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THE NEWS.
• Tin t.,,iay evening pilot-boat No. 3 came
row e „,i, Monroe, and stated that she had
,Mring day ; while outside Cape
• ly,l:lLt
I
p ilOt.: 110 :t t t he W
I . S n hark ey, with the
hp
• u ndoubtedly, of running into her.
.captain ofib N.ll e
0.. asked an expla-
Le was told that he must either leave
or be fired. into. A detachment was
on a steamer, and returned with the
The matter is being investi-
ot this morning, as a matter of euriosi
' r
of despatches from Mexico via New
They are not reliable, and we know
o f them to be false. Our special eor
'.• lit Chilmahua, in his letter, which
nat
fonna in another column, says that it
ppt• • 1 thore that Juarez is about tO leave
r,publie and join his family in New York,
; pat before he takes his departure he in
an address protesting against
i,;eneh of his country.
1 , -, ream-ilei of the volunteer Military force
United slates is progressing rapidly.
•: t otal number of troops mustered out
onlers from the War Department, dated
lith was 00 eno. Of this number 6,000
. s orvina in the Middle Department, S,ooo
s,ooolnlientueky,s,ooo in. North
~ ; , r t. and -2,00f1 in Mississippi. Orders dated
of the present month direct the mus
out of another large body of troops.
L..tenlay Morning, it most destruCtive fire
in Augusta, Maine. The entire bust.
.;,:portion of the city, extending from the
— l ,er bridge to Winthrop street, and
the river to aboye the railroad track, is
destroyed. The fire is thought to
ofan incendiary, The flames werre
:,,,b,:revered in a new wooden building, in
The losses will not be less than
.
.-Cr:l 610(711110s order revoking his former
o r,idding the organization of the min
k‘ Mi.issippi by Governor Sharkey, says
:c ; :, from information somewhat reliable,
1 one important changes will take
.j( Ikti . :.*SlPPl regardin o the power and
of the Freedman's Bureau, which
;.. - ..witiout doubt, make a precedent for all
;: states lately in rebellion.
E,ropean advices of the 7th inst. have been
The Confederate bondholders are
M the slim prospects they have of ob•
anything for their investments. Some
A ; our Government responsible for the mo-
The choleraic still raging at Marseilles,
•,, el t lire occurred in Constantinople, de
•
:LW' buildings.
c, the dose of the rebellion, the business
United States Patent Office gradually
oses. For the week ending September 12,
~tunated and twenty-six patents were
is
lronl the Oleo, and one hundred and
711 W will be issued for the week ending
h instant,
hienam Colonel A. C. Hamlin, medical
-?ecter United States army, has been for a
inspecting hospital property in
: :;nr , ,ee. An immense amount has been
:14111110 and ordered to be sold. All female
es have been discharged from the United
amy general hospitals.
r. , :tent develop - Monts show that stolen Go
en:rpm bonds have been passed upoll
panes by altering the numbers there-
The,i , alterations ate well executed, and
carefully scrutinized are likely to es
aitice. Losses of these bonds by theft
late been quite frequent.
lt,emi-annual interest onthe Confederate
loan was due in London on the Ist inst.,
: Davis , financial agents informed the
'..-lielders that they had no funds where
::. to redeem the obligations of the stock.
..r.niftin cement created no panic in Thread.
•trcet.
• •:norday, the English capitalists, at Chi
visited various points in and around the
+:. to the evening they were entertainedby
hanquet at the Tremont House. On
e-day they will leave the city by the Michi
.,.uthern Railroad.
":1 the 11th of August vessels sailed from
for Ascension Island, for the iyur
pote of \ringing away the crews of the vessels
rimed titre by the Shenandoah. A list of the
71,alcr. in the Arctic ocean, which have es
:.:l,t•ti the pirate. will be found elsewhere.
