Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-29
Speech IF Er-!Sccret"y stanton.


the people of Steubcnvlllc, Ohio, on Fri
day last in aspeech of power. Abiding
to the debt, he condensed the whole
question into this paragraph: " The
payment Of principal and interest OF
any debt is hard after the money has
honest nation with an excuse for rclus-
ing payment, and Il government which
would undertake to deal with the cred
itors in that manner and for such reason
would be Il pissing, Scorn and by
word among the nations of the earth"
We commend the following passage to
our loyal men:
"And | now ask what reason has any
man to vote against Gen. Grano? lis
capacity aud integrity Tor clVIl aunliillS-
tratIon were equally manifest III the
vast territories III Wi1cn he operated. ii
any man among you would cake from
the boy the muSket ana hnap-uck That
his father carried at Douesoll, ut Nicks-
burg upon Lookout Mountain, though
out the Wilderness, before Richmond,
at Five Forks, at AppomattoX Court
House, an q. shouluSrng proudly,
marched with two hundred thousand OF
his fellow soldiers through the streets
of Washington and around the CapItoi
and Executive Mansion that he deiend-
ed with his life for years, in the long
march, the wearisome siege and the
storm of battle-let such men vote
against Gen. Grant. (Applause.) Ii
there is any man among You that would
blot from the page OF our history the
story of these great achievements, let
him draw black lines around them, ana
write across tehir face: Il have no share
in these great deed, for | voted against
Grant (Applause.) Is there any man
aIIIUuS yUu mat would compel the ar
mics ofthe Potomac, OF the banks OF tho
Ohio, OF the Cumberland, ofthe Tennes-
see, and OF the Gulf, TO be again gather
ed at the tap of the dram and surrender
ed as prisoners OF war TO Lee and John
son, Beauregard and Forest, Johnston?
Let HIM vote against Gen. Grant. Cap
plause.) II there is any man among
you who has forgotten that bright sum
mer Sabbath day when the little Moni-
tor steamed OIt against the new sea
monitor, the Merrimac, and before noon
drove her shattered and crippled to port;
ii there is any man who would have re-
joiced to behold cannon ball shatter
Farragut, as, dashed to his mast, he drove
through the rebel fleet and dashed them
to pieces-let that man vote against
Grant If any man would have Wor-
den and Farragut, and Winship, and all
our great Admirals haul down the Star
spangled, Banner, never again TO brave
the battle and the breeZe-lf he would
see them sink in shame from their own
quarter-decks, and give up their Ups
to Maury and Buchanan, and Semmes
and Moifat, while the Confederate bars
ana emblems of Slavery iiaunt on every
sea and in every State, let that man vote
against Grant, vote early and vote often;
Tor If Grant be elected this State shall
disappear from the ornament beiore
the banner OF the United States shall suf-
fer tarnish or shame on the land or on
the deep. (Applause. If there is any
man among you that would reverse the
order of history, who would bring upon
you shame and reprOach never before
known among the nations of the earth
who won d have the commander of the
United States Army deliver up his
sword and humbiy bow before tAe rcb-
ell commander, let that man vote against
Grant, but never again call himself an
American citizen. (Applause.) If there
Is any man whose cycDallS would not
burn to behold Lee upon the portico o,
the Capitol, with Beauregard, Preston
and Forrest at his side, With Il Confedcr-
ate army around hum, and, us the Gov
eminent is trans G red to them, listen to
the rebel yell rs ii eounds on the field
of battle and in the New York Conven.
ton cloud cheers)-let such IL man V &c
against Grant, and go to Washington on
the 4th of March. (Applau,e.) Why,
then, L repeat, should any lover Of his
country vote against Grant, ColiaX and
the Republican members OF Congress ?"
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