The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-23

OF MS. speeches LnaC lniS NUS "iShSu tSoeA-
lion, OF that we should maintain the Union.
Look back and see where Horatlo Seymour ll
was on the 4th of July, 1868. Robert y
Lee had been fighting at Gettysburg our
troops not being ALI the field, Lee had
gained an advantage on the first day. Enc
news on the morning of 4thS July was dis
couraging; but what did Seymour do2 What
would patriotic man have done he
should have said, +" Danger is at your doors
1t is the duty of every man who loves his
State, and who can pull a trigger, to march
forth to repel the invader" What did nc
say9 He spent the day complaining OF the
Lincoln government about heavy taxes and
heavy drafts. He. grumbled, and said there
might be a revolution at the North, and
then said he. "whcre are your victories e.
He was all the time finding fault with
the national government, and ask
ing for the victories of the armies.
b He did not know that at that very hour
Gen. Meade was driving back Lee from Get
tysburg and achieving one OF the greatest
victories Of the war, and at Vickshurg Gen.
Grant vas receiving the surrender of 10000
prisoners and opening the Mississippi river
from its source to its mouth. That is the
character of the two men. Is.
One thing more to show the character of
Horatio Seymour. It was reported that he
owned large amount of United States
bonds A man wrote ana asked him if it
were true. His Secretary wrote back some
what Indignantly that he did not own bond
and never had owned any. Mark 1t, that
Mr.. Seymour is q man who inherited great
wealth. At the time of the battle of Gettys-
burg, there were many troops who had not
been paid, and men were ready to die and
did die, who had not been paid for eight
months. The Government was begging the
people to buy its bonds to enable it to pay
the soldier and to buy arms and powder.
Horatio Seymour did not buy dollar. AS a
director of a savings bank at Utica, he pro-
tested against buying a dollar of United
States bonds And now he comes and asks
us to vote for him as truly loyal man! We
will not do it. Applause
While was speaking Of this matter in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the other day,
lawyer came to me and gave me an incl
dent just like thousand things that hap
pened in the North. An old woman whom
he he'd often advised, came to him and said,
!" / have $500 and want you to take il and
buy me some bonds" He told her she was
getting good interest and she had better let
it lie. The old woman sal |, "my husband
is dead, lost son in the army, can do
nothing to help the country but to loan it
this money! That poor old woman did this,
and yet Horatio Seymour had not cent to
help the Government. Now that old woman
is more worthy to be President than Mr..
Seymour. [Applause.] And they pretend
they can elect him. They say they have got
us. So they have, as the miner had the
grizzly bear when he came running into
camp crying out "get your guns, boys, get
your guns, am bringing her into camp"
So they are bringing us into camp. Laugh
teri 2 ii'sf TisgliisF- s- ;''s9't' iae sH
Some of them say Gen. Grant has no par
ticular ability. wish they would agree to
that. Frank Blair was told that cireum-
stances made Grant circumstances" said
he, circumstances do not run in the same
line for four years. They asked him if he
would not be controlled by Washburne and
others. Said he che is much more likely
TO become Napoleon" A. Fl. Stephens
says he knows too much. We have our opin-
! ion about him and / will tell you what it is.
He is man of great persistency of purpose.
Let him go about anything and he lies
down upon it like the laws. of gravitation,
and holds out until he accomplishes his
| purpose When he went to Vicksburg
against the advice of Sherman and every
body else, he whipped johnson on one side
and then turned and whipped Pemberton on
t"ot , him Vii, I- & him up in Yicksburg, and
look nlM Will HIS oo,o1o INCL. Hcic HOS
| honr1copnar
than the Vicksburg campaign. So say the
| military critics everywhere. He went to
| Chattanooga, and found the army al
most driven and starved out. Their ami
mails were dying of starvation. Soon the
soldiers began to think they must go
and Bragg began to think he must go, and
| go lie did. [Applause.] With all his traits,
you find the most childlike simplicity that
ever was known. There is not upon record
in his correspondence a single complaint OF
| the Government. 1t cannot be shown that
| he has ever disobeyed single order any.
where If he asked for SO many men or sup.
plies, the Government gave him, what it
! could, and he found no fault with it. Here
you have in his character will and ODE
| dience-the first elements of perfect mill.
tary man. He learned to obey absolutely
| and always. We want a man for President
! who, when Congress says Be it enacted,
viii not say, like johnson, (" | veto it," and
then when they pass it over his head, You
are q rump Congress, you are hanging Oh
| the verge of the Government" We want d
man who, when law is passed, will say
Rollins, 60 and execute that" For the
last three years we have had Presiden,
who was fighting against the policy of Con
gress. Now the Democrats want to elect
Seymour and Blair, when they know VIZ
have Republican Senate for the next foul
years, and all that time they want contest
between the two departments. IS
It is an evidence of "a great man, that h
I is able to pick up the great men around him
| that lie knows them when he sees them
\ That marked Napoleon more than any thing
else. He knew how to select his leaders. Be
fore Grant came into command we went along
/ fighting portions of the army, because if any
| man was in command the Others went tt
| work to get him out. There was time in tn,
early part of the war when it was said tina
Sherman was crazy because he had certain
ideas. Grant knew him from the first anG
always trusted him, and the result proves hi
sagacity. Gallant Phil. Sheridan wa
not much of success until Grant took hin
up.ouH He served out West with small com
mand until Grant brought him back ant
4 gave him his cavalry command, and thel
the world found out that Grant knew
great soldier And SO he leaned up
on the great Schofeld,, the gallan
4 Thomas and the noble Meade, I Nigh
name roll Of men whom he dropped off on
| by one and they we're heard OF no more. H
had around him Sherman. Thomas. Schofel'
3 Sheridan and such men, and they not onl
obeyed him but they loved him. s.,s4 IL
In 1868, Sherman might well have sale
III oucrht 70 ha loo dor of tho n rr,,x >, In fac1