Tic General Land Office is enforcing that
u2i:pliance with the regulations requiring
;to u% deposits of public money on the part
all receivers of the United States land
niees. so that the balances may be settled up
the ona of the quarter, the slat inst.
evening a convention of delegates
twenty different trades of that city was
:t:d in Washington relative to the eight-hour
Loreo,ent. A committee was appointed to
;,!Ic , an address to the workingmen of the
'airy, and proposing a national convention.
, Jeneral Slocum has endorsed the resOlu•
Xin of the Democratic Convention of New
and accepted his nomination for Secre
.:y of State. He says he will be in the State
and it is therefore likely he will resign
:;,oqtion in the army.
~ aptain Wirz is now permitted to see Ms
a pass having been given to her by the
Department. Fathers Hamilton and
his spiritual advisers, have not yet
!lini
Prvz , hient Johnson will communicate the
amended constitution to Congress•
is is the only action he will take with either
the constitutions of the other southern
EL•Governor William Smith, of Virginia, is
:.e.l in Washington in a few days, which
,:bai the permission of the President to visit.
parole lie received heretofore required
taut to leave the county of Fanquier.
lla• :Helmond Times is down on its marrow
beseeching the New York News to come
!gorously in support of General Patrick.
-4,! Door Patrick.
a Davis, on Friday, was taken from his
prison to a room in Carroll Hall, in
I :Monroe. The change was made on ac
of the declining health of the prisoner.
I % s, lln:titer General Dennison has made the
, -w!),L , State appointments : it Jefferson,
~ ; .he comity, Harvey Denny postmaster,vice
Lindsley, resigned.
liill's company of the Provisional
v. it C., has been detailed for duty
' White House, in plane of the 'Union
Guard, mustered out• of service.
• patent embracing fifteen thous.and five
and ninety•nine acres of swamp of
, `..pity lands has jut been sent from the
tal land Office to the t;ovemor Of lOWa.
tt , :anel Parker and Secretary Irwin, of the
Council, are to proceed to Colorado
I:egotiate a treaty with the tribes there
!ill proximo.
z-uturday the union Berks county Con
1-.L!if,r, tact at Reading. Tim list of officers
found elsewhere.
W:llitun 0, Baldwin, of Georgia, formerly a
• of Congre.,ls in the United States
tlq! Representatives, has been pardoned.
1, Nurray, on Saturday, received from
i'le',hlent the appointment of surveyor of
t' , •:oill., for the port of Paducah, Ky.
: 1. 1'45 more New York yachts—the Restless
.
H tsgetta—are having an ocean race to
imn , lon, Conn., and back.
' " 1 " l arl' Stanton and Surgeon General
au, in Boston, the guests of Hon.
nna ii Z the er
the l
Charleston delegation to the
WI Carolina Convention left that city Or
ten. Spinner has left Washington for New
k, 1 ) • •
During his absence. Standish Barry will
( r • t. TreaSurer.
, tptember 12th the 'lath Mass. and 75th
ork - left lifilton lead for home.
error Aiken, of Sonth Carolina, has been
. 111,1 e wag an active demand, on Saturdan
railroad stooks, and prices were higher in
`', li ' o ,lamee. Government loans command a
. 1 0 3' market at better figures.. The stock
generally is moving smoothly.
' Mno State Fair coed on Friday.
" I na" was dull on Saturday and prices unset
t•i
• m Wheat there was very little doing
to the difference in the views of the
:: 4 - , rs and. sellers. Corn and Oats are un
'slllsll. Cotton is firmly held at former
:‘ l ' s •• Sugar is i n g ood demand at full prices.
tuyitions
Continue „ lu ta. Whit•ky is more
`-tirt and prices arc looking up.
"I 'TER FROM OCCASIONAL.
WABRINGTON, Sept, 16, 1866.
