The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-18

the West" the assault upon Sumpter
Yet If these outrages had been per
petrated by any foreign nation, whc
had dared to send hostile shot crash
ing through the timbers. and cordag,
of a vessel sailing under the American
flag, who should have fired upon ont
of our forts and forced its surrender
no man would have the hardihoOd Il
say that it was not cause OF war,
cause which would have stirred the
nation to arms against the combined
powers of the world. These men con
tinued forgetful, and are still forget
full of the six hundred battles that
were fought, of the blood that wa
split; they forget the assassination ofth,
President; they forget the three hun
dred thousand graves, and the martyr,
whose dust they contain; they forget
the widows and the orphans of the
land. They remember the Nationa
debt, but they forget its cause. They
were permitted to hiss forth from the
places they disgraced in your councils
"You have not conquered the South
you never will! 1t is not in the nature
of things possible! And now sir, car
this war continue? Where is tho
money tocarry it on? Where are the
men? Can you borrow? From whom t:
Can you tax more? VIII the people
bear it T? Wait till you have collected
what is already levied!-how many
millions more of legal tender today
AZ per cent. below par of gold!-car
you float? The author of this con.
tinued to say: Never will 1 as q
Representative in Congress, vote one
dollar of money, whereby one drop Of
American blood should be shed in
civil war. Stop fightingl Make an
armistice! No formal treaty! With
draw your army from the seeded
States" Sir you now say with charac-
teristic consistency, they never did Sc,
edc. "Reduce both armies to fair suf.
ficient peace establishment! Declare
absolute free trade between the North
and South.'' When had we anything
else but free trade between the States,
the only embargo was that which your
party put upon the mails, as you said,
to keep out ineendiary publications.
Buy and sell. Agree upon zoll-
verein. Recall your fleets. Break
your blockade. Reduce your army.
Restore travel. Open up railroads.
Re establish telegraphs. Reunite your
express companies. No more Monitors
and on-elads, but set your friendly
steamers in notion" This was said on
the day that closed the bloody battle
of Stone River, fought with the odds
opposition and numbers against u.s.
Fought by an army that had marched
over nine hundred miles To meet the
enemy, driving him through three
States-m army whose soldiers were
ragged and hungry and foot sore, and
without their pay; and yet this unmit-
igated traitor would not vote n man to
fill their shattered ranks, nor Il dollar
to relieve their suffering families. No,
that army had chastised the sChiv-
airy 1t was giving the lie to the
bravado, "Gou cannot conquer the
SOUTH If all this wickedness had to
be uttered; if the house of Represen-
tatives must be disgraced, and such
impurity spread upon the records of
the nation, l rejoice in my heart TO-
day, that the guilty man who perpe-
trated it, was the only tried, convicted
and sentenced traitor that ever dis
graced the State of Ohio, by being
born in it. Could it be that his over
weening anxiety for the restoration of
railroad COMMUNICATION, and facilities of
interstate travel generally, had any
thing to do with his approaching per-
egrinations through the Southern
States, round by the Coast, and back
to Canada. Certain it is, that but a
few weeks afterwards, he was on his
winding way from Dayton TO Canada,
taking the Southern Confederacy en-
route, where he found himself the
honored, feasted and toasted guest of
rebeldom, with cart blanche to 90
where he pleased, even from Nassau
to Canada, so he kept himself out of
theway of loyal men. On the very day
that Sherman drove Hood out of
Atlanta, the Democracy, as sembled
in Convention at Chicago, resolved,
"That after four years of fruitless
war, the Government had failed to
put down the rebellion" wish to
give you sample ofthe speechesmade
in that Convention, by such men as
Rollins of Missouri, Ketchum, Curtis,
Rynders and Wood of New York,
Framer and McMasters of Ohio, Ba-
ker of Michigan, Mahona of Iowa,
Paine ofIndiana. Hear, Capt. Rynders,
President of the New York Empire
Club, ex-Marshal &c, &c. He had
always been for peace even before the
first gun had been fired. He had de-
nounccd the unholy crusade against
our Southern brethren, even before
the first regiment moved Southwark.
He saw the inevitable result of war,
the waste and blood and tears it would
entail, and to this day he could say,
and he said it with pride! ''that he
never had said one word against the
brave, the noble, the generous and
chivalrous people in the South, and
he trusted in God, he never would.
Nearly half million of these noble
men, had fallen in bloody graves, but
they remain unconquered. They
can never be subdued, as they are
part of our own flesh and blood. Mill
ions more of men may be torn from
their homes, to fall in the fight, but
the task will fail as thought to do. The
war is carried on for the nigger, and
in Gods name let the Abolitionists
fight it out. We shall nominate our
candidate on Monday, and place him
fairly upon the platform of peace, and
sweep the nation ike a whirlwind,
Those who count upon division of
the Democratic party will be disap-
pointed. We are one and all for peace
and with this magic word upon our
banner, we shall sweep over the coun-
try, and roll into oblivion the black
negro-loving, negro-hugging worship
pers of old Abe, Lincoln" OF such
were the staple of the speeches made
at the Chicago Convention. I-
These vulgar traitors did nominate
their candidate on aPeace Platform.
But that man, whoswas destined to
finish his work by an honorable peace,
achieved over a fallen rebellion, was
triumphantly elected President. There
was another Convention, which assem-
Ibled an the 5th day of December