Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-11-05

| cation speeches in New York. These
speeches, these journals and these letters
which have read tell us that the election
of Seymour and Blair will restore the ''lost
cause" will justify the rebellion and rein
state the South in every right which she had
before the revolt. They are right; no ho1-
est man can doubt IL. Does any sane man
| for one moment imagine that if Blair is
elected the South will ever consent to pay
dollar of the debt incurred in putting down
! their rebellion? This cry about the burden
Of the public debt is false cry, raised by
the enemies Of the government. The debt
grows less, the means of payment grow
greater every month; when peace is fairly
restored and the industry of the whole coun-
try revives the debt will not be felt, and be
fore Grants administration is over people
will wonder that they were ever frighted by
| this phantom. The two great contending
| principles which now divide the country are
fairly represented by two generals
4 The one by General Grant -(cheers)-th
other by General Blair. (Groans and hisses.)
No one can doubt upon which side General
Grant stands, anG General Blair has taken
especial pains that no one shall doubt upon
which side he stands. The people are going
to vote. They will vote for General Grant
or for General Blair. Many democra,s now
think they will not vote at all, but when the
time arrives they will surely vote-all will
vote. 1t will be by far the largest vote ever
cast. 1t will he decisive, an overwhelnl-
ing vote. (Cheers) Which of these two
generals shall be your Chief Ruler for the
next four year? (Cres of ''Grant.") Which
can you most safely trust with this great
office, in these unsettled times of much con-
fusion and great distrust? (Continued cries
of "Grant." y You want peace, order, secur-
| ity; revival of our varied industry and a
restoration of our whole Union upon terms
| which are fair and just. To whom will you
turn as the safer man? 1t will occur to our
people that If Seymour were elected Pres-
dent he may die and give place to Blair.
| Within few short years three Presidents,
| just entering upon their term of office, have
died, and the Vice Presidents have reigned
in their stead What these Vice Presidents
would do no one could tell but each did
just exactly what the party which elected
him did not wish. Seymour might perish
under the weight of office and, if he did
not please the rebels, some Southern patriot,
like Wilkes Booth, might dispose Of him.
| If Seymour were out of the way no one can
doubt what Blair would do; he has told us
that
| Ihave known General Grant since the time
when he came from the West to take com
mand of the Army of the Potomac. He has
always been democrat. To the great prin
gan to perish with the war-I have always
been attached | believe in coined gold and
not in stamped paper. (Applause.) be-
leve in liberty prott cted by law. / believe
that the foreign born who have adopted our
country and sworn allegiance to our govern
ernment should have the same rights and
the same protection under the constitution
as the native horn. loud applause.) be-
lieye that the government should act with
| A.. al. t1,,,
that 1t should allow the utmost freedom of
trade consistent with its absolute necessities
for moderate revenue; that it should not
trammel enterprise by legislative monopo-
lies; that as a government it should aim at
no paltry imitation of royal or imperial
splendor, but he a simple, economical, stern
and just protecting power, leaving the indi-
vidual to whatever of luxury and extrava-
giant display his folly may suggest that il
taxes by fsyn evyng Il Inc e'te tax Upon lew affces
in such manner as to compel every man to
pay his Just share in accordance with his
means; that it should have no costly army
: in time of peace, and that people should, by
sseternal vigilance" guard against the alb
sorption of the rights of the States by the
central power. (Appause.) Conversations
with General Grant had led me to believe
that such was the substance of his own
|
should be the democratic candidate. One
day at his house in Washington, while he
was Secretary of War, l told him that |
, thought he would make q good democratic
candidate If he was right on the question OF
, negro suffrage. He replied that he had NO
wish tor the Presidency, that he had now a
much higher Office than he had ever expect
/ ed, that General Sherman would make q
} good President [applause] and that he
IL, fl,at
i to make Sherman or any other fit man Pres
ident that his feelings and sentiments were
t entirely opposed to negro suffrage; but tina
he did not wish to be restrained by any
. pledges from the right to change his opin
/; ions in future if new exigencies convinced
!. him that he was wrong for, said he, yot
will remember that early in the war, whel
4 / was in command at the West, publicl.
a stated that il the negroes had an insurrectiol
i l would hold my army in check until it wa
h put down. But long before the war wa
c over should have been glad of negro in
S sumection, and would have moved m.
! army all the faster. (Applause.) What
v want is the Union-the whole country re
S tunred to peace and submission to the laws
II do not like universal negro suffrage now
/ but the freedmen ought to be protected, AM
if the only wayt protect them in their help
e less condition is to give them the suffrage
l. then shall be in favor of letting them vote
e cloud applause and great cheering.) war
d the Union restored, and to have the Sout
= come back, obey the laws and submit O
Is good citizens, and if the future proves ths
,e they will not do without negro suffrage
le then would give them negro suffrage
it Washington never thought more wisely 9
s. talked nore Justly. That General Grar
)r fairly represents the patriotic sentiment {
Of the North no man can doubt. From the b.
lie ginning of the war to its close he was at h
b. post of duty; always ready, uncomplainin!
ty In a righteous cause and in his own bra,
is men, he never knew failure. (Cheers
of Consider it well, fellow-citizens, vote. d'
liberately, vote conscientiously, vote dow
d. the patriot, vote up the rebel if you vii
to vote Grant failure and Lee the hero OF Il
n war. (''Nevcr') But before you thus vo
th tear down these mockng monuments erecte
n to your patriot dead; dcmolish every mem
rd rial stone at Gettysburg and in every pa
in whore a grateful nation has reared soldier
,r. tombl Level three hundred thousand lit
nv hillocks, under which sleep three bundr
thousand Young men of the country TIL
of died to save; the grass is very green, so W;
cts cred by mothers tears, and the roses bloc
id. well which mourning sisters and bereav
his wives have planted on those graves! Irai
is pie them in the earth, they are all a mockei
er- the SleepeTS ultu Ill CuuoV u
are well deserved their doom; and the r.
me ting prisoners of the Libby, and the starvir
cy tortured soldiers at Andersonvllle had
Lhc their Just deserts! Vote against Grant, a
hat when you see the rebels all red with
rm blood of your mothers sons holding high
its very in the Capitol, and confusion, dsnl
YES and anarchy in the land, go tell your cl
dren we voted for that.
the Iwould have the South treated justly, "
ind very generously; l would take no step
st" vengeance; but l would not restore them
Ct" power with their present mad views and
do dacious purpose, to subvert the laws and
ira stroy the liberties of my country; The v
nds will soon be cast when the ballot has dec
one ed an issue in America tho decision conqtl
/, to even the will--all submit as to the fiat
was God.
cen As this is the last. so will it be the bit
vet est contest. In it the son shall be divi
against the father, and the father against
cent son, and a mans foes shall be they OF
md own household. 1t is war of the min
tion war of ideas-of the will, and of all the
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