Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-03
THE VETS. TO THE FRONT.

AO0TeSS OF Me 6cecIctU6 committees or the
National Association of Hancock Yet
Grams.
The following address has been issued BY
the executive committee of the National As
sociation of Hancock Veterans:
VETERANS OF THE UNION: Nearly twenty
years have passed since bloody civil war
began in which you took part, in order to
preserve the integrity of the Union and
maintain the supremacy of the federal laws.
After four years of alternate defeat and vic
tory actual fighting ceased, but peace, never
theless, did not follow. The dominant DO
itical party, assuming the merit of success
achieved by your toll and your courage, by
keeping alive sectional bitterness between
the yictors and the vauquished, attempted to
make your deeds the foundation of their
own permanent power.
In the South this was done by the course
of the carpet baggers, by the inquisitons of
provost marshals and by means of United
States soldiers who were used to intimidate
citizens at the polls, and to lock the doors of
legislatures against legally elected represen-
tatiyes of the people. In the North it was
done by persistent Misrepresentation of the
acts and attitude of the Southern people, By
the surveillance of supervisors of elections,
and by the arbitrary authority of marshals
who dragged orderly and innocent men from
the polls to prisons to prevent their free ex-
ercise of the elective franchise, and by bla-
tant charges of disloyalty against
the one-legged and one
armed soldiers who had dared to assert
that in the war for the Union they had not
fought for years to strike the shackles from
the slave and weld them into manacIes for
A reaction from this condition of things
was inevitable among the people who inner.
tied liberty, and the eyes of the North and
the South have been at length opened. The
North has proposed to settle the sectional
feeling which the dominant political party
has wantonly and selfshly kept alive BY
taking as candidate for President one of her
own generals, man whose loyalty to the
Union has been shown in four years of march
and battle, and in shedding his blood amid the
clash of crossing bayonets, whose capacity as q
ruler has been shown in his orders and
in the administration of complicated civil
duties, when, instead, with vast and arbi-
trary powers, he refused to be the tool of
tyranny and to use it against people who
we're crushed; mrn, in short, whose "mod-
GRAFTON is known to all men," The South,
likewise, to show that it acceps all the legiti-
mate results of the war, and desires that
true fraternal feelings be re-established, has
asked US with single voice to give them for
President the sturdiest fighter among
our Union Generals A man on whose ius-
tice they can rely, and who places the rights
of freemen above the exercise of despotio
military power.
In this crisis of the nation Providence has
given Us the man who combines in himself
all these requirements.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, our candi-
date for the Presidency, is the man for the
hour. Under his lead, let all union veterans
again "touch elbows" and the bloodless
battle won, true liberty aud true peace will
be ours once more. Let those boast of pat
riotism who have reyeled in power and the
spoils of Office for twenty years, yet
never heard the sound of hostile bullets on
the battle field; but do you, whose tolls and
wounds best prove your love of the republic,
put the seal to your labors by placing your
gallant and skillful leader in the executive
chair of the nation, so that the bones of your
comrades who died for liberty, unity and
peace may not in vain have whitened the
OoeUAoAA0kAo Va eAO OVuASIys IL w bul5,
more the lines Of party and let the blue and
the gray forever fade from our sight as colors
of opposing forces. Our own loved banner
gives rs all the colors we need, and over Us
hereafter may the
Flag of freedom and Union wave;
Peace and order and beauty draw
Round its symbols of light and law.
And ever the stars above look down
On the stars below in our banners crown,
And we shall then know that the state
which represent the States of the Union,
like the stars of the heavenly constellation,
will be forever and inseparably united, al
though each shines with its own light,
Comrades, let our music be f.of the
Union," and our steps "the CHARGE and
with US shall rest at last the enduring VIC
tory.
(Signed) w. F. SMITH, Chairman,
JAMES MoQUADE,
DUNCAN 8. WALKER,
M. T. MoMAHoN,
FRANCES DARR,
GEORGE w. SARER,
T. KELLY SMITH,
s. ST. CLAIR A. MULHoLLANp,
X P. M. HAMPro,
G. G. WHEHLER,
aaa FINDLEY ANDERSON,
Executive Committee.
The commander of the United States steam
ship Jamestown, writes from Alaska that not
over 200 Indians of both sexes and all acea re.