THE DAILY. -EVENING TF,1,!EG R APH-tPIIIL AD ELPIH A , , .WEDNESD AY, . SEPTEMBER 1C, .1868, A BLAZE OV GLORY! tTliO Great Assemblage. Torches by tho Thousands, ) , and People by the Tens ol Thousands. Addresses by Major-Gen. I)anlcl E. Sickles, Don. John Sherman, Hon. E McPher son, J. U Bacr, tel. A. K. McUlure, Ilonjumln I Kerry, Hon. Win. 1). Kelley, Hon. Charles O'Xelll, John tioforth, Esq., Col. John W. For ney, Col. Win. B. Mann, Viol. Hoffman, Frederick . IMtt man, Esq., H. Slegman, Esq., and Edwin II. Coates, Esq. EU Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. organization, the regular Ward Club and tho "Boja 1n Blno," The latter carrtoa two Inscribed. "Vft Vote .... .! i. for the Man who Crushed KGoeuiou. came opposite the main stand the General marked, "Here coaies the 'Bojs In Blue, Ool bless them." The German division of th Seve'-jWenth Ward Campaign Club carried a neatly painted trans parent?, representing a fox tbase, with the word, "The Last Fox ChaJe.n There were a number of ward organizations who failed to march past the League House owing to the dense crowd. They made attempts but were compelled to turn off on the side streets. A novel feature of the procesMon was six pioneers who led the Twenty-third Ward clad in the costume ol ancient knights. MAIN STAND. Broad street, from Market to Spruce streets, last night was In a blaze of glory. It was the occasion of a strand mas meeting by the Re publics party of Philadelphia to rctndorse the nominations of General U. 8. Grant for the Presidency and Hon. Schuyler Colfax for the Vice-Presidency of the nation. It was under the auspices of the Union League, and, like all , other demonstrations which that body have arranged, was a perfect success, both In the number of spectators and the patriotic and eloquent utterances of the distinguished speak ers. The enthusiasm was unbounded. Kevcr before in the State of Pennsylvania was there such a meeting'. Besides the thousands that were wedged between Walnut and Cuesnut streets, miles of Grant battalions passed through the throng, and at ono time there were three of these lines in motion, each accompanied by numerous bands of music and carrying trans parencies, on each of which were inscribed patriotic mottoes. The scene in front of the League at this time was perfectly grand. General Daniel E, Sickles had the stand, and It was with great difficulty that he could proceed. As he stood reviewing the columns he would be occasionally recognized by some "boy-in blue," who would propose three cheers for the hero ol GettyBbursr, and the wild huazas of the thou sands rent the air. These compliments the gallant General acknowledged by raising his hat and proposing three cheers for tho delegation. The League Bulldiug was dressed in flags and bunting from the ground to the topmost point of the flagstaff above the roof. At the base of the Mansard roof in the centre of the building. In brilliant gas jets, was the revered name of Washington; Immediately below were arranged those of the martyred Lincoln, the great captain Grant, and the statesman Colfax; while on the southern wing, blazing brightly forth, were those familiar names Sherman, Farragut, Meade, and Geary, and on the north Sickles and Howard. In this wins; was also placed a large transparency upon which were thrown dissolving views and revolving wheels of the most brilliant colors which, fading gradually away, gave place to portraits of Washington, Graat, Colfax, and other prominent heroes and statesmen. Imme diately over the balcony was an arch of jets enclosing thirteen burning stars surrounded by a brilliant shield of light. Shortly alter General Sickles had been Intro, duced the campaign clubs commenced filing paBt, and nearly every ward in the city was represented. The first to arrive was the German Republican Central Club, numnering about two hundred men, preceded by a cavalcade and band. Next, came the Tanners' Club of the Second Ward, with their red equipments, large numbers and fine bcarliig.prescntiug an imposing appear, ance. They carried a large transparency, with the likeness of General Grant. Then followed the Taylor Club of Brldesburjr, with a drum corps and a beautiful transparency, on which was Inscribed, "We will fight it out on this line, if it takes us till doomsday." They were followed by the Fourteenth Ward organization, two hundred strong, with band and numerous flaps. In their rear was the Grant and Colfax Club of the First Ward, num bering about three hundred. This organization presented a very flue appearance, and were preceded by a band and pioneers with axes. A large transparency was borne In the wagon with the inscription ''The largest pole knocks tht most persimmons.'' Then came the Republican Invincibles, who marched past in their usual beautiful and soldier-like style. The Club turned out at least one thousand men in line. Whilst they were passing tho main stand General Sickles compli menled them very highly, saying to those around him that "they were the finest looking body of men ho ever saw, and that they marched with the precision of veteran soldiers.'1 It was with the utmost difficulty that the Club pressed its way through the multitude present. On their heels came the Republican Invincibles of Chester, two hundred strong. This Club had several large transparencies. On one of them was inscribed "Protection to American Indus, try;" "Giant was a Tanner, and is the Work inpman's Friend." On another was printed 'William Penn was a Carpet-bagger." This latter inscription was received with shouts of laughter. The Sixth Ward numbered about 200 mea. The feature of the Ninth Ward was an omni bus drawn containing wounded soldiers with a transparency with the following inscriptions: "We fought with him. We will vote for him.'' The Sixteenth Ward had a cannou fixed In an open wagon, from which a continuous fire was kept up. The Fifteenth Ward carried off the palm, next to the Invincibles. This ward turned oat at least 300 men, fully equipped. The Nineteenth Wurd curried a silken bauner, presented by tho ladies. TheBciry Campaign Club was out In force. The Tenth Ward, g usual, made a good dis play. There were at lemt five hundred men in line. Their feature was a rgc transparency, In the front of which was a riWeseutatlon of the front portico of the White House, with Ctneral Crant sitting on the side with tue gtari and Stripes, and opposite sat Seymour wltu the Stars and Bars. The Eleventh Ward numbered about two hun dred men. Th Twentieth ard was represented by tvrj ritrsiil!NT-Hon. MORTON McMICIIAEL, VICK I'UKK1IRNTH. Thomas T. Tatkcr, A. Harrow, Kliab Ward, M. P., Henry M. Heading, J. 11. lfndock, Philip H. Armstrong. John D. Ilnnly, M. D., ( harlce 1", Mansfield, 1-ldwin Kind. Horace Kinney, Jr., Bltllltll'l ltlBllllMll. Alexander J. Derbyshire, J.dw ill M. Lewis, William Divine, I. C. Mc( 'amnion, David H. Hiotvri, W illiam 8. Ktokley, Pamurl 8. White, John 10. Cope, K. Tracrv, C. IleriiiR. M. D., James K Ni ill, tunmrl Armstrong, C. K. Klwcrt, Conrad S. Grove, Charier M. ngncr, 1. V. Thome, K. Hnrpcr JetTries, Josiak liiicou, F. A. MrrHrk. 