Year: 1868




weapoaeA Loyalty in Council.


The Convention meeting in Cooper Institute
next Fourth of July promises to be one of the
most remarkable developments of the political
contest upon which we are now entering. The
loyal soldiers and sailors of our late civil war
appear moving upon New York from all quar-
ters of the Union for the purpose of reassert-
ing and maintaining in peace that government
which their valor 80 recently upheld and res
cued from the fell grip of rebellion. They are
coming here in battalions, regiments and by
brigades to protest that it was for ''the Union,
the constitution and the laws" that they per-
illed their lives and so many of them shed their
blood; and that their sacrifices were not in
Cured and so many thousands of their
companions given over to death in order
that q cabal of revolutionary Jacobins
might perpetuate themselves in usurped
control of our country by standing army,
the supremacy of four million blacks over five
millions of practically disfranchised whites,
and by the unholy profits of the whiskey
''ring, the tobacco 'ring, the Treasury 'ring,
the national bank ''ring," and all the other
agencies of fraud, force, illegality and terror
with which our system of free government is
now threatened by the truculent sans cuIottes
and other political desperadoes who form the
sworn and secret cabal of radicals now domi
nant in Congress.


Against the men who will assemble at
Cooper Institute no charge of ''disloyalty," no
mad-dog cry of ''copperheadism, can avail.
We shall see bronzed and SCARED veterans,
with the corps badges of service
on their breasts, assembling from every
loyal State to arraign the present
rulers of Congress and to demand
that the objects of the war; as avowed at the
time of their enlistment and to which their
triumph entitled them, shall not any longer be
held in abeyance. They will assert in unmis-
taxable tones that it was for the supremacy Of
the constitution and laws, and not for negro
supremacy that they enlisted and so many Of
them laid down their lives that it was to have
the States of the South brought back to their
true relations with the government, and not
that their position as States should be forever
cancelled and their highest right of representa-
ton be handed over to cowardly and thievish
''carpet-baggars," acting as the tools and
prohigate corrupters of ignorant and savage
negroes, that they quilted homes and firesides
and shed their blood on many stricken field.
1t was not that canting abolition stay -at-homes
might continually revel in the diamonds and
gorgeous equipages, the fast horses, fast
women and fast yachts of our Internal revenue
system, that our faithful soldiers and sailors
went forth to fight. 1t was for the Union as
our fathers knew it and as we knew it ten
years ago that they took the oath of service
when the long roll was first beaten along the
banks of the Potomac.


| The miserable and dishonest ''carpet-bag-
gers'-fve-eighths of them the foulest scum Of
hypocritical New England-who now claim to
represent the Southern States in Congress the
Convention of Cooper Institute will utterly re-
pudiate, denouncing their names as moral
emetic to the consciences of all decent men.
They are not the representatives of States
not representatives of anything but theft and
tyranny, ignorance, brutality and violence.
They were elected by constituents not much
more intelligent and far less virtuous than 60
rillas while the true citizens of our own blood
and race lay pinned to earth under the bayo-
nets of soldiery no longer discharging its
proper function, but now compelled to act as
jailers, torturers and tyrants over people
who fought us gallantly and who surrendered
in good faith, con6ding in the promised Gle
mency of their conquerors.


1t is thus the soldiers and sailors will speak,
and their words will ring throughout all
corners of the land, rearousing every generous
impulse. They are not coming here to for
ward the interests of any individual candidate.
They only demand OF the regular Democratic
Convention that it shall give them a nominee
of stainless record on the score of loyalty,
and if satisfied as to this they will gladly
accept the judgment of the regular Conven-
ton Of civilians as to his possessing the other
requisite civil qualifications for the Office of
our national Chief Magistrate. Any stories
from Washington or elsewhere that the Cooper
Institute Convention may be considered as
pledged in advance to this candidate, that can
didate or the other may be thrust aside as so
many roorbacks. The men composing it only
seek the good of the country and will be only
too glad to act in harmony with the National
Democratic Convention, If not driven away
by the nomination of some ''copperhead an
event most unlikely to happen.


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