Nebraska advertiser., 1868-10-22

Z cratic party Lle 6QUIlern people in
/ general, are all affectiOnatelv invited
to attend the funeral See them 90
1 ing in procession after the Constitu-
tion, Tlaughterl. Sec them going
with their bowie knives reversed /:
4 see them going, hardly vet wiping
their hands of the last assassination I.
I see them going, the men who fought
/ your sons and mine, and that split the
I blood of loyal, valiant sons and chill
dr5n like water; see them, moaning
/ grOaning, 'The Constitution. !" Ahl
1 this decoration Of the Constitution
4 this love of the Constitution, it is pc
1 eUliarly affecting to me. When Sod
ON and GOmOrrah sit round about the
/ temple of Jerusalem and praise its
/ beauty, and long for the prevalence Of
! the light that shall shine out Of Zion,
/ then l shall believe that these men
who are crying out ''the Constitution
the Constitution, Z have any love for
IT'S essential principles, or have any
right to say anything about it.
"SJIth: Is it safe to lay aside fundamental
/ law, and the Constitution Of the country
/ whenever a majority desire to act outside Of
No; that was the very reason why
we blamed the South, it had no busi-
ness to go outside of It; we have bro't
II inside. Laughter and applause
"SeUenh: Why did not the Republican
gulred OF it,"
! The principal cause. they didn't
/ know Themselves. Do Won suDDosa
| that every member of the Republican
: ~
pose they were all inspired, and that
IIe glIt OF foresight was given to them?
/ How did they know how the South
/ was going to act? How did they
Know the spirit and temper? 1t was
a tentative business. The intrinsic
/ ulIncuIty Of reconstruction was to be
carried through with safety and with
/ speed. / believe mistakes have been
made, and tried 10 fOrestalI some of
them and Febuke others, but with i'll
success. l believe they made them
4 but, nevertheless, I think recOnstruc-
ton has been second only, ifsecond at
all, TO the manner in which the war
itself was VIGOROUSLY carried through.
| We were like men crossing a ford we
had never been across it; we had to
feel our way along the bottom. and
with many g sOuse before we got out of
the stream. We were like an army in
a foreign country, and were Obliged to
flank ourselves on every side with cav
airy, and try the probing test as we
went on.
Eighth. Would not the country be pros
Porous and happy, and liberty and fraternity
exist 1nsthC whole country, III at the close OF
the rebellion in April, 1853. Congress had ad-
nfsfi
could and would have taken the irOn-ciad
OaJn, and punished such OF the Southern
States IN tho Rebellion as the peace and dig
nifty Of the country required -
IdUnOt know. You do. TeIlme WHY.
No man can tell in that matter what
could have been the result. NJ father
once said to me at his table Henry.
l came very near marrying Nancy
Eaton. Laughter.] If I had married
her instead of your mother, would YOU
be you. Great and prolonged laugh
ter. Now, for anybody to 90 back and
take tho vast complex question as IL
stood in 1865, and undertake to say if
it had been all different from what if
was, we should have very different
things from what we have. Laugh
ter. Lastly.
christian citizen support the Republican
party.?'
My friends how can an honest, pa
triOtic, intelligent Christian support
the Democratic party? TLaughter.
That is the question. 1t is said that
Gen. Grant is drunkard II is said
that Gen. Blair is one. Laughter I
! do mot believe either ofthem, + know
4sy0
grow. That in either case there should
have been, under the privati0ns Of ar
my experience, times when they in
common am afraid with al our Off
GERS might have relied on too much
stimulants, that there may have been
such times l do not deny, though I do
net know, bHt this, that Gen. Grant
or Blair are habitual dTunkards and
are liable to any such charge that
should vacate the confidence Of Chris
tain and temperate men in them. j do
not believe n word of it. But / am free
to say that if it were so I had rather
have Gen. Grant drunk than Gov.
seymour sober. Great applause. 7
Consider them a mOment-these two
men. It is said that Gen. Grant
knows nothing Of civil affairs. 1t is
certain that Gov. Seymour knew uoth-
ing Of military affairs. 1t is said that
we need a statesman. Is there not q
good deal of deception in this matter
Of the word statesman? 1 have
always thought and taught that what
is wanted to make q President is o
great deal of common sense and
great deal of uncommon honesty
That Is all. Cheers Now, if ten.
Grant is not the imper5cnatiOn Of
common sense, who would YOU seIect? ?
and if he is not honest, gentlemen. I
think we may give up all trust in hui
man nature. [Cheers. 1t is said he
is not a genius. He is not genius in
the sense in which Gen. Sherman is
the most brilliant genius in war mat
teTs of our era. The man who fills me
with immense enthusiasm is Gen.
Sherman. Loud cheers he has
genius that is brilliant, because thc
imagination very largely is a part Of
his genius but Gen. Grant is a man
without Imagination. But he is q man
Of genius and it is the genius Of com
mon sense. Great applause Less
resplendeHt, more useful, less shining.
truer, deeper, far more conpreheH-
siv and enduring. IApplause.1 Now.
what has been his career? Where
can You find q man so modest9
so modest that I am afraid many
American citizens viii not vote for
MN, Tor modesty Is not in vogue in
our day. SO unself-seekinp so n1arna-
nlmoCs to his equals? I do not believe.
fellOw-citizens, that there is such q
spectacle on the facc ofthe globe as the
friendship which exist between Cen.
Grant, Gen SchofeId, Gen. Sherman,
Gen. Sheridan, an Gen. Thomas.
Immense applause:l When, not
long ago, / received one from within
headquarters, not Gen. Grant, do not
mean, when they were casting abOut
for a candidate for the Democratic
party, some Senators visited the Sec
retary OF War, Gen. Schofield, and
urged him TO become their candidate.
After they had laid their plans and
desires before him he went forth to his
superior and friend, Gen. Grant, and
told him what had been done. Gen.
Grant smoked on and said nothing.
Laughter and applause. The next
morning Gen. Grant went down TO
Gen SchOfieId and said To him, "Scho-
field, it is certain one or other Of the
candidates of the two parties il going
to be elected President laughter
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