Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-08-28
Another Confederate General on the
stump-The Noise Of Battle.

Gen. Cullen Al. Battle, Of the late
Confederate Army, was introduced 10
the late Seymour and Blair ratification
| meeting at Mobile, by the Hon. John
Forsyth of The Mobile Register, who
eommended him as follOWss
Gen, U. A. Battle nobly did ais
part IN the fields of the South, when a
molly lIDatlon Of blood and valOr was
/ poured out to the common reuOwn.
A6. seven FInes, at ChGncellOFsville le,
/ Winchester, GettysburN. Bisher's Hi1l.
I and on scores Of fields. he led his
brave AlabamIans where glory was to-
be won, and bis gray coat and flashing
sword we're found nearest the hashiDq
of the guns. Our worthy President,
| Colonel Herndon, himself bearing the
scars Of the mighty conflict, viii intro
duce to you one of the heroes Of this
gigantic war.
In the course Of his speech, General
Battle addressed his fellow soldiers Of
the late o. s. A. as follows.
Comradesi brothers year after
year you bore the Confederate flag
through IRE aud tempest, and upon
more than two hundred battla-felds
covered .it with victory. Your imper-
1shable glories are intrenched In the
IMPROBABLE fortress of the past, and
no power can dim their efulgence.
Hate, maliguity, and tyranny, are inn
potent 70 transform patriots into trni-
tors, and heroes into slaves, You, nay
comrades and you alone, can 0Dli5eEa
ate the glorious record. VIII you do
1t, or shall it remain a perpetual heft-
tage 70 your childreuR What though
your nag went down bRthed in woman
eonsecratlng tears and baptized 10 the
best blood Of the hationf This Is still
your native land. You all did love her
once, not without cause. Her noun
talhs are as grand, her valleys are as
fertile as ever; her daughters are az
taiH her matrOns are as Virtu0us. lie
she less dear to you because she has
opened her maternal bosom and re-
celVed to her embrace the nOblsst and
braVest Of her sOns2 Is she the less
your mother because she has been In
suited and wronged2 Oh, she is dearer
"a thousand times deafef[than she
was In her strength and glory. Her
fortltUde in the midst Of her desOlatiOn
has attracted the admiration Of the
world; and now the great Democratic
party of the Union throws over her
banner inscribed with the principles Of
constitutional liberty for which she
fought, and / am here TO o-ni6ht TO ask
you to come up 20 her altar, and let us
again pledge to her our lives, oar for
tunes and our sacred honor The
Democratic party offers the most hon
Orable terms. 1t endorses principles
for which you battled-not because it
was the principles upon which the
COnfederacy was fOunded--but the
Confederacy adopted them because
they were promulgated by the fathers
of American Independence, and were
vindicated by the war Of the h6Yolu-
ton. Under chem, the American col
OnieH advanced to a mighty empire,
and In their observance is the last hope
for American constitutional liberty.
Not only does it declare in favor Of
that Constitution so dear 10 you, but
it most solemnly declares that ell those
acts of Reconstruction. so totally de-
structiVe of your rights, and so rspug=
naut to every honorable feeling, are
null, and void. The
honorable gentleman who will follow
me tonight may, perhaps, tell you
of the circumstances that
attended the adoption Of that platform.
lie may tell you how conflicting senti-
ments were reoOnoiled and harmony
secured. How every heart bounded
with manly impulses when Gen. Wade
Hampton portrayed the condition Of
South Carolina, and then asked the in
into the platform Of the
declaration that the Reconstruction
acts were unconstitutional, null, and
void
And what Of the candidates who
stand upon that platf0rmf Horati!o
Seymour stands at the head of Ameri-
can statesmen. Had he lived in the
best days Of Rome, he would have been
among the most renowned Of her Beua-
tors. Had he been an actor in the ear
lier days Of the Republic, he would
have been the Gompeer of Washington,
Adams, and Jefferson. 60, d5o.
Battle seems to be on his high horse,
Wen try to take him down next No
vember.