The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-09-27

amlss, however, for me 70 say that l
Join you in the belle! that Gen. Grant
has been a gallant soldier: that he
has done service 10 his country in
the field, which can not be oyeresti
mated; that he has conducted the
affairs of the government since be has
been Chief Magistrate with great
discretion and integrity, and has
shown himself in every way disposed
to peace at home and abroad, and
entirely free from personal, selt-seek'
ing, and aggrandiz ament.
1--WE are here To express TO the
country our continued confidence in
Gen. Grant, end our purpose to elect
him as President tor second term,
and 1 am quite sure that We will not
make ourselves misunderstood to day
by expressing any i'll feelings toward
our late enemies in the field, because
we have no such ill feeling. We know
that the hatchet is buried, and we are
disposed to do all in oar power to
cooperate with people in all sections
of our land in forwarding the pros
perity of our country. But forrulers,
comrades, let us select men who, in
the hour of their coun;ry's peril, were
true. Let Us, of all things, refuse
our support to men who believed that
there was righ. in secession
| "Aud now, comrades OF Pennsylva-
MIA, desire to express to you hope
that comes from my heart Gen.
Hartranft, Your candidate for Gov
ernor, is my old comrade and tried
friend. He went into the field with
us at the first battle of the war, and
joined the North Carolina expedition
at Annapolis. From that time until
the end of the war we were together.
On all the fields-Roanoke, Newbern,
South Mountain, Antietam, Freder-
icksburg, Vicksburg, Knoxville,
Campbell's Station, Blue Spring, the
Rapidan, campaign from the Wilder
ness to Appomasox Court House he
proved himself IN efficient and gal
liant soldier. Comrades OF Pennsyl-
yania, it is clearly your duty, with
out reference to politics, to see that
so gallant and true a comrade Is not
harmed by tie malicious slanders of
designing politicians. You have but
for q moment TO think OF the course
pursued during the war by his op-
ponent, MIR. Buckalew, in order 10
find the strongest reasons for the firm
support of Hartranft.
"Comrades, my personal duties
require NE 10 leave you before the
deliberations of your meeting are
concluded AS you all know, L am
engrossed in civil pursuits. L have
never in my life solicited an office,
and never expect to. can, therefore,
speak to you my unbiased sentiments.
beg of you to make every honest
effort to re elect Gen. Grant and to
elect Gen Hartranft to the Office Of
Governor of the Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania 1t gives me great
pleasure, comrades, 10 announce to
YOU that the national committee pro
poses as your chairman our gallant
comrade, go well known to every
soldier in ,he land, Gen. j. r. Haw-
ley, of Connecticut.
sand now, comrades, let US join
in an appeal TO our late enemies in
the field, the Confederate soldiers, TO
step to the front and do all they can
to Obllterate the great wrong they
have done to their country
SenatorWilson was then introduced,
who spoke as follows.
SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH.
"Be assured, gentlemen, that i am
glad to look into your faces to-day,
and / am grateful to you for your
generous welcome. / am glad to see
this representative assemblage of
brave men who saved my country on
the battlefield. know something of
the origin of the great civil war. /
know something OF the selt-sacrificing
patriotism of the men who left homes,
fathers, mothers, sisters, brother,
wives and children, and barred their
bosoms against the blows of the en-
emies of the country. l know they
were never inspired by hate, but by
love of the country and love of liber-
ty, and history will record the fact
that the great uprising of the coun-
try in the spring of 1861 was an up
rising of patriots, and not an upris-
ing for hate and vengence. You loved
your country, and your whole coun-
try. You loved the people OF the
country. and the people OF the whole
country, and through four years of
blood you labored on-struggling on
alike in victory and defeat, inspired
by lofty patriotism, and never guided
by vengeance, and to day you meet
here to do something more-to per-
petuate what you won on the battle
field, and that, too, for your country,
and for the aggrandizement of no set
of men on earth. Gentlemen, it was
my privilege during those four years
of bloody strife to as chairman OF the
Military Committee of the Senate OF
the United States, and / am proud to
say to-day that IN all the Legislation
of Congress; in all the combinations
of the many thousands that came be-
fore us, we always endeavored to do
Justice to the brave men who were
fighting for the country, and wenever
asked what their political sentiments
were. / know something of the self
sacrificing men that went to the field
fought, bled, and many CT them died,
to save the country, and, gentlemen,
while l perpetuate no feeling OF hate,
while would be generous, magnani-
nous. and loving to all portions OF my
country, God willing, would never
forget the self sacrificing patriotism,
heroic valor, and consecrated devo-
tion of the men who fought to save
the country. l would build monu-
ments all over the land for those who
for the country. / would keep the
battles on the sacred flags that were
laid away. / would, if i had the
power, write the gra d deeds of the
defenders of the Union in letters of
living light on the broad arches OF
the skies, so that all men, through all
generations, as they looked heaven
ward might be inspired by their noble
example.
"You came here to day, gentlemen,
encourage your countrymen, who are
striving to carry out in the action OF
the country what you fought to estab
lish. May God prosper and bless you
in these efforts, and 1 am sure your
words, your example, anu your cour.
age will inspire our countrymen, and
we shall win a glorious victory for
the cause of our great party to which
we belong, and which we believe to
be the party of patriotism and the
party of liberty in America.
"Gentlemen, in the dark, troubled
night of war, when you were strug-
Cling in the front,of the rebel legions
when our hospitals were filed with
sick, woulded, and dying men, we
could take your cause and our cause
into our closets, and on our bended
knaes invoke Gods blessing upon you.
Hundreds of thousands OF our coun-
trymen did it, noble men and noble
women did it, and to day, gentlemen,
we are fighting for the same cause,
and the same ideas aIe on our banners
q 5ov and ve can ask the suDport of