Year: 1868

ballots In November next, elevate
! General Grant to the Presidency,
and sustain the action Of Congress
and the platform on which he
stands, and the people realize Hthe
awful fact that,negro governments
are to be settled down upon them,
not only will every kind Of bust
ness be contracted and all money
be drawn in, but general paraly-
sis and desperation will pervade
the whole country. You know
as we'll as l do that there are
restless men in every community.
There will be a difficulty here and
another there, when soon up goes
the cry "the rebels are rising"
Already from the far off South we
hear faint notes of q collision of
races. Anachy and desperation,
will, with hurried footsteps, spread
themselves until they pervade all
that once beautiful and wealthy
country extending from the banks
Of the Potomac to the golden
sands Of California, and you may
prepare to raise one million of
men and dot all the South with
garrisons, for the intelligent and
virtuous Of the South will demand
it; and as we can do nothing, can
make nothing, you may prepare
to foot the bills, and, if you do
not look we'll to it, your onco
grand and loved system of re-
public will in one night give birth
to vast and mighty empire.
(Sensation.) Such things have
happened before in the history Of
the history of the world and they
will happen again. Should you,
on the other hand elevate Mr..
Seymour cloud cheers) to the
Presidency, and decide against
the reconstruction measures Of
Congress, quiet and feeling Of





security will reign throughout all
the South. The people will feel
and believe that the great masses
Of the North are determined to do
them justice. In their longing
for peace, law, order, and society,
old bitternesses and feuds, commin-
| gled with woes and sorrows un-
numbered, will gradually pass
away. Renewed energy will vi
talize everything; capital will
again come out from it's hiding
places and diffuse itself into every
department of labor. The black
race, so necessary an element Of
labor in our economy, will be we'll
cared for and protected, instead Of
passing away in a conflict Of arms
Cloud applause); every facility
possible will be extended to them
to ameliorate their condition. In
1866 l established q school on my
plantation for them, and gave
them a piece of ground where
they could worship and bury
their dead. (Chcers.)


This was the common feeling
pervading the community. No one
in the North can be as profoundly
anxious for the preservation of
this race as we are. To US their
labor is a necessity; in the
economy Of this great Republic it
is a necessity. (Cries. ofgood, &c.)
There never was one dollar in the
world but what was dug out of
the ground, which is reservoir of
all things. Over two hundred
millions in gold is annually dug
out of the ground by the labor Of
this race, intelligsntly directed,
and is diffused ever the country,
Destroy this race, scheolcd in the
cultivation of the great Southern
staple, and you madly throw away
over two hundred millions Of dol
lars in gold each year to the coun-
try, (cries of"that's so''); for there
is no labor in the wide world that
can take it's place. (Applause.)
What the losses to the great
manufacturing interests Of tho
North would be no human mind
can conceive, and no tongue can
tell. You will either have to
lose your factories, or import the
the raw material from foreign