The weekly Arizona miner., 1868-10-17
From San Francisco Daily Examiner, Sept. 2d. UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS! !!
 SPEECH OF MAJ0R-GEN. THOMAS EWING.
 OF KANsAs, At Cooper Institute, New York,
 July fth, 1908.
From San Francisco Daily Examiner, Sept 2d
July 1th, 1908.

Mn PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION ;-I heartily thank you for the honor of being called upon to address this assemblAge of soldiers and sailors-the larg. est ever gathered on the continent since the grand review In Washington, at the close of ot the war Of the victorious armies of the Potomac, Of the Tennessee, and of Georgia or the comrades who separated then, and went each to his home and civic occupation, almost every regiment has here its represen- tAtive. Why have we soldiers aDd sailors, who are proud of our service for the Union, assembled here in delegate convention to plan the overthrow of that political party which administered the Government through the war, and the defeat for the Presidency Of him who was erst the lesder of the Union srmiesl Applause With your indulgence, will endoayur briefly to give the reasons Tor our meeting and for our intended action. ICries of "GO on.
 THE WAR CLOSED.
 On the ith of July, three years ago, the war Tor the suppression of the rebellion had wholly ended. General Lee had surrender ed to General Grant and the Army of North efn Virginia and its officers and men were blowing the fields of the Old Dominion, drencfyd with siiv blood afid se,ireiie,i with the fires of four years of devastating var Joe JohnstOn had surrendered to Sherman lap plAuge the daring and stubborn troops which our Western army had driven inch by inch from Belmont to Raleigh and Selbys from tier command was scattered over the hemis- phere from Montana to Brazil. Laughter There vas not in arms Confederate soldier, mounted or on foot not backyard, fort or arsenal. in which there was a rebel ship, can non nr musket not rood of land on earth or q foot of deck on sea, over which a Con- fa.tarufa f.sF Ill. vateers were bcing dragged for condemna- ton from the Indian Ocean and the North Pacific. IApplause Never was there re- bellion more utterly overthrown, Of a cause more hop-iessiy lost
 GOOD CONDUCT or THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE
 The people of the southern States, with wonderful promptness, quiet and uEanimi.y submitted to the result You all know it was commonly predicted and believed North and South, that when the great armies of the ConfcderAcy were conquered dispersing, they would fill the land with guerillas and wage Yendean warfare, more destructive and irrepressible than the regular war out of which II grew. But this prediction was not in tho smallest degree verified. Within sixty days after the last great battle of the war, the Federal marshAls and tax-gatherers executed their processes unarmed and unAt- tended throughout the Southern States, in
 
 and over fields lately shaken with the roar of rebel artillery. The whole people of the honth botred Go dls authority 0f u,s nation, with hearts in which, as they are human, there were yet doubtless reyenges and sor- rows, humiliations and bereayements, and undying attachments tO the cause they had dearly loved and bravely maintained but which yielded implicitly all that the people, the President Or the war party had ever told them were the purposes of the war. And by the Constitutional conventions and Leg islatures chosen by the electors of the south ern States the year the rebellion ended, their several Constitutions and their State laws were amended abolishing slavery and the harsh codes founded on it abandoning the doctrine of secession, repudiAting tho rebel debt recognizing the national debt, and, in short giving every guaranty which men could give, that in a spirit of concord they recognized and accepted, as accomplished, every avowed object of the war.
 THE DUTY or THE REPuBIIoANs
 Now the Republican party was bound in loyalty, honor, and good conscience to accept tins submission, and at once restore the Union by admitting the Southern States io representation, so far as they presented Sens- tors and Representatives personally qualified. IApplAuse. lt was bound to do it out of obedience to tho Constitution, in the sacred name of which the war was wxged, AGd which, whlle allowing each House Co judge of the qualifications of its own members, prohibits the exclusion from representation of any State ds State. And it was bound to do it because the war was avowedly waged for the sole purpose of efiecting the unconditional restoration of the Union, immediately upon the unconditional submission of the southern people, through amendments of their Con. stitntiOns and laws, tO the national authority. Said sherman to the South, in hi. Atlanta letter We don't want your negroes or your horses, yOurjhOuses or your lands. or any thing you have tre only loant, and 'cih hars, q ttisf Obedteyioe Co Dte Consultation and Latrs oftle U,,iied StGtes." Applause And in ShAt declaration he expressed ths sole pur- pose of the war a. declared by the Govern ment and understOOd by the army and navy and people of the Union. The Republican party, in it's National Convention in lS64- Just after Horace Greeley had tried to effect dishonorsble peac through George N. Sanders and Beverly Tucker hisses and laugnterl l-declared tha; the war was, an- should be waged only to f0Tcs an uncor- ditional surrender of hostility by the rebels, and a return 10 their just allegiance 10 the Constitution and laws of the United States. And from the beginning to the close of the war there stood, and still stands, on our statute books a law declaring that the war should be waged fin no gpirit of oppression, but solely to restore the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired." IApplause That law was the pledge of the Republican party, made in 1861. and reiterated in National Con vention in 1864, that the tremendous powers confided 10 1t by the people, without regard tO party. for the vindication of the national authority, should never be used for party or sectional dominion. And on the faith of that pledge were given every dollar of money and every drop of blood spent in the war. lAp- plAuse.