The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-06-29
Tue Difference.

The marked difference between Charles
r. Buckalew and John +. Hsrtranft. in
an intellectual point Of view, was made
conspicuously, and, TO an intelligent
Republican, painfully manifest, in the
speeches which they delivered to the con-
ventions by which they were nominated.
We have already published Mr.. Bucka'
LEWIS admirable address, and it need not
be reproduced here. 1t was able. digni-
fed, and patriotic, and showed him to be
an honest man and an enlightened states
man The Philadelphia Press pronounced
it "a patriotic effort, and Cne which
carries Us back to the early days of the
Republic, when honesty and intelligence
were the standards Of fitness for Office
When Hartranft was nominated by the
'ring and rowdy" radical convention at
Harrisburg, the Philadelphia Inquirer, a
Republican paper, reported his speech as
follows:
Major General John F. Hartranft was then
introduced. This was signal for prolonged
applause and cheers AZ soon as order was
restored be commenced his remarks by thank
ing the audience for the fxttering reception,
and said he expected that he would often meet
his Philadelphia friends during the sumner
He felt, Without regard to himself, great
hopes of the ultimate result of the republican
ticket.
In 1868 it was necessary for the good of the
country that General Grant should be elected,
a -, al
private disappointment or greed of office be
hsves that il is not only a necessity that he
should be retained in Office, but q military
necessity He here begged the audience to
excuse him from any further remarks, and
bowing. returned to his seat on the stage
This imPromptu burst of eloquencs
reminds one of the lofty flights John w.
Geary, our "bullet>riddled" Governor, has
sometimes reached when he puts on his
highest airs of oratory and does his level
best to tickle the ears Of the groundIings.
Geary and Hartranft sArc1des ambo p
The offensive and disgusting part Of this
pueTile address is the declaration made by
John F. Hartranft, scren years after the
close of the rebellion, that Grant should
be retained in office as So military
necessity" Where is the honest and in
telligent Republican in the State who will
endorse such an infamous pretensei HART
ranft's own political friends in Congress
have since given it the lie BY passing, in
obedience to the laundering demand of
the Cincinnati Convention, an amnesty
bill, partial in its operation, but still
great advance in that direction. It does
not therefore become John F. Hartranft,
who superintended all the preliminary
preparations 70: the military murder of
Mrs. Surratt, now admitted to have been
an innocent woman, to attempt to revive
and perpetuate in all their intense bitter
ness the fierce animosities and burning
hatreds engendered between the North and
the South by the civil war, by making the
senselsss and demagogical assertion that
the reelection Of Grant is "military ne
ces.ity."
Military necessity is and always was
the plea Of tyrants, and in all ages has
boon the pretext for the commission of
the most hagrant assaults upon civil
liberty. In this country, aKd under
radical rule, it is nothing more nor less
than Grantism. 1t means the suspension
of the writ of ha6eas corpus and bayonet
rule in the South and all over the country
lit means oppression, and is the sum of
all political villainiea. The people will
spurn it, and neither Hartranft nor Grant
can ever thus make slaves either oe the
people of this State, or of the Union.