Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-08-08

The following is from a speech of
Hon Edwin NJ. Stanton, whom Sumner
uses as post n.ortuns witness against
General Grant:
"And now I ask what reason has
any man to vote against General Grant? His
capacity and integrity for civil administration
were equally manifested in tho vast territory
IN which he operated. If any man among
you would hide from tho boy, tho musket and
knapsack that his father carried at Vicksburg,
upon Lookout Mountain, throughout tho VIII
derness, before Richmond, at Five Forks, at
ApPomattox Courthouse, and shoulde ring
proudly, marched with two hundred thousand
Of his tellow-soldiers through the streets Of
Washington, and around the Capitol and Elk.
ecative Mansion that he defended with his
life, for years. in the long march, the weari-
some siege, and the storm OF baltic, lot such
man vote against General Grant. [Applause.1
II there Is any man among you who would
blot FROM the page Of our history tho story Of
these great achievements, let him draw black
lines around them aud write across their ,aco,
" Have no share in these great deeds, for
vote again.t Grant" (Applausc.]
Is there any man among you that would
compel the armies Of the Potomac, Of tho
James, of the Ohio, Of the Cumberland, Of the
Tennessee,a and Of the Gulf,to be again gathered
at tho tap Of tho drum, and surrendered, as
prisoners Of war, to johnson, Beaurogard and
Fo1est,"nd Preston, lot him vote against Grant.
Applause .. ..,.1
Ii there is any man among you who has for
gotten that bright summer Sabbath day the
little Monitor, as she steamed out against the
new sen monster, the Merrimac, and, before
noon, drove her, shattered and crippled, to
port; ii thero il any man who would have re-
joiced to behold cannon ball chatter Ferra
gut, a., !ashcd to his mast, he drove through
the rebel feet, aud pushed them TO pieces, let
that man vote against Grant.
If any man would have Worlcn, aud Farra-
gut, and Winslow, and all our great admirals
haul down the star spangled banner, never
| again to brave tho baltic and tho breeze; If
he would see them stink in shame from their
own quartcrde aud give up their ships TO
Maury, and Buchanan, and Scmmcs, and Moi
fat, while the Confederate bars, emblcms OF
slavery, aaunt on every sea, in every
State, let him vote against Grant. Vote
carly and vote often; for if Grant be elected
this globe shall disappear from the armament
suffer tarnish or shame on tho land or on the
deep. (Applausc.]
If there is any man among you that would
reverse the order Of history; who would bring
upon you shame and rcproach never before
known among the nations of the Garth; who
! would have the commander Of tho United
| States armies deliver mp his sword and hum
bly, bow before the rebel communicates that
man vote against Grant, but mover again cal
himself an American citizen. [Applause.]
II there is any man whose % c-balls would
not burn to behold Lee upon the portico of tn.
Capitol, with Beauregard, Preston, and For
rest At his side, with Confederate army
around him, and, Is the Government is trans
ferred to them, listen to the rebel yell rs i
eounds on the field Of battle and in tho New
York convention. [loud eheers,] let such ,
then, repeat, should any lover of bis coun
try vote against Grant, Colfax, aud tho Re
publican members Of Congress?