The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-08-30
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cares TOR his country out of all fellow
ship with it and the party in whose
name and by one of whose leading
members il was made. Hill, in that
speech defended Andersonville and the
atrocious treatment of Union prisoners
in the Southern prison hells. Could
endorse that and still remember my
own comrades who suffered in them
more than death and hell? Can any
party succeed which even tacitly en-.
dorses such sentiments as these Hill
also said in that speech, "We went out
of the Union hugging the Constitution
and we came back into the Union hug.
ging it." What a hug That was
what they went out for not to be reb-
els, but to "hug the Constitution" "--oI
.ths Union they we're trying SO hard to
destroy. l have seen them when they
were doing this "hugging." remem-
Der one morning in April, 1862, the
first day of the battle Of Shilo oh, as the
rebel troops came bearing down upon
us, that l assembled an elevation to
watch them through a field glass as
they came. 1t was grand sight as
they came liz three columns, with their
muskets at "right shoulder shift
that form in which an army Iooks the
grandest, and by which it always ap-
pears to have three times its actual
strength. There was blaze and shine
of glory on those advancing columns
that | took to be the lustre and shine
of bayonets in the sun. But l Judge
now, since Hills speech, that it was
not bayonets they were bearing, but
Constitutions which they were carry
ing along and hugging.
| saw them doing a good deal of
hugging, these rebels who were not
rebels, but simply Constitution hug
gers" The boys who are here before
me, who were with me at Donelson,
saw some of it there. What patriots
they we're, doing so much for ''the
Constitution of our common country !"
Gen. Tuttle then referred to the fact
that since he had announced his deter
mination to leave the Democratic par
ty, he had received hundreds of anon
ymous letters abusing him in the foul
est language, which were written by
copperheads throughout the States of
Iowa and Missouri, and then proceeded
to speak of
THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
That convention did not look as
though treason was an odious thing,
nor that rebels were any the less to be
honored than patriots. That gather
ing proved again what the Democratic
House had already proved, that the
old rebel clement is running the Dem
ocratic party, aud that its whole hope
of successor is staked on their solid sup
port They were all there at st. Louis,
and were the lions of the day, especial
ly honored and cheered by the con-
yention, and especially honored and
lionized by the same gang of rebels
who were spouting treason aud abusing
soldiers there in 1861, as we were GO
ing to the front, and who we're talking
the same treason when | was there two
years ago. Why is it that the nomi-
nation of Tilden has so revived and
reinspired the old rebel element.
Why so much more so than the can
didacy of Greeley four years ago, when
there was some hope for new party
and the death for good of the old De-
You can answer as we'll as
| can. 1t looks like they knew their
man. The alarming demonstrations
daily developing in the South would
look like it. l see that the Leader in
my old friend Peter Myers,
now living in Missouri, to-day, and
that Peter says that the stories Of rails
ing the rebel flag in Missouri, are un-
true. l hope they are. But the re-
ports seem to be well authenticated,
aud l fear some Of them are too true.
For the people to do these things
would be bad, but not so bad, we must
remember, as was the rebel speech of
Ben Hill in Congress, so heartily
cheered by his Democratic colleagues,
and so wildly applauded in the South.
That speech let me refer to again
moment. The Democrats and Demo.
cratic press now say they do not in
1ogse this speech. But they cbeered !
It when it was made in the House, and !
the South cheered it, and their denun-
citation Of it now is not so much de-
nunciation of the spirit of it as of his
ImprudeEce in making it.
GOOD BYE DEMOCRACY.
And now, in conclusion, as to the |
reason why l have not left the Demo
cratic party sooner. They say want
ofice, ahR that l have wanted office.
If l had, gentlemen, would have left !
.he Democratic party years ago, for it |
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