, 1880-07-25
GEN. N, 2. BANKS.

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ADDRESS OF THE D1sTISGI1sIIEp MAssACHusEyrs
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The meeting was called e order BY State SEN
ator W. }. Campbell, who Nominated Mr.. Her
mann l.ustcr as ChairmAn amid loud applause.
MF: Haster, WHO sWhs received with cheers,
Low-C111zRNs: II cannot show my graft
tude for the honor which you have conferred
upon me in any better nanner than by resisting
a1toeether the. temntation TO make d speech my
telf. GApplausel J.. 1shall contne myself to In
PRODUCING to yo,+ the distinguished orators OF
this evening: H1t 0t 0 them IS Cen. Nathaniel
P-'Banks, Of Masssae;ahkeetts: LOUD applause:]
Gen. Banks addressed the assemblare Us fol-
lows: ;:s7 ~, = t-''. = . .. -
Me-. :RHEsInEsr AND FELLOW CITIZENS: The
Republican purity Of this country was never as
cheer1nEl 1t was never 50 strong as It'll this
hour. :lC1ies Of Good and renewed, ep-
planse.1 Il was never. SO certain of victory in
plause.] Our friends OIL the other side assume
great confidence, and heard II faint cheer here
1nd there as came along with my friends. your
victory. They afe always sure about this time.
daughter. and Applnuse.1 It never lasts more
than week or fortnight later after the nomi-
nation than this Isl remember in 1S68,-you
may remember l668,--an evcutfut year,--when
thqy. had q convention that held them t0gther for
ivedays, and they checrcd Justify the whole timc
and, at the last moment, sprung nomination
which they thought was going to carry the
whole country; and it did look then, for mo-
sns Or Is fS%e JSi ger md
months Of that election the aplest Democratic
paper in the United States demanded that they
people had not taken him down, as bellows.
they you'd have d,sowned him. And would
not wonder if It was tho same now. Rut,
low-ctta5ens, neutrality-suspicious. of Illinois
and Of, the, United States, do: not
come, here 10 chat, ,:or 70 jibc, OF to make any
unpleasant or even humorous remarks In regard
topur: opponents. but to speak OF the solid und
solemn affairs Of our country at this time and
mome9f in which YOU an young and old, men
perpetuaily interested. 1t Is not the first time
1,haye been iu Chicag9 II ls5g was here. |
few persons; nothing 70 ocoupy my time and
walked aruund this. little city in 1866. do not
know now where there IS au eagle with wing Of
one. day. Aud when l. spoke to the people OF
Chicago 10 the eveqing, in, what was then
expressed the: @opinion from the
sincerity Of my heart. from what had seen my
self that duv. thar Chicago was bound to be the
Ercntt>t city Ot this continent, and OF the world.
tApI,iaust.] My stay,then WITS brief one; In
Isl! came here again, cA1ne for another pur7
pose Il seemed 10 me then that .h i !, might be.
this part uf the country. and. locking back. do
not know but might have been somebody ii, I
GnQ continued III TINT opportunity ana TINT
ohunco. [LauGhrar.] :: After: / had been here
thrue or four weeks, received telegram from
the Sccretury,or War announcing TINT my ;, :.
: PRESENCE WAS sEoCIKED 1MAEp1ATELY
IN the City bf Washington. kept that Telegram
ten days in my pocket without showing it 20
human being, uFsn uf my own family, and thon
Thought IL necessary tn exhibit It to the gentle
naah with whom. I was associated in one Of the
-:nnd he -said it Was my duty
o. go to WASHINGTON. went 10 Washington,
and ] never c:inie back until now. except
to, pass through ;yonr;:l city once in q
while in: q railway trnin or to stop q
few hours; tu une Of your magnificent pal-
acc hotels. When I went to Washington was
invited, to take commission in the army. Idid
not: seek. it: /, did not, want f. had no
heart for. Far., did >; not wish, TO
see~ our country involved In that trouble,
but the duty thar was imposed On mel accepted.
did the best could. i vent through the whole
of that struggle. as mapE OF those tnat l have
seen since ] have been here did with me, and
ca1nA olltat the end: ltNyas terrible struggle
am not going TO say much ABOUT it.-not much,
lasted the; better part Or four or fve Years. It
,oec1ts Ewo lives.> for. brpen jhazrts
fl more graves even than the shot. and shell Of
battle: The Government Of the United STATED |
p week or ten days EREu
hpRG Jut .Qf :::tts lTreasslry'r; the -'tioverns
Qentr najd:t SIX thousand nillions E OF dol.
81 Il stevens; : ahe: historian of tho Oonfederafe
tataaufE EA1neHca. .ats they were CALLED; declares
bat II COST the people, OF that SECTION ~of. -the
punf1t Hlpnc4 eleven thousand millions nf dol.
afatmaking aeVa1t 6e1 tRNs,aand 'niiIiins from
acse tWu llc,us alone. ! have no duubi-think-