The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-31
2ithmoud 1ispatth,
s NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 81, 1868.

4 PRoruECY-GRANT TO TURN DEMocRAT.
In speech made last week at Crestline,
Ohio. Mr.. vallandigham said:
Now, my Republican friends, I have not
s,ia anything against General Grant in this
csr.raicn. have not done it for 8 purpose.
+ he is fit to be President, long before his
.crm cxnircs ] will be found supporting
him, honestly and cordially, against the
leaders Of the party which expects to elect
him in November. Loud cheers. And
Won will have no right to cry out Traitor"
AGAINST him; you will have no right to talk
about his Tylerizing, or his Fillmoreizing,
or his Johnsonizing you. You nominated
him in Chicago; YOU put PLATFORM
something called a platform--into his hand
vo, asked him for an acceptance of it, and
he accepted, and dare say he would have
accented the Democratic nomination too.
ILaughter.l
But he took care in his letter of accept
ancc to say that he would not proclaim any
rg,;cv. He did not consider it advisable
70 10 so in advance of the election-to say
what he would do when he was elected.
Now, pray you to remember that told
Won on this 26th of October that General
Grant will reject the mad, fanatical, rcvo-
lntiouary Radical leaders of the oreaniza-
ton which put him forward, if he proves
true TO the Constitution and the Union of
orr fathers. Loud cheers.l If he will
restore to this Government its harmony,
and give back to the people their rights,
North and South, l will be found among
his cordial supporters, because | will be
found in opposition to the Radical party.
Why will he be in antagonism to the Re-
publican party Because he will be in an
tagonism TO their unjust measures. But re-
member, my Republican friends, you are
clecting him with your eyes open. When
you old Wings elected Tyler, there was no
thing said about what he would do. You
expected him 70 be committed to the policy
Of the Wing party. When you elected Fill
more, he was no Democrat, but in four
months after his election his chief reliance
was upon the Democratic party. So when
You nominated Johnson, which you did be-
cause he was southern man. Laughter
Yes, you did !; you did not know even whe-
Their he belonged to the kuklux or not.
Loud laughter.l But he lived down South,
and YOU wanted the odor of nationality
shout your Vice-President you wanted
southern man-that it might introduce lit
tie leavep TT northern body. You
found AudIz. ,nnson, and you knew he
had been Democrat and you knew he
loved the Democrats SO much that Republi-
cans and Wings had before-time de-
bounced him as ademagogue-which is an
other thing from q Democrat, and you
elected him. l did not vote for him, be-
cause my suffrage was for an honest son Of
Ohio, George II. Pendleton. [Cheers.]
You made Andrew johnson Vice-Presl-
dent, and some one says that God Almighty
made him President-and it is not for me
10 settle disputes of that kind leave it to
those who may have time to discuss it-but
lust as Johnson has refused to follow your
Radical projects, and as you have denounced
him, Just as surely will you be denounclng
Grant on the Goth Of October, 1869, If he
shall be elected President. And then, too,
We shall have the satisfaction of saying
that We did not elect him.