11. M. Wevill. M. D John McLaughlin, W. Y. Cnmphell, Edward Yard, M. Karri, l,cwie Ashmestl, W. H. Harrison, G. 11. Collier, , George T. Marker, M. D., 1'anl .lagodo, George C. Kvans, Henry v. vrain C. A. Thndinm. Albert C. Kolwrta, William H. Hement, Matthew Bainl, Jfftiie A. Sheppard, W. If. Mfddleton, Jacob Kemper, J.'ttncn Hell, John lnrman. Jamb G. Ncatifl, W illiam Hnmm. Charles T. Yeikos, GiMirgo Gregory, Archibald Campbell, J. Vaughan Merrick, lldniu K. Cope, Charier Spencer, Watson Coinl.v, Richard (i arced, James I, limner, Kainuel W. Cut tell. Barton II. Jenkr, Jeremiah Nichols, John It. Barker, Tuoiua Kllis, Jame. Khodus, V. Lloyd, John Dohson, W llliaui Cramp, SEOBETAItinS. IlenrvW. GTar, W illiam II. OvioRton, Charier M . I.nkciu, Frederick 1'ittmau, Jiiiner K. Dingee, Ilogli McFadaen, Kobert II. Gratz, Kverett 1. Hull, William btokeH, George fteiguiau, John llolmer, .iHtner Selleri. George A. tjniith. The lion. Ucury C. Carey then came forward aud introduced IIU Honor Klayor IllcIlchaet, At ths same time propot!tig him for Chairman of the meeting. The acclamations of the throng proclaimed his election. His Honor accepted tht Chair In the following words: While the glorions tiding from Maine are ringing yet in our eare, we meet here to Rive the asinrance to onr loya! countrymeu everywhere, that as Philadel phia gave her blood itud trearnre to aid in the war, she la still willing to saciitice her all to maintain the national integrity. Attempts have boen made to lndnee the belief that the Republicans of this city are lem zealous in this political campaign than they have been heretofore ; but they who statted such reports inn hi be aware that their words are false. Why, in the October elections we will achieve inch a victory as never before graced onr banners. I can recall tho memories of other cam paigns and of other meetings, hut 1 can recall nothing like the assemblage before me to-night. Thousands of torches and tkonaanas of people are before me. Yon are, my friend, strong, not only in numbers, but strong also in purpose and principle. It ie only wheu the heart is touched that such a company as this is pofiible. This compact mass of thonphtfnl and intelligent people could only be assembled by some extraordi nary impulse eonie movin; of n common effort to guard against a common evil. We come here to tes tify with our voices onr sense of an imminent danger. We know that there is danger ; but we also know that we are valiaut and willing to breast it. Here where we have so often rejoiced in victory ; here in this city where the honored dead rest; here we are to proclaim that Philadelphia will be true to herself, aud in Kovembar, will aid the triumpn of Grant and Colfax. (Cheers.) The Mayor then Introduced, in a few complimen tary remarks, Hon. William II. Mann. lie began by referriiii; to the battle of Gettysburg, and eloquently detailed Us many movements and the victory which crowned tho arms of onr soldiers. Wken the smoke cleared from the field our men heard the cheers and saw the colors of the Sixth Maine ltegiment of Volunteers on the heights. Other regiments rushed to aid them aud the battle was ours. Now, my fellow citizens, while many of us have been hitherto despondent, the cheering news from Vermont and Maine assure us that our causa is not yet goue. (Cheers.) The retplt of the election In November has been settled by that of Maine. Grant is sure to be elected. (Cheers). The Republican party is right upon all tho issues now before the country, and tho Uemoerauc party is wrong. Grant and Seymour embody the right or wrong of their respective parties, and tho people will correctly discriminate between them. Oo throughout the country nnd everywhere on the mountain top or in the valley you will find the people alive with euthuaiasm tor Grant. Pennsylva nia will be true, aud will not forget all her patriotism in casting her vote for Seymour. One great question in my mind suttlss the whole question. What (lid Seymour do while Governor of the great State of New York? Did he cheer the soldier? Did he visit the hospitals? Not He went to the city of New VorK and did all he could to obstruct the saccess of our arms by his "draft riots," while Grant was noon the Held fighting for his country. That is the great differ ence between them. This great city of Philadelphia, I am certain, will, in the earning election, poll an immense majority for onr ticket. The Republicans here will give a vote 60,000 etronir, nnd the Democrats hepe to either equal that number, or yet even surpass it. Twelve years ago they did out-vote nt, but how did they accomplish the thing ? W by, they imported from other places hundreds of Illegal voters, and thus seld ns. This has been proven against them, Tuey intend to try the same game again, but they will fail this time; their only hope is m chenting. Our tarty is a party of honesty : we thisk notof usitg uufuir means at electiuns. , The Democratic party, on the other band, however, elect the very men who cheat the most, to office. With a few other patriotic leinarks, Mr. Maun concluded amid applause. Mnjor-Cicncral SieUIcs Was then introduced by the Chairman, and received with great applause. General Sickles comuieuced his remarks as follows: Mr. President : I thank you, my friends anflEcom rades, for I suppose some of them are here to-night, for the kind reception yon have given me. I came here to discuss with you, net the point the soldier is to lake, but the duty the citlzeu is to perform. I am here to night, to implore Peunsylvauiaiis to preserve for them selves and for their sister States, whut Peuusylva nlnns iu arms with their comrades of the other Slates, won for freedom and the Union, and for maukiud, ou the Held of Gettysburg. (Cheers.) It wss to be expected, fellow citizens of Pennsyl vania, at tho close of the war, which cost yoa tigiitiug aud all of ns more or lees of sacrifice; It was to ex pected that all parties, all sections, all classes would acquiesce rightly, candidly in the issue which had been wrought out on the baltle-Qeld, aud iu this ex pectation we llnd, in 18CS, (here the clubs began to make their appearance.) I am requetd to suspend while the club is passing. It is very diilicult, indeed, for any one to be heard bv so vast an assembly, und I must ask you as a great favor, and more especially as I appear before you not at all In good health, that I may have your kiud attention aud us little interrup tion ae possible. It is almost impossible for the Republican party, no mutter how huid it tries to satisfy the oppentio'u. I remember the time w hen, in liie Democratic party it w as good Democratic doctrine to sustain the rights of the laboring mou, but to-day a great Democratic eader Wauellampion, Kf South Carolina tells tho luborlng men of his State that they must vote the Democratic ticket or starve. It is a somewhat striking fact that at tho sumo mo ment Lord Joliu l(upri, iu a letter to his Irish tenantry, tells them that no Kiiglieh gentleman, no man owuing land iu Irela. id, will venture for a mo. luent to Insist that a tenant or laborer will give up his opinion lo his landlord. I will not coutiast the demo, cracy of Wade Hampton aud Forrest w.lh the domo cracy of Grant and Colfx; that would be nscleus; but I will comrast it with the democracy of an Kngiisti aristocrat, and cry, thumu on the Democratic leaders of 180s, for the insulting outrage of treading on the rll'is " dignity of