Year: 1867

old style of argument, so peculiarly
Southern. They seem to have forgot.
ten the price the peace we enjoy to-day
has cost this nation, and the crimson
currency in which it was paid the
broken hearts with which it filed
bruised and troubled boSoms at home /;
the mangled bodies with which it filled
hospitals everywhere, and the lifeless
forms Of manly beauty with which il
filed hundreds of thousands of name.
less graves on the far-of battle-pl
of the South. They seem to have for
gotten the bitter scalding tears that
rolled like foods of lava down the fair
faces Of the loyal mothers, wives and
sisters Of this land, when the names in
efably dear to them were found sn-
nounced in the long lists Of the killed,
that were published as a sequel to the
first fash Of the lightning that reported
a battle had been fought; and / dare
say they have forgotten that there ever
was such prison as Andersonville, and
the long, long catalogue of horrors that
brave men had to suffer there for being
true to themselves, their Constitution,
their flag, their homes, families, aud
country.


REMINDERS OF THE PAST.


Well for such gentlemen would it be
if they could occasionally meet, as they
wander daily over this broad country, a
few Of the many wan specters of suffer
ing and woe who were captured by the
sanity Southern brethren of Northern
Democrats on fields of strife, thrust in
to prisons unfit for dogs, and starved
till hale constitution was wreck, and
then left 10 suffer the worst penalties oi
privation incident to weather and eli.
mate. l could give my friend from
Brooklyn illustrations of individual suf.
fering at Andersonville that would make
the hair stand on his head, the blood
freeze in his veins, and curses spring
inyoluntarily to his lips. remember
one poor boy from my immediate yicin-
ity especially. His name is Dougherty
He wentinto Andersonville prison with
out scar on his young body or a cloud
on his fair brow, but under the humani-
tarianism of Southern chivalry he came
out without a foot to walk on. They
were literally frozen off in prison.


There are thousands of such instances
that might be paraded if l had the time
or inclination to do it to justify the
stern, uncompromising disinclination
feel to call by the gentle term of broth
er these rebels of the South.


WHEN HE WILL WELCOME THEM BACK.


When find in their conduct conclu-
sive proof of contrtion, and find them
openly opposed to becoming the instru-
meDts and tools of northern Democrats,
who, while the war was waging, accept
ed the protection of the stars and stripes,
and now have the graceless effrontery
to brag that they were false to it, may,
and probably will, then be glad to well
come them back into the Union. But
when / do that l wish to be able to 90
home and face the widows and orphans
that swarm the broad prairies of the
West, whose weeds of mourning meet
us there on the highways and the by
ways, and answer any reasonable ques-
tion they may have to ask. recognize
the responsibility Of a Representative
here to his constituency, and l feel that
woman or a child that cannot vote
may have as sacred a right to ask me a
question as a man that can, and / am
simply anxious to prepare myself to
meet all such corners. In the silent
vigils of the noiseless night many a
time and oft have l fancied could hear,
coming on the soft-whiSpering breezes
of the South, from the lowly pillows of
the loyal soldiers sleeping sweetly where
they feel calamity, the afectionate mes
sage: "Be Of good cheer; stand fast
and firm at duty's sacred post. 1t was
standing there we lost the crown of life
to win crown of glory, and we appeal
to you now, from our bright home here
in Heaven, to save our offspring from
the dire necessity of having to perish
as we perished, to save from destruction
the alters and temples of liberty" And
how are we to do this? Flattering
rebels, tolerating treason and petting
political prohigates7


GEN. GRANT AND THE DEMOCRACY.


The gentleman hes nominated Gen.
eral Grant for the Presidency, and if
General Grant has any enemies, l dare
say the gentleman's nomination must
have made them profoundly happy.
Gen. Grant rarely has anything to say,
and when he does speak it is generally
to the point, and from that fact
the inference is fair that he will be found
more than equal to any occasion that
may call on him to take care of the true
of his fame and fortunes,
whenever and wherever they may be
or indirectly threatened. But
were l General Grant and really aspir-
ing to the Presidency, l would give the
gentleman notice that if he wanted an
Office from me, his claims to considera-
ton would not depend upon how much,
but how little, he had to say in my be-
half. (Laughteh) Presidents rarely