Thule is matter worth thinking about in
f 6 llowing extract from the letter of a
~ i ( : laecratie politician who lives in New
and writes fall of enthusiasm of the
• 1 • 1 plinform of the Democrats of the State
t . adoxical as it seems, slavery was undoubt
,!,,
strength and wenkness of both the great
1 1 ; " ;, 0 parties. e depth Ai slavery has taken,
; f :• ,, ekbone old of both., and the elements of which
, composed hare been in part sifted with
rl b ) themseires, but with regard to each other
largely omaigamated in the war. War
"o ) e that which polities could not—
' 41 a national character to the people,
'7'' l , this character must be reflected in
suture politics. It is impossible to delay
Ty!!•11 farther the construction of political par
and it does seem rational and naturaland
,' ‘.l . lll ' 4 ' l 3' appropriate to the crisis that a
party should find just inspiration
;'; airection in a policy aiming at the resto
of the American system by the means
1i! appliances of that system whose guaran
,;.,' Perpetuity is the o.chiceement of the war.
action of the convention leads to that
and ought to meet coequal breadth of
"''titration from those. like you,who control
is , Of influence and position. The
VOL. 9.-NO. 42.
most successful leaders of public opinion are
those who receive their commands from it,
and it seems beyond doubt that the public
mind tends to, and demands the formation Of,
what may be called, on the. moment, 'a John
son party.' ft
It is a hopeful sign of the times that ut
terances like these are not only common
among individual Democrats, but are be
ginning to be acted upon in good faith.
We had so much profession and so
little practice from these men during the
rebellion, that what looks like a symptom
of permanent political health deserves to be
noted with honor. That shrewd observer,
Thurlow Weed, wishes that the New York
politicians had talked two years ago the
way they talked at Albany last week, and
thinks if they had so spoken, a good deal of
money and a good many lives would have
been thereby saved. But let us forget the
unsavory past, and try to remember only
the plain duties of the present. lam for
joining hands with all good men in the
honest fulfilment of these duties. That part
of my old friend's letter in italics is evi
dently his strong point. But there is a
wide new field of work opened for the
reformer now that slavery has been de
stroyed. If it be true "that slavery was
the strength and the weakness of both
the great political parties," it is equally
true that the end of that wickedness has
imposed many new obligations upon these
organizations. That they must be na
tional to win and to wear I have already
shown in this correspondence. I claim that
the Union party is the only national party
extant, but if the Democrats were all like
the New Yorkers who nominated Gen. Slo
cum at Albany last week there would then be
a respectable rival for the honors. Unhappi
ly, however, the Democrats of nearly all the
other States are in deadly contrast and contra
diction to the Snickerbockers—still adhere
to the wretched sectionalism that fomented
and forced the war, and are not even gen
erous enough to give a little verbal praise to
the President. Nay, so poorly impressed
are they with the example of the New York
ers, that they have not the courage to drop
their factious pledges and follow it. There
is one fact that all the politicians must accept
before they begin to lay the foundations of
their new temples, viz : The majority of the
American people are resolved that slavery shall
be bwried so deep that it shall woe strength
en or weaken either party or country. This is
not a condition to the formation of a party ;
it is the condition of its existence. The men
who accept that fact will carry the elections,
whether they call themselves Republicans,
Deinocrats, or Johnsonmen. The South
ern people are at last made sensible of their
obligations in the premises. Why should
the Northern politicians attempt to keep
it away from their hearts ? It is a great
misfortune that these latter, even while
they talk of the necessity of a national
party, are still deluded by the hope
that there is enough slavery left in the
South to give them the victory in the elec
tions; or, to state it more plainly, that by
catering to the men who were made strong
by slavery in other days, they may con
trol the Government in the future. When
this delusion has vanished from them, as it
has from the Southern people, . they
will be prepared to build up a truly
national Democracy. Antecedent to this,
however, they must induce their party as
sociates everywhere, to join with them in
honest professions of principles. It is a
sorry beginning of a national party to
have the Democrats of only one State
talking anti promising loyalty, while their
brethren of nearly all the Others revel in.
the rankest copperheadism.
WASHINGTON.
CSpeeial - Despatottes to The Press.]
WASHINGTON, September 17,160.
Florida and Itestoration.
The intelligence from Florida indicatea
rapid progress in the way of reorganization .
