The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-08-27
ADDRESS TO THE SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS OF TUE IN

ADDRESS TO THE SOLDIERS
I AND SAILORS OF TUE IN
ION
HEADQUARTERS
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS NATIONAL
/ REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE Cow.
/ WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. l, 1868.
Attention! Boys im Blue! Fall in!
COMRADES: The din of battle has
ceased, bat the conflict of ideas still
continues. The shock Of arms ended
with the surrender at Appomattox
Court House, but the struggle of prin-
ciples still goes on. Had Abraham
Lincoln lived, doubtless our labors
and tolls, ere this, would have been
over and past
But the bullet that carried Andrew
/ Johnson into the White House reviv-
flied the dead rebellion and bafiied
the advance Of peace. Since then
the nations life has been one cease
less struggle with Copperheads and
rebels. They have filled the public
offices, they have swarmed over the
land in places where only loyal men
should 60; North, they have been
an eye sore and offence to every loyal
citizen; South, they have opposed re-
/ construction and equal rights, and
now organize their Ku- Klux Klans,
in defiance Of the spirit and civiliza-
ton of the age. The Democratic
party, unabashed byits unpatriotic
and shameful course as a party
throughout the war, now again con
fronts the country with a platform
and a candidate which are at once an
insult to every living soldier, a mock
cry to every dead soldier, reproach
to every patriot in the land.
On the other hand we behold the
Republican party, with their shining
record Of patriotic deeds, the banner
of our country floating proudly over
them, and the great leader of our con-
quering army as their chosen cham
pion. They were our hearty and
steadfast friends throughout the war,
they sustained US in the field, they
defended US at home, they reioiced
over our victories and mourned over
our defeats; they fired no rebel bullets
they recruited no rebel armies, they
gave no rebel votes, and now they
ask US again to aid in carrying the
nation forward to its natural and
logical destiny; to help secure the
rich fruits of the war in all its full.
ness, to assist in grounding the Re
public at last on the immutable basis
Of loyalty and justice, and equalrighiS
for all.
Soldiers, in Horatio Seymour the
Democratic party have aft candidate,
a representative COpperhead and reb-
el in disguise. In our own U. S.
Grant we have the simple, honest
soldier and defender of the Union,
The one represents reaction, the other
progress. The one sympathized with
/ the COnfederacy, the other fought for
| the Union. The one stands on the
| platform of National Reputation, the
other of National Faith, inviolate
and inviolable. The one summons
you to the defence of class and caste.
the other declares for the rights of
man, as man, for loyalty and liberty,
for equal and exact Justice to all men.
Comrades, the issue is plainly made
up. and now choose We.
Soldiers, it is the old cause, and the
hosts are again gathering for the
conflict. The Old Flag is again un-
furled and Grant again heads the
column. He is the same brave, patri-
otic soldier that led you to victory
during the war. 1t is the same flag
you supported so galantl y on many a
bloody field. Il is the same glorious
cause for which, during the war, so
many Of our comrades laid down their
lives. Shall it be said, that we fought
all in vain, aud that our dead died
in vain? No; you will not reverse
the record of the battle field; no, you
will not prove false to your slain
comrades; no, you will not now desert
the old cause and turn your backs
upon your old chief and leader You
will not forget the shining record of
Donelson and Vicksburg. of Chatta-
nooga and the Wilderness, of Peters
burgh and AppOmattox Court House;
no! But as the men of Lexington
and Bunker Hill, of Valley Forge and
Princeton, ofTrenton and Yorktown,
afterwards with their ballots made
WASHINGTON the first President of the
New Republic, so you, remembering
our common victories, will, by your
votes, make Grant the first President
of the restored Union. The Tories
and Cowboys of '76 of course voted
against General Washington, but
what true soldier Of the Revolution
wo1Id not have blushed with shame
at the thought of casting a vote
against the Savior of his country? So
the Rebels and Copperheads Of to-day,
will oppose Gen. Grant. So will the
deserters, the bounty jumpers, and
draft sneaks, but surely, no soldier or
patriot will follow their ignoble ex-
ample. Who wants it said of him in
future years, who would have his
children, and his children's children
suffer the reproach, that in 90 he
voted against the great Soldier and
honest man, who in '65 crushed the
Pro-slavery Rebellion and saved the
Union? Surely no one who loves his
country, or is proud OF his country's
proudest history.
Soldiers, Grant will again be vioto-
rious. The omens are all auspicious.
He has never yet been defeated-let
rs then again form line and move
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