Year: 1868

New York, Ostober 20.


FELLow-CIrIzENs 1t is a privileg
and duty to address you on the eve o
the great battle which we are to fight
and which is to decide whether th,
government of this Republic is t,
remain four years more in the hand
of the Radical party, or whether by
an energetic, united, and last effor
you will wrest the power from il
grasp, and give to us, under Demo
cratic Conservative administration, 1
government based upon principles O
justice, economy, and constitutions
liberty.


The issues Of the present campaign
are plain and selfevidcnt. They ap
peal to the intelligence and patriotism
ofevery voter in the most unmistaka
BILE terms. They have been ably dis
cussed by distinguished orators and
leaders of our party since the nomina.
tion of our candidates.


What the Democratic party intends
to do, if placed in power by your sui-
frages, is to restore peace and union
to our country to heal the wounds
and sufferings caused by the rebellion
to give TO the people of the South the
rights to which they are entitled un-
der the Constitution, and by which
alone we can bring back prosperity
and quiet to that distracted section ;
to reduce materially our military and
naval establishments, kept up now on
an immense scale and at an enormous
cost to introduce into every depart
ment of government the strictest
economy, and to develop, by an equi-
table system of imposts and taxation,
the growing resources of our country,
and thus to place the Federal finances
on solid and stable footing and TO
pave the way to gradual and safe
return to specie payments. We are
charged by the Radical party, the
party Of violence and usurpation,
which for the last four years, to pro
long it's own existence, has set at
naught the Constitution and the fun
damental principles of our govern.
ment that we intend revolution and
defiance Of established law. The nc
cusation is uniounded and absurd it
cannot be entertained for moment
by any intelligent voter, who has even
the most superficial knowledge of the
history of his country. The Demo.
cratic party can proudly point to
every page of its record. 1t has new.
er violated a single obligation Of the
fundamental compact by which these
United States entered into the family
of nations. Its watchword, in peace
as in war, has been and will always
be the Union, the Constitution, aud
the Laws. And no man, or any set
of men, however high thoy might be
placed by the suffrages OF their fellow
citizens, can ever expect TO receive
the support of this great Conservative
party in any revolutionary attempt
against established laws The ballot.
box and the supreme will of the
American people are the only means
of redress TO whick we look.


Fellow Democrats ! You are fight.
ing for a good and righteous cause
You have for your leader a tried
statesmanj a patriot who stood by
the Union 10 it's darkest hour; a mar
equally beloved for the purity of hi.
private character us honored for hi.
public virtues.


Opposed to you are men who have
subverted the structure of our system
ofrepresentativc selfgovernment, win
dicated to the world by more thar
half century of prosperity anC
greatnessj the men who have in
creased our enormous debt by prof
ligaoy and corruption unparalleled
the men who in two successiv,
Congresses have demonstrated thoi
incompetency to diminish our bur
dens by economy or apportion then
with equityj the men who have s,
distributed our burdens that they
press with excessive weight upon th'
labor and industry Of the country
making rich men richer by making
poor men poorer.


Opposed to you are the mon wh'
have denied for three years Of peace
aud will continue TO deny until you
votes arrest them, selfgovernment 3,
the people of ten Statesj the men whc
have taken away the power of oul
Chief Magistrate TO insure faithful
execution of the laws, or TO oommanC
tho army and the navy of the Uni,c'
Statesj the men who did their wors
to expel the President from the Whit
House for Obeying faithfully the be