The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-01

enlightened audience to whom it wa
addressed. [Cheers. In addition t
the argument addressed to the cow
ardice of the Northern people, Mr.
Wilson also addressed an argument tt
their gratitude, Qmitting altogethel
to4dfscuss the question of public ex
penditure, leaving. out Of view thu
great question of finance, ignoring
the present position of the Southern
States OF their future prospects, he ap
peals to the sense of gratitude of tht
N orthern people. toacome and give ;
fefewaf Of power. to the Republican
party which he says triunphantly
carried on the war! .["Oh"l Well
now, fellow-citizens, it is. true the Re
publican party conducted the admin,
istratbR' during the war! var ii they filled
all the civil offices Of the Government
Almost all the gentlemen who. sat oil
itdsIf0ned c1laJrs in the Capitol at the
rate Of tyf:-.dffye dollars per day, while
the rank and file were being shot
doWn-aH these were republicans
II Hear, hesfr.H] But the gratitude
due by the American people is. not tc
the.lnen.who conducted the war by
holding civil offices in the rear-not
to the men of the. Wilson school, OF
whom there are many in both Houses
of Congress, who filled up the posi-
tions of the quartermasters' and COM
missariesY and contractors depart
,nehts with their friends, who never
saw rebel fire except at at Bull Run and
then stampeded at the first flash.
[Cheers and laughter LIDO not think
that the patriotic services of the party
have been SO great, so self-sacrificing,
SO ,.self-abnegating, that they have a
right;to call upon the American peo-
ple,1in gratitude, to give them new
term of power. AS to the question
Of who fought the war, look to the
appeals of the Republican administra-
ton from the beginning. Did they
appeal to their own party exclusively !?
No, They appealed to the 4merfcan
people, irrespective of iparty-to the
American people, who had grown up
withld Howe OF tile Constitution as a
faith in their. hearts4to rally around
the flag and restore the Constitution :;
andreIying upon the solemnly pledged
faith of the Republican office holders,
thepeople of, the North, irrespective
Of political party, joined the army
and fought the, rebellion successfully.
Cheers. Insproportion to their uum-
bers, in almostlqevery State of the
Union, and much more than in pro-
portion to- their, numbers in many
States, the; Democrats of the North
andthe -bordeg regardless of the ap-..
prehensions. that the vast power con-
ided- to-; = the Republicans would be
used. fQf, mere q party dominion, left
their families and business at home
and joined the Union army. And l
assert it as as fact, which any intelli-
gent computation will bear out, that
man for man the Democracy contri-
buted, quite much to the ranks-not
quite so many officers, 'perhaps-as
the Republicans, The Democracy CON
tributed its fair share of distinguished
too.7' Of the soldiers whose
names are illustrious and immortal,
the Democracy have "a roll as proud as
thatsof the pnp1ioans... They have
a Hancock, "a Gordon, a Granger, a
Sloeum Echeers]-they have Franklin,
Me- CIernand and Resecrans
Gcheers-they, have the gallant hero,
George'B B. Mcclellan [great cheering
;indnot least, Francis P.i Blair, whose
little finger at the beginning Of the
war gave more, of aid to the general
than the whole body of
Radicals who filled places in the Uni
ted Estates service teheersl-he who
saved the great State Of Missouri and
the great cityof st, Louis byohis great
forecast and courage to the Union.
[ A voice, ."Doli't leave out Porter
No; Il would not leaHeiout thename of
any gallant soldier, could add many
more did time permit. "A voice, "And
yourself y 9i-77cheers. ~ ID.
iiBut gentlemen of the Republican
ranks haye now grown exceeding val
otous. These gentlemen, Mr.. Wilson
and MIR, Greeley, who devoted almost
their wRo1e time during the war to in
trfgues against the, ad1diiiistration-to
intrigues againt President Lincoln,
Yho5was conducting the war truth
fully for the restoration of the Union !;
are now, I say, exceedingly valorous.
Whilefthe war was going on Greeley
continued to insist ON the necessity of
pateAins tpss efis 4fiishenerab4e peace with
the rebels and now he says-in the
same issue of his paper in which ap-
pears Wilson's speech-that it was a
great misfortune; that the war ended
so soonl He says it ought to have
been prosecuted until we had broken
UP the rebel army and hunted them,
inanDby man, into the swamps and
starve them to death. Oh! the valor,
the exceeding patriotism of these men
on paper. Oh! the valor and patriot
ism of Greeley; who rushed up to the
Canada border, colleaguing with Geo.
n, Sanders and Beverly Tucker for a
dishonorable, peace, who never risked
,lii!s his body even through curiosity, as
Wilson did at Bull Run, ,and who now
says it was. a terrible misfortune that
the war ceased so soon. Who would
have been the sufferers if the war had
beenpushed on? Would Greeley, ta-
King his ease at home? Ask the
Union soldiers who fought the war to
a success. and then stopped it at the
suggestion of patriotism and human
ty: ECheers.] The valor of Greeley
was somewhat of :, the stamp of the