Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-05-16
the rebellion by force. He will ne
the Chicago candidate

the rebellion by force. He Will ne
the Chicago candidate
Sir" sad the president. tine
slightest knowledge Of arithme1lc
will prove to any man thar tne
rebel armies can not be destroy ed
with democratic strategy I5 would
sacrifice all the white men OF the
north TO do it There are now IN
the service OF the United States
200, 600 able bodied colored men,
most of them under arms, defend
ing and acquiring union territory.
The Democratic strategy demands
that these forces be disbanded, and
that the masters be conciliated by
restoring them to slavery. The
black men who now assist union
prisoners to escape, they are 10 be
converted into our enemies IN the
vain hope of gaining the good will
of their masters.
CAN'T CONCILIATE SOUTH
You can not conciliate the south
if you guarantee to them ultimate
success. And the experience of the
present war proves their success is
inevitable if you fling the compul-
sorry labor OF millions of black men
into thier side of the scale. Will
you give our enemies such military
advantages as insure success, and
then depend Oh coaxing, fattery
and concession to get them back
into the union. Abandon all posts
now garrisoned by black men; take
200, 900 from our side and put them
in the battlefelds or corn field
against us and we would be COM
PEELED to abandon the war in three
weeks.
We have to hold territory in in
clement and sickly places; where
are the Democrats to do this? It
was free fight, and the field was
open to the war Democrats TO put
down this rebellion by fighting
against both master and slave long
before the present policy was iu-
augurated
$ There have been men base
enough to propose to me TO return
to slavery the black warriors OF
Port Hudson and Olustee, and thus
win the respect of the masters they
fought. Should do go should
deserve to be damned in time and
eternity. Come what will, / will
keep my faith with friends and foe.
My enemies pretend / am now
carrying on this war for the sole
purpose of abolition. So long as l
am president, it shall be carried on
for the sole purpose of restoring the
union. But no human power can
subdue this rebellion without the
use of the emancipation policy and
every other policy calculated to
weaken the moral and physical
forces of the rebellion
MUST DESTROY SLAVERY.
Freedom has gwen us 200,0
men raised on southern soil. 1t
will give US more yet. Just so
much it has subtracted from the
enemy, and instead of alternating
the south there are now evidences
of fraternal feeling growing up
between our men and the rank and
file of the rebel soldiers. Let my
enemies prove to the country that
the destruction of slavery is not
necessary to restoration Of the
union. l will abide the ISSUE"
ST saw that the president wac not
a mere joker, but man of deep
convictions, of abiding faith in
justice, truth and providence. His
voice was pleasant, his manner
earnest and emphatic. AS he
warmed with his theme his mind
grew to the magnitude of his body.
I felt 1 was in the presence of the
great, guiding intellect of his age
and that those huge Atlantean
shoulders were fit to bear the
weight of m1ghtiest monarchs.' His
transparent honesty, republican
simplicity, his gushing sympathy
for those who offered their lives
for theil country, his utter forget.
fulness of self in his concern for it's
welfare, could not but inspire me
with confidence that he was heavens
instrument to conduct his. people
through this sea of blood to g
Canaan of peace and freedom"
Decoration Day Meeting.