labor. (Great applause.) The lime was when the Democracy were all in favor of hard money currency, the timon of Ueutou, Wri"tit, aud Van Huren. To-day they fall down and worship impersonation or gteenlucks, Pend.eton, . of Ohio. Their linaneiu! policy to-day would floed the couutry with two thtand miliums of paper money. No longer the hard money bullion parly, of the days of Bunion, lis rppropriale name now should bo the "Milu l'later Party." "iLere was a time when the Democratic party bus talund itrgreat lesder Jackson, iu his immortal de claration, iuui iu, yuiou jmut aud shall be pr- ,,Tr,t1," yet, In the person of nuehaosn, it allows "'r armies to be piisillanlmouslj surrendered to the envmiaa of the tTnton. We all might well despair of presenting any truth, any candidate which conld satisfy this extraordinary party; and when we do adopt a Democratic principle It is desertsd by tbe Democrats. W hen we presented General Grant lor the Preatdency we tnought they would be content, as many of their leaders had been commending and complimoatinz him, and paying hocor to him for his services, and acknowledging his patriotism. And wo even heard them very aarioitsly talk of nominating him themaeiver. liat no sooner had we . brought forward his name than the Democracy denounced him. And when General Grant announced as hie platf.irro tho.e sublime words, "Let ns have peace," we thought we could cal culate ou the support of the Democratic party, who all throngh the war cried that word. "Peace I peace!" (Great applause) ; and no sooner had the Republicans deotared for peace, than ail the peace men led by Frank lllair, declared for war. (iteuewed appluasu and langhter). fu also have a notion of the report which had been published very extensively for truth, about Grant being so fend of whlsxy, and I am sure, If this were true, it should have been another favorable fea ture for tbe patronage of the Democratic party. (Laughter.) I have tever heard that the Democracy refuses now and then to lake a drink. My friends, the Democracy have challenged ns to meet them again on all the Isrses of the war, by join ing hands with the Rebellion, as they did iu New York at their Convention; by welcoming all tbe un repentant Rebels who are willing to Join their stand ard of ruvoltuiou, and so history will record it. They confess the truth of the charge we brought against them all through the war, that the real sympathies of their leaders was with the caure the "lioys iu Blue" fonijhtout at Chattanooga, Winchestersud Richmond. We are willing to meet them again on the same field, and will here, at the ballot-hex, subdue them, subjugate them, and again conquer and annihilate them as Grant, Sherman and Sheridan did in the great struggle that is past. (A voice "And Sickles, too.") Weil, I will take a hand iu the success. My friend, this struggle is one abeut which I can have no don lit uiiIsh I queHtiou the patriotism and gratitude of the American people, and I would as soon expect to see Grant's battalions deserting him iu the presence of the enemy, and trail their Hags iu tbe dust and give the victory to them as I would expect to see the Union party of this country trail the banner of tbe Republican party in this contest, at the sum Dions of Horatio Seymour to surrender. (Applause). Mr. Seymour tells his supporters that they must say nothing about the past, except debt and taxation. Gen. RIair says it is idle to talk anything about the public faith or the public credit, debt or taxation. Which of these two authorities are the Democrats to believe? If they yote with one or the other they will stultify themselves. Seymour is anxious to draw attention from the cause of tho war aud the maintenance of tho Rebellion. He auks you to join him iu destroying aud subverting all that has been accomplished by the war and siace tbe peace. I believe all the Republicans In Pennsylvania are coming here to-night. (Cheers. Here another bat talion of the political Clubs made Its appearance, pre venting the eloquent speaker from continuing. After a little while he resumed.)' I was mentioning to you, when so agreeably interrupted by the arrival of these delegations, that Governor Seymour bad exhibited au anxiety that the debt, taxatieu and expenditures should be vigorously pressed upon the public atten tion, nnd weeps, like another "Niobe," over the suffer ings of the tax-payers, (Interrupted by tbe procession.) Well, now, my friends, I proceed with chapter four. (Interrupted by tbe procession.) My private opinion is that the beet thing would be to resolve this into a grand pic-nic. I don't think it pofsible to make asything like a speech here to-uight. We have heard, my fricude, for the last five or pix week, that the Republican parly was all asleep, and that there was no enthusiasm for Grant. I hope there is here and there a Democrat prsseut to-night, who will make a report of this scene. (Laughter.) Well, to resume, let me have your attention uow, if yoa plene. ("Order."') We have heard a poos' deal from Mr. Seymour about expenditures. When he deals with figures he seems to have a lively sense of the dullness that gene rally belongs to that subject, aud not having tho elo quence of a Gladstone, which imparts even to statis tics a charm, attempts to make people read his figures by making them fiction ; lor it is itnpossiblo to Cud in the speeches of any public man who has ever claimed the attention, the interest and the respect of bis countrymen It is impossible to find any prece dent for the uiiBcriipnlons exaggeration and the un stinted misrepresentations which I deliberately state characterize the liuaucial expositions of Horatio Scy inonr. He has told the country with unblushing effrontery that since tbe peace, since April, 1S66, $00,000,000 have been expended on the army as a peace establish ment. If be did not know better than that, he should fo to school and not to the White House. (Laughter.) f be does know butter, be ehauld go to church and not lo tho White House. (Laughter.) He knew very well, as the ceunlry now knows, that six hundred millions of that eight hundred were appropriated to the paymeut of bounty money, back pay, and prize money to the armies aud flta that wr dbudjU and mustered out of service within three months after the close of the war, aud that, therefore, six hun dred eut of his efght hundred were legitimate war ex penses. He has also deliberately said that we have spent nearly two hundred and fifty millions for the ordinary expenses of the government since 18C5 inclusive of interest money, luculsive of extraordinary expenses. For the years 1S6I and 1SCS, his statement is more than two hundred million in exaggeration of the true amount. For the present flscai year bis statement is a good deal more than one hundred milliou iu excess of the real and true amount. And then comes along Mr. Pendleton, another financier, and he informs us that the war for tbe sup pression of tbe Rebellion has cost him and every other Democrat 874128, (Laughter.) Now that is a statement for hiin! While the whole country, from Maine to the Gulf, is profoundly agitated with the present aud future of our land; while every heart beats with solicitude to know what fate the future baa iu store for us. While the widow mourns the husband lost at