The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-07

derstand, was q leaQlng reDei curing
the whole struggle. Now I DOM
like to call these gentlemen at thu
North, either rebels, Copperheads
or traitors, or. anything calumnious
1 call them Democrats, but those
fellows from down there, 1 will cal
traitors. Applause. That Con
vention, then, was made up of Dem
ocrats, traitors, and one niger. lap
plause and laughter. ~
ISLANDERS ON GRANT.
Now what did they dor One thinI
they did was to nominate candidates
for President. The Republican Con
fvention nominated Ulysses S. Grant
| ICheers.1 That is all the history
have to give Of him. l have not on'
word to say. 1 am not compelled te
travel around to tell you who he is
There is not a man nor q woman, ol
child above the age of infancy il
the Republic, who has not heard th.
name of Ulysses S. Grant. Ap
plause. The Union men know il
and love it The rebels know it and
dread it. [Great applause. Blu
all knew it. There is our candidate
for that position. 1 may, however
just as well make one remark here
1 see, in reading the newspapers, tina
the Democrats have discovered thaf
he don't know anything-can't make
speech! Laughter. No, he cam
make a speech. 1 don't think he
ever tried! But the rebels know be
can ''make his mark" Great ap.
plause.l We know he did make it.
They say he "talks horse" you re-
collect. Iheard avery distinguished
Democratic speaker say the Other
day, "What do you want of Presi
dent that. stalks horse ?''' would
rather President would talk horse
than talk treason-a good deal
Laughter. Iwouldrather have thu
plain common sense Of Ulysses s
Grant than the arts of rhetoric ant
diplomacy of a certain individual tina
| | have sin my minds eye" "That's
it'll shall have occasion to show
you how that gentleman talks, direct
| ly. Yes, Gen. Grant suits us, per
fectly. vR q s2rVF. Z
Now, our opponents are exercising
themselves much over one thing
They tell us that "Grant gets drunk.
And. by the way, they had better no
prove that, for if he don't break ~
the Democratic party, / am mistaken
1ILaughter. They don't mean tha
| it shall be believed! / saw, the othe
day, that some man characterized
him as q coward. Does that charg'
need any refutation2 "No, no ;
shot bit of it." 1 was very forci
lbly reminded, when l read thes'
charges against Grant, of what Gov
IScott, OF Kentucky, said to a hot
lheaded young fellow who challenges
the old gentleman to fight duel
All of you old men know that Gov
Scott was, of all the men of Kentucky
lin Kentucky's best days, one of thos
the most distinguished for courage
tWell, as I have said, some younI
ljaybird of a fellow got angry Wit
the old gentleman, and challenges
him to fight duel. The old ma
said he would not accept it. The
the youngster wrote him q letter
saying, "If you don't accept, vii
post you as q coward" every well,
said the old hero, "you post me as
coward, and then all the men of Ken
lucky will know what 1 know now
that you are a liar" Great az
plause and laughter And SO, i
regard to all this denunciation {
,iGen. Grant, have but this one rs
, mark to make: The people will NJ
t believe them. The people will b
lIieve as I do, that -; you ca
: add the balance yourselves. Laugl
teri 1t is of no use, fellow-citizen
: to- prefer these personal ohsrgt
against Gen. Grant, for they can
. met and contradlcted by more than
tQuarloE OI u mllllOu Va piosC s0AuiCi
,. who have seen him on all the battl
Fields of the republic. Great a
Q plause. II have, therefore, no furth
T. comments 20 make upon this subjee
g but iii would do any Democrat q
n good to believe that Grant is drum
n ard, believe It. If if viii do you a
y good to believe he stalks horse" ar
4 nothing else, believe it! Don't trou
Elle yourselvesl Nyou don't want
lvote for him you needn't, because
don't think We need your vote. /
the way, I viii give you wsrnin
J. right here, ofone thing. nyou mel
Ito come in among the supporters.
h Gen. Grant, You had better come
n soon.
SEYMOUR AND GRANT coNTRAsTKD
4 What was the course and theory
, Mr.. Seymourp He held that 4
( Government had no right to comp
T. Ito coerce-the people OF the Sou
into submission to the authority
Mt the Government. 1t is q fact th
" y. Mr. Seymour never did admit {