The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-10-19
Hancock and L0ngstrecta at Gettys-
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Extract from the Speech Of Hon. G. s.. May
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- Gentlemen, Rspublicans.. you like TO
talk about The past. Go back with. me
seventeen. years sfrOm the early July days
sofsthis peaceful summer. ltis. The ever
tor beiremembered battle summer oi 1853
7-it is sbe climax and crisis of the war
Lee. With tie pick and flower Of the
rebel army, flushed with many victorits,
is on lhs soifs Or Pennsylyania and join.
Ing battle with our tired, wasted, bui
heroic Afmy OF the Potomac at Getty g.
burg. 1T is tire third day Of the terrific
conflict and the awful thunders of four
hundred cannon have shaken for, hours
the solid hillsides and blinded the July
sun with their smoke. In that valley OF
death between those belching furnaces
/ eff firetwenty thousand rebels are mass
ing to charge The Union lines A swar.
thy, black bearded chief,ain directs them
and rides at their head. The very
ground tiembles beneath them to that
|revefbsfaiing cannonade, the terrible
missiles Of war leap from. iron threats
and : follow those hehlning flashes in
that awful hell OF battle and the Union
lines, from Round Top TO Cemetery
Hill, areswept by the tempest of shot
1 and shell. X. s'ess 50 ~ fe
Now straight on the Union left center
that black bearded rebel leads the twen-
ty thousand. On, over The dying and
1.-THE dead-on, through the smoke and
fame he leads. them--on aud up the
hillside to the very mouths Of our can
non Will he succeed7 Will he break
four iines2 'SGod Of Mercy! ifsbe does,
our cau&e is lost! The capital will fall,
Lees iegions will be in Philadelphia to-
morr0w--lhey will exact tribute in Wall
\ streetstie day afiert All Europe and
fthe world will acknowledge ,he South
! ern Eonfederscy! 1t is supreme NO
ment,s ,sffeighted withs;a great nalion's 8
fIife. ~ God OF battles! will he, succeed
IiBut fV6k'tbefe, to our Union lines. and
see 1hat msgni6cent officer riding along
'ttheir SfOns! How cool be is, hoW splen-
did kfs,mien, how majestic his bearing
Is hesa god Of var descended from the
clouds. for orr deliverancef Will he
save psf @. Union men 40 On xious.
lpatri4t hearis. in far-off States and
'fhoinss, Whit an hour and scene is this
Yes,he will save us! '"Steady, boys
. stand sdrml. There 4ttey come" And
ON. they sweep like the mighty waves OF
1.-THE sea, like wars tempest and whirl-
wind e "Now,' ffe!'-and from that
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line Of Union :nuskets pours
ftheaaESuh hail-as;deafening roar and
crsskapd lightning fame and binding
SMOKE that flls the air and shuts out the
shuddering earth! When that curtain
Of smoke lifted the twenty thousand
rebeis, with The swafthy c6ieftain at
their head, were gone-swept from that
immortal hillside like chaff before. The
whihwind- and the hero who had saved
thsiday lay wounded. sand bleeding ON
the field. "Ride to General Meade" he
family said, land tell him that the troops
under my command have won a great
victory and the enemy in our front .is in
full retreat."s a.. - So :.
That magnificent hero who thus saved
the capital and the Union ON that blood
red day was Hancock, ''the snpeib'--
the Democratic candidate for President
this year--0a- candidate, our General.
And the black -hearded, swarthy rebel
who led that well-nigh fatal charge was
Lopgstteet, Republican Longstreet-
your General, your Minister to Turkey {!