The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-21

here and that IS that history Will attest
that there has never been such a signal
failure of an administrative as was the
JEFF. Davis administration Of the so-called
Confederate Government at Richmond.
4 Applause. III admit these gentlemen
are correct when they say Grant is no
politician and what is still better he is no
partisan. But when they say he is no
BtatesmenI take issue with them and i
appeal to the record. What is states
man? How do you distinguish states
man from a Politician Seymour is a poll
hcian, He showed he was a politician
by melting that riotto help his Southern
friends, but he showed he was not
statesman UWhen he abandoned to their
fate the men he had deluded into the riot.
Grant, / say, is statesman :. and TO
illustrate it, put the question, What is q
statesman? II is man who judges from
the past and present what is inevitable IN
the future and so shapes his legislation as
if it be storm coming to save the peo'
ple from the effects of that storm, and to
avoid as much of the evil as he can or
if it be good in prospect to make the
most of that good: Is not that the differ
ence between a statesman and poiltl-
clan? We have had no statesman or we
would not have had this war. If the
Southern people had been represented by
statesman at Washington do you not sup.
pose they would have seen at Washington
in ningling with the people of the North,
in mingling with the representatives of
every Government with which we hold
intercourse on THE face of the earth,
that the opinion of the world
was in opposition to the insti-
tuition of slavery, and would not they
have ayerted the evils that resulted from
a violent disruption of the social system
of their land by preparing their people
for gradual emancipation OF this race?
Even in 1854 Mr.. Seymour showed his
want of craftsmanship by his itcapacity
to Judge that the rebellion was on its last
legs, (for in 1864 it gave up the ghost and
surrendered to Grant (applause.) AS
declared through the Convention over
which he presided, that the war for
the suppression of the rebellion was a
failure, and demanded a cessation of hos.
tilities. Now, where was General Grant
about that time? In that very year, 'G4,
when Mr.. Seymour virtually said the re-
bellion was success, when he said the
attempt to suppress it was failure, and
demanded o cessation of hostilihes-at
that very hour, General Grant was sitting
in his camp judging from what was around
him and writing this letter, down there at
City Point, Fighting it out on this line"
60 '.AUGUsr l6. 1884.
Hon. e. B. RaShbuEBs: s isl1si q,
DEAR EIR:-I state to all citizens who
visit me that nll we want now 10 insure an
early restoration of the Union is a deter
mined unity ofsentiment North. The rebels
The little boys and old men are guarding
prisons, guarding railroad bridges aud form
ing good part OF their garrisons Tor en-
trenched positions. A man lost by them
cannot ba replaced. They have robbed alike
the cTadle and the grave to get their present
| force" [APplause.l --g eds - "a
| Does not that come within my defini-
ton of craftsmanship Who believed
then that the war was so near at an end?
Grant saw from the little. boys and the old
rey-haired, decrepit men that they had
pressed into their service to guard their
prisons and watch their bridges that they
were upon the eve of surrender, that
the war must necessarily close within q
VERY short period of time. he saw this,
too, remember, when Seymour and his
| friends declared the war to be failure,
| and demanded cessation of hostilities-
in other words, when they demanded the
surrender of Grant to Lee. -a ~ 2
What more evidence have you of the
craftsmanship of Gen: Grant2 i have
the evidence that though never an nboli-
ZIONIST, though never an anti slavery man,
long before Lincoln or any other man in
the land saw that to suppress the rebel
1 lion it was necessary slavery should be
abolished, Gen. Grant saw it, and knew
/ it, and said it, have the still further
evidence and so have you, my Democrat
4 ic friends, who concur with me, that
there was no necessity for the emancipa-
I'tion proclamation, that We are consistent
lin that opinion and were sustained at
that hour by Gen. Grant. Let us see.
| Writing to this same gentleman, this val
ued friend of his, and my personal friend,
/ Hon. e. d. Washburne, of Illinois. on
the Both day of August, 1868, before Mr..
Lincoln issued his emancipation procla-
mation-about the time he said to the
l Chicago clergyman who called on him
and urged him to issue one, that it would
be almost like the Pope's bull against the
comet-for even Mr.. Lincoln did not see
it then-no other man in the land whom
we call a statesman saw it-Gen. Grant,
sitting down there quietly at Yicksburg,
writes: i,us all-a rys -sailFsgl.l
1"The people of the North need not quarrel
over the Institution ofslavery."
This is 1868. What Vice President
Stevens acknowledges the cornerstone oil
the Confederacy is already knocked out
"slavery is already dead and cannot be
resuuecied. Itwould take g stSnding army
to maintain slavery In the South, II we were
South all their former constitutional privi'
leSes. never was on AbolitionIst-"
Democrats. this is the man you are
called upon to vote against, and for man
who always was an Abolitionist- Laugh
teri ~ e ,s,'g !.
slavery; but I try TO Judge fairly and hon
estly and it became patent to my mind ear.
could never live ut peace with each Other
except Us one nation, and that without
slavery. Enthusiastic cheeTs1 AS anxious
/ therefor @ be willing TO see any settlement
until this question Is forever settled."-
[Cheersl i'
Now, gentlemen, when believed that
the abolition of slavery was going to pre-
vent our success in putting down the re-
bellion; and when men who had been
anti-slavery all their lives were fearful
any interference with the institution OF
slavery would be productive of harm, il
politicians and men called statesmen did
not see that the road to peace was through
the settlement of the question of slavery
for ever and that it could only be settled
and peace maintained by its being ex-
terminated-that the North and South
| could only live together In peace by being
/ one nation and could only exist as one
nation without slavery-When, / say, no
other man in this land, so far as the rec
4 ords show, had craftsmanship to perceive
it, Gen. Grant quietly enunciates from
/ his camp at Vicksburg the fact that he
not only saw it then, but that it had been
patent to his mind from the commence
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