Antietam; while the mother weeps over the son who fell in the Valley; while the orphan mourLs the father who went down in the Cumberland, gallantly fighting to tbe last, Mr. George 11. Pendle ton was "doing his sum." Mr. George H. Peudleton was calculating to ths farthing, how many copperg it cost the Copperheads to have their Rebellion put down (cheers), aud that is what the Democrats call statesmanship. That is what they mean by keeping the eyes of tbe couutry on debt and taxation. Oh i Peuniylvauiaus, you can not, you will not forget ths countless lives lost ou the hundred fields, for the preservation of the Union. But it was reserved for Mr. Pendleton to recouut the pecuniary sacrifice it cost hiui ta have our triumph achieved. Think of Benjamin Franklin, connting the coat of the Declaration of Independence. Imagine William Pitt, counting bow rnaay pennies Waterloo cost Eng land. Think, if yon can, of Courow counting the value of the life Dessaix gave to Francs ou the field of Marengo. And then the Democratic statesman goes all the way to Maine to atter his lamentations over the severe sacrifice he made of seventy-four dollars and twenty-eight cents. (Laughter.) Put as bis sacrifices were only pecuniary they are not yet beyond the reach of consolation, aud there fore I have great pleasure iu saying to bun aud bis friends who lament with him, in the name of the sol diers snd sailors the men who have made nnnum beied sacrifices that ws are ready to iuuemnily Mr. Pendleton, and all other peace men, at the rate of 874 M a head, payable in Cos federate money. (Inter rupted by the procession). Well, 1 believe all tbe Re publicans iu Maine are coming down here to-night. (Great cheering and display of fireworks; pistole and cannon fired). General Sickles then said: -Cease firing at tho front. I have been so interrupted that I hardly know where I left off; but I believe it is always iu order to begin with Seymour, and then to say a few words about Grunt. (Cheers.) We are told by the Democrats that the people are everywhere anxious for a change. Well, that is exactly what tho Republican party pro poses to give tbe people a change from Jobueou to Grant. (Cheers.) Aud we also are a little anxious about Governor Seymour himself. You remetubur, st the Conventiou, he told that illustrious body that it was not consistent with his honor to accept their nomination. Now, we propose to be more respectrul to the G vernor even than his own frieuds, for wuilo they heedlessly forced upon him a nomination ho did nut want, as he said, the Republicans iutcml to save him from all embarrusemeut by preventing his election to tbe oflice he did not care about having. (Chev-rs.) I have known Governor Seymour a good many years. Our personal relations have always bseu frieudly aud kindly. I acknowledge frankly that he Is a smart politician, but I must say lie is more formidable to bis iisroclatts in outwitting them than he is to his ad versaries, for we have no fear of hie beating us Ga vei uor Seymour is a man of words aud phrases Graut is a man of work aud of deeds. Seymour makei speeches ! Grant wins victories. (Great applause ) Seymour has filled respectably two olTlc.es a mem ber of Legislature and Governor of New York. Grant has filled the measure of his country's glory and saved tho Utiiou. Seymour is uoiuiuated to the Presidency as a reward for his services to his prty. His nomina tion was a triumph of the intrigues of the politicias. Giant is brought forward by the Republican party as a candidate for the Presidency, not for any services he has rendered to any party, but for the great tlld inestimable, the immortal services he hag rendered to his couutry. Look at tiie career of the two men for the past two years. In lotil Hcyuiour was balancing and hes'tating whether successful coercion or succe.sful rebellion would be the greater calamity. When the first gun was fired on Sumter, Grant hesitated about no such obstructions. Grant raised a company and took it to the front. (Cheers.) At the time the battle of Padu cah was fought, where Colonel Oram first displayed his genius as ageueral aud saved Kentucky u tiie Uulou, Peymonr wss negotiating; ith the peace-makers, as they were called, to see, f Kentucky could mt be made what wan called nentral State, and mediate North and Sontb. (.' nterrupted by procession.) Now, my friend', before I rssnine tbe oft-broken thread of my remarks, I want to say, right bare, that I have seen In my tune a good many public meeiinge and popular demonstration, but I wish to pay this tribute to '.his occasion, and to say here that thai ex ceeds auy popular demonstration I have ever wit nessed since 1 have known anything; of public meet ings or politics in this country. (Great cheering.) My friends, I was running on rapidly, when 1 suddenly came to a halt with a brief sketch of Seymour and Grant, partly to compare them, partly to contrast them. I had got down to '6'i or '63, I think (inter rupted by procesion "Three cheers for Sickles.") I'll try it again. (Langhter.) I was telling yon eemething alxiut Seymour and Grant in '63. Seymour came down to New York to make a speech, which is something very much in bis line of buMueBS, as you all know ; and was it to be expected that in tu it dark hour of July, '63 Pennsylvania Invaded, the North Ihreftteued, 'Grant uelniued at Vicksumg by a pro tracted siege, all Europe, or nt least the aristocratic part of It, regarding our catiso as hopeless, about to recognize the Southern Slates, is it recorded for Gov. Seymonr thnt he came down to the city of New York: to encourage the people and stimulate them for a new effort? No! He sneered at our reverses, at the dis appointment of a patriotic people, aud predicted that tbe war for tbe suppression of the Rebellion would not succeed. Ho proclaimed loudly that public ne cessity was as good a Dies for the North as for the government, aud then ho pointed to his mob, and endeavored to frighten Lincoln from attempting to reinforce our decimated battalions. What was Grant doing iu that July, 1863? He was before Vickrburg. When asked bow long he intended to stay there, he said: "I shall tay until I take the place." (Cheers.) Aud ou the same 4th of July, wheii Srymonr was preaching secession to his fol lowers in New York, and asis believed by many mon who have reason for their" belief, was engaged in something very like a conspiracy to precipitate a re bellion in that State and throughout the North, Grant received the surrender ol Pembertou, thirty thousand Rebels and one hundred and seventy cannons, the larcest captnre of men and material ever made in modern warfare. (Cheers.) In 1H64 what were those two men doing? Seymonr was at Chicago, resolving and speech-making, dis couraging the friends of the Union cause; resolving that the war was a failure and adding a thousand millions to the public debt. He makes himself directly responsible for the campaign that followed, and all the blood and treasure Involved. (Again interrupted by the procession. A voice "Do you think we can carry Philadelphia, General." It is what ws call iu New York, a "big thing.") "Another ehapter allriirht chapter the last." All this proceeding looks like war. Talk is what Sey mour does ; work is what we do, and what Graut does. Put let me ran