Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-10-10

the bill giving the right of suffrage TO their
comrades in New York. while they were in
the field fighting the battles of their country.
They do not forget that Mr.. Wallace. as
Senator, with the whole Democratic party in
the Legislature, opposed the right of the
soldiers to vote on the field of battle. They
do not forget that they were alluded to as
"Lincoln's hirelings" by the party of which
MIR. Wallace is the chief; nor will they ever
forget that in the face of this danning record,
Mr.. Wallace and his associates are now
banded in an effort to restore the Govern.
ment to the control of forswUrn traitors; the
authors and prosecutors of the Rebellion
nor that every one of these traitors is joined
with MIR. Wallace in a conspiracy against
their beloved leader, the great captain of the
age, Gen. Graut Nor that Horatio Seymour
and Frank p. Blair were nominated by
convention in which nearly 200 Rebel gene.
rails, coonels majors, captains, and Congress.
men were delegates. Nor that the chief of
these Rebels, Wade Hampton of South Caro-
lima, framed and dictated, as a condition of
his allegiance, that part of the Democratic
platform which declares the acts of recon-
structon unconstitutional, revolutionary,
and void" Nor that every Union soldier in
the South, is the victim of daily vengeance
and cruelty of the associates of Mr.. Wallace
and the Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania:
nor that all the Union generals sent to the
South to execute the laws and give protec.
tion to the Union men of that section, have
with single exception been villifed and
prosecuted by these same Rebel associates of
Mr. Wallace and the Democratic leaders of
Pennsylvania. The grand assemblage of
patriotic ctizeEs who risked their lives for
the old flag, instead of being welcomed with
open arms by the Democratic leaders Of
Pennsylvania, are insulted by the atrocious
calumny that they have been sent for to
poliute our ballot boxes, and are additionally
stigmatizcd as a 50 called soldiers conven-
ton. reproGch so shameless comes fit.
tingly from men who have Just emerged
from disgracetul compauionsbip with n
Is. Forrest, the contriver and leader of the
Fort Pillow massacre, and his co conspira
tors This is the same Mr.. Wallace who
instructed his employees, in 1867, "tor erery
Democratic cote p0lled orer 40, arc toW pay
yQu JEred sum utter tie election" This is
the same Mr.. Wallace who offered 500 per
month, for three months, to Michael O'Meara
to suppress his evidence in the Shugart con
tested election case. And yet this man, of
all Others, has the unblushing elfrontery to
accuse the brave men of the volunteer afmv
and navy of a crime of which he himself
stands notoriousy convicted The Soldiers
and Sailors Committee of PENNSYLVANIA
cannot allow this gross and unprovoked out
rage upon the gratitude and hospitality of
the generous people of Philadelphia to pass
| uurebuked. They feel that the Democratic
leader, indifferent, calluus, or hostile, while
our loyal people, including the patriotic
women of Philadelphia, were giving time,
money, and the noblest of charities of our
brave companions on their way to and from
victorious fields, are now even more hostile
to the soldiers of the Republic as they rally
under the sacred shadows of Independence
Hall to renew their love and devotion to the
country they have saved Ii it were reces
sary to arouse 2 stronger spirit of hatred of
treason and OF the Democratic agents of
treason in our midst, thus to summon here
on the first and second days of October the
| survivors of the overwhelming host who
defeated Democratic rebellion. this dclbc-
rate and gratuitous insult would accomplish
the work. But no such invocation is needed.
By order of the Committee.
CHARLES II. T. CoIIIs, Chairman.
a. l.. RCSSEIJ, Spcrptarv