The northern district at the-time of the break
down Of the rebellion was a part of " The De
partment of the South." At that time it was
occupied by three regiments, two of colored,
and one of white troops. The white regi
ment was subsequently mustered out. All
the interior garrisons are now ccimposed
of negro troops, principally recruited in
Philadelphia. The vexed questions of com
pensation for colored labor, trial by jury ,
rights of witnesses, marriage, Sm., were early
met and settled in Florida. Gen. Voeims admi
nistered martial law wisely but firmly. Under
his rule, subsequently adopted by Provisional
Governor litAnynkl, planters made contracts
to secure the gathering of the crops, and when
the freedmen and their old masters could not
agree the dispute was left to referees chosen
in the usual manner. Planters were also
authorized to procure labor when it was most
advantageous to them. No restraint was
placed upon the freedman hiring himself
when it was most to his interest. Va
grancy was stopped ; idle persons, who would
not work, were set to labor. The Military
Commission tried offences fairly, taking
testimony of white and black. In some
cases planters have been acquitted on the tes
timony of their former slaves. Orderhas been
enforced easily. At no time has Florida been
so peaceful. The planterS are generally recon
cited to the new condition of affairs. The
freedmen are happy and industrious. The
colored troops are obedient, and satisfied in
their officers. Intelligent men have been sent
to the plantations to explain the change in
the political s.tatua to the former masters and
slaves, with admirable results. Large crops
of corn will be raised, enough to supply the
State, and to leave a large surplus for ex
portation. The election for delegates to the
State COnvention called by Governor 3.1.1.avin
will take piece on the lath of October, and the
convention itself will meet on the 25th of the
same month. The only annoying question is
that of colored suffrage, but it is believed that
Governor Mica - N - 11es views, in his well-known
speech, will be o,mbadiefl in something like
a qualified system, based on property or intel
ligence. My informant concludes by stating
that the State should never be allowed to re
vert to the people until the condition of the
freedmen is specifically settled. it**
6, The Oath."
The over-sensitive, who dread the return of
the rebels to power, must not forget that,
apart from other obAacles, there is_ a double
protection against any such calamity. There
is not only the oath adopted by the States
of Maryland, Tennessee, Missouri, Virginia,
West Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, Sm., but
the oath of Congress, more potent than these,
if that is possible, standing like grim and
inexorable fate to prevent that danger.
The Lupardoned Leaders.
Nor should good men in the North, who
keenly recollect the hell•born treason of the
elaveholders, and the hundreds of thousands
of precious lives it- cost, fail also to reinentbei,
that the President has pardoned very few of
the authors of the rebellion. Colonel JAmss
L. CM, of South Carolina, waited for three
months before he got his pardon. Fmirr
WAtuan, of Alabama, has been here for weeks,
and is not yet pardoned, and though 11. M. T.
Iltrivrim has made a nUmber of efforts, no
favorable reply has yet been returned to
hi.M. It may be added that many of the most
active of the late rebels refuse to ask to lie
relieved from the penalty they have incurred,
not only because they know this would be in
vain, but because they know they could do no
good among their people.
CBy Associated Press.]
The Letter er Major General Melgs
. -
It appears that the clerk who copied Major
General Mums' recent note on Fort Pickens,
accidentally transferred a sentence, which
somewhat alters the relations and sense Of
several of the paragraphs. His note is-in no
respect an answer to Fox's statement, in
which ho finds nothing contrary to the facts,
and no charges or inferences against the Secre
tary of State. In using the words, "the article
is grotsly unjust to the Secretary of State," he
referred not to Fox's statement as published
in the Times, but to the editorial article in the
Tribuve, which he says dreiv inference:3 from
Captain Fox's stateinent and its accompany'-
mg documents, which that statement and
those demi:tents completely refute.
For four years association with Captain
Fox, General almos has ever found him ani
mated by an active and pure patriotism, ieady
to do justiee to all who are trying to serve
our country and seeking its advantage to the
neglect of his own.
