Year: 1864

ilemen, thank you for your courtesy IN call
ing NE before you- IApplause.l


SPEECH OF J. o. GOODWIN.


JEssE Q. GooDwIx, Of Yuba, was called for
and said-Mr President and Gentlemen Of
Convention can hardly conceive the object
for which am called here DO not believe
l have been candidate enough to be considered
sore laughter; do not think you require
any pledge from NE at this time as to anything
Of the sort Yoa have nominated personal
friend of mine, man whom told Just before
be left Washington that if he would be can
didate for Congress l would not. Therefore.
your nomination this morning meets my full
appreciation. [Applause,l 1t is not necessa-
ry for NE to say that viii work iu this cam
paigu, when for three years have frequently
ridden twenty FIVE miles aud made three or
four speeches day before the election. Hay-
Ing done that before, am not going TO stop
now Richmond is not yet taken. Applause
| think we have President at the head of
the Administration and General at the head
Of the army both of whom are sufficient for
the war. We have given the enemy fifty bat
ties month. and if that is not enough we will
give them fifty more. Cheers And we
propose 10 keep doing that until the last trai.
tor is straugled, as it is my hope be may be,
before going to bis long home. Applause
We have got work to do. We have got TO
meet band of traitors in the rear-a party
that has got platform not merely with peace
proclivilies, but a treason platform. They
mean treason only, and we must crush them
out in the rear while onr brave armies are
crushing out treason in the front. Applause.
We have got to conquer o, be conquered. 1t
is for US as free men who love our country and
It's laws and Institutions, above all Others IN
the world, to say whether or net we will be
serfs and slaves TO would be arStocracy. Ap-
plause. We are to decide whether we shall
be miserable serfs or free men, with the stars
and stripes as the embems of our nationality.
That is the work we have got before US, and
propose to labor in it with what of strength
and ability l may possess. Applause.] l
will do all in my power. will divide what little
property have and then redivide il. and if
necessary I will give myself as an Offering for
my country. Applause. We have to many
men that are governed either by fear or ava
rice. One party is afraid of a few dollars and
cents, another cowardly sneak is afraid of
being drafted. (Applause) They have not
got the sentiment of true patriotism in their
breast We are the last hope of liberty; this
is the last America no other continent re-
mains to be discovered where liberty might
take up her home. Fail here and despotism
regns again, and man goes TO serfdom and
government by petty tyrants. Men among us
say we are not in the rebellion. Why, we
have got set of traitors among US whose
study is 10 see how much treason they can
commit and yet escape a view of the bolts and
bars of Alcatraz. (Applause) They have
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Government or the country. They are sold to
jeff Davis. to a man. and OF Chicago | sup
pose the bill of sale Of g. B Mcclellan was all
made out. and before be was nominated it was
sent down and filed away in the archives at
Richmond, if they have got any left, with the
others that belong there. (Applause) That
general! Why, a gentleman who was at
Antietam told me he did not see General Nc
Clellan there. He was away back out of sight,
and had 10000 men to guard his mortal car.
cass, while be staid out of the reach Of danger
and when they wanted an advance, he refused
we will put him out of danger this time-out
of any danger Of being President of the United
States. (Applause. l tell you we have got
work to do. Our enemies are in earnest. They
have secret emissaries going all over the coun-
try, and they are organizing by ones and twos
and threes. They are being organized by
men who bad their plans in 1860 to promote
the miserable scheme of Pacific Republic
men who pledged themselves-I have the papers
to show for it-that if war was once begun
they would always oppose the reconstruction
of the Union. Now they are claiming to be
Union; but either they lied then or they lie
now. and We have the documents to prove it
on them. We have got these men to fight 10
this campaign and with them lying is nothing
Why. gentlemen. this war was conceived in
the iuiquity and perfdy of their friends-men
who were solemnly sworn to support the Gov
erumeut of the United States and were taking
its bounty. They have committed perjury,
theft. robbery, and now they are adding mur-
der bv the thousand. Now their followers
among Us are crying for peace, and that is just
as big lie as they ever told (Applause.l
We have got to fight them at the balot-boz
we have got to fight them iu the field, and ii
necessary we have cot to fight them single