Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-10-15
THE BOYS I'M BLUE.
General Kilpatrick's Speech
Plain Talk to Patriots,

Although the telegraph has given
US pretty full reports of the speeches
at the great meeting of the Boys
in Blue in Independence Square,
Philadelphia, on Thursday evening,
we can not refrain from reproducing
entire, Gen. Kilpatrick's ringing ad.
dress. He said:
Fellow Soldiers, I am proud and
happy to meet you tonight We
have assembled, loyal citizens and
brave soldiers, heroes of charge,
Boys in Blue of the old army of
Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas
We have assembled on this spot,
where ninety-two years ago, our
fore fathers assembled to give birth
to free and independent nation and
the Declaration of Independence
We have assembled to take measures
to preserve the one and make liv-
ing reality of the other. We are
assembled to ask ourselves this ques-
ton. Shall unrepentant rebels of
the South and the miserable, vile
traitors of the North take posses
sion of the nation that our banner
has preserved? Cries of no! no!
Shall these men of the North, headed
by Horatio Seymour, who refused
to work with US IN the vineyard, par
take of the rich fruit of the labor?
Shall these men who deserted the
ship of state when the waves rolled
high, man her deck? We have as
sem bled to night because we believe
the nation in danger. Every gale
that comes from the South brings to
our ears the same old yell and cry
that we have SO often heard and an
swered on many battle field. Who
have we to oppose us? The same
men who opposed US during the re-
bellion, both in the South and at the
North. Who are those men at the
South who have joined hands with
the Northern Democracy Why,
Robert Ould, WHO will be remem-
bered by many here present who
were confined as prisoners of war
in the Rebel pens. He is the man,
who, on opening many of the boxes
sent South by your loving mothers
said he thought the articles too high
ly seasoned for men of sedentary
habits. Then there is Wade Hamp-
ton, who said to me that he would
rather his arms should wither than
live with the mudsills of the North,
and that he hoped to live to apply
the torch to every Northern home
He occupied front seat in the New
York Convention. Then there is ex-
Governor Vance, of North Carolina,
the man who addressed his troops
with the remark that he wanted
them to fill hell so full Of Yankees
that their heels would stick out of
the third story window. He and
Wade Hampton had gone into the
guerrilla business, but ride of $50
miles on an old mule which l gave
him had the effect of dissolving that
partnership. Then there is Forrest,
the butcher, who surrounded q gar
rison of four hundred men with a
force ten times as strong, and, under
cover of a flag of truce, marched
his force to the rear and murdered
nearly all the garrison. He buried
living and dead in the same ditch,
and nailed negroes to houses and
fences, and there burned them
These are the men who are opposing
US. In 1865 the Republican Conven-
tions of New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania indicted the same
Democratic party for high crimes and
misdemeanors. They were tried be-
fore the great body of the American
people, and found guilty of the
charges and specifications. The
charges were that we had scarcely
reaped the benefit of the Presiden-
tial contest of 1860 when they ex-
pressed themselves not willing to al
low President who had fairly been
elected to take his seat. They also
denounced the emancipation and the
draft When Robert E. Lee was
being driven from the Wilderness,
and the army of General Sherman
was treading, 10000 strong, through
Georgia, the Democratic party in
Chicago were declaring the war a
failure. Well. it was a failure for
the rebels. Laughter. General
Mcclellan was defeated. and so was
General Lee. Applause. I'll tell
you secret. General Mcclellan has
returned. to the United States with
his carpet-bag laughter, to stump
the nation for Horatio Seymour
But his friends are afraid Of him
because he can not make up his mimi
where he is going to speak. Ths
Democracy then skunk into theil
burrows, but they have venturei
forth again. A few soldiers ant
disappointed Republican Office seek
ers have Joined their party unde
the name of the Democratic party.
why, that was dead many q day ago
Did General jackson arise from
his grave, he would cane Horati'
Covuopr for nalliuc himsalf a Dem