The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-14


they must declare all the reconstruction measures OF
Congress revolutionary loa see without any dis
gress never touched thing in that direction but
what was rev0lut onary, null and votd. ne . soa
them 'fou must decare that and ne says lucy
| came right up to it maniully and Wade Hampton
went back In triumph 10 tell them 1--WE nave gos tne
Sns9 @ parry with ushey w nsas
measures null. void and revolutionary" Iney Mer9
pretty prompt In that. Did not that nave very
Then Prank Blair has written a letter, as Yen
an know, In which he put FORM .ne prin au
/ In substance can not give his words, anu
win not stop TO read them, though ! have tnem
with me-he went on to say t suos nanda ~
the radicals anyhow. We cannot overcome their
majority IN the Senate and SO the Senate must pc
| stricken down BY the army-by the bayonet. me
President that they have nominated must. Of his
own sovereign wil declare these acts to be null and
States to agree to it. Would not tina. be pretty
| democratic governments lLaughte1l MI. Demo-
date for Vice President said that must be done
| and he said further, "If am candinate propose
Ana aDn YOU sas elected and swallowed him whole.
(Laughter) Can you now back out and say that you
intend Su &C. WIN e
tain 1t. daughter. Why sir, It Is just as absurd
for these gentlemen to suppose they are gong to
United states would be for the OLD tories Of the
Revolution, after the Revolution was over ana the
could form . combination to govern the country,
'rHIs MAN SEYMOUR"
do not know that am uncharitable know
this man Seymour well enough. He Is very tinor-
GUS, bad man. lie Ii cowardIy and II he was Pres
dent he would be like old Buchanan-he would
| Cheers and langhterJ But he would not do much;
he would not dare to do much; he has not the
plan. He would be- as good tool in the hands Of 4
bolder man as most but not 50 good as they want;
| enough and bad enough to do anything. (''That's
so. he says his principle 10 TO have the President
The monent sir. he WAS announced You find every
Southern man in favor OF him, and voting Tor him.
| principle, and they believed that he would have the
courage to carry " out by civil war. Now ask y0n
sir II when they found that THIS cowardy seymour
fore it was found he was attacked by some terrible
disease and put on one slider They are OF work at
They endeavoring to reduce the vote OF the re-
publican party by assassinatIng the nen who are on
our side, and many OF the boldest men say that they
LENIENcY OF RADICAL MEASURES.
Then we ruled them as mildly as we could. Did
we take any mans property? Did wo not leave
every man to avail himself Of the fruits OF his own
labor Was there anybody to take from him what he
had doneS Was any man ever punishedY We're men
ever allowed before to escape who had committed
bowling aEainss what they cal the worst
that ever existed. The government there IL as good
be we have only put Rcs o ,Ss
time, and perhaps that was the best way Of getting
rid Of them. Nevertheless the government, as
government, attempts to keep tho peace, and all we
did was to give them mere police regulation, such
as you have here In Cincinnati to catcn s"inders,
breakers Of the law and bring them TO justice. Ard
that's all there about 1t. TnaI was tho miserable,
tyrannlcal military bill that they COMPLAIN Of we
would not let them cut each Others tlroats. was
willing that they should DO that; but they would
have done more.
Now, sir, II there is anything that the American
people should stand upon eternally, as q principle
from which they never VIII recede, II is that the
Union men OF the South who incurred all the malice
and hatred OF these malicious traitors in order to
/ support the nag Of the old government should be
1 i
protected Cheers ana cries Of .Good.", A mill
stringent enough. They are numbering our brothers
there every day. both black and white, for other
preSdlce and ali the msce Of the Bey stirred up
against them they had the courage and the justice TO
Up u the Se e sneak
would say that we should leave them TO be tranped
But We are called tyrants. What did we do in the
last Congressi Passed an act that did not approve
then and don't now. did not vote for 1t and
never would. THE repeal Of the cotton taxi
SCOTT, MCMILLAN, HOOKER, GRANT.
Now, Sir occupied position during the war In
ordinarily observant Of what passed in the military
line. was on that committee called the Committee
the action Of every military man as wen as could
need not tell you, Sir that everything seemed TO 90
and now beg to saw for may have said amin
tenti0nally, that he never did anything right, be-
a ns nS he haa no
shrewdncss TO do that but give him the credit Of
| that.
NOW, sir, have watched General Grant Your
anairs oil went wrong until General Grant was
made Generaln-C Chief ! wish had time to 60.
| general officers from the time Of General Scott
and Mcclellan and Hooker and all the rest
Grant, but win only sum up by saying what you all
know, that up TO that time everything went 30 ad-
time that we met with disaster T and defeat. They
went finally to Chicago to select their candidate and
there they openly declared In the face OF the enemy
/
theu that four years OF failure had shown that we
| GRANT AND M'CLELLAN AS GENERALS
And then General Grant was placed at the head
military AFFAIRS are shown to have ssrSshened up
IN every department OF that great and terrible con-
met involving the action ION q more than a million q
| from tho Indian country to the Atlantic Ocean,
Tony 81 nns w sg
ever was over run and conquered by Napoleon
Bonaparte or BY Julius Cesar. General Graut
| whole field. Your armies were put In tho right
places; they had their orders to cooperate. lie
Strengthened out your army In all Its parts the brave
/ boys then under his command seconding with
bravery. and courage never exceled, nor even
asilna that great commander BY degrees 70 gather
| In upon all quarters OF the enemy, moving upon
their works s until he conquered and crushed the
| have not the hardhood TO say Mcclellan was not
tcal general from the start. First Of all he hadn't
courage or capacity; nor had no the VIII. He was
| tnelr cauuiGate LOT the Presidency as SO0H as lie
showed his hand. Men do not like to Kill their con
| -Caughter-and he held or and did Just
/ nothing at ALL keeping On army OF two hundred
| thousand men on the banks OF the Potomac eleven
long months, suffered your capital TO be beeagured
| approached by the enemy, and your communications
TO be Oil cut OF but one during that time, and that
| by q foe not numbering forty thousand men.
| PANEGYRIc on GENERAL GRANT.
But under General Grant II was so. And let me
| say here, General Grant Is man OF larger military
| science than any OF them, and moro common sense
70 do what needs TO be done than all the schools and
academies In the United States, West Point thrown
| In. Cheers, and shouts OF THAT'S sou "Good.'t
tell you that man that has the vast comprchen-
| sion OF things lie had OF such situation that q
| man that can comprehend all the details Of SO I'M
i mense an operation as that, ~ man OF mind And