Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-09-16
THE TWO PARTIES.
EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH BY sENA-
TOR WILSON.

In Bangor, Maine, on the 21t
Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massach
sets, addressed one of the large
meetings ever known in that Stat
His theme was the "TwO Parties
and he spoke with tremendous effeC
his speech being one of the most con
plete efforts of his life. We make Il
following quotations:
In November there is to be anOth,
struggle between these two parties f
the control of the National Admin
tration. The Republican party m
at Chicago, reaffirmed its policy
reconstruction, pronounced again
all forms of reputation, for the redu,
ton and edaliZatiOn of taxation, fC
the equal protection of American ci
liens, for the recognized obligation
to our soldiers and to the widows an
orphans of the gallant dead, and fC
the removal of restrictions impose
upon rebels as rapidly as the safety {
the loyal people will permit. Th
convention then presented the nam
of General Grant, the great captain
who has so often marshalled our al
mics to victory; and Schuyler Colfa1
statesman of pure life, stainless hOI
or, and commanding influence.
The Democratic party assembled i
national convention in New York
HOratio Seymour again presided
That selection of its presiding office
was q mOnition to the country tina
this convention would be no more pa
triOtic or wise than was the cOnven
ton of 1864. There assembled tn
self-same leaders, or their cOmpeers
that pronounced, in 1864, the war t
preserve the nations life ga failure,
and demanded "a cessation of hostil
ities," which would have made inev
liable a ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Re
public and the death of the nation
TO that convention came also a few
disappointed, sour, and fallen spirits
who once were enlisted with the lie
giOns of Liberty, but who were neve
imbued with the generous and emo
bling impulses of Human Equality
There came, too, the opponents ant
representatives of the "lost cause.n
There was Wade Hampton, o
South Carolina, who, on his way t.
the convention, said to the student:
of General Lees College, 1.-THE cause
for which StOnewall jackson fell car
not be in vain, but in some form will
yet triumph" There was Governor
Vance, of North Carolina, who told
rebel troops during the war to "pilC
hell SO full of Yankees that their feet
will stick out at the windows" There
was Buckner, of Kentucky, who
came to Washington at the opening
of the war to procure arms for his State
and a commission for himself; but
who went back to Kentucky, betray.
ed his State and country, Joined the
rebel ranks, and was afterwards forced
to surrender Internationally" tC
General Grant. There was Preston,
also of Kentucky, who abandoned his
State, became a rebel General-a COM
missiOnerand conspiratOr in Europe
against his country. There was Basil
Duke, one of John MOrgan's lieuten-
ants in his theiving, robbing, and
murderOus raids through Ohio and
Indiana. There was Robert Ould, OF
a rebel General and Com
and familiar with the hOr-
rOrs of Belle Isle and Libby Prison.
There was Forrest, of Fort Pillow in
fanny, concerning whose feindish con-
1uct a Congressional committee thus
report: "Of the men, from three hun
lred to four hundred are known to
have been killed at Fort Pillow, of
whom at least three hundred 1Cere
in cold blood after the post
Cds IA possession of the rebels, and
Iltr men had HFOlCR dorm HciJ. arms
md ceased to offer resistance" Of
me hundred and eighty-two MEM
Iers of the convention from the rebel
States, there was not one Union man
If well known and approved loyalty.
There were more rebel soldiers than
oldiers of the Union army-mOre
members of jeff Davis's Congress
han of the Congress of the United
states. Is there any wonder then
hat one who had heard the rebel bat
lie yell in the land of the rebellion
hOuld have instinctively exclaimed,
the rebel yell,r as he heard the
hOut that arose at the words of Wade
resolution declaring the
acts revolutionary,
and void"
Henry \. Wise prOclaims that "se-
essiOn is more alive than ever" and
Ie supports Seymour and Blair be-
ause they will assume military
ower," for the overt hrow of the re-
government of the South.
'ance boasted to the people of Rich
lond, on his way home from the
Few York convention, that "the
Outh would gain by the election of
eymour and Blair all it fought for in
he rebellion" Admiral Semmes, |
Tho commanded the Alabama when |
ne KeaTsarge, in the face of Europe, |
INT her to the bottom of the seas, |
-ho revenged himself by destroying |
Yankee whalers after the |
sbelliOn had been subdued, said in a
ltification speech at Mobile 81 have
cen Democrat all my life, before |
ne war, during the war, and since /
he war, and fought the war on the
rinciples of the Democracy
he grand old Democratic party has
sen from its long slumber-and the
ectiOn of Seymour and Blair will
,duce the negro to a subordinate pO-
ton rs an inferior race" Percy
Walker told the same Mobile assem-
Iage that this is the first time, since
ee surrendered 10 the enemy that
word which FLASHED victOriOusly
-er so many battle-fields, that / have
en light on the clouds hanging
rer the South for the great Demo-
attic party has taken up our cause"
Obert ToOmbs, who went into the
belliOn for the right to call the roll
his slaves ON Bunker Hill and
me out of the rebellian without the
ght to call that roll on his own plan
ton, vauntingly proclaimed to the
of Georgia, in mass con-
,ntion at Atlanta, that, ''as the late
ar was produced by the defeated
party in 1860, we shall
.ver have peace till it is restored in
6S." He divines the mission of the
rty, for he tells the delighted GeOr-
ans that 1.-THE grinning skeletons
lich have been set up in our midst
Legislators shall be Ousted by Frank
air, whom the DemOcrrtie party ,
5 expressly appointed for that pur-
Sc. "All these things shall be
ept from the bosom of the country"
DWELL Cobb, denOuncing Governor
own, the LOYAL white men of Geor-
/, and repentant rebels and loyal
IN, who are honestly striving to Sc
re peace, order, and law, as traitors !
the country, thus characterizes and
1nsels concerning them: "You owe
to the living, you owe it to your
n children, and to their children.
rite down in their memories this !
V, and all days, and for all time to
ne, the feeling and spirit Of dbhOr-
zee ,UiR gahich yOu regdr0 and estt-
rte these men. o, Heaven! for some
stering words that l may write in
nv upon the forehead of these men y
1T they may travel through earth |
spised of all men, and rejected of