on with this parallel. In 1404, as I said, Seymonr valiantly went to Chi cago, nnd as he had done nothing to make the war a success, he resolved to do what he eeuld to miko it a failure. He passed a resolution that it wss a failure ; but it would not stay a failure for all that. (Laugh ter.) Why was it not a failure ? I will tell you, my friends. While Seymonr derided onr soldiers, sneered at oar reverses and snivelled over taxes, be forgot that Far ragut was about destrying their last fleet In tbe Gulf (cheers) ; that Sherman was marching from the moun tains to the sea (cheers) ; Sheridan sweeping through the Valley of the Shenandoah (cheers); Thomas crushing tbe Rebels before Nashville (cheers); not the ad interim Thomas (laughter) ; snd Graut Grant, silent nnd stern, was patiently toiling by day and night before Richmond and securing a victory and a peace. Chcers.) (Again interrupted by the procession). I have got afcw words to say by way of an appendix about what my friend. General RIair, who has proclaimed in c onjunction with General Toombs and Howell Cobb a new war, a war npou carpet-baggers. Perhaps we might spend a minute or two in talkiug about carpct hngnere. There are several kinds of carpet-baggers. We bad in Now York in 1S63 and 1864 a few Rebel carpet-baggers. They were mysterious looking per sonages, with bags containing a very small amount of clean linen and a very large amount of combustible material. Tbe Rebel carpet-baggers came to burn our State and fire onr cities. Well, there are some Rebel carpet-baggers. John Slidell is a carpet-bagger at Paris; George Sanders is another, wandering over Europe, with or without a carpet-bag, according to circumstances. (Langhter.) Mr. Belmont, the Chairman of the National Democra tic Committee, is a carpet-bagger from the Rhine, ami ha furnishes tbe rhino for the Confederate Democracy. (Laughter.) Well, there are other carper-baggers, who go from the North to the South, and they are a very diQ'orent class of people. They are discharged sol diers who helped to save ths Union. (Au interruption of about fllteen minutes, caused by the passing of the procession.) General Sickles per ceiving it impossible to finish his speech, briefly con eluded as follows: J 1 want to say one word before I retire. I have en joyed very mnch this brilliant political assemblage ; it is evidently not an occasion for any one to make a speech: it is impossible to address moving columns, lr 1 bad nnMclpatad tho pleasure of witnessing a re view of so many thousands of Republican soldiers of Pennsylvania, 1 would have come here prepared to be silent. I would, therefore, make an apology for ths words I have addressed you, aud for having so loug occupied your platform. I have, however, been permitted, by your kind in dulgence, to resume my remarks from time to time snd will give way to my friend Senator Sherman. The General then made a few other remarks, which were drowued iu au uproarious cheering for Senator Shtrinau. Hon. John Sucrman Wss then enthusiastically received, bnt on account of tbe lateness of the hour, half-past eleven o'clock, it is imposeiple to give but. a synopsis of his remarks. He said : Fellow-citizens: When I cams hers to-night I did not dream of meeting such an assemblage. I have been gratified at the magnificent display that has been given by onr political frieuds here. I came fall of rejoicing over the glorious result in ths Slate of Maine. (Cheers.) But I have seen more people here to-night than there is la tho State of Maine, and if you can give this company ss tbe majority of the State of Pennsylvania, it will bo the graudest victory iu modern times. (Cheers for Maine and Pennsyl vania.) The contest In the State of Mains and Vermont Is only on the skirmish line. Here the great battle is to be fought in tbe State of Pennsylvania, aud if you will do your duly in this important campaign all will be right. (Cbsrs and Voice "We have got it hers now,") I did not know yon had as many people iu Philadelphia. My arithmetic has (one astray almost as much so as Seymour's. (Laughtsr.) There is no deubt whatever that the po litical contest in which we are now engaged is to be decided by the great State of Pennsylvania. I am so full of enthusiasm to-day, and with this de monstration, audit is so late that I think yoa bad better adjourn, and let me oft. (Cries of " No I no !") Well, if you can stand it, I can. I have said that Pennsylvania decides the contest; therefore yoa have an important duty to perform. I believe there Las never been a time iu the history of this country that that has been so momentous as the present. I have just crossed your State, and throughout ths couutry and In the city of Plttsbure they are certain of success. Still we dare not relax our duties, but must, like oar great leader, Graut (cheers) push on. We must never stop our exertions in this contest un til the whole Confederate Democracy in the North and South, Fast and West, lay down their arms in unconditional surreudsr to ths Uuiou Republican parly. Tbe great Republican p arty, of which yoa here are members, has its principles are recorded iu the redemp tion of this country. We have accomplished all we ever undertook to accomplish, and mauy great events during the last eight years. They are ou the stututs book und we need not tell them to you. But the De mocracy have the advantage of us. Tuey can choose their point of attack. They are aggressive asd we defen sive, as it were, and we are compelled to answer them. They can select the issues for themselves. Seymour has selected his issue. He tells his frieuds that thoy are vtry kiud, but have plunued him iuto a sa of trouble. He tells us that the Republicans are trying to evade the issues of debt and taxation. But there is another wiug ol this party kangaroo ticket, aud 1 will delay you a little while with what General Frank Blair rays, mid that is, that the great question involved is the question of reconstruction, and that it is Idle to talk of anything else; aud, wilh him, I be lieve tho great question is reconstruction, whether Rebels cau rule or loyal people can rate. (Ap plause). The great question, ia my Judgment, is whether tho Rebel Stales recently reconstructed by us, shall be overthrown by the Dsuiocrale. ("Never, never.' ) This great question of reconstruction is to many plaiu peo ple surrounded with a great deal of misapprehension, and they do nut take too pains to examine it. Why the whole of it Is coulained in two short auieudmeuls to the Constitution that have been submitted by Con giess to tho people. The whole plan of Congress is contained iu these two short amendments. Now, my countrymen, I never saw an honest man who read these amendments but approved them. I could venture lo take one of your honest Demo, crals and get him to a prayer meeting, where he would be conscientiously inclined, (lutighter) and ask him his houest opinion, and I believe Tie would say, they aie right, unless you have grot a good deal worse here than in Ohio. What are they? Simply that one of them prohibits slavery, and says it shall never be restored again. Democrats uveu say this is riL'ht. What next If That evtry man born in this country, every uiau naturalized in this couutry, shall be deemed a citizen of the United Slates aud of