New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-20
NE NOISE az RArrLE

Gen. Cullen A. Battle, of the late COnfeder-
ate Army, was introduced to the late Seymour
and Blair ratification meeting at Mobile by the
Hon. John Forsyth of The Mobile Register, who
commended him as follows:
"Gen A. Battle nobly did his part In the fields Of the
South when holy batiOn of blood and vaOr poured
out to the common ren0wn At Seven Pines at Chancel
OrsYle Winchester Gettysburg Fishers Hill, and on
OF fields he lod his brave Aabamans where glory
to DO aud his gray coat and flashing sword
ever found nearest the flashing OF the guns Our worthy
President Col HerndOn himself bearing the scars OF tho
mighty conflict will introduce 10 you one OF the heroes OF
this gigantic war"
In the course of his speech, Gen. Battle adj
dressed his fellow soldiers of the late G. S. A.
as follows:
Comades brothers year after year you bore the Con-
federae flag through fire and tempest aud upon more
than two hundred battleheds covered u with victory.
Your mpershabe gOrIes are htrenched IN the impleg-
nabe fortress Of the past and no power can dim Their
efulgence Hate maligty. and tyranny, are impOtent
TO transform patriots into traitors aud heroes into slaves
IOu my comrades, ana you alone can Obiilerato tno
glorious record VIII yOu do It, or shall IL remain per-
petua heritage TO your Childrenl What though your
flag went down bathed in womans cOnsecratnB tears
and baptized in the best blood Of the natl0nt This Is st
your native land You all did love her not without
cause Her mountains are az grand her valleys are as
fertile her daughters "a FAIR her ndrOs are
as yruOus. IL she less dear 20 you because she mas
opened her maternal bosom and received to her embrace
the nObe5t aId bAyes Of her s0sf Is she the less Your
mother because she has been insted and wrOngedt on
sho IL dearera thousand times Than she was III
her strength aud glory Her forttude In the mldst
Of her desOatOn mas attracted the admiration OF the
world aud the great Democratic party OF the Union
throws over her n banner Inscribed with the prin-
cples OF constitutional liberty for which she fought
and here Tonight TO ask you to come Up to her altar
aud lot again pledge 10 her oar lives, orr fortunes ana
sacred honor The Democratic party oilers the most
honorable Ii ndOrses principles for which you
battednOt because 1t was the principles upon when the
COnfederacy was fOunded-but the COnfeeracy adopted
them because they promulgated by the fathers OF
American Independence. and indicated by the war
Of the Revolution. Under them, the American colonies
advanced to mighty eupirc aud III their Observance IS
the last hope for American constitutional liberty MOI
Ouly does declare favor Of that Constitution 40 dear
10 y0u but it socmuly declares that all those ACTS
Of ecOnstructiOi totally destructive OF your rights,
and 80 repugnant 10 every honorable feeling are uco-
who will follow tonight may perhaps. tell you some.
thing of the circumstances that attended the adoption OF
that platform. He may tell YOU how conflicting sehtl-
mens were TccOncied aud harmony secured HOW every
heart bounded with manly impulses when wade Hampton
portrayed the condition OF South Carolina and then ASKED
the Incorporation into the platform OF the declaration
that the Reconstruction acts were unconstitutional num-
and void
Aud what Of the candidates who stand upon that plat
fom HOatio Seymour stands at the head OF American
statesmen Had he lived IN the best days OF Rome ne
would have been among the most renowned OF her seBa-
tOrs. Had he actor IN the earlier Gays OF the re
public, he wOud have been the cOmpeer OF Washington
Adams, and Jefferson" &c, &c.
Battle seems to be on his high horse. We ii
try to take him down next November.