The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-28
Rebel Insult to the Union Soldiers.

Rebel Insult to the Union Soldiers.
HEADQUARTERS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA Sept. 49,
186e.-At the moment the whole loyal popula.
ton OF Philadelphia Is preparing to WELDON
the gallant men who fought down slavehoders'
Rebellion, the Chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee issues the folio wing insulting
address,
Caution to the Democrats OF this and adjoining
States so-calltd soldiers Convention be hell
IN IBIS CITY under me auspices OF the radical party,
ment of votes is to be made the same days. From
L0rma0n In our pos,e3s9n It Is believed tbat the
view TO bring here frona other pl aces falsely
pretending 10 be soldiers, and to and
Our friends in this and other sta.es are earnestly
requested to furnish at the earliest poss BILE mo.
ment, the and description OF every man lesving
order that may identified should It he pted
to register or vote h.m The fraud oIntem plated
p'rpehate 1t broughf to PUNISHMENT .,,,cu
"Chsitman State Cen!ra! commltsee Of P9nna.
Chairman Joint Committee OF Organization for City
',Dt ocratic papers please copy"
The people of Pennsylvania will read this Of
fensive indictment with Indignation, when asso-
ciated with the revelations in our courts on
Saturday last, published in to-day's! papers,
exposing the efforts of the Democratic party
to corrupt the ballot-boxes in their midst by
furnishing vouchers to prove that for the past
i've years men have borne good moral charac-
ters," and have been attached to the principles
have been welt disposed to the good order and
happiness of the same," but who, in truth and
in fact, served three years OF that time in. the
Rebel army.
These revelations are only small part of a
concocted system of frauds, originating with
and exclusively confined to the party of which
Mr.. Wallace is the leader.
Detected at this opportune moment, they
constitute terrible supplement to this oatra-
eeous calumny upon the soldiers of the Re-
public.
IN. i IL
Seymour vetoed the bill giving the right of suf-
frage to their comrades in New York, while
they were in,the field Sighting the battles of
their country.
They do not forget that Mr.. Wallace, as a.
Senator, with the whole Democratic party in
the Legislature, opposed the right of the SOL
diers to vote in the held of battle. They do not
forget that they were alluded to as ,'Llncoln's
hlrelIngs," by the party of which Mr.. Wallace is
the chief;.por will they ever forget that In the
lace OF tns' damning record, Mr.. Wallace and
his associates are now banded in an effort to re-
store The Government to the control of for
sworn traitors, the authors and prosecutors of
the ReDellion nor that every one OF these
traitors is joined with Mr.. Wallace in a conspi-
racy against their beloved leader, the great
cattain of the age, General Grant.
Nor that Horatio Seymour and Frank P. Blair
were nominated by convention in which nearly
two hundred Rebel generals, colonies, majors,
captains and congressman were delegates Nor
that the chief of these Rebels, Wade Hampton,
OF Sonth Carolina, framed and dictated, as
condition of his allegiance, that part OF the
Democratic platform which declares the acts of
Reconstruction Unconstitutional, revolution
ary, and void"
Nor that oSory unin,, Soldior in the snuth is
the victim of the daily vengeance and cruelty
of the associates of Mr.. Wallace and the Demo
cratic leaders of Pennsylvania; nor that all the
Union generals sent to the South 10 execute the
laws and give protection to the Union men Of
that section have with single exception) been
vilifed and prosecuted by these same Rebel
associates of MIR. Wallace and the Democratic
leaders of Pennsylvania.
The grand assembiage of patriotic citizens
who risked their lives for the old flag, instead of
being welcomed with open arms by the Demo-
cratic leaders of Pennsylvania, are lusulted by
the atrocious ealumny that they have been
sent for to pollute our ballot-boxes, and are
addition ally stigmatized as so-cdtLed soldiers
conven ntion. A reproach SO shameless comes
httingly from men who have just emerged from
q dlsgracetul compaDionship with N. B. Forrest,
the contriver and leader OF the Fort PILLOW
massacre, and his co-conspirators.
This is The same Mr.. Wallace who instructed
his employees, in 1867, 'for every Democratic
vote poled over one hundred and ten we will
paw ycu fixed sum after the election
This is the same Mr.. Wallace who offered one
hundred dollars per month, for three months,
to Michael OMeara, to suppress his evidence in
the Shugart contested election ease, and yet
this man, Of all others, has the unblushing
effrontery to accuse the brave men of the volun
teer army and navy ofa crime OF which he
stands VIGOROUSLY convicted.
The Soldiers and Sailors Committee of Penn
sylvania cannot allow this gross and unpre-
yoked OUTRAGE upon the gratitude and h0spi-
tality of the generous people of Philadelphia to
pass unrebuked. They feel that the Democra-
tic leaders, indifferent, callous or hostile while
our loyal people, including the patriotic women
of Philadelphia, were giving time, money, and
the noblest of charities to our brave compan-
ions on their way to and from victorious fields,
are now even more hostile to the soldiers of the
Republic as they rally under the sacred shadows
of Independence Hall to renew their love and
devotion to the country they have saved.
Ifit were necessary to arouse stronger spirit
of hatred of treason and OF the Democratic agents
of treason in our midst, thus to summon here on
the hrst and second days of October the sur
viyors OF the overwhelming host who defeated
Democratic Rebellion, this deliberate aud era.
tuiteus insult would accomplish the work. But
no such invocation is needed. We ask our COM
Iades to come in full force, and they are coming.
We say to them, Come one come all, +" and they
are responding.
They may be scandalzed by those who have
always oeen their enemies, but they will be
welcomed by our great people with an enthu-
siasm even more magnetic than that which
greeted them on the route to and from the scenes
made immortal by their yaor.
Philadelphia city, renowned for its inteli-
gence, refinement, generosity, loyalty, and hos
pitaty, leaves the unenViable monopoly of
traducIng our guests, invited here to discharge
a era eiul duty, to the authors of and sympa-
tbzers with one bloody Rebellion, and to the
deliberate contrtyers of another.
BY order OF The committee.
CHARLES II. L. COILS, Chairman,
A. L. USSELL. Secretary.