Year: 1868

IL Ou, meyer GudHhSu NILS. A%lHCOlI
for cup of tea in my life, Laugh.
tcr and applause. The, truth was
Morton and l had done nothing
more than what was expected Of us
while Scy mour had. He had never
done the like before, and never did
afterward, 1t was not necessary to
keep a Major. General in Indiana
and Illinois, and Ohio, to correspond
with the President, as it = was in
New York, In those the Governor
acted as the Presidents correspond
ents and agents. y You will remem-
ber that remarkable dispatch of Gen
eral Dix. to Seymour, saying Il
beg to let you know that I have
troops enough at my command to
take care, not only of the rioters
but Of YOU l.. z.. -..ar g..


Seymour now comes out and
boasts that he never had a dollar Of
your federal bonds. 1t is not be
cause he is so poor. 1t is because
he is not willing to risk q dollar in
the bonds which. were issued to pay
the soldier and support the Govern
ment. He never invested in bonds
because he was hoping all the time
that, they never would be paid, He
would not to day buy one of your
bonds, because he hopes that, the
confederate debt will be assumed.
and hopes that the confederate sol
diers will be put on the pension list
He hopes the property taken from
the rebels will be paid for, and, OF
course, if these hopes are realized,
our national bonds will be no
better than confederate bonds. 81


Now this Democratic party are
talking Of disposing ofone kind of
debt by paying it off in another.
They are going to issue greenbacks
to buy up the bonds with. This is
not paving the debt it is only sub
shutting one kind Of note for anoth-
er It is like this: supposed owed
you q hundred dollars, and had Civ
en- you my note. bearing six per
cent interest, ana secured the debt
by motgage on real estate; if |
should then come to you and say,
here. 7 want to pay that debt, but I
propose to do it by giving you an
other note, without interest or secu-
rity, or any definite time for pay
ment, and take UP the old note and
the mortgage. What would you
think Of such proposition?


Now, ladies and gentlemen, | did
not come here to engage in this con
test. l only came to show ny solic-
itude for the success. Or the good
cause. Political position has no
charms for me now; it never had
much. l am getting too gray to
think of accepting any moe honors.
| have Travelled thirty or forty miles
to-day just to show my interest in
the campaign. When at the open
ing o? the war we found ourselves
in the new Union patty, you chose
a Democrat as your standard bearer.
l fought the battle. and your votes
made me Governor. I did not dis
appoint you. I made you a good
Governor. .(Cheers.


l still find myself with you. The
Chicago platform is entirely salts
factory, and you have placed at the
head Of the Union party that great
aud good man who led our soldiers
to victory. He did not seek the
nomination. There is not a man in
all the country that 1 prefer to Gen.
Grant. (Applause.) 1 have known
his family well. My mother had the
teaching and training of old Jesse
Grant. He came to live with my
mother at twelve or fourteen years
old. When she thought he owas
old enough she advised him to learn
a trade. He took her advice. She
wanted me to learn a trade, too, but
turned my attention
to the law, and though 1 have made
a tolerably fair lawyer, l have no
doubt l would have made better
blacksmith. That is the trade my
mother wanted me to learn [ am
well acquainted with General Grant.
He possesses every element of char
acter which should attach you to
him. | do not speak of his claims
as a military man, but we may all be
certain Of one thing, an ordinary
man would never have achieved
what he did Nervous men like
Governor Seymour and myself
would have abandoned Vicksburg,
and in fact several other places that
Grant took by not getting tired
He never gets tired. And of all
men in this nation, I repeat it, there
is none 1 would prefer at this time,
for President, to Ulysses S. Grant.
Applause. } 't l


Judge Kinsman proposed three
cheers for Governor Tod. They
were given by the entire audience
with a hearty good will.


Richardson's new life of Gradt con-
the following incident of camp life in
"One afternoon long gaunt