Year: 1872

"OAU0u duu + arraSu[ ana WlnShlp


and all our great Admirals, haul


down-the star-spangled banner, nev.


er again to brave the battle and the


breeze-if he would see them sink


in shame from their own quarter


decks, and give up their ships, to


Maury, and Buchanan, and Semmes


and Mofatt, while the Confederate


bars and emblems of slavery faunt


on every sea and in every State, let


that man vote often for if Grant be


elected this State shall disappear
from the ornament before the BAN


ner of the United States shall suffer


tarnish or shame on the land or on


the deep. [Applause. If there IS any


man among you that would reverse


the order of history, who would


bring upon you a shame and re-


proach never before known among


the nations OF the earth, who would


have had the Commander of the Uni


ted States Army deliver up his sword
and humbly bow before herebel COM


mander, let that man vote against


Grant, but never again call himself
an American citizen. [Applause.]


If there is any man whose eyeballs


would not burn to behold Lee upon
the portico Of the Capitol, with


Beauregard, Preston and Forrest at
his side, with a Confederate army
around him; and, as the Govern
ment is transferred to them, listen
to the rebel yell as it sounded on
the field and in the New York Con-
vention loud cheers,] let such a
man vote against Grant, and go to
Washington on the 4th of March.
[Applause.l Why, then, repeat,
should any lover of his country vote
against Grant, Colfax and the Re-
publican members of Congress2


awe had'to raise an army to main-
tain our national existence, and
where is the man to rob the soldier
of his pay? Let him vote against Cen
eral Grant. Where is the manthat
would plunder the widow, the orphan,
the bereaved parents sitting helpless
by the fireside? If you have an army,
it must have tents and clothing, for
where is the man that would have
the soldiers sleepon the bare ground,
or go marching naked through the
rebel States? You must also have
horses and forage. You must have
means of transportation on land and
upon your rivers, lakes, and seas.
Where is the lover of his country
that would have had the armies per-
forming painful marches of months
that could have ben performed in
few hours upon boats and railroads?
Where is the lover of his country
that would have had Grant, or Sher-
man, or any of our great comman-
ders, lose an opportunity to strike
the enemy for want of transporta-
ton, or cavalry, or forage for his
horses, or any other supply? Where
is the man that would deprive the
army of its bread and of its meat,
snatch the cup from the sick soldier,
deprive him of his nurse and hospit-
al shelter, or medical care and at
tendance and when France and
England threatened US with war of
Intervention in aid of the rebellion,
what answer would have been given
to the people of the United States
for the burning of our towns and
cities, and the ravaging of our coast,
if such could have been prevented
by means of money furnished by the
people for, during the contraction
of this debt, the people crowded to
Mr.. Lincoln from day to day, and
demanded that he should put forth
the nations strength, and pledged
themselves to meet every call for
men or for money. And who is
there that would strike out for one
second the glory of Farragut, of
Winslow, and of Worden, and all
our other great sea captains, on ac-
count of the whole naval expendi-
ture? Think of it for a moment.
You all remember that bright Sum
day morning, when the nation quak-
ed at the news as it flashed through
the land, that a new monster of the
deep had appeared the day before,
had sunk two of our ships, and was
about to ravage our coast; and when,
four5 hours later, the word rang
through the land that little moni-
tor, which appeared no bigger than
a speck upon the sea, had fought her
three hours and had driven her
crippled and shattered to her port
where is the man who, for the whole
national debt created by our whole
naval expenditure, would have lost,
for minute, his share in the glory
of that achievement? [Cheers.] And
when, on another Sunday, the world
beheld that great duel on the deep in
in the face of Europe, when Winslow
and the Kearsarge sent, by single
shot, the rebel pirate to the bottom
of the sea, who would sell out his
interest in the glory Of that achieve
ment or dock its discount? And yet
these are the things on which the
fnanciers of the New York conven-
tion are busy, with pencil and slate
in their hands, to cipher away.
[Laushter.l But they have quite
other things in their minds when
they profess to be figuring and reck-
oning discount and interests. Their