The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-06-11
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speak. There is tribunal that cannot
be corrupted. We propose at this con-
vention not to indict men, but We pro-
pose to again submit these great ques-
tlons to the American people for their
decision. We expect to summon the
old Anti-Slayery man Who has strug-
gied on amid the storm and the sun.
shine, amid persecution aud success -
the man who stood by the flag of free
dom when many of us we're still bat
ting by the way. We expect to sum-
mon him again to the ballot box and
deposit his vote for the right. We e1-
pect to place at the head, the Great
Captain who has led the armies Of the
Republic through the var. And We
expect to summon those gallant soldiers
who followed him down to the Missif.
slppi, who we're present at the valley of
ylcksburg-We expect to summon
those gallant men who saw the flag as
it ascended Missionary Ridge, and saw
the fight Of Bragg and his host. We
expect to summon the men who march
ed from Atlanta to the sea, and also
those men who SO many years strng-
gled between Washington and Rich
mond and at last saw the rebel flag 20
down upon the Appomatox. We ex-
pect to summon ali these to rally under
the flag Of the Great Captain. And We
expect then a vote that shall place these
questions where they will be disturbed
no more in our history and age.
Gentlemen Of the Convention, I have
said to you that l have no tondness for
words TOR the sake IF words. I trust
your Committee on Resolutions are pre-
pared to report resolutions for your con-
side-ation which shall have 10 uncer-
tain sound. Let US make an issue as
clear and as distinct as the stars upon
the flag Let us make it SO distinct
that upon this political fight we can do
as we did upon the battlefcld-that
when we see fthe stars and stripes
we knew there we're friends there. Let
US have distinct, clear. well-defned
platform. do not want any mistake
as to the issues to be decided by the
contest. And let US assure you, gen.
tlemen Of the convention, We mean to
make Ulysses S. Grant, President of the
United States, as you did Abraham
Lincoln in 1864 and let me beg of
you not to offer continued, perpetual
reward to the hands of the assassin,
that bis life may be taken. Let me beg
that of you. Don't maze man Vice.
President whose character will offer a
for the assassination of
Grant. We want him to live out the
four years, and if the country demands
his services, We desire his reelection.
If the country shall then prefer some
other public man, we wish thht he may
r. tire and live to on old age in the en-
joyment of the constant affections of his
countrymen, and if the Baltimore Con-
vention had not made a mistake in
1864. Abr1l,am Lincoln would to-day
have been at Washington. Abraham
Lincoln would have been at Washing
ton, ready on the 4th of March, to ex-
tend the hand of welcome to Ulysses S.
Grant. That hand is at rest forever
Let US take warning by the past, let US
place the flag in the hands Of none but
true. weiltried men. Gentlemen Of
the convention, I am done.