Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-05
spEscH OF GEN. 8. L. wooDFoRD.
A soldiers Wow or the situauon.

A Soldiers View OF the Situation.
At the Academy Of Music, IN Brook
lyn, July 18th, General Woodford, who
was evidently suffering from a recent
sickness, was received with enthusiastic
cheering. and Notwithstanding his weak
bodily condition, spoke with intense
energy and FIRE as follows:
Fellow citizens: For the honor Of
presiding orer this great gathering of
the worth and patriotism Of our good
city of Brooklyn, be pleased to accept
my grateful thanks.
I have come from the sick chamber,
to which, for some days, l have been
confined, that might, by my presence
and feeble words, testify my devotion
to the Union cause, and add my heart
felt Godspeed to the canvass which you
this night begin. [Cheers.
Yours is the cause Of victorious 10y
atty against reason thus far bafied.
Yours is the cause of the patriotic mass
es who, with prayers aud tears aud
blood saved our land 10 the hour OF
dangers against the cause of the bold,
bad meu who plotted secession, who or
g~anized rebellion, aud who furrowed
our land with !raternal graves. Yours
Is the cause for which our martyred
Lincoln tuiled and patiently suffered.
and then died, against the cause for
which Lee fought and Davis plotted and
Seymour counseled.
rat the name of Seymour a tempest
Of Kisses rolled through the house..
Yours is the cause tor which our gal
liant soldiers toiled on tue dusty roads
under the burning Southern SUM-; for
which they gave up home and wife and
little ones, aud wasted AWAY in the
swamp and 10 the trench and in the
hospital; for which they swept up to
the charge and into the deadly breach;
for which they died on many O bloody
field from the Potomac TO the Rio
Grande, still turning their dying eyes
10 love and blessing to the dear oil flag,
and still, living or dying, bearing that
old flag on to final victory. Yours is
the cause of these brave, loyal men
against the cause Of those who spat
| upon their oaths, who fred upon the
Stars and Stripes; who fought us for
four long years, and who now, having
been beaten on the field, are seeking by
stealth to wriggle back into the high
places Of the nations power and trust,
and who, with their hands still dripping
with your brothers blood, ask that our
battle-scarred flag may again be given
to their traitorous keeping. [Enthusi-
astic cheering.1 Yours is the cause of
public economy against profigate and
extravagant expenditure. Yours is the
cause Of public morality against official
corruption aud wickedness in high
places. Yours is the cause of peaceful
and loyal reconstruction against anar-
chy, violence and the dread rule Of
Kuklux Khan. Yours is the cause Of
the true, manly, soldierly and Christian
charity, which grants full and absolute
forgiveness to the repentant rebel and
welcomes him lovingly back to the
home and the flag Of his fathers against
the cause of that false, mawkish and
reasonable seutimentslity which would
bring back the viper to the family
h%earthstone and warm him again into
life before his fangs had been plucked
out and his rattle cut; which would
| place the rebel in his gray above the
Southern loyalist in his faded Union
| blue; which would crush the negro SOL
| der, with his empty sleeve aud Scared
| brow into tho very dust and place on
guard above him the men who stood
sentinel on the dead line at Belle Isle,
Libby Prison, Florence aud Anderson.
vile, who stripped our dead Of their
scanty covering, who made trinkets Of
their bones, aud who jeered in hellish
glee as your best and bravest' died in
those prison pens, under the broiling
sun, in starvation, in idiocy and in
madness. May God in his mercy grant
US peace, reconciliation, and b~rotherly
unity. [Cheers.l
But 10 the memory Of what our land
has done and suffered, in the memory OF
our wounded, our widows and orphans,
standing as we do by the open graves OF
three hundred thousand of our loyal
dead, this peace, and reconciliation,
and unity must com on the sure found.
atious of the absolute surrender Of
treason, and of complete justice and
protection to the poorest and the lowest
Southern loyalist, who prayed for our
flag in the slave hut or fought for it in
the Federal blue. This peace, and
reconciliation and unity must come on
the sure foundations Of unconditional
loyalty to our Union and our flag, Of
hearty aud hor est acceptance Of the
grand ideas Of liberty, justice, and
equal political rights upon which our
restored Union rises to fairer proper
tious and loftier nights, to a more per-
feet development and a nobler future
than even this proud land has ever
known. Fresh c%heering.1 More than
this, yours is the cause OF national good
faith, which would preserve the public
credit 10 spirit Us in name against the
hlsehood and dishonor Of reputation.
Yours is the cause of sturdy, honest
manhood, which would pay the public
debt in good, hard gold to the very last
dime, just as in the day of battle and
disaster 1t would have fought rebellion
to the very last man, against this won
derful new doctrine Of paying our debt
by creating another, and OF balancing
an account by signing with brave hands
and a large flourish a new and imposing
I. o. U. Laughter aud cheers.
I need not detain you with prolonged
reference TO candidates. Gen. Grant and
Horatio Seymour SO 6tly aud fully rep.
resent and typify the parties which have
placed them in nomination, that a dis
cussion Of the policies at issue would
almost instinctiyely suggest their names
as those Of the natural leaders in this
contest. Calm, patient, wise, loyal and
brave, Ulysses 8. Grant, moro than any
living American, in his W person en-
bodies the spirit and purpose Of the
great North, which amid all danger and
disaster steadfastly pursued its purpose
of crushing rebellion and saving the
Union. His ringing words, al will
fight it out on this line if it takes all
Summer" had in them the spirit and
will, the heart and the voice Of the
vbole loval neonle of the land. The