Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-02
AND sFTLLTHEY COME.

The Hon. Richard Gregg, Of Aurora,
Dearbon county, Ind, a lifelong Whig, and
a Republican at the organization of that
party, came out in public speech Ia Au-
rora, last week, for Seymour and Blair.
-AEeTHER tsFRG1ToR- The Warriek
Herald is greatly disguised because Mr.. G..
u. Robertson, hitherto a strong Republican,
has renounced that party and made a
speech at Seymour ratification meeting
at Boonyille few days since. 1t calls him
traitor," p renegade" etc. Who's
skeered ?-New Al5aay Ledger. q
At The great Seymour and Blair rati6-
cation meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, the
Hon. F. 7. Baekns, prominent and lead
ing nnenber, Of the Republican party from
Che first day Of its organization, delivered
an able speech for Seymour and Blair.
We quote short extract j: Tat-iai K b,.r
The last time attempted 70 address a
crowd from this balcony, 1t was on the oC-
easion of meeting held under the same
flag that floats yonder. The meeting was
held in gloomy hour Of our Republic. 1t
was a time when treason's brazen front was
erect, and when the South was arrayed 10
armed resistance TO the government of our
revolutionary fathers, who gave us all We
were proud to own. On that night you
rallied and sent your brothers and sons to
the tented field 10 maintain those instilu.
tions. You rallied in your strength, and
in the providence of God, were successful
in upholding the flag Of our Union and,
uuah hnnp in
for Us and our descendanta But dark as
was the hour, quite as dark an hour lowers
over this government now; and, whether
the gloom shall be dispelled, or whether
we are TO have eternal night, depends on
the success of the ticket nominated to-day.
[Cheers. Fellow citizens-ay, fellow
Democrats That has been hard word
for me to mouth For quarter of cen
tury have been trained as a Republican
and it comes hard for me to designate my
self as a Democrat; but when treason at
the South has been crushed and treason
rises up at the North, after the flag has
aoated in triumph over the rebellion;
when, for the unholy purpose of the party
in power, the Union has been kept asunder
the Union that all fought for only to
have it proved an ignts tdttS; when one.
third of the Union to-day is subject to
power, in time of peace unrecognized by
the Constitution-not to secure victory nor
to render the triumph Of the flag triumph
for all time, but for the selfish purpose Of
preserving in perpetuity the power of a.
party unfit to WELD it; when, all these
years, that party has been laboring not to
heal sectional wounds and the bitterness
engendered by war, but to see by what
assumptions of power they would prevent
the South from coming back as Democratic
States, and thus keep in place the party
that is rioting in spoils-I say, when such
conditions have existed for three years, he
that would stammer in pronouncing him
self q Democrat-whose party is the only
one which we can look for succor from
these woes-is no man for the times
[ EDesfening cheers And I say tonight
what never said before, that stand here
a Democrat Democrat az defined in the
platform Of the New York Convention. i
am willing to fight under the banner Of the
Democracy, and, God willing, we will
achieve q Yictory,S -"'A' -.- i-"iH