Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-13
A PrOphecy-Grant TO Turn Democrat.

In speech made last week at Crestline,
Ohio, Mr.. Vallandigham said
"Now, my Republican friends, I have
not said anything against Gen. Grant in
| this campaign. have not done it for pur-
pose. If he is fit to be President, long be-
fore his term expires [ will be found sup
porting him honestly and cordially, against
the leaders OF the party which expects to
elect him in November. Loud cheers. l.
And you will have no right to cry out
'Traitor" against him you will have no
right to talk about his Tylerizing, or his
Filmoreizing, or his Johnsonizing YOU
You nominated him in Chicago you put
aplatform-a something called platform
into his hand you asked him for an ac-
ceptance of it, and he accepted, and l dare
say he would have accepted the Democratic
nomination too. Laughter.
But he took caro- in his letter OF accep-
lance to say that he would not proclaim
any policy. He did not consider it advi
sable to do so in advance of the election
to say what he would do when he was cleo
ted. Now, pray you to remember that l
told you on the Goth of October that Gen.
Grant will reject the mad, fanatical revo-
lutionary radical leaders of the organi=a-
ton which put him forward, if he proves
true to the Constitution and the Union of
our fathers. Loud cheers. If he will
restore to this government its harmonya
and give back to the people their rights,
North and South, will be found among
his cordial supporters, because l will be
found in opposition to the Radical party.M
Why will he be in antagonism to the
Republican party -? Because he will be in
antagonism to their unjust measures. But
remember. my Republican friends, you
are electing him with your eyes open.
When you old Wings elected Tyler, there
was nothing said about what he would do.
You expected him to be committed to the
policy of the Wing party. When you
elected Fillmore, he was no Democrat,
but in four months after his election, his
chief reliance was upon the Democratic
party. So when you nominated Johnson,
which you did because he was a southern
man. Laughter. Yes, you did you
did not know even whether he belonged to
the Kuklux or not. Loud laughter. -
But he lived down south, aud you wanted
the odor of nationality about your Vice
President !; you wanted a southern man,
that it might introduce little
leaven into your northern body. You
found Andrew johnson, and you knew he
had been Democrat and you knew he
loved the Democrats so much that Repub-
licans and Wings had before time denoun-
ced him as demagogue-which is another
thing from Democrat, and you elected
him. I did not vote for him, because my
suffrage was for an honest son of Ohio,
George Fl. Pendleton. (Cheers.)
You made Andrew johnson Vice Presi-
dent, and some one says that God AL
mighty made him President-and it is not
for me to settle disputes of that kind
leave it to those who may have time to dis
cuss it-but just as Johnson has refused to
follow your radical projects, and as you
have denounced him, just as surely will
you be denouncing Grant on the 26th of
October. 1869, if he shall be elected Presi-
dent. And then, too, we shall have the
of saying that we did not elect
him."