Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-04

the brain is aglow, and your heart Is J
honest, look into your looking. glass and |
YOU will see man there look him steadily |
in the eve and tell him that when YOU vote
for Blair and Seymour you are voting upon
the side for which you fought, and there Is
something in the eve Of that fellow in the
glass that will say to you "You lie, and
you know It" [Grest spplause.l
Now, fellow-citizens, you say that we
are in favor of negro supremacy. never
heard one Of us say so-never saw It In
Republican paper-never saw Il In reso-
luton Of Republican caucus, that we
are In favor of negro supremacy No,
ow.citizens, we are in favor Of no mans
supremacy In this country. We are In
favor of the supremacy Of the American
people. We believe In the strong COM
nom sense Of all the people Of the United
States Of America and we are willing to
be governed hy their Judgment and by a
majority Of their votes There Is no such
thing az equality, between men, In this
country. All that we contend for Is equal
human rights, equal privileges before the
laws, for everv American citizen, whether
born In foreign land or In this country,
whether he may be American, Irish, Ger
man, or Portuguese, of whatever color God
in his providence may have put upon his
complexion, that he shall be entitled to
equal rights. Talk about equality. How
many of these Copperhead orators would
you have to boil down to get the essence
out of them to make man equal to John
NJ. PalmerY Applause and laughter The
laws cannot make men equal. | say 10
you, my brave boy in blue, If you have
got my commission, and if You are going
to vote for Seymour and Blair and John
r. Eden for Governor, for God Almlghty's
sake give 1t back TO me. Great laughter
and applause If anybody in blue who
has fought through the war could vote for
the ani-war Democrat Seymour and
against that old Illinois hero and patriot,
Gen. Grant, or for that stay.at-home, John
r. Eden, against the gallant soldier, pat
riot and statesman, Gen. John NJ. Palmer
that man, it seems to me, could strike his
grandmother in the face Great ap.
plause.
We present to you as the candidate for
your votes for the President, the name of
General Grant. In doing so we expect
your vote upon every principle Of honesty
and candor. In the first place, he has the
confidence Of every honest man in the
country. I repeat 1.-THE confidence of
every honest man in the country-wheth
er he be Republican or Democrat Such
tician, Seymour. 1t is said that General
Grant cannot make speeches. Neither
could Washington make speech. Gen
eral Jackson never made speeches; but
General Grant has made some speeches
which, when the wordy actions of Horatio
Seymour shall have been forgotten, will be
recorded upon the pages of history, so long
as time shall last.
Such was his speech to Buckner when
he said, al propose to move Immediately
on the enemy's works." Such speech
was the one he made to Pemberton, "Un.
conditional surrender :" such was his
speech at APPROXIMATION when he said, 81
propose capitulation upon the following
terms: The Confederate army will stack
| their arms; the cannon and the munitions
to be received by the officers of the Ameri-
can army :" that speech he made when
| struggling through the Wilderness where
the hope of Lincoln followed him, when
we were in doubt all over the country, and
when patriots knees seemed to tremble
with apprehension, when he was opposing
the enemy hand to hand in that unparal-
leled struggle; the speech that came by
telegraph TO gladden. and encourage Lin
coin and the nation, at propose to fight it
out on this line, if it takes all summer"
| Voice. "And he did" Tremendous ap-
plause.l
am OBTAINING you, fellow citizens, far
longer than intended. ["Go on, go on
| General Palmer is here, and know you
wish to hear from him. This reception
goes to the bottom of my heart. 1t is from
my old, lifelong friends; from those with
whom have been raised-those who have
elevated me and honored me and thank
you for it,
have said was glad have been the
Governor of your State. will say, also,
that think l may have performed my
duty in far more inefficient manner than
| others would have done. am glad, also,
that was your Senator during the Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congress. l am glad
belong to your glorious Republican party,
who, when the flag was fired upon, rallied
to the rescue. From our prairies, from
our hill-tops and our valleys, they "rallied
round the flag" and they carried it in tri-
umph from one end of the land to the
| other. am glad that was a member of
the Congress that raised, equipped, and
| clothed, and fed, and sent to victory the
flower chivalry of our land, to save our
Constitution and country from the grasp of
the aggresseor. am proud was mem.
Der of the Congress that raised and
equipped the grandest army the worlds
history has known-that set at1Oat the
| prOudest navy that ever rode the sea. /
am glad that am a member of the Con-
gress that blotted from the face of our
land the accursed system of human slavery
| lgreat applauseb so that now, upon every
rod and inch of American soil, liberty-is
| living reality. / am glad that belong to
that party that derived its principles from
the Revelations of God Himself-from the
golden rule Do unto others as you would
be done by :" and Love thy neighbor as
thyself" am glad that belong to the
party that has lifted up Gods down-trOd-
den and long oppressed pOor-that has
lifted them up to humanity and TO Amer
lean citizenship, to life and to liberty. /
am not sorry, fellow citizens, that when
the President of the United States thrust
himself between the Congress Of the
United States and the pacification of our
difficulties, and opposed the measures by
which we aimed to relieve the country,
the Freedmen's Bureau bill, the Civil
Rights bill, and other measures of recon
struction by OOngress-I am not sorry
fellow citizens, that as your Senator, !
voted for the impeachment of Andrew
johnson. Tremendous applause.
And as l now conclude what have TO
say, it will be in the language of Gen.
Grant, LET us have peace" BY the tri-
umphant election of Gen. Grant we shall
have peace. If Seymour is elected he tells
| you in his platform Frank Blair's letter
/ tells you Wade Hampton tells you that
/ the Government and authority that law
! has established shall be set aside. What is
| this but war? Shall these rebels again
raise the hand OfrebellionS They threaten
/ that they will overthrow the Government
1 that has been established by the authority
/ of law and made by the Congress of the
| United States. Fellow citizens, am not
! in the habit of threatening, but will not
be threatened either [great applausel, and
will say now that if Illinois sent ESQ
! men to put down the. old rebellion, and if
/ Seymour and Frank Blair, and jeff. Davis
/ and Breckenridge, and TOombs and the
murderer Forrest--if they choose to get
up another war to overthrow the recon