The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-20


dental Office seemed more and more a
and perquisite, this dying |
judgment of the great citizen who knew
him SO well haunted me constantly day |
and night, and now communicate it to
my country, feeling that it is a legacy
which | have no right to withhold Be-
yond the intrinsic interest from its au-
thor, it is not without value as testimony
in considering how the President could
have been led into that Quixotism of
personal pretension which it is my duty
to expose.
This pretended interview carries upon
its very face the earmarks of falsehood,
and in all its parts gives unmistakablc
evidence that Mr.. Summers only inten-
tion was, to make the silence of Mr..
Stanton's tomb give voice, and point,
and poignancy to his, Summers, hate
and Jealousy. Saying nothing of the
unapswerable replies of Messrs. Csrpen-
ter and Logan we will let Mr.. Stanton
reply for himself from Steubenville,
Ohio, Sept. 25, 1868:
SPEECH OF MR.. STANTON.
Friends and Fellow Citizeus:-The
time is rapidly approaching when you
will be called upon to choose whom you
will trust with the chief executive
power of this nation for the next four
years, and who shall exercise the law
making power as your Representatives
in Congress during the next Congress
sional term. You have never made a
choice so important to yourselves, to
your country and to mankind, for upon
it may rest the chance Of peace or of
war of domestic tranquility or civil dis
cord, of freedom or of slavery-in
short, of all the blessings that can follow
good government or the evils that bad
government can infict upon the human
race. AT the last Presidential election
the country was in she midst of bloody
war, and had for three years been
struggling in resistance against rebellion.
The fortune of war was so varied that
some patriots began to feel doubtful as
to the result. Others were hopeless.
While on the one hand rebels strove in
military power, and, encouraged by the
sympathy of their friends in the North
ern and Western States, were bold and
defiant, and boasted that they only
needed for their final success that their
friends in the Northern States should
carry the Presidential election, these
friends, who had resisted the war at
every stage, were equally bold and con-
fident in their expectations that their
hour of triumph was at haud. But
these hopes and expectations were
doomed to ignominious overthrow at the
polls by the election of Abraham Lin
coin, and on the field OF battle by our
armies under the command Of General
Grant. [Applause.] Overwhelmed by
these disasters, political and military,
the rebels gave up in despair, declared
their cause the "lost cause" and humbly
sued for life, liberty and property, pro-
Tossing to be deeply grateful for the gen
CTOuS terms tIdl were UuGGGu.
THE MEASURES OF MR.. LINCOLN.
The measures of Mr.. Lincoln to de.
fend the Government received the high.
est sanction. The Governors and Legis.
latures of the loyal States wed with
each other in urging enlistments. Con
gress, at its first session, voted an army
OF five hundred thousand men, and five
hundred million dollars to support them
Tie people focked from their houses by
thousands and thousands to Join the
army. The soldiers in every camp, from
the Mississippi to the Rapidan, from
every corps, brigade, regiment and
company, shouted to their brethren a
home to stand by their Government ant
rally round the flag. The measures o
defense were not without opposition, fol
about the very time that Sherman ant
his army were forcing their way owe
the Notifications and intrenchments a
Atlanta, the Convention at Chicago de
clared the war to be failure, aud de
manded the cessation of hostiities
t This made a plain and broad issue, an,
very soon became the great issue of tn
Presidential canvass. The resul. was de
cisive. Twenty-one States, ,213 electoria
, votes, over two millions of people SUP
/ ported the Government. Applause] ]
The estimate of Gen. Grant upo
| this result is expressed in the followin
= telegram:
7 CITY POINT, Nov. 10, 1864-10| p. m.
, To Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War:
p Enough now seems te be known who is
hold the rens of Government for the mex
fonr years. Congratulate the President fc
: this double victory [Applause,] Th
S election having passed off quietly, with L
/ bloOdshed or riot throughout The land, is
+ victory worth more to the country than
battle won. Rebellion and Europe wi
consider it so.
(Signed,) U. S. GRANT,
d Lieutenant General.
/ IApplause.]
TIE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
. Encouraged thus by the people, |
e the army, and by the great commando
D on the lst of January, 1864, Abraha
e Lincoln struck a blow at the roots
e the rebellion, by the Emancipatic
!, Proclamation, liberating four millions
% slaves, Strengthening our army and ca
e rying dismay into the hearts of Il
p rebels [Cheers.] The full effect of tn
u great measure was not appreciated un
it near the close of the war, but mo-
j, when the restoration of slavery is