Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-09-03

tairing these papers must read or lend to
other young men who have not Wherever
we find o young man unsettled in his opin
ions we must secure him. Wemust strength
en- the feeling OF our own party and labor 10
change those of the other. We must attend
regularly all the Grant meetings In our town.
ship, and persuade as many young Seymour
men TO accompany us as possible. Remem-
Der that our labors are not limited 10 our
wood piles and door-yards. but extends into
every school house and church in the land
" Eternal vigilance is the price of all vieto-
ries." Let US then, during the campaign,
never cease to talk and to act Let US not
pass over an opportunity in profound silence,
and thus leave the impression that we young
men of to-day have no particular principles
to advocate in this election; or, that we have
no special interest in the welfare of our coun--
try no aspirations for the triumph of truth
and Justice over iniquity and sin; no regard
for personal welfare and character; no charts
bic hand for oppressed humanity; no love for
God IN our heariss We must claim right
to speak, and enforce it as a duty upon the
people that we be heard We must not ab-
rogate ourselves from any responsibilities, but
bear equally the burdens, and thus share
equally in the spoils Of the coming victory of
Grant and Colfax over Seymour and Blair.
We must not consider ourselves as insig-
niiicant timbers, as refused stones in the cree
tion of the great temple OF Grant and Colfax,
to be dedicated to truth, justice, liberty, hu-
manity, and our country We must not live;
in Ignorance OF the danger and periious con-
dition of sur country, or remain unae-
quaInted with the eonspiraeies that are being
inaugurated against it by the so called
democratic party, led on by such men as
Seymour, jeff Davis. Wade Hampton, Forest,
and a host of other hell deserving, peyfidious
traitors, whose hands to day are red. reek-
ing with the blood of slaughtered PATRIOTS
We must not forget the great work devolving
upon the Republican party. OK the objects of
their labors. We mnstknow the issues before
the people. and having q conscienceto dictate
10 US the grand criterion OF moral rightness
and wrongness, judge. and learn the side up
on which to act, to be the defenders of hber-
ty and Justice. We must not be unmindiul
of those times when we left sur homes, our.
friends and our comforts to suffer the ineon-
venience of camp life, the tolls of the march,
and TO sacrifice, if necessary. our lives upon
the field of battle for the maintainance of our
country and the protection of our homes We
must not be urgratelul to the memory of
those of our comrades who shared with US
the perils and sears of battle but whose bones
now lie bleaching on yonder Southern SOIL
We must not be deaf to the whispering
prayers of the trembling, anxious spirits of
our fathers, our brothers and our companions,
that every day descend 10 US from the blue
canopy of Heaven, invoking us to remember
them in those days of their earthly career,
the great mission for which they died, and to
their last request, as they anxiously pray us
to cast our vote for Grant and Colfax. and thus
pronounce the eternal verdict that their tolls,
their labors and their death has not been in
vain All this we must be mindful OF. If
We find any young man who is so ignorant
of the debt that he owes to himself, his coun-
try and his God--who has fallen so far below
the level of the lower classes of humanity,
as to vote for Seymour and Blair, we, in
virtue OF our sympathy for fallen humanity,
must extend to hum helping hand, speak to
him words of encouragement, look upon him
with eyes of Welcome, and humbly and earn
estly beeseeeh the great merciful Father to for
give his wicked soul for he knows not what
he does. f-t# - W. S. NJ.
VIyToy AUGUST 95 '6S