Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-10-29


This country to the other as usurpatiou
and when the war was over when th
work Of reconstruction was to be accom-
plished when it was to be determine
whether these States should pass bac
again into the hands and under the DOW
er of the very men who had used tn
power and authority of these State
against us all Through the rebellion t
consolidate their eefederzcy, to hun
\ their armies against the armies OF tn
Union when we, and we alone, of al
the parties Of the land. stood in the ga
and said loyalty shall govern what 10y
atty preserved again we heard the or,
''usurpation! usurpationm / glsry il
this usurpation. Applause.
l read you again from Seymour
speech: 81 trust that when the elec
tion shall have terminated. it shall b,
the judgement of the United States tina
the intention Of the trainers of our Con
stitution shall be carried out, and tha
power shall in such degree be divided
between the great political organization:
as that they can hold each other in check
and that it shall neither be in the pow
er of the Republican or the Democratic
party to plunge our country into the
evils Of civil war, even if they coulC
find in their hearts to do thing so un.
wise, so wicked and SO unpatriotic. F"
He wants division of power in thi.
country, SO as to. restrain the Republi.
can party and the Democratic party
from plunging our country into the evils
of civil war. 1t is not needed Governor
Seymour. [Applause.l No man in the
Republican party ever plunged the
country into the horrors of anarchy and
and the desolation of civil war.
No Republican ever fired upon that flag;
no Republican ever. .drewjhis rifle with
deadly intent at the heart of that flag.
Not one, not one. ]Cheers.
l told You came only with ashield to
vindicate my party; bnt thank God
that of all the men who have ever voted
the Republican ticket, that ever stood
upon our platform that ever breathed
our principles, not one solitary one of
them ever lifted his hands against that
flag; and you are going to elect Dem
ocrat President, Governor Seymour says
to keep those Republicans from involv-
ing the country in man-slaughter. /
will tell you what the people are going
to do; they are going to elect Grant as
President, to prevent these men from
even daring to lift their hands against
the government again. [greatapplause.
L know well you cannot go down to
those hundreds of battle fields and re-
store our dead soldiers.to life; you can
net go to the widow who has lost her
husband, dearer to her than all else, shet
down by rebel bullet, and clothe him
with life again to be the life and joy of
her declining years you cannot restore
those among our orphans made so by
rebel bullets the fathers that trained
them in the, paths of usefulness and
virtue. But / tell you one thing you
can do; you can have security for the
future, and the people intend to have
that by electing the destroyer Of the
rebellion as their President. [cheers. ]
l will tell you of another usurpation.
There was convention which met at
Chicago four years ago, and of that
this distinguished citizen of
,he United States Governor Seymour.
was president. 1t was in the very midst
'f this war, in the very crisis of the
lstion's agony, when your soldiers were
lying. in the trenches, dying in the
army, dying Of their disease ON the
march, descimated by rebel bullets,
lying with their young hearts blood
lowing from their veins, murdered by
he very midst of that, when the fate of
he nations life and death hung tremb-
ing in the balance, when it would be |
lecided ina short twelve months wheth-
r we would have the country live, or |
whether the country was to be destroy
ID, that convention, with Governor Sey-
neur in the chair, proclaimed aloud
hat the war was failure, and hung out |
O yutN r. of
led cessation Of hostilities. Our usur- |
,ation then was that we dared to strike
lown that platform and all who
TODD on it,, and say, in spite ofthat,
he country shall live, the war i. not a /
allure, the rebellion shall be quelled, we
ccept no terms but unconditional,
[great applause.] That was
ne usurpation, and the people are going
o be guilty again of such another one
his coming November election. cheers.
i said to you few moments ago that
here was not a single man in all our
losts who ever raised his hand or raised
lis rifle against that flag but there were
on, Goa Of the hravesl and the best, who
re to-day sleeping in patriots graves,
ot one OF them murdered by a Repub-
lean, not one If them shot down by
not ole of them whose
oung life was given for his country by
he deadly rifle Oft Republican. How
7ere they lied? T!iey were killed by
he very men who are going to vote for
his man as PIesident of the United
tates. Why were they killed ? They
,ere killed because upon the battle field
len who forgot their allegiance to their
ountry, darep to raie the rifle and draw
he bead upon it, that the bullet might
peed to their hearts, and thereby the
ountry might be weakened. Is there q
IAN here who fought under the banner
f the Union who is going to vote that
oket II there is llet me say a word
) him in kindness and friendship
When you go to the ballot box and drop
] that ballot, by which you and the
ther .millions aud of our ,
ountry rule this land control its desti-
les, you are going to dorp it in side by !,
de, if not in actual proximity, yet in
Dirit, iH principle and in soul, with the
len who, on the battle field, sought to
i'll you for your adhesion to the flag !
If 800, 900 more could have
cen murdered by the rebels, this coun- |
y might have been destroyed 1t is not
he fault of the man who drops his bal I
It in with you it is not the fault of I
1ade Hampton ; it is not the fault of
orrest and other Generals, Wise and {
hers who are going to vote with ysu
Is not their fault that you are living
'-day: They drew the bead upon you &
ley aimed at your heart because you
ere faithful to the allegiance which T,
ley themselves repudiated. Gods :
rovidence turned aside that bullet, but !
the men with whom you are going to
,te. could have had their way, you would :
ave been in your grave. Sensation
ow 60 and vote with him if you want
L do not speak of this In language Of ,
from it, my friends. 1
ave not one particle of revenge in my =
spositicn, God teaches US to forgive, :.
1t He forgives no ono without repent !,
ice. [Applause.] There is no creed
(yI- L.