the State in which he lives, and shall have the right to go anywhere under the protection of our Hag, aud wheiever the jurisdiction of our country ex tends, (theirs.) And that our people of Pennsyl vania aud Ohio, carrying carpet-bags, shull go down to South CaivluiA aud build their cabins and iluut j ths American flag In ths front of that cabin without fear or reproach. , Ths first canS of. this reconstruction plan Is to fa cilitate equality of representation, so that the White man in Philadelphia shopld have the eame power as In Bonlh Carolina t not as under the old regime, where you last your, political power and eqnailty, and thnt new by the abolition of slavery all the negroes shall beeoantnd; and whenever in any community a por tion of the pooulatioD shall be excluded from theright to vote, they shall also be excluded from the right of representation; and yet this is opposed by the Demo crats, i When the Rebels surrendered to General Grant we might bavs imposed severe laws of reconstruction, and the would have been acquiesced In without dan cer, and I believe that it should have been done now. 1 believe if we had given onr soldier beys, and some of the neeroee, a part of those plantations, dividing them lip among them, we would have done well, and bad a more loyal community than now. I believe if we bad taken some of those leading men at the South and hung them, it would have been heiter; and if we had prevented these people from voting, we would have done a wise thing; bnt we done nothing ol this kind; our terme to the Robels were the Seat ever given to any people in the world, under the same circumstance. We have not taken their lands ; not a single drop of blood has been shed sinre tbe war elosad. (Voice, "That is the tronMe.") Had these Radicals done this to the people, I mean their men who held high office In this country, such as members of Congress and others, generals of the army, who threw up their commissiou, things would have been iu an improved state iu this country. Well, what next? Tho (earth clause is, that the debt of the United States should be inviolate snd that the pensions of the soldiers should be promptly paid, and that tbe bounties should be paid. We raid, fur ther, that no money of the United Statoj should be taken Irom the Treasury to pay the) Rehel debt or Rebel pensions, or for the slaves emancipated by the war. 'i hut is the whole plan of reconstruction. Now a few words iu reference lo the nominee. Pendleton went to the Convention ; New York skinned him, bis escort, and that ended him at the Conven tion, Well, next they thought of a good soldier, Hancock, but he had no chance there; all his army record was against him, and he would not do. They laid that smooth, plausible Hendricks on ths shelf, also. Then ihey thought they would take a dislin culshed statesman. Chase. Well, he was willing, bat he only got 34 votes or yi vote, I don't know whicb, and Snran B. Anthony got K vole, and if tbe Judge was single and Miss An thony was wining, u they naa marnea tney would have bad one vote betweeu them. Well, they at lart fixed finally on Horatio Seymour, the heroic rioter of pew i org, ana rranK isiair, wno was once wtin my self a Black Republican, and one of Helper notoriety, but he fell ont wilh tbe party, and is as bitter ia his bates as his loves, and is now a good Democrat. Blair's letter, "that he wonld compel Grant and Sherman to go down and give the Rebels their Stale Governments again." (He would have a good time doing it.) '1 his letter gave him the nomination. In the South they look upon this contest as tho restora tion of the "Lost cause." THE PENN SQUARE STAND. ' The meeting at this stsnd was organized by the appointment of the fol lowing officers : raxsiiigNT SAMUEL H. PF.UKISS. VIOC l'HEBIIIF.NTH. Pr. IT. Tiedcman, John Sellers, Jr., J. HotTman. I van Randolph, Ward B. lla.eltine, Kdwin 11. Fitler, Motes A. Droprie, Thomas Briutshurst, It. II. Brown, 1j. . lioni'ii, Charles Mcgargec, Bnciicer Kobert, lldn iu 11. Trotter, Nathan Bunctt. SKOUKTARIFH. Fdwnrd Myers, . Robert Laughlin, John K. Urr, It. P. Gillingbaiii, Henry C. Kennedy, 1 U. Hotch Wintar. The speaker's stand was soou surrouuded by men, almost without number. From Cbcsuut to Market street, from one side of Broad street to tbe other, on trees, housetops, balconies and telegraph poles, men, eager to listen to the sound political doctrines of ths day, stood and clambered. At this,stand Colonel J. W. Forney Was the first speaker introduced. Colonel Foraey spoke ss follows: 'Fellow Citizens: In this congregation of thou sands we must subdivide oar ranks to counsel with each other. I congratulate you ou the remarkable auspices under which we meet. The meeting of 1866 was called to welcome the Southern Union men ; this, to-nlgbt, is a home meeting, and is a standing index of tbe great double victory that awaits our exertious. Has Grant popularity here? When he was presented as a candidate the Democratic cry was that lie bad no strength with tbe people. The reason was, that they were satisfied With the action of their delegates, and waited lor jnsw York. The answer to that accasatiou was not only in the outpouring of the people. Maine has been an indox State. For thirty-five years she has pointed the way to victory, but never has her de monstration beau so significant as yesterday. If we were not to triumph, then would the boast of me KCDcia be true, ana we would indeed be incapable or self-government, i wo months ago the Republican were not satisfied of their victory ; now tbe answer is round in your priBing: the answer Is found iu the cnlminating speeches of the Rebels, in ths way Howell Cobb excommunicato! the Union men. Cobb's treatment of Union men at Andcreourille is one of tbe reasons why wa are here now, why hundreds of thou, sands of Democrats who voted for Douglas, Breckin ridge and Bell vote under tbe flag of Grant. As I only came here to opeu mis meeting, l cannot Uutam yon longer, x cow give way. The Chairman then introduced Hon. Edward McPucrson, Who spoke as follows : Mr. McPherson remarked that the country was for tunate in thut tbe issues between the two parties were distinct, unequivocal, and without a shadow of aouut. itiese issues are plainly expressed in the two platforms. On the one hand the Republican platform demands peace for the nation, on the basis of the Re construction measures of Congress, which contained the only terms on which the Keoel Mates could be re stored to their political relations with the Union, con sistently with the safely of the people, and the perm rente of their free institutions. This is the oversha dowing Issue of tbe canvass, becauso it Involved the issue of another Rebellion, ia which tbe Democracy of the Aorta had substantially pledged themselves to eo operate with the Rebel element ia tbe South. Tbe New York platform has pronoauced the Reconstruc tion acts as usurpations, as revolutionary, as unconstitutional, and ss void. If this be so, they are entitled to respect and obedience from no man ; and tbe logical conclusion of tbe reason ing is mat tney must be disregarded, set aside, anil trampled nnder toot. Tbe Democratic candidate for the ice Presidency in the Broadhaad letter has indi cated the manner in which this programme of revolu tionary