The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-10-22
Established 1926.

An Important Accession "a
General Grant--Judge Ed.
wards PierrepOnt Deserts the
Democracy.
The following correspondence
will be read with universal inter.
est:
"lt3 Fifth Avenue, New York, J
Saturday, Oct. ~, 1868. I
ITO Alexander I. Stewart, ESQ
Chairman Of the Grant Commit
tee. &c: .4t ..s H..
"MY DEAR Sra When Frank P.
Blair, who had no claims whatever
upon the Democratic party, was
nominated 10 Tammany Hall with
such shouts of applause, just after
proclaiming that We must have o
President who will trampIe into
DUST sbe laws of Congress- and
when four rebel Generals made the
chief ratification speeches in New
York, my attention, as d W r Dem.
ocrat, was arrested by this remark.
able exhibition .a'
"SiEce then | have carefully no.
ted the expressions Of Southern
journals, and the speeches OF South.
crn politicians, from Wade Hamp
ton. on his return to Charleston .
to the recent manifesto Of B. II.
Hill, and l find that every leading
rebel in tho Confederacy regards
the expected election Of Seymour
and Blair as complete vindication
OF tho rebellion. and Us certain TO
restore the South TO every right
which she had before the war, in.
GLIDING the trampling into Dust
by military feet, the proclamation
OF freedom and the fourteenth
amendment of the Constitution.
This contest presents a well de.
fined issue between the friends and
the enemies Of our Government
-."I can not conceive how any in
telligent man who does not wish
the rebels returned to power, the
nations faith violated, its debt re.
pudiated, its name dishonored, lis
prosperity destroyed. is patriots
insulted, and the lost cause re-.
stored, can vote against Grant.
I'm my Judgment, the election
Of Seymour and Blair would forth.
with confuse and palalyze our bus
siness, and reduce the value of our
property one half. s" .-..
To aid in averting this calamity.
| send you herewith twenty thou.
sand dollars (s2O,000) which |
give to be used in the election of
General Grant in such manner as
you and the committee with whom
you act may think best. ,
"And remain yours ever truly,
EDWARDS PIERREpoNr."
"Broadway and Chambers st, J
New York, October II. 1868.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, New
York City. lr
"MY DEAR SIR-It gives me
great pleasure to know that you
fully appreciate the consequences
to all business men, indeed, every
one having any interest in the
prosperity Of our country. that
must result from the election of
Ct General Grant.
"The question is presented to the
people whether they will aid in
electing an administration bent
upon trampliug loyalty into the
dust and elevating upon its ruins a
power controlled by rebel chiefs,
whose motto will be "lhe Rebel.
lion vindioated,' with prostration
to every branch of industry and
business at tbs North, or whether
we should place in the Executive
Mansion one emphatically OF the
people, who has never acted but
from just sense of duty to his
country, and from whose admins
tration VIC will have all the bless
ings that can flow from peace in
every department of our Govern
ment, inspiring confidence that
can not but lead US to prosperity
and happiness as a nation, and
promising for us future Unequal.
ed in the history Of the past
TO secure this end | accept your
generous contribution, and will
apply it to such proper uses as
may tend to bring about a result
so promising with blessings to US
all, Sincerely your friend, l5|
ALEX. I. STEWART"