[We have made the correction indicated
and the letter will be found in another column:
—ED. PRESS.
Counterfeit Notes.
The utterance of spurious $lOO compound-ht
terest notes and other dangerous counterfeits,
shows the inxportauce of the Government
using altogether the paper espeeially adopted
for genuine issues, and Which is now manufac
tured in the Treasury building. The larger
quantity of the note-paperis purehaSed in the
same open market to which the counterfeit•
ers have access, but the Treasury Department
expects ultimately to manufacture a sufficient
quantity for all its uses, and of a character
not liable to be•eounterfcitecl.
The Habeas Corpus in the Case of Bureb
Suspended.
Yesterday a writ of habeas corpugby Judge
WILLIE, on the petition 5f SAMUEL 11. Bones,
was filed by his counsel, Jos. ii. ISTLADLET i
commanding the officer in charge of the Old
Capitol prison to produce before him at eleven
o'clock the body of his father, SAMUEL Erße
who lie represents to have been unlawfully
arrested, and also 'Mg brothers CHARLES BURCH'
and ORLANDO BURGH, neither now or ever hav
ing been connected with the land or naval
forces. To-day, General BAKER, by whose or
der the parties were arrested several days
strive, at their houses in Fairfax county, ap
peared with the writ endorsed by the Presi•
dent as follows, puttingan end to the proceed
ings under it :
EXECTTIVE DI ANSION, Sept. IC, 1865.
In the cases of SAMUEL Button, CHARLES
EURCJR, and ORLANDO BOTCH, named within,
the execution of the writ of habeas corpus is
hereby suspended.
Ammew JOHNSON, President.
Another of the family, EMJAH Ihrnetr, was
arrested yesterday. They are charged with
the larceny of and marking Government
horses with the brand "S," and it is stated
that they were caught in the act. Already
General BAkan's force have recovered over
thirty horses so marked, supposed to be with
the same 'brand. General DANCE stated that
there would be no objection to turning the
parties over to the civil courts at once if they
could be tried immediately, or they would be
turned over to be placed under bail. It is pro
bable that they will be turned over in a few
days to the civil authorities at Alexandria.
The Eight hour Movement.
Last night there was a convention of dele
gates from twenty different trades and work
iugmen's associations of Washington, to take
into consideration the proposition that eight
hours shall constitute a day's work. They ap
pointed a committee to publish an address to
the workingmen throughout the country, and
to take measures for a national convention in
furtherance of the object.
The President on Saturday pardoned six
Alabainiane, two Kentuckians, One Virginian,
And one Tesan. The doors of the White House
are again besieged to-day by.pardon-seekerS.
Movements of General Spinner.
General SPINNER has left Washington for
Several weeks sojourn in New York, and,
during his absence, STANDISH BARRY will be
the acting Treasurer of the United States,
under appointment of the President. Gen.
SPINNER has been in that office four years and
a half, in which time he has lost only nine
teen days, eighteen of them in Consequence
of sikness. For over two years he has worked
seventeen hours every day. it is not known
that any [of the Government employ& are
ambitious of following his example of in
dustry.
It is true that information was received
here not long since that President JUAREZ
had fled to El Paso from Chihuahua, but, from
the tenor of the same adviees, it does not fol
low that the fortunes of the Liberals are irre
trievably destroyed. However that may be,
it is certain that there is no change in the
policy heietofore declared by our Govern
ment in relation to Mexican affairs.
The Mississippi Amended Constitution.
No action will be taken by the Executive
Department on the Mississippi amended Con
stitution, recently received here, or others
which may be sent hither from the South,
further than to communicate them to Con
gress.
The Condition of Wirz.
Captain Winz is now privileged to see his
wife, she having obtained a pass from the
War Department permitting her to visit him.
The spiritual advisers, Fathers ItAMILTOIC slid
WHELAN, of whom he seeks spiritual comfort,
have not yet called upon him.
Wins, on Saturday, was somewhat better in
health. He is incessantly occupied with his
ease, frequently being engaged in writing
until midnight.