action is to be carried out, vlx., by the mili tary power, directed by ths uew President, "dis persing" the present governments, and inviting the Rebel portion of tbe South to reorganize new ones, aud protecting them while thus occupied. What is to he the effect of the adoption of this policy? The Four teenth Amendment of the Constitution is ous of tbe measures agsisst which Democratic sad Rebel vlndis tiveness is chiefly directed. It has recently been spe cially denounced by Stephens, of Georgia, represent ing the Southern wing of the Democracy, and by ex Senator Pugb, of Ohio, representing the Northern, although it lias been formally declared adopted by the Secretary of State, aud has been recagnixed by the Chief Justice as a part of tbs Constilutloa, Sappese it torn oat of tbe instrument, ths equality of rights of every citizen before the law would be lost; equality of representation between the States wonld be lost, and inequality of electoral power between the citizens would be perpetually incorporated into an instrument which was primarily desigued to establish justice and equally to distribute power; every avenue to office and honor would be opeued toJeffsrson Davis aud all the guiltiest of the perjured conspirators of 1801 and the opeu enemies of the bloody years suc ceeding; claim for compensation for slaves emanci pated as a war measure would be invited, and would undoubtedly be made, as already Indicated by the ac tion of Maryland aud Keutucky ; the Uuiou debt would be open to repudiation, Iu whole or part, and tbe Rebel debt would be open to assumption, in whole or part. All these points are securely guarded by the Fourteenth Amendment. If it be overthrown, everv one of these dangers at once measces the Re public. All of them are of the highest importance. That coveriug representation deserves to be specially considered. The abolition of slavery has virtually annulled that provision of the Coustitutiou which included three-fifths and excluded two-fifths of the slaves from computation in makiug up ths basis of representation. All are now entitled to comput tion, because no longer slaves. If the Coustitutiou be unamended the Southern States will be entitled, at the next apportion msut, iu 1H70, and ever there after, to thirty members of Congress, based upon their colored population alone, being au Increase of twelve upon the eighteen, to whein thieu-flflhs of that population now entitle them. Thus, by the war if no constitutional change be made the North will havo twelve Icm and tbe South twelve mure Representatives than if slavery bad not been abol ished 1 And not only so, but with this colored popu lation disfranchised, a white voter in the South would have an average of st least one-half more electoral power than a voter iu the North, because votinir for htmself und his proportion o." tho colored population, Besides, the pvwer of certain Seulhern Slates iu the National Legislature will be uujustly Increased; and South Carolina, with 2'Jl.UoO whites, will have flie Representatives, while New Jersey, with M6.6UU whites will have but fire; Mississippi with a.'.3,&KU whites will have six Representatives, while Wisconsin, with 7T3,6U3 whites, will have but tix; Louisiana, with i;S7,4;.6 whites will have st' Re presentatives, white Michigau, with 1'ii.U'i whites, will have but six; and Pennsylvania, with 9,B4t),6iitf whites will havs tweuty-two Iteprcseulutivss, aud bs I equaled In power In the National nous of Rproe tatives l the roar elates Ol Aiaoama, ueorgia, r if rida and Mississippi, whose white population is br l.M..4fi7, or little more than half thst of the Ksyst r State 1 tl ns degrading tbe Pennsylvania to ono-ha the political i owr of an Alabainian, a Georgian, j Florldian tr a Mlsslsrlppian I It le hard loses wu this badge of inferiority should be put opoo Genera Meade, and thie badge of houor upon Jeff. Davis. As to claim for compensation for emancipate slaves, this lias never been renounced. On ths ottw hand, ths Convention of Georgia, when, at Presides Johnson's I idnmg, it ratified the anti-slavery amend ment, in the fall of 1 R65, expressly reserved the righ to claim compensation from the General Government nnd more recent y the Democratic Legislature of Mar land has taken u census of its late slave populating, with names and residence of the owners, and has ds posited these iu the archives f each comity a pla which wa Inaxcnrnied In, bnt from fnar, temporaril: abandoned by the last Legtlatnre of Kentucky ol w ilh this manliest purpose of making clavn for mm vrtimtinn. Irdrtd, , the present constitution Of Mary land, adopted within two years, contains a provision looking to this very result, for tbs tblrty-seventl section ef the fnnrth article expressly requires th "(Jrnernl Aimrmklu to adopt such meaturce as fiej tun; rfarm nrjifrttrtit to obtain men tub Umtsu Ptaits crmijiensation for sucA eluvei, and to rtceiw nnd distribute the eame. equitably to tit pereone en titled." The forty-sixth section also contains them significant wi rds: "7A Ventral Aetembly eliall ham pvver to ltKcrivi rgem tiis UNiTgn Statfr any naait OK 1MIKATIOW OF I.1KH, MoRKY, OS SgOPRITt gft, for dtlf j ntpi'he deeiimated by the United State, and shall ad minister or dim ibule the same according lo tbe con ditions of said grant." The psrpoae of these pro visions is mnuitest. Il is lo opeu a way by which ths late slave unntti are to he reimbursed ont of the ua llcnal refources lor ihe iranefuiinaTTon of their chat tels into citizen. The example of Georgia and Mary iand. and the foresludowiae of Keutucky, are f warning which the pop's of the North wiil disregard only st their peri', ami opainst which the Fourteen til Amendment is their only safety. 4 Upon the questions f taxstinn aud finance, the) srgnment is as ovcrwi.elm.nrly against the Demo-l cracy. Their platform eemanda "one enrrency fori all," while the record thow that In 1862, when ths legal tender currency ws created, ever; Democrat in, Comjreim voted agairmt the bill making "greenbacks" a "letial tenner'' f,r every purpvee. 11 further shows that I the presence in the statute keok of the cois iutcreet 1 en the bonds is the direct result of a solid yote there for by everv Dem crat In the Dane of Representa tives, sgainet a majority of the Republican members 1. bo that, whatever respousitiuity attaches to the dis crimination, is directly due te tke course of the Demo cratic Representatives of that day. Tke Republicans favor "one enrrency for all," but propore to reach it . ss the Massachusetts Democracy far themselves de clare, in opposition to tbe national platform by stub, management of our fluasces as will rc;o e at taa earliest period possible a return to specie payments, which Democratic policy would indefinitely postpone. Fault is fonnd with tbe existing taxation'; yet this taxation has been so rapiSly reduced tbat the gross amount received is not iu excess of the actual wants of 1 lie government, and that It now bears specifically npon bnt six articles, and them all luxuries. No ne cessary of life is taxed. No real property is taxed. No personal property is tsxed. No article of manu facture is taxed, except whisky, tobacco, perfumery, aud a few like prodncts. Labor is untaxed, except where the profits of say business reach an