Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
The Hancock Veterans.

The Executive Committee of the Ma
.tiOnal Association OF Hancock Veterans
recently met in New York and agreed
upon the following address:
Veterans of the Union:
Nearly twenty years have passed since 2
bloody civil war began in which you LOOK par.
and maintain the supremacy OF the FederA
laws. After four years of alternate defeat and
nevertheless did not follow. The dominant
political part. assuming the the, merit OF
Courage, by keeping alive sectional Bit
.terness between the victors and the van
an.he Up 70 MAKE yenf poWer
In the 'uth this was done by the harrassing
course Of the car2et-5aggers, by the inguisiee
United states soldiers, VINO were used to in
,timidate citizen, at the polls and to lock the
doors of LEGISLATION again 1t legally elected rep
done by p ,rsi 'teat misrepresentation OF the
acs and attitude of the southern people, by
The surveillance of Supervisors Of Elections,
and by the arbitrary authority of Marshals,
who d 4ygel or ierly and innocent men from
the po.is t. prisons to prevent this free exer.
else Of the elective franchise, and by blatant
charges of dislOyaty against the one-legged
and one-armed sodisrs who had dared
TO assert that in the war for the Union they
mad not fought for four years to strike the
shackles from the slave and weld them into
mans cle5 for freemen. A reaction from this
c,nf ton of things was inevitable among a
people who Inherited liberty. AMI the eyes of
the North and the South have at length been
open d. The North has proposed to settle the
sectional feeling which the dominant political
party has VIGOROUSLY and selhshiy kept alive.
by taking as candidate for Pre- sident one of
our own Generals-a 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 a ruler has been shown in his Or
ders and in the administration of complicated
civil duties. When invested with vast and
arbitrary power, he refused to be tho tool of
tyrasny, AMI to use it against people who
were c;ushe !: a man, in snort: wnose mod
likewise, to show that it accepts all the lcgit-
innate esnlts of the war and desires that true
fratern Il feeling be re-estabiished, has asked
us as with single voice, to give them as
President the sturdiest fighter among our
Union Generals-a man on whose justice t they
above the exercise OF despotlc military
power.
givenus the man who combines in himself all
these re Juirements. General Winfield Scott
the man for the hour. Under his lead let all
Union veterans again touch elbows and the
bloodless battle won, true Liberty and true
~pccc will be ours once more. Let those boast
of patriotism who have reycled in power and
the spoils of Office for twenty years. yet never
heard the sound of hostile bullets on the bat
best prove your love of the Republic put the
seal 10 your labors by placing your gallant and
Nation, so that the bones of your comrades
who died for liberty. unity and peace, may not
vain WfllteL the Dattle-ncIdS OF the country.
.re do this, ignore the lines of party. and let
L the blue and the gray forever fade from our
sight as colors of opposing forces. Our own
& loved banner gives us all the cOlOrS we need,
- and over us hereafter may the
Flag of feedom and union wave;
Peace and order and beauty draw
Round its symbols of right and law,
And eveEthe stars above look down
On the Stars below in our banners crown.
And we shall then know that the stars which
represents the States of the Union, like the
stars of the heavenly constellation, will be for
ever and inseparaby united, although each
shines with its own light. Comrades, let our
charge and with us shall rest, at last, the
browning victory.
VIM. F. SMITH, Chairman.
James McQuade, Duncan s. Walker, M. q.
Mcmahon, Francis Darr, George M. Sauer, T..
Kilby Smith, st. Clair A. Mulhoand, p. M
HaveIty, G. G. Wheeler, Finley Anderson,
Executive Committee.