Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-08
New Series-vo1- 8, No 81.
stanton and Grant.

stanton and Grant.
In hisspeech at Steubenville, Mr.. Stan.
ton forcibly stated some of the reasons
for voting for Grant. Wequote from his
remarks:
General Grant, then, stands this day
before you the foremost military com
mander in the world, with peace for his
| watch word. TCheers. Why should he
not be elected? What reason has any
lover of his country for not voting for
him.? -....l.
BY his side stands SCHUYLER Colfax,
VINO hy his own energy and industy adj
vanced from a printing office to the
| Speakers chSir, a position which he has
held for three successive terms, with
honor and distinction. They are both
| honestand upright men, and why should
they not he supported? What reason
has any man for withholding his support
from tllem? If there be among you any
man who wsuld hide from his sight the
musket that his father, or brother, or
uncle carried AT Vicksburg, on the James,
oefore Appomatt0x Court House, let him
vote against Grant. The history Of Grant
is known to you aud kle whole world
Educated al West Point he served with
| :
and when it was ended, unwilling to be
a drone, he resigned his position and en-
gagged in the pursuit of civil trade. AT
the eommencoment Of the rebellion he
entered the service again and soon ad-
vanced to the rank of commanding Gen
eral, after the very gravest important
| services. He moved upon the enemy g
works at Fort Donelson and compelled
their commander, Buckner, to surrender,
with $4,000 prisoners of war. Soon after
he grappled with Beauregard on the field
of Shiloh and drove him and his routed
army from the field. Resolved to open
the Communication of the Missippi river,
he fought and defeated Gen. Johnston,
chased Pemberton, the rebel General,
into Vicksburgh, and forced him to sur
render with $4,000 prisoners OF war
[Cheers.] Advanced to the command
of the armies of the West, he fought and
defeated Bragg at Chattanooga, scattered
the rebel army and delivered that vast
territory from the hands of the rebels
Advanced sill higher, a Lieutenant
General, he changed his headquarters to
the Potomac, in forty days marching and
lighting through the Wilderness hedroye
Lee and his army defeated through Rich
mond. The rebel General was compelled
Court House his army was surrendered
as prisoners of war and this brought the
rebellion to an end. Again 1 ask, what
reason has any man to vote against Gen
eral Grant? Hisscapacity and integrity
and skill in administration was clearly
manifested throughout the vast territory
in which he uproosed the rebellion.
Again, | say the man who would hide
the musket his father carried to Vicks-
burg, upon Look Out Mountain, through
the Wilderness, before Richmond, and
at Appomattox Court House; who shoul-
dered his musket, marched with two
hundred thousand Federal soldiers
through the streets of Washington,
around the Capital, the Presidents house
he had defended; who marched and
fought in the storms of battle-to such a
man [ say then do not vote against Gen.
eral Grant that the boys head may not
hang in shame, when he sees his fathers
musket hanging above the mantle. If
there is any man among you who
would blot from the page of history the
story of our great achievements-Vick
burg, Wilderness, Richmond and Apo
mattox Court House, let such man say,
had no share in these triumphs, 1 vote
against General Grant. IApplause.
hi.iitAO 10 h41%u stti4OAlk you budl
would compel the armies OF the Potomac,
of the james, of the Ohio, Of the Cum
berland, of the Tennessee, to be again
gathered and compelled to surrender as
prisoners Of war to Lee, johnson, Beau
regard and Pillow. let him vote against
General Grant. II there is any man
among you who on the bright summer
Sabbath day beheld a new sea monster
come out and ut night saw il driven back
altered and crippled to the fort, and
dil n15 rejoice al our success, let such
-nau vote against General Grant. IT
there is any man among you who would
reverse the order of history and bring
upon you ] reproach and shame never
before visited upon nation on the earth;
would have the commander of the Uni
ted States armies delivered up his sword
humbly bowling before the rebel COM
ruanders, let that man vote against Grant
and never again call himself an Ameri-
can citizen. If thu ere is any man among
you who would desire to see, whose eye
balls would burn like fire to see Lee upon
the portico of the Capital, with Preston
and Pillow with their Confederate army
around them; if there is man who
would see this and would see them win
the battle in the New York Convention,
let such man vote against Grant, and
go to Washington on the fourth of March
next, and behold the Government turn
ed over to rebels.