excess of f 1000 per annum, besides rent and the local taxes. The system of taxation has been so adjusted that the burdens of government, eo far as felt at all, are felt only by the rich, the prosperous, and the fortunate. The Democratic platform makes war npou this en tire system of discrimination in favor of the poor, tho struggling and the laboring. It declares it will sub stitute for it a new system,-iu which there shall ba conn! taxation of hvkkv smcus or morgRTv. This demand is not for eqaallty of taxation among the classes taxed, to which there can be no objection, and which is part of existing laws. But tbs demand is for an equal rate of taxation spen every itpeciee of pro perty. This, if adopted, would bring every article of property witblu the taxing power of the 1 alion. This is not statesmanship. It is reeklesss crujlty, whicb: would degrade tbe nation, oppress its labor, dry up its resources, and blast its industry. Every housa would he taxed, every farm, every lot, every imple ment. Nothing produced is to escape the search of tbe tax-gatherer. No objeel is to be too high or low for this sweeping demand, which bas only been equaled in comprehensiveness by tbs ancient decree of Cnsar Augustus, that "all the world ehall be taxed." Tho diflerences between the two systems are apparent at a glance. Tbs Republican wonld lighten, is lightening taxes ss rapidly as consist ent with the na'.ional necessities, and impose those which may be required spen those agents which can bear it best, and upon those more opulent classes who cau best afford to pay it. Tbe Democratic sys tem wonld tax evkrytiuho; would tax all things fQt Ai.i.v; would raise thereby an enormous revenue, in order, if we may believe tueir platform, that they may have the luxury of paying, at once, tbe national debt ss rapidly as the meaus cau bs drained out of the snflering and impoverished industry of the nation. And tbis modification of taxation is to be made ia order that, being "equalized," it may be lessened to existing classes and subjects, which do not require ths benefit of any rednction. Tbs snra of it all is, thnt taxation is to be reduced on whisky, tobacco sad other luxuries, as au occasion for imposing a new tax upon articles and persons who now wholly escape; bnt whom it offends tbe Democrscy tbat they are riot daily making a contribution out or their hard earnings for the instant payment ef the public debt I Such wisdom is beyond comprehension, aud worths only of a convention which, in its bliud rage at ex isting Jegislstion which has been perfected over their opposition and malice, asks the people of tbe nation to stultify themselves, blot out their record of honor, admit themselves mistaken if not wicked, and hand the government of a saved nation to ths mea who re sisted every meaanre and service for its salvation. After Mr. McPherson had concluded his remarks, the Chairman introduced Mr. J. L. Bacr, better kaowa to all as Tho Buckeye Blacksmith, Who entertained his audience no less with his sound Republican argument, than with his remarkably hu morous snd pertinent anecdotes. He began by saying that be had not been here in four years, aud that ia those years great changes had been wrought, uot only In Philadelphia, but throughout tbe whole laud. He had just returned from Maine, where he had addressed thirty-eight meetings meetings not 7ii so exten sive as this, yst meetings that eeuld only be estimated by the acre. (Cheers.) Ia fact, he had come to tbe conclusion that Maine is a great place. He quoted the new Democratic hymn, altered to salt the occasion, "Hark from Mains a doleful sound,'' c. Us had not only been la Maine, but in New Hampshire, Illinois, Indiaaa and Ohio, aud every where he had seen ths great uprising against the Democratic party snd their candidates. The interior of Pennsylvania, except these nnrecluiinod and un desirable Copperhead strongholds like Berks, was al most solid for Grant, where legiea of nohie men was Increasing every dsy. Us said that the Democrats of Mains fought oa a void principle not one cpy of their platform had been printed in any paper or that State. Tbe Copperheads charge ears with being a nigger party, and claim tbat we have pat ths negro ou aa equality wilh him; bat if there is any difference be tweu the negro and the Copperhead, the negro has the advantage. (Laughter.) They charge us witU putting on the heavy (!) taxos. Well, we do lax the fluid yoa barn five cenis a gallon ; bat ws tax the De mocratic fluid two dollars a gallon, and la mercy to them have reduced It oae-foarth. He was opposed to the Democratic party beaaase it was the same party as in 1S60, '64 and '66 always together and banded fer oppressive warfare, except in 1661, when Graut' army kept them divided. Now that the military are disbanded, and ths gallant "Boys in Blue" are at horns tgating with ths ballot, ths Northern sad Southern Democrats are a unit again, and figbt to regain tke "lost cause," under the leadership ef Wade llaaspton, N. B. Forrest, Vallan digham and Horatio Seymour. Even then they could 001 have held out as loug as tbey did had it not been for their rebel brethren of the North, now tbe situ ating snlhore of the Democratic platform and princi ple. He showed conclusively how the Democrats not only expected, but had been actually promised pay ment for their slaves and other ruined property. Now he was going up Into Pesnsvlvauia.iuto Mr. Co vode's district, to tell the beys what he bad tsen ia Philadelphia. He amused bis bearers by a contiuual succession of witty stories, highly illustrative or the contest naw being waged. Between langhter, cheers and enthusiasm, the speaker retired, and ths chair man introduced the Hon. Alexander IHcClure, Formerly or Chambsrsburg, in this State. lis said that the heart of the city of Philadelphia beats time to the impulses of the Grant Union. Tho popular will Is new so manifest that ths purposes of the people casnot be miataken. Wherever he had been he had heard the question : "What or Philadelphia?" He could tell of Philadelphia that she is true to tbe Union ; true to the feelings that prompted her sons to fight iu our glorious cause; true to the instiucts that sent out more soldiers than an other city, cared for uioi e sick, fed more hungry and cherished kindlier aud more patriotic feelings. The whole State will send greeting, in October, by a larger victory than any since 1S60, aud noble Philadelphia will be first over all. (Great cheering). Three Republican victo ries have graced our banners siuco ths campaign began first, tbe Democralie Convention; second, Vermont, aud third, Maiue. It remains wilh us to decide whether we shall be prosperous or not; re spected at home and abroad or not; Union-loving citizens or not 1 happy or not, and wbelher Union men or Rebels shall rule us. Our issues are too clear to deceive aay one, and our people will tell the story at tbe polls. (Cheers.) " He concluded that, owing to the nnexamplod dis play to.uight, no speeches wore ueedsd. Iu fact, that the parade is conclusive as to the ntiini r pi,u. delphia. Philadelphia, whose record h. n salt an tta triotic, so laithlul, it would be a stain npou her honor were she lauhless uow. J'euusyiYuia, 10 doulnfti
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