the ad
miration of tho world; and nov
the great Democratic party of thC
Union throws over her q banner
inscribed with tho principles o
constitutional liberty for which sh,
fought, and | am here TO night Il
ask you TO come up to her altar, anC
let us again pledge 10 her our lives
or fortunes and our sacred honor
The Democratic party offers th,
most honorable terms. 1t endorse
the principles for which you bat
tled-not because it was the prlnci
pies upon which the Conlederacy
was founded but the Coniedurac,
adopted them because they wer
promulgated by the fathers o
American Independence, and wer
vindicated by the war OF the Rev
olution. Under them, the Ameri
can colonies advanced TO a might,
empire, and in their observance i
the last hope for American lconstitu
tional liberty. Not only does
declare in favor of that Constitutio
so dear to you, but it most solemn.
declares that all those acts of Re
construction, so totally destructiv,
of your rights, and so repugnan
TO every honorable feeling, are un
constitutional, null, and void. Th
honorable gentleman who will fol
low mo tonight may perhaps, te
you something Of the circumstance
that attended the adoption OF tina
platform. lie may tell you ho'
conflicting sentiments were recon
cilcd and harmony secured. Ho'
every heart bounded with mani
impulse when Gen. Wade Hampto
portrayed the condition Of Sout
Carolina, and then asked the ir
5 corporation into the platform ofth
declaration that the Reconstructio
acts were unconstitutional, null, az
i void.
): "And what oftho candidates VII
stand upon that platform? lIorati
7 Seymour stands at tho head
American statesman. Had he Ii,
> ed in the best days of Rome, /
would have been among the mo
renowned Of Ter Senators. lla
he been an actor in the earlier da.
of the Republic, he would hay
been the compeer Of Washingto
Adams, and Jefferson" &c. &c.
II Battle seems to be on his hig
horse. We'lltry to take him doN
- next November. .-JournaL.