Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-27
energy winch have always been crowned

energy which have always been crowned
with success 1t appeals to you
| again for aid in contest involving
| the public honor and prosperity, and the
continued tranquility Of the Union. No
| party in the 100 years Of our National life
4 welfare OF the country by its patriotism, its
| tirmness and its perseverance. II upheld the
| Government and saved the Union from dis
| solution; it abolished slavery and obliter-
| ated forever the only blot on the National
escutcheon. In eleven years, by its dnan.
| cial management, 1t has paid off 500, 600 ,0OC
| OF the debt contracted for the preservation
OF the Union. | conjure you by these tri-
| umphant achievements OF the last sixteen
| years; by the remembrance Of your heroic
| comrades who are s1umbering in honorable
| graves, and by the memory of the martyred
| Lincoln, underiwhose guidance in saving the
| Union and abolishing slavery we achieved
the greatest of all human victories; by all
| these brilliant secollections conjure you to
stand by the party which was inspired and
ennobled by his example and the cause which
was consecratea by his blood. Your fellow
citizen, comrade and friend,
JOHN A. DIX.
SPEECH BY GEN. LOGAN.
Gen. Logan then came forward and ad-
dressed his old comrades in the following
words:
Comrades shall respond but moment
to your call While the Committee can COM
pare their report. We have met here to-day
as fellow-soldiers who have served in the
same great cause and as fellow citizens, but
have been surprised to hear it remarked as
reproach that this is political meeting.
suppose it is! Who have greater right to
meet together and consult together in re-
gard TO the political future Of their country
than the men who in its hour of direst
calamity stood forth for the flag and the
Constitution AMI fought treason to the death,
swearing that this Republic shall live and
be for the benefit Of all? Great cheers. !
Why shall we not consult together? Does
any one charge that we hold political
meeting? l answer yes, and have right
to do so. The soldiers who fought, and
who are still faithful, who are not soured
by petty personal grievances, have met to
ratify the nomination of one Of their COM
rades, the honest, faithful, patriotic and
brave soldiog Rutherford b. Hayes.
When they say soldiers have no right
to meet and express their views on
the political condition of the country, you
have but to ask them when the country was
severed by traitors, the Treasury plundered,
the army destroyed, and navy scattered, who
then came at the call OF the President to
save the Government? Whose strong arms
steadied the mighty fabric when its great
pillars rocked and tottercd. In that hour
OF supreme tfial the soldier citizens who
rescued the Nation earned the right that
never should he questioned to consult and
to be heard in regard to our National Affairs.
For this only are we here to-day. Look at
this mighty assemblage Of soldiers to ratif y
the nomination of Hayes and Wheeler, and
look across the Ohio River at such = meet
ing Of soldiers as would ratify the nomina-
ton Of Tilden and Hendricks. OF what IA
tcrial would that soldiers political meeting
be made up? Of rebels, OF conquered trail :
tors, OF broken down secessionists, OF Old
negrotraders, of every sort OF enemies OF
the country.
We are told to let bygones be by.
cones, and look at the future. Yes,
but upon one condition. When the
men who tried to destroy the Government,
to tear up the flag, to trample the Constitu-
ton under foot shall become law abiding
and love the flag, and obey The Constitution
and all its amendments, and protect every
citizen, white or black in all his rights, and
say, We have had enough Of war, and trea-
son and murder" then, and not till then,
shall we shake hands across the bloody
chasm. Talk about their being satisfied
with the Constitutional amendments and the
condition OF the country as union of free
citizens with equal rights! 1t is a mere
sham They present no candidates who ever
iuupl Stu II htpuDlttdt ltltaNult, VI uliiiCiNi
the cause Of tie Union during the War or
since the War They opposed every law
that gave freedom or guaranteed it; that
conferred the right to vote or protected the
ballot box. They now pretend To acquiesce
in the great enactments of freedom that they
may get control and leave those very meas
ures null and fruitless for want of legisla-
ton to carry them ont Their declara-
tons now are as misleading as they
were during the War. They have
nominated Mr.. Tilden for President. What
did he ever do to suppress the Rebellion?
Nothing And Mr. Hendricks for Nice-Pres-
ident. What did he ever do to encourage
men to fight for their country, or what vote
did he ever cast for law or Constitutional
amendment giving their rights to the people
We demand not empty professions, but
earnest men whose lives prove their devo-
ton to their country in its extremity uch
rs Gen. Hayes What Union speech had Til
den ever made? 1t is said that a newsboy
created Il sensation in the streets of New
York one day during the war by crying,
Here's your Herald Great Union speech
of Samuel j, Tilden," The first man caught
at the paper, ran it over in vain for the
speech, aud said to the boy, You are cheat
ing me Where is the speech? There's not
word here" but the boy answered
"That's all that Mr.. Tilden ever said on the
subject Who are their Union Demo
eratsy Who are the Democratic soldiers
This morning gentleman who was
supposed to be a Democrat remarked
in a harber-Shop. This is big meeting
but we are going to have a grand Democrat
ic soldiers meeting soon" What" said
the simplc-minded barber, " Is the Confcd
crate army coming up here?'
Compare the two parties in this great
struggle for the Government between those
who tried to destroy and those who saved it.
/ The demand TO hand it over 10 its enemies i:
| like that of an unsuccessful incendiary TO b,
1 put ON guard over house he has tried tt
/ IRE in place OF the man who is protecting il
against him.
Gen. Logan recalled to his hearers thu
glorious memories of the war, aud APP
/ pGalcd to them to never forget the lessor
/ it sought; never confuse loyalty with trea