New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-04
POLITICAL MEETINGS.


The speaker was frequently interrupted by loud and
hearty applause by large and appreoatve audience;
Mr. Pr,sident and Gentlemen Of the Club: The year Of
grace 1863 will long be distinguished for the most re-
nsrkable and political contest In the whole sweep
Of human history and WIN say further without mean
pie furnish TO the gaze OF the world to-day the most
nessed since the first traitor killed his brother and was
branded by the Almighty with wedeseryed infany Tor
sommtted by Cain and the Confederate leaders of the
Rebellion In our time, nor the parallel lines OF punish
similar punishment IN OF the Rebels abruptly yer
minatng IN desperate and confident struggle 70 sei1o
upon tins Government that they may crown theseies
and their allies with all lite powers and all It's emolu,
ments. The daring OF the Rebels Is the great feature
look a little deeper into their acts and principles
that we may measure eo nN we men TbeIF oats
stand recorded before high heaven 70 destroy the
rant was ghtSg on this line all summer" four years
ago with a million Of boys blue They and their allies
were lighting with honest ballots four years ago De
fested then by the ballots Of the people and the bullets
Of the blood or their of the guilt OF the battle they
band Of their leading spirits TO NewYork ON the
platform of principles by the Democratic Convention
Gen. Wade Hampton tho pirate senmes Forrest me
hero Of hundred negro murders at Fort Pillow, anu
bot OF other lovely brothers OF the same STRIPE
R sas sup T shs hinged s t them to- s
erred amen TO their demands, ana hqdoI1eo
Mr. Vanandigham notorious ploter from the beginning
with the worst Of Rebesa eltizen OF ono VINO was D
shed from his and country during the war Tor urea
sonable whO IN appealing To his people LOT
VindcatiOD, denounced and ANONYMOUSLY deieateu
N Cam dd nominaes the Rebels candidate for Prcsi
deut OF course de does nobody else eouu aplroptlate
ly do it; aud the candidate himself has also been con
sistent sympathzer with the Rebels and Mr. Nallandg-
ham from first to Last snch are the men ana such the
principles opposed 10 us in this the
who propose TO govern free America henoeforth.
Honest Democrats, DO yon cOnsetf Can you sand ttr
rulei Let probe them little deeper. The Rebels
conducted the year after year without regard to
but It is true. ! will cite but one single and SIX,
nal proof of The archives of the Contoderay captured
at Richmond and now in possession OF the Government
at Washington. show that Characteristic Rebel made
proposition jefferson Davis To organize force
of himself TO proceed North by various
paths TO burn and rayage our cities and our homes And
what did Davis do with the Internal proposition The
record shows that be udOsed 1t Tor the cOnsdera
ton Of his War Minister without word OF dapprovai
TeproOf When all Europe was engaged with the great
conflict with Napoleon, Frenchuan proposed to the
commander Of the British forces TO assassnate the En-
perori but his proposition was spurned with instant
contempt and denounced with Indignation There Is not
scrap of evidence that there was living spark Of such
spirits Of the Rebellion they had succeed aud
shey seruped at no means calculated to help on Their
terrible designs. They are just the same IN siprlt
now es then. We may, however still thank
lng 70 ask for IN that respect Their leading jour
nal tMr Pomeroys prints column after column 10 prove
that Abraham Lincoln, mOurned respected and beloved
ey all civilized nations, Is IN hell and the same paper
broadly hints If i does not say that all who believe IN
the principles Of LucOln going straight and ew:!g
20 the same pace. 1hey tell US that the party which
saved the nation from dissolution is the JacObu party,
AA' ' u .aciva,s death: and they are 7igor
ousy engaged at the South IN executing TINS sentence
In the doorSays the streetways, and highways with
out judge or jury They tell us that the acts OF Congress
winch enabled Grant, Sherman, and Sherdan our three
abest generals, all Of whom are life long Democrats
who had better opportunity 70 study the true spirit Of
