Year: 1868

nohu hCCtptlOn July ~.


And now, my friends, to come to the
conclusion of these remarks,-for [ shall
not talk to you great length-if there is
one thing for which | long in this world
to-day, If there is one thought that rushes
uppermost and above all other thoughts
in contemplating the condition of our
country. it is that thought embodied in
those four brief sententious words of the
great captain OF our armies-embodying
as much as speech of an hours duration,
because it was suited exactly to the exig-
encles OF our rsituation-those four words
Of his-''WE MUsT HAVE PEACE!'


Cheers


There Is no country in the world
is no land beneath the circuit of the sun
that longs for peace like this great Re-
public of ours. Peace and with it con-
sequent prosperity peace, and with it
stability, law and order peace, and with
it progress and development peace
for am opposed to all wars, as l haye
often told you. except those wars forced
upon us for the preservation of national
existance, Cheers We want no
more violence: we want no more outrage
we want peace. We want no more



we want no more debt-we want peace
and peace we shaHiave. (Cheers and
enthusiastic appl:sSse. The great hero
of the country, who leads the Union
armies to-day in this contest commanded
peace on the battle field. Hearty APP
plause. He will in the Executive chair
command peace in this Republic of ours
[cheers with a will from ocean to ocean,
from the frozen lakes to where
the flowers bloom in perpetual spring
upon the borders of the Southern gulf:
Cheers and most enthusiastic applause]
He will have peace, by protecting
every man within our limits. Poor,
though he may be, down trodden though
he may have been, humble. though he
may be, obscure though he may be, the
hand and the arm Of Ulysses 5. Grant
will give to him peace, because he will
give to them protection. Shouts OF ap-
plause- ''Eurrah hurrah for Colfax-"


That ought to have been "Hurrah for
Grant" for | speak about him as can
didatc, and not about myself. Cheers
for Grant and Colfax | have nothing to
say about myself as a candidate, for |
suppose that if Gen. Grant should hap
pen to be elected that probably should
be Applause. Yes That's it. -


They say he can't make a speech, and
you will notice that l am saying nothing
about the principles, or the platform, or
the candidate of our opponents. l have
right to speak that which isin my heart
about all those who have come and
stoodwith me around these noble Repub
lican principles of the past 81 You
have. They say he can't make a
speech when the committee of the Chica-
90 Convention announced his nomination
to him at his residence i'll Washington.
1t was speech of only eight lines, but
there were two lines in it that was as
weighty and were as valuable as If they
had filled the teening volumes that give
to y,u the history Of Confucius. They
were these words. eff elected, | shall
have no policy to enforce against the will
of the people, Good good immense
applause That is the declaration.


Renewed burst of applause. 1t is a
declaration worthy of the cause. As he
said in one of his letters to President
johnson. The will of the people must
be the law of the land. - And so say we
all Tremendous applause and cheers
The will of the people enforced, the law
of the land obeycd, we shall have peace,
and with peace progress ard develop
ment unknown in the history Of our
country before. With its magnificent
area, with its boundless resources, wash
ed by the waters of the two great oceans
of the globe checked in its continuous
career by the horrors and losses of the
WARMTH peace it shall step forward
with gigantic tread, upward and onward
until it attains prouder position among
the family OF nations than even 1t has at
taned to-day We have within our lin
it's, all that make a nation great We
have people brave, as they have shown
themselves to be apeople self sacrafcing
devoted, patriotic We have boundless
resources, mineral, agricultural, CONNER
cial and manufacturing. We lie in the
great Temperate Zone, which is the gov
erning zone of the entire world-for you
see no proud and influential nations out
side of the Temperate Zone. We have
within ourselves all the elements of
greatness. Administration which shall
obey the will of the people, and which
shall enforce the law of the land, we are
destained to a prosperity which in its
glories shall eclipse In the future, all the
brilliant records of the past Great Ap-
plause.