Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-08-15
The Pittsburgh Soldiers and Sail
orss Convention,
HEADQUARTERS VETERANS NATIoNA
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NEW YORK CITY, July s. ". 4 D.
10 tse Soldiers and Sailors a0ho served in
the Union -Arzsy aad NoUy during the
CoMRADEsHThe undersigned, COM
mittee appointed for the purpose, by a
meeting of veterans from all sections OF
the country who were assembled in
Philadelphia upon the 9Th day of June,
in attendance iponthe Republican Ma
tional Convention, and which meet
ing unanimously resolved to abide by
and support the nominations of said
Convention, hereby invite you to meet
in mass convention at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th day of September, 1872, for
the purpose of expressing our unre-
served believed that the destinies of this
country for the ensuing four years
should be under the protection of men
who never faltered in the hour of our
country's great danger. We believe
that men should be placed in high po-
sitions of State, who, in the hour of our
greatest peril, gave that intellect, per-
sonal reputation and personal faith in
the justness Of our cause, which was
necessary to save the country and place
us in the position we now occupy.
We congratulate ourselves upon the
fact that the Government during the
past three and one-haf years, has been
administered by one Of comrades,
who has shown wonderful civil capacity
in aiding insIhe reduction Of the public
debt, in conducting our foreign affairs
with great skill, SO that we now stand
at peace with the whole world, and ia
preserving peace, in sections of our
country where sentiments were enter
tained calculated to disturb the reorgan-
ization of the States lately in rebellion.
We have full faith in him as a peaceful
man, because, had he felf disposed to
exercise his power. as q personal Gov
ernor, he would have done it while
nearly a million Of MEN we're in arms
and under his command, instead Ofaid-
ing, as he did, the rapid reduction OF
the army to peace footing. u. We be-
lieve .hiIn to be honest, capable ano
We believe il will be a source Of
pleasure to all who, battled for the
Union. TO meet once more and revive
the rneIfiories -four old campaigns. -
Webelieve that an expression or the
feelings and opinions Of those who de-
Tended the nation on land and sea
would at this time be most oppOrtune.
We believe that such an expression
would be regarded by alLright-tfiinkIng
men us one proper TO be made, and that
it would be productive of the most BEN
eficiai results. pt-qsrsf lAr t-1osss u
We believe that our comrades univer-
sally. desire that such measures shall
prevail as will secure the greatest posi-
bic happiness and prosperity of the
whole people. ~
We believe that our country's old de-
Tenders are aetuated by no partisan or
lactious motives, but are in favor of
good government, purity Of public men
and measures, and the elevation and
d. fieation of our institutions.
We believe that while all the old vet
Grams are loyalists in the extreme, and
utterly opposed to any doctrine which
would tend in the slightest degree to
revive the heresy ofiseeession, they are
desir0us of extending charity and full
forgiveness to al of their former enc
mics in the field who now recognize
or who may hereafter recognize the
great wrong that they have done to our
country. 4.trfs
believing, as we do, that great good
will result from the meeting proposed,
we most cordially and earnestly invite
ali our former comrades to meet with
us at Pittsburgh, on the tenth anniver-
sary ofthe battle of Antietam, Septem-
Let us come together again, as we did