Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-21

laughter some reeling with grief and
other things. Laughter See them
going, with their bowie knives re-
versed; see them going, hardly yet
wiping their hands with the blood OF
the last assassination; see them going.
the men who fought your sons and
and mine, and that split the blood Of
loyal, valiant sons and children like
water; see them moaning, gnoaning.
.'The Constitution All! this ''des-
eerationn of the Constitution, this love
of the Constitution, it is peculiarly af-
feeting to me. When SOdom and Co
mOrrah sit round about the. temple Of
Jerusalem and praise its beauty, and
long for the prevalence of thelight that
shall shine out of Zion, then j shall
believe that these men who are crying
out "the Constitution the COnstitu-
ton ~ have any love for its essential
or have any right to say
about it. ..- =s-ls.,.
as it safe to lay aside fundamental
law and the Constitution. of the eoup-
try whenever majority desire to act
outside of it 90 s.--r-saI .s5g7.
No; that was the very reason why
we blamed the South; it had no busi-
ness to go outside Of it; we have
brought it inside. Laughter and aP-
plause. .ae.E H.a.- ..ze-.5 "a vfasE
''WhY did not the Republican par
ty inform the South in 1855 what was
required oft ?" .a.-,e q trz..,l,re-
The principal cause they didn't
know themselves Do you suppose
that every member Of the Republican
party was q prophet? Do you suppose
that they We're all inspired, and that
thegift of foresight was given to them ?
How did they know how the South was
going to aet2 How did they know
its spirit and temperl?I 1t was a ten
tatiye business The intrinsic diff
Mlty of reconstruction was TO be ear
ried through with safety and with
speed l believe mistakes have been
made, and j tried to forestall some of
them and rebHke others, but with i'll
success, i believe they they made
them; but nevertheless, think re-
has been second only, if
second at all, to the manner in which
the war itself was yietoriously carried
through. We were like men crossing
q ford We had never been across il I;
we had to feel our way along the bot
tom, and with many a seuse before we
get out of the stream. We We're like
an army in q foreign country, and
were obliged to flank ourselves ON ev-
cry side with cavalry and try the
probing test as we went on.
GRANT AND SEYMOUR eoNTRAsTED.
L believe Grant pre-eminently a
man of administration. l believe he
has not only laid the country under
obligations TO him which we can ney-
er repay for the services he rendered
during the war, but 1 believe he is
destined to lay the. country under
greater obligations. He will give us
an administration so temperate, so
diyested Of passion, free from all ma
lign influences, so wise in its selection
Of men, so judieiOus in carrying out
that we will date from his
recontinuation ofthe
administration of Washington him
self Ccheers and applausel q man
whom in many important respects he
resembles Iapplausel, and in no re-
speets more than this-in his wisdom
in taking counsel Of wise men and in
his personal decisions, reflect
the wisdom of all the councillors he
can gather around him. If General
Grant sits at the head of the govern
ment of these United States, there is
not a workingman in the nation, not
one poor emigrant, not one dusky
creature that By. his pine-knOt candle
reads his spelling book, that will not
feel that he is safe and secure after
Grant is President-wi11
know that the Republican party is
he party of the common people, the
park of universal spf pffrage, and every
viii know that the power of the gov
arnment and the party of enlightened
and Christian people will be all in IA
ior of the greatest security and the
greatest measure of liberty to all
Cheers - 1
What is his antagonist in private
ife? A gentleman not only most re-
but most kind and amiabIe,
4 polished and winning manners,
.gainst whose private character no
nan has brought shadow of a re-
'rOach. But Seymour is not man OF
deas; he is not man Of victorious
Fill; not q man who in dark and
nd difficult days seizes the right path,
nd then, though all men leave him,
Ollows ii to theYictorious end. Meth
r soldier OF general, he Is man that
1ill be managed by those around him;
lithout a record in the war but bad
eeord, he would hang his burdens on
he government. He is not the man
hat Oughtto be intrusted to shape the |
Olicy of an era of liberty. Never by |
peeeh or by any act of his life has he |
hOwn himself to be the right man to |
lace in power on those terms of lib
rty. A lawyermakes the best states
lan; q general makes the best civil
IN. The man Of ideas is the man
nder whom this nation will rest /
lost secure and safe. - ------ ~
HE TWO PLATFORMS AND THE CAN
DIDATES.
And if, with such platforms before
he people, looking back to Babylon
nd Egypt-One radiant with all the !
of true liberty the other re-
with two candidates one
all that is young andl
'ue and all that Is advancing. all that /
great and noble; the other retro
ressiYe, timid, time-servihg--if with
lese two thesame people that carried
lie country through the war-if you
moose the wrong one had almost
id should lose faith in the demOc-
Icy. But / lose no faith i'm the peo-
e. The people will complete the
Ork. The people are discerning :;
ley know both the measures and the
ZEN, and l believe whatever takes
ace in New York and BrOOklyn-Ii
slieve that ere four weeks have roll
| away the voice of this nation,
scarcely less sublime than
le thunder of that voice that sound
| from Sinai, no whit less sublime
ian that voice that sounds on either
lore of this great Continent, the
Iice like multitude of waters-theI
lice of this nation will declare for
and universal-for
oerty and for Grant. z
Tremendous applause followed the
'eakers's peroration, after which he
tired and the meeting dispersed.
THE CAMILLA MASSACRE.
A letter to the New York Times ,
Atlanta, Ga, September 30th,
YES the following corrected facts
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