The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-07

aDLAY, OHlO, FRIDAY. 4
that these governments shallbe form
ed down there by the "whl.e people
by which he means the "rebels. s.
Now, he says that is the great ques-
tion. He says he wants to 60 before
the convention on that question. He
did 90 before the convention and
was nominated without opposition !;
and the Democratic convention, in
its platform, declares that these re-
construction acts are null and void.
And, if the Democratic party carry
out its pledges, and Seymour and
Blair are elected, the army, accord.
ing to Mr.. Blair, is to be employed
to undo what has been done. What
does that mean? What does the en-
ployment of the army to disperse a
government mean? Does it not
mean war, Why did the rebels
take him? Because by that act they
laid the foundation of revival of a
civil war, and they accepted him with
;oy. / will not trouble you with
reading them. The speech OF every
rebel speaker that / have seen, ex
presses his special approval of the
action of the convention on the
ground of his satisfaction with the
of Frank Blair.
NY fellow-citizens, / tell you that
Frank Blair was nominated because
he is pledged to civil war. if civil war
is necessary to overthrow these gov
established in the South
under the authority of Congress-
Well, that is that part of their plat
form. How is it with General Graft
General Grant says that what the
country needs is peace. Is not that
true? Blair says the army must un-
do what has been done. General
Grant says the country needs peace.
wish had brought out with me the
of ToOmbs, of Georgia.
You have all heard of Toombs. He
was a Senator from Georgia before
the secession. He was in the rebel
army a while during the war. He
made speech on the Sth Of July at
Atlanta, reviewing the nomination Of
Seymour and Blair. He tells the
people there that General Grant says
that lie wants peace, but that he can
have no peace. And all over the
South from these men there is the
same temper-these same passions
again into active life by
the nomination of this ticket.
CONCLUSION.
After dwelling at some length on
the financial aspects of the situation
that the national credit must
be maintained, and that by the time
the Government bonds can be paid
off, green5acks will be equal in value
to gold, Gen. Palmer concluded as
follows:
/ have now. as best l could, in the
time that / feel like trespassing upon
your patience, given you q brief ex-
position of the different views ofthese
parties. And all is now, fellow citi-
zens, dependent on the election of
Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Col
fax, and the defeat Of Uoratio Sey-
mour and Frank Blair.
We want to say that the gallant
man who put down the rebellion did
right; that the earnest men who
sought to abolish slavery did right !;
that the men who went to restore
this Government, and to extend the
of liberty did right. We
want to stand by what we have done,
and we shall do that the best by elect
ing that peace-loving man, U. S.
Grant. II you ever come across q
true soldier, he loves peace. When
ever you come across one of these
game cocks, you need not be very
much alarmed; the man who keeps
quiet is the dangerous man. With
Ulysses S. Grant as our leader we
promise you peace. His very char
acter as the head ofthe Republic will
make those fellows down South, who
know what he is, behave themselves
as quickly as if they were in class
meeting. Applause. With Grant
for President, with the knowledge
that William Tecumseh Sherman is
the first in command, and that there
is half Of a million Of the gallant boys
of this country who have tried the
thing once, and will try it again when
necessary, and who will follow on
with the OLD work as before, the reb-
els will be good, peaceable, order
loving citizens, and we will have no
trouble at all. But defeat Grant ;
reverse what what you have done
restore Wade Hampton, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Forrest, and that class OF
men to power, and you may have to
fight and, as the phrase goes, with
the law on our own side" Do not
put the power into the hands of such
men. And, now, for parting word.
Solemn and imperative duties rest
upon you. have no doubt but the
men who have stood by US so long,
until this rebellion was put down,
will stand by US until the work is
accomplished, until the flag not only
floats everywhere as OF yore, but till
peace and prosperity will certainly
follow the triumph of the true, ear
nest, patriotic men who were engag-
ed in this contest.
The choice is for you, and you
must judge of your dunes. l have
discharged mine. [Cheers and pro
longed applause
Steamer Peninah, just arrived a,
St. Louis, from Fort Stephenson
upper Missouri, reports an Indian
raid at Fort Randall, on the lOtt
inst. They killed one man and rar
off. all the stock belonging to tht