Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-07-29
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ST. LOUIS, July l6, 1865.
EnIToR CHRoNIcLE,-It is fesrfully
hot low, and has been constantly since
my last, the thermometer ranging dur.
ing all that time between n~inety-fiye
and n hundred and one degrees in
the shade; but little rain, and what
fell but added to the intensity OF the
heat. The heated pavements lap the
waters as they fall, and convert them
into steam, making the air sitting.
NV old friend A. 6. Riddle, in the
halls of Congress, in 1860, and 1861,
speaking of the probabilities of the
war, and the position that his constit-
uency of the Cleveland district would
assume, said, the blood of my people,
cooled by the breezes off Lake Erie,
where Commodore Perry won victory
and immortality, runs red and cold"
Had he spoken of ST Louis under the
influence of the cheated term" could
easily have said, the blood of her citi-
zensruns black and boiling.
Immense numbers of our citizens
have fed to the country for comfort
and health. l have followed the stream
and board at a farm house, eight miles
from the city, where / can fully real
ize that God made the country.
To day the State Radical Convention
is holding its session at Jefferson City,
to put in nomination q State Ticket.
Present advices show it TO be the most
important Convention held in this
State. 1t Is full beyond precedent,
composed by the best men of the State,
perfectly harmonious and earnest only
to make good nominations.
The nomination of Seymour and
Blair falls cold and chill, like the shad-
ows of the valley of Death, upon the
Democratic party. No worse nomina.
ton for that party, nor better for ours
could possibly have been made. 1t viii
add ten thousand votes to vi Radical
majority in this State.
Our ratification meeting will be Sat
urday evening. A grand out of door
meeting is being provided for and
which will be made the opening Of the
campaign in this State.
The campaign here will be fierce,
bitter, constaIt, until election. 1t is
the turning point in this State, and so
felt by both parties. The black flag,
by both hosts, will be unfurled, snd
under them neither party will take any
prisoners.
The men that shot at rebels during
the war, will vote against them at the
polls. The men that shot at the boys
in blue, during the war, nov will vote
rs they shot. The same issues determin-
ed at Vicksbuag, Lookout Mountain,
and Richmond, with can
hon and muskets, in blood, is thrust
Ipon US, by the same men, to be deter
mined by the freeman's weapon, the
and God keeping the right, they
will all be determined the same way.
The results of a few years war, with
IS waste of a quarter Of a million of
ives. its whole troops of widows and
of orphans, must not now be
urrendered up to a demoralized and
onquered foe.
In our vocabulary there must be no
UGH word as fail. Failure in this con
roversy by the Union party is infsmy,
worse, is Treason. Treason to the
acred memories ofthe past, treason to
ne sOlemu IespOnslOllltles OF the pres
Mt, treason to the hopes and promises
{ the future Of our jaded and dis
racted country. Consistent with the
onor and integrity of the American
Grant and COlfax cannot be de-
eated. The eyes of the world are up
n US, the hopes of future generations
around and fasten upon US and
cd smite us if we are false to them.
The blood of our blue eyed boys, dy- !
ig like demi-gods. upon mountain side :
nd in valley, on the flower covered sa- :
annas of Georgia, on the rich prairies
f Missouri, making more luxurious
lie waving grass snd grain therein: I
.hispers to US in notes that cannot be :
Iisunderstood, in this decisive hour, !
l American people, fail not to do !
.uF whole duty. Make secure for all
time, 7 American liberty to
i, white and black, broad and full
7er all our broad land, from ocean to :
,ean, from the SHOWS of Maine and {
RECON, away down to where the dark {
Ted beauties of the South battle their !
elicate feet in the tepid waters of the !
ulf of Mexico" E. !