The Subsistence Department has contracted
for the delivery of 1,000 barrels of flour at $9.51
per ,barrel, and 500 bbls at ,$10.27. The bids
ranged from these ligures up to $ll per barrel.
The President has appointed MARSHAL B.
HOLLAND Collector - of Customs for the district
of Itrunswiek, Georgia, and T. M. MURRAY Sur.
reyor of Customs for the port of Paducan,Ky.
OCCASIONAL
Juarez About to Leave the Republic
HE INTENDS ISSUING A PROTEST AGAINST ,THE
FRENCH INVADtRS BEFORE LEAVING.
EL PASO, STATE OF CHIHUAHUA,'
MEXICO, August 15, 1865.
ESpecial Correspondence of Tile Press. 3
I wrote you a letter a few days ago from this
Place, giving you the latest phase of the Maxi
milian or Juarez, the empire or republican
dueSMOn in Mexico, in which I stated that the
Juarez party were on their last legs, almost
ready to give up the ghost. This is the "jump
ing off" place, the Rio Grande forming the
only barrier to a precipitate retreat into the
United States.
The Correa, received here last night from the
city of Chihuahua, a distance of two hundred
and seventy-live miles, brings the intelligence
that President Benito Juarez is on the eve of leav
ing ifie Republic for the United States,bringing up
at the elk?, of New York, where his family now re•
sides.
Before leaving Chihuahua, it is said, he will
draw up a protest against the French invaders,
and submit his cause to the decision of the ci
vilized world. Ile contends that he is legiti
mately the President of Mexico, according to
the plan of Ayutla; that he is a native of
Mexico, a full-blooded Indian, a lineal descend
ant of Montezuma, the first emperor, who was
dispossessed of WS throne by Hernandee
Cortes, the invading Spaniard, shortly after
the discovery of the country by Christopher
Columbus; that when the independence of
Mexico from Spain was acknowledged by
nearly all the powers of Christendom, and
the Constitution of 182.1 went into exist
ence as the organic law of the Republic,
and Nicholas Bravo elected <the first Pre
sident, the fundamental principle engraft
ed On the written document was that all citi
zens, including Spaniards, mixed breeda,
dians and negroes, were eligible to the Presi
dential ofilee—no distinction being drawn on
account of color—that by the plan of Ayutla,
upon the depositkm of Ignacio Comonfort
from the presidential oillee ' he being Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, regularly elect
ed, succeeded to the office of Chief Magistrate
according to the provision therein set forth,
and that in 1800 he was duly elected President
of the Republic, the asseveration and chant
of Miguel Miramon (who relied on the plan of
Tucabaya) to the contrary notwithstanding.
True, by force of arms, Miguel Miramon helid
the capital of the country, exercising the oiffee
of President, and acknowledged by Several of
the European powers, but that he occupied he
role Vera Cruz, and was recognized by Robert
M. McLane, Mr. Buchanan's Minister from the
United States, with whom he concluded a com
mercial treaty highly favorable to the Ameri
can Union, and granting • the right of way for
railroad privileges through the States of Chi
huahua and Sonora, with a protectorate over
the same, the United States agreeing to loan
Juarez four mii/unis of dollars, But this treaty,
which pledged the United States to his sup
port, was defeated by the Senate.
Miramon, the Church-party President, says
Jews was selected by bayonets and not by bal
lots, and that not One-fourth of the legal voters
of the Republic are in his favor. Miramon
disappears from the stage of action, and
,French bayonets ejects Juarez from the capi
tal, when a Congress of Notables meet (a kind
of political junta), who And a deputation to
Europe and invite Maximilian, of the House
of llapsburg, to assume the reigns of govern
ment as Emperor. Thus stands this vexed
question. We have the "Monroe Doctrine , '
announced as the rule of interpretation by
the United States ; and now comes the ques
tion, who shall decide when doctors disagree?
