The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-16
Inv or the Uniforms.

From ate ". y. Times.
During his late triumphal journey from
Galena to Washington, General Grant passed
through town where an enthusiastic process
sion of uniformed 'Boys in Blue" greeted
him, and to whom, accordingly, he spoke rs
folows:-
"Gentlemen-Is see sDme Of you in uniforms.
You laid them of three years ago. and you can
now lay them OF again. and We Will have peace
Doubtless their leaders, hint will be taken
by his followers, not only in 'Belvidere," but
throughout the Union.
IL was a noble part that the military element
played during the late canvass, and to it is
due much of the Republican success. Not
only did most of the soldiers ''vote the way
they shot," but they "organized victory" in
the conduct of the campaign. Their mass
meetings, and especially their professions,
were marvellous affairs. There was perhaps,
less effervescent enthusiasm than in the "log
cabin" and 'hard cider" campaigns of glo-
rious memory, and certainly no more lung
tearing for Grant than for "Tippecanoe"
and "Harry of the West" There was no
deeper exeoration of Seymour than of "Matty
Van, the used-up man, " and there were fewer
roasted oxen eaten at barbecues, and fewer
live COWS and workshops -On-wheels borne
about in the professions. Yet there was a
wonderful prestige in the military conduct Of
these affairs. So many bronzed and hardy
veterans, so many scared heroes of deadly
battle so many medals and corps badges
glistening along the lines, so much of the
pomp and circumstance of war, that the
mere sight of one of these grand professions
was living argument for the cause; and while
it marched and oountermarched before the
spectators, back through their memories, in
an involuntary accompaniment, rolled the
historic panorama of the war.
The music was the very strains under which
hod ohad fo al haiti ha
sautes were, perhaps, those of guns from
whose black lips had belched murderous
flames at Shiloh or Antietam; battalons
moved almost poiselessly from different points
into their appointed places with soldierly
mechanism impressive by its very contrast
with the confusion and delays OF old-time
political demonstrations; the word "For-
ward - resounded from men who had given
it in the face of the enemy; "by torch and
trumpet fast arrayed," the veterans swung
into place, and then moved along the line Of
march with the rolling ''route-step" of cam
paigners. Take, for single example, the
Washington demonstration, where six ''regi-
ments," under the command of Brigadier-
General Albert Grant, "District Commander, -
formed in line. One might easily have brought
to mind the illusion of actual war. The two
hours artillery salute, fired while the column
was forming, was the cannonade to distract
the enemy's attention, or, perhaps, to breach
his position, in aid of the charging column;
when the brigade broke into column its corps
of pioneers was at its head, companies were
marching by platoons, steady and firm as
martinets, the officers with side-arms, the
commands those of the taotcs-it hardly
needed the transparencies, saying "We vote
as we shot," to induce the spectator to ask
himself, 'Is this, as they claim, the politica
side of the same old cause and, if so, am
with these men or against them?"
But the great work of the troops is now
done. No more significant professions; pu
out the torches; "lay off the uniforms"-anC
eve will have peace" This is the last com
mand of the leader in whose cause the host,
assembled, and in whose potent name they
won their victory. 1t is word eonsonant with
General Grants character, and it recalls
afresh the summer of 1865 AS after the Rich
mond and Appomattox of 1865 came peace 81
after the political Richmond of 1868 1--WE viii
have peace" Lay of the emblems and &C
coutrements Of war.