Year: 1868

oAAO NAeSAo-OOloAC L WOu1Q udVC uOuC ILLS
would have seen New York's proud
palaces laid in ashes, and Wall street and
Broadway running deep with human
gore. [Applause.


When Mr. Lincoln telegraphed to Mr..
Seymour, fifteen days before the battle of
Antietam, for troops to prevent the rebel
army from marching upon Philadelphia
and New York, and when any other loyal
Governor from such State as New York
would have sent fifty thousand volunteers
to stem the rebel army, after the battle
was over, Mr. Seymour sent ten thousand
men.


Now, fellow citizens, I have told you
that did not regret that was Governor
of the State of Illinois during the eventful
period of the war, but l tell you another
thing that | shall regret. | shall regret
that any brave boy in blue who has as
sisted in placing our proud flag over jeff.
Davis and the hosts of treason, should vote
for the anti-war Democrat, as opposed to
that patriot and hero Gen. Grant Now
want to tell such soldier, if he is here
that if he votes for Grant he is voting on
the side for which he fought-for the
preservation of the Union; and if he does
not think so, I want to tell you how he can
undeceive himself I will give him an in
fallible specific, remedy by which he may
undeceive himself 1t is not that 1 tell you
that you vote against your country and on
the side oftraitors you vote for Seymour
and Blair; but this is my specific. To
morrow morning, my brave young friend
in blue, when you get up, raise your east
window, and look out upon Gods glorious
sun as he rises in majesty look out upon
the grandeur of creation, and then, when
the brain is aglow, and your heart is
honest, look into your looking glass and
you will see man there look him steadily
in the eye and tell him that when you vote
for Blair and Seymour you are voting upon
the side for which you fought and there is
something in the eye of that fellow in the
glass that will say to you "You lie, and
you know itt' Great applause


Now, fellow-citizens, you say that we
are in favor of negro supremacy. never
heard one of us say so-never saw it in a
Republican paper-never saw it in reso-
luton of Republican caucus, that we
are in favor of negro supremacy, No,
fellow citizens, we are in favor of no man,
supremacy in this country. We are in
favor of the supremacy of the American
people. We believe in the strong com
nom sense of all the people of the United
States of America and we are willing to
be governed by their judgment and by a
majority of their votes There is no such
thing as equality, between men, in this
country. All that we contend for is equal
human rights, equal privileges before the
laws, for every American citizen, whether
born in a foreign land or in this country,
whether he may be American, Irish, Ger
man, or Portuguese, of whatever color God
in his providence may have put upon his
complexion, that he shall be entitled to
equal rights. Talk about equality. How
many Of these Copperhead orators would
you have to boil down to get the essence
out of them to make man equal to John
M. Palmer? [Applause and laughter. ] The
laws cannot make men equal. l say to
you, my brave boy in blue, if you have
got my commission, and if you are going
to vote for Seymour and Blair and John
r. Eden for Governor, for God Almighty s
sake give it back to me. TGreat laughter
and applause IF anybody in blue who
has fought through the war could vote for
the anti-war Democrat Seymour. and
against that old Illinois hero and patriot,
Gen. Grant, or for that stay-st-home, John
r. Eden, against the gallant soldier, pat
riot and statesman, Gen. John M. Palmer
that man, it seems to me, could strike his
grandmother in the face Great ap-
plause. lp Ioq


We present to you as the candidate for
your votes for the President, the name of
General Grant. In doing so we expect
your vote upon every principle of honesty
and candor. In the first place, he has the
confidence of every honest man in the
country. | repeat 1.-THE confidence of
every honest man in the country-wheth-
er he be Republican or Democrat. Such
is not the case with the time serving poli7
tician, Seymour 1t is said that General
Grant cannot make speeches, Neither
could Washington make speech. Gen
eral jackson never made speeches.; but
General Grant has made some speeches
which, when the wordy actions of Horatio
Seymour shall have been forgotten, will be
recorded upon the pages of history, SO long
as time shall last


Such was his speech to Buckner when
he said, II propose to move Immediately
on the enemy's works" Such speech
was the one he made to Pemberton, I" I'm
conditional surrender such was his
speech at Appommattox when he said,. 81
propose capitulation upon the following
terms: The Confederate army will stack
their arms; the cannon and the munitions
to be received by the officers of the Ameri-
can army !" that speech he made when
struggling through the Wilderness where
the hope of Lincoln followed him, when
we were in doubt all over the country, and
when patriots knees seemed to tremble
with apprehension, when he was opposing
the enemy hand to hand in that unparal-
leled struggle; the speech that came by
telegraph to gladden. and encourage Lin
coin and the nation, 81 propose to fight it
out on this line, if it takes all summer"
Voice, And he did," Tremendous ap-
plause.


am OBTAINING you, fellow citizens, far
longer than intended. !" Go on, go or" J
General Palmer is here, and know you
wish to hear from him. This reception
goes to the bottom of my heart. 1t is from
my old, life long friends; from those with
whom have been raised-those who have
elevated me and honored me; and l thank
you for it.


have said [ was glad have been the
Governor of your State. / will say, also,
that think | may have performed my
duty in a far more inefficient manner than
others would have done am glad, also,
that was your Senator during the Thirty
ninth and Fortieth Congress. | am glad
belong to your glorious Republican party,
who, when the flag was fired upon, rallied
to the rescue. From our prairies, from
our hill-tops and our valleys, they "railied
round the fiag,n and they carried it in tri-
umph from one end of the land to the
other / am glad that was member Of
the Congress that raised, equipped, and
clothed, and fed, and sent to victory the
flower chiyalry of our land, to save our


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