If the "Monroe Doctrine' , is enforced, then a
war with France is inevitable, because Louis
Napoleon has declared that French blood shall
flow in torrents before he is driven out by
force of arms ; but that he is willing to sub
mit the whole question, with all its intricate
phases, to the calm decision and arbitrament
of an international Congress composed of im
partial judges, and abide its award.
I am gratified to learn from Mr. H.l. Cuniffe,
the American consul here, that the Southern
rebellion and slavery are completely "crushed
out," and that the American Union still sur
vives in all its original power and graltdcar,
The contest has been terrific, but freedom has
triumphed at last.
I am sorry to hear that John Mitchell, for
whom I entertained &high regard in other days,
has played or rather acted such a shabby part
in America. Instead of dedicating his fine
talents to the Rights of Man, he became the
chanpion of the Oppressor; the friend of
Slavery instead of Liberty. His folly has been
great and his punishment must entail a cor
responding weight of odium to embitter his
erratic and unfortunate career. This should
serve as a lesson to Irishmen to preserve
their ballast and not suffer their minds to
Sway to and fro lilm the pendulum of a clock ;
to sutler derision and scorn where they might
gain laurela and honors of the highest grade.
Xour friend, Joan rATALGIC. 0'13141.1W,
Pardons Granted
Mexican Affairsh
t:outracts Awarded.
Appointments Made.
MEXICO.
for the United States.
e 1 11 4 , MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1865:
THE CAMPAIGN.
Its Auspicious Opening, at National
Hall, on Saturday Night,
AN IMMENSE, ENTHUSIASTIC HEIM OF
INTELLIGENT TOTER&
Consideration of the Issues and Irrik
ciples Involved.
THE BATTLE NOW AS IMPORTANT IN ITS RESULTS'
AS IN NOVEMBER LAST.
Speeches of Hon. Henry Wilson, orlilassachuseOs,
}lon. John Cessna, lion. Morton McMichael,
Mon. Henry 11. Moore, Judge Kelley,
Ex. Governor Pollock, and
General J. T. Owen.
PATRIOTIC LETTER OF MAYOR HENRY
On Saturday evening the initial meeting of
the friends of the Union party was held at
National Hall, at Thirteenth and Market
streets, to ratify the nominations recently
made by the State and city conventions.
Throughout the city posters had been pre
pared and set up, and early in the evening the
throngs of citizens could be. seen wending
their way to the common centre of attraction.
But a few minutes elapsed before the hall was
filled to overflowing everyseat was occupied,
and standing room was not to be obtained. A
band of music was in attendance r and during
the evening performed a numberof patriotic
airs which were rapturously received.
Shortly before eight o'clock the meeting
was called to order by John Cessna, Esti, He
dolivored the following address ;
ADDP.ESS OF JOHN CESSNA, figg
Citizens of Philadelphia: We are about to
organize the first mass meeting of the politi
cal campaign of 1895 in the Keystone State: It
is right and proper that this work should com
mence in the great metropolis of onr common
wealth. The city whose sons are among the
first to respond to the call of their country,
whose means have contributed so largely . for
the last four years to the cause of the Union,
whose fires of patriotism have constantly
burned brightly through the whole night of
gloom anti darkness, and whose patriotic
daughters have been ever hastening to• the
field of battle, before the smoke of the battle
had passed away, to care for the wounded and
alleviate the pangs of the dying, may well be
among the first to declare her position on the
great issues raised by the war and now-- pre
seated for adjustment by the American people.
One year ago and the representatives of
great political organization, in National Con
vention assembled, pronounced the war for
the preservation of the Union a failure ' • and
the papers, speakers, and leaders of that or
ganization, during the entire campaign of
lati, proclaimed that war eOuld not restore
the Union, that the re-election of our late la
mented and patriotic President, Abraham
Lincoln, would protract the struggle, fill the
land with untold horrors, and finally over
throw and destroy the republic of our fathers
and rear a great military despotism on its
ruins. The friends of the Government boldly
and fearlessly met the issues thuS presented.