the Rebellion, than any other three men in the nation
they say that the OF Congress which supported these
their successful War with Rebels, null and void,
and TO be treated as null and VOID" they
are successful; and though The World newspa-
per struggles wildly and violently to save ITS party from
the just charge OF revolutionary designs neither It's glow
An, loOio uorfI P flo ~ ca
this damaging plank from the platform OF
put there by tho lovely baud of Rebel brothers before
named who are nov masters OF the situation They say
honor 10 the creditors And this brings me to
the bond question, concerning which nave lew words
20 say All up1glt men love honesty aud as hey rove
A. they detest the devices and the cunning tlCks
lit themselves 10 public notice aud Office, through base
appeals to the preudlceS OF Tue aDofe casSes, Io
sand millions of greenbacks TO pay oil the i've
twenty bonds aud the national bank notes
oft venture to say that the records and the reyenges
of history, too VIII make nothing more or less OF IT,
with which Mr. Pendeton sinothers his selfish designs,
but Will set forth certain facts which control the case
and which clearheaded and voter need
i and ygckedy disglaceni None OF
The bonds payable until 49, years from next Novem-
-$0OO0OOO have 10 and another portion 20 years 10
run from last July and there not ono OF the holders
the bOuds that want them pad now The subject there
fore has place I'M this canvass ana was rugged into IL
for no honest purpose The proposition Is preposerous
Mr. PendleOn is a man of the world and of education,
and that the issue OF 5000 100000 OF greeuDacke
60 retire the national currency and the hye-
twenty bonds would breed confusion and idle
ness, and bring disaster aud ruin upon every in
dusry IN the land Ills pets the western farmers with
whom nc is very popular just could stand longest
but they would shortly be involved in the general ruin
and join IN heaplng curses upon s mead hI FehGetOh
knows that paper money ia tadS ana commerce e ke
arsenic IN the human stomach We can stand certain
quantity Of II, but httIe more Is certain death Mr.
PcndletOn was down in Maine last week and made d
speech there TO tine Maine farmers, and set form the eo
RES Of his scheme, telling them how II would raise the
price Of their wheat and potatoes lie passed back home
through SswYork three or tonr days ago Why ddn't
he stop here aud tell inc NeW-1ofkefs ana US tal hs
plai2Yn,carred out viii make every potato we cost
al least dollar aud every pound 81 Hour three dollars
and perhaps t9D ave: why! VII tell you why. Ills
Democratic friends forbid ms speech here They
Knew that II would not go down IN this conn
tTytbat his speech here would be fatal TO the party
out West before Brick Pomei0y got hold OF HIM One
thing more and have done with PendleOn and his dis
graceful trick his scheme carried out would postpone
The blessing OF specie payments now within our grasp
beyond the life time OF all OF us, and fasten upon two
generations the crime and the bunder OF Reputation
SAID tho blessing Of specie payments was within our
sanTtryn the hands of the sovereign people speeula
tors gamblers and adventures OF every name arc op
Strong enough to resist successfully the popular will
The day must come and the sooner tho better when the
Daymes is the honest and the only cure for existing
evils and if the friends Of Grant would add 70 MS pat
form, specie payments, making u read let rs nave
peace aud specie payments" We should nave specie
payments within year from his election tell you
my fehOw-cltzeus, We shall never nave SOUND doIlaIs
again pockets until the people demand 1t IN the
way have indicated, unless the Lgatlendei act pro
nounced and specie payments forced
upOn in that way few words more and have done
and Democrats rely Tor success ~ hs contest VIZ hOse
who blndy and carelessly huIrah lOf acage ana those
who oppose negro suffrage The fst class are not 70 be
wish TO say few words. IL is curious aud significant
President was one the earliest and most radical advo
Gates negro suffrage among all our public men IL Is
present position upon platform which threatens
explicitly to snhyert ana repeal an aets OF O0Sgis iaN