New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-02
IN INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS.

TIE TRIBUNE's readers will be glad this
morning to peruse n Fourth-of-July speech which
President Cleveland will deliver next Wednesday
1t consists principally of a lucid and timely eX
PLANTATION of Mr.. Clevelands whereabouts during
the war, and is as follows:
Fellow Soldiers: understand that the opposition
this early I'm the campaign is asking where L was
during the late They inquire what was do
Ing during the sad interruption. l say to them
and l say to you, gentlemen, that during the I'M
pleasantncss there is secret concerning my where
abouts Gentlemen, faced tho horrors Of intestine
strife and the draft in Buffalo, New-York. / ex-
perenccd tho bitterness Of civil war, gentlemen, In
the city OF Buffalo, Erie County, New-York.
Gentlemen, / can prove that / in Buffalo,
New-York. There Is question but that was In
Buffalo, New York. They themselves know l was
in buffalo, NcwYork And still they ask soornfully.
Where he? Where was Grover Cleveland dur
ing the war, they inquire. as II 1 might have been
In Syracuse, or Utica, or Rome, or Athens or Damas
Gus or Bagdad. Gentlemen, the proof is over
whcming that during that terrible four years. when
brothers hand turned against brother, when
the father camped the trail of the son. when the
nephew had a long knife up his sleeve for the uncle
the proof Is absolutely positive, gentlemen, that
during this dark time / in Buffalo, New-York
And stll they ask I'm hollow accents, Where
he?
Them In those black days, when blood ran In this
fair land like water when life after life being
given up, when the safety OF this great Republic
trcmblcd I'm the balance, then, in this darkest hour
| say, with death, and desolation, and blackness
settling like pail over us, then, repeat, with all
this came the horrors of the draft IL rolled along
and fair Buffalo like poisonous, pcstilent wind
and had TO pay S400 for a substitute
Gentlemen, talk you please but $4oO doesn't grow
on every bush. During that terrible four years tho
terrible any country the face OF the globe ever
experienced, many gave his life, many a wife
gave her husband, many a mother gave her son but
look at mc-stacling up S40o for a substituted
All honor to that man, that wife, that mother, say .
but don't forget that humble resident OF Buffalo, New
York, who went down In his brooches pocket for $500
And still they ask with cheap sheer, Where was
he during those four years did he go to the front
Gentlemen, he had to got to the front with that S40O
Where was he during them four years, hey 2
Hustling for 800 to buy mercenary substituted
told him II he man no ought to be willing
TO fight for his country for $50. or $50 at the outside
but It didn't move him.
Again, the opposition says that took interest I'm
the WAR; They claim that sat at Buffalo with my
feet Oh my DESK and said these internal strfes always
made me tired. Gentlemen, It gives mo the most ex-
quIste pleasure to say that have the proof of the
falsi,y of this charge in black and white. hold In
my hand letter written by to my substitute, which
VIII read you:
Buffalo. N. " October 10. 1868
GEORGE BRINSKE, on the Bloody Field
Ny Dear George; Your letter again complaining that
OF the quarters and halves among the money
you up that 300 punched Is received.
sorry have not the plugs which came out OF the holes,
otherwise would gladly forward them to ytu.
Pop II to the enemy. Gscrge Don't let him get the
upper hand of you Make it hot for him Jump on him.