The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-08-27

Veterans Of the Union:
Nearly twenty years have passed since a
hiOo1y civil war heuan I'm which you took part
IN order 20 preserve the integrity Of the onion
and maintain the supremacy OF the Federal
laws After four years Of alternate defeat and
victory actual lighting ceased. but peace
nevertheless did not follow. The dominant
political party. assuming the merit OF
success achieved By your tolls and your
courage, by Keeping alive sectional bit
terncss between the yictors and the van
pushed. attempted To make your deeds
the foundation Of their own permanent power
In the South this WAS done by the harrassing
course of the carpet-baggcrs. BY the inqusi-
tisns OF Provost Marshals. and by means OF
United States soldiers. who were used 10 in
tmidafe citizens al the polls and to lock the
doors 81 legislation against legally elected rep
scntntiyes 81 the people. In the North II was
done by persistent misrepresentation OF the
acts and attitude 81 the southern people. by
the surveillance OF Supervisors OF Elections,
and ~ the arbitrary authority Of Marshas.
who dragged orderly and innocent men from
the polls u prisons TO prevent this free exer-
else OF the elective franchise. and by blatant
charges 81 disloyalty against the. crc-Iegged
and one-armcd soldiers who had dared
% assert that IN the war for the Union they
had not fought for four years 10 strike the
shackles from the slave and weld them into
mAnacies for freetncn. A reaction from this
condition Of things was inevitable among a
People who inherited liberty, and the ewes of
the North and the south have az length been
opened. The North has proposed To settle the
sectional feeling which the dominant political
party has notOriOusly and sclfishly kept alive.
~ taking n candidate for President one Of
the Union has been shown In four years OF
march and battle. and IN shedding his blood
amid the clash OF crossing bayoncts: whose
capacity as "A ruler has Deen shown In his or
ders and In the administration OF complicated
civil duties When invested with vast and
arbitrary power, he refused "a he the tool Of
tyranny. and 20 use II against people who
were crushed. man. in short. whose mod
Grafton Is known unto all men, The south.
likewise. 70 show that II accepts all the lcgit-
Innate results 81 the war and desires that true
internal feeling be re-cStablished, has asked
" n with a single voice. 20 give them as
President the stlrtiiest fighter among our
Union Gcncrals-a man ON whose Justice they
can rely and who places the right OF freemen
power.
In this crisis Of the Nation Providence has
given us the man who combines in himself all
Hancock. our candidate for the Presidency il
the man for the hour. Under his lead let all
Union veterans again touch elbows and the
boodlcss battle won. true liberty and true
peace win be ours once more. Let those boast
Of patriotism who have resclcd I'm power and
the spoils 81 Office for twenty years. yet never
heard the sound Of hostile bullets on the bat
tlctcId: but do You. whose tolls and wounds
best prove your love OF the Republic, put the
seal 10 your labors by placing your gallant and
skilIfuf leader ia the Executive chair u the
Nation. so that the bones Of your comrades
who died for liberty. unity and peace. may not
IN vain whitcn the battls>f fields or the country.
To do this. ignore 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 us all the cOiors we need,
and over us hereafter may thc
Flag OF fccdum and union wave:
Peace aud order aud beauty draw
Round its symbols OF right and law,
And ever the stars above look down
On the stars below In our banners crown
And we shall then know that the stars which
the States OF the Union. like the
stars ~ the heavenly const citation, will be for
ever and inscpnruby united. although each
shines with its own light. Comrades, let our
music be 81 the Union and our step the
Charge and with us shall rest. at last, the
browning victory.
WV. r. SMITH. Chairman.
James McQuadc, Duncan :. walker NJ. n.
Francis Darr George NJ. Saucr. n.
kilby smith. -. clair A. Mulholland. r. NJ
IIavcrty. &. a. Wheeler, Finley Anderson,
Executive Committee.