The people, by their verdict at the polls, by a
majority unprecedented in the history of the
republic, recorded their will. The enemies of
liberty in foreign lands stood appalled at the
result. The friends of the Union everywhere
took new courage. Rebels trembled, and the
heart of the rebellion grew sick and sank in
the bosom of treason, and the friends of trai
tors in our own midst hid themselves away,
and many of them deny now that they ever ad
vacated the doctrines, or made the prophecies
which composed the entire burden of their
songs of 1864.
The war is now over. The promises and
pledges of our friends, made in 1864, have all
been kept and fulfilled, Those of our political
adversaries have all been dissipated, and
proved hollow, delusive and false. Thanks to
the heroism, courage and skill of American
soldiers, sailors and officers, and to the God of
battles, our nation is saved and the good old
republic of our fathers still lives. Sweet peace
has. again spread her gentle wings over our
once happy and still beloved land.
The sound of trumpets, the roar of cannon,
the noise of musketry, the tread of armies, the
victorious cheers of our brave soldiers, and
the sad and sickening groans of the wounded
are no longer heard throughout our borders.
To-day our nation stands forth more bright
than ever before as a beacon to the down
trodden and oppressed throughout the world,
as a terror to the tyrants of the earth, as an
asylum to the oppressed of all nations, and as
the wonder and admiration of the lovers of
liberty everywhere. The issues of the coming
political struggle in Pennsylvania are already
made up. The importance of a p - yoper settle.
meat and determination of these issues cannot
be estimated. The past history as well as
the present position of our State entitle and
will secure for her great weight in the settle
ment of all questions of national policy. The
representatives of the political organization
with which you are supposed to sympathize
declared as follows: "The Union party of
Pennsylvania, in State Convention assembled,
declare : That as representatives of the loyal
people of the Commonwealth we reverently
desire to offer our gratitude `to Almighty God,
whose favor has vouchsafed victory tothe na
tional arms, enabled us to eradicate the crime
of slavery from our land, and to render trea
son against the republic impossible forever
more ; and next to Him our thanks are due
and are hereby tendered to our brave soldiers
and sailors, who, by their endurance, sacri
fices, and illustrious heroism, have secured to
their country peace, and to the downtrodden
everywhere an asylum of liberty; who have
shown that the war for the restoration of the
Union is not a failure, and whose valor has
proven, for all time, the fact that this govern
ment of the people, by the people, for the
people, is as invincible in its strength as it is
beneficent in its operation."
In contrast with the doctrine here stated, the
representatives of our political opponents, in
convention recently assembled, have also-pre
sented a platform of their principles. In sub
stance and effect they have declared that
" war existed as a fact upon the advent of the
successful party, in 1890, to the seat of power ;"
that "slaughter, debt, and disgrace are the
results of our late civil war;" that theassassins
of our late President were murdered by mili
tary-'commissions, and no more murders of
the lilted will be permitted, whether it be the
Anderaonville butcher, the importer of loath
some diseases, or the great second Lucifer who
now chafes and foams in his cell at Fortress
Itionroe and who for so long a time has been
their beau ideal of a stern statesman and a
Christian gentleman. They add, in express
terms, that "tine men and the party adminis
tering the Federal Government since 1861 have
betrayed their trust, violated their sacred ob
ligations, disregarded the commands of the
, fundamental law, corruptly squandered the
I public money,perverted the whole government
from its original purpose, and thereby have
brought on untold calamities upon the coun
try." The measures of the Administration of
, Abraham Lincoln were submitted to his coon
' trymen at the election of /Sal, for ratification
or condemnation. It would seem as if a de;
cent respect for the opinions of their fellow
men might have prevented the folly and ma
lignity of the so-called Democratic convention
at Harrisburg, as exhibited in the adoption of
their platform. It is perfectly manifest that
they have not accepted the results of the war,
nor are they prepared to bow to its decrees.
Again, fellow-citizens, they have forced upon
you these issues. It will be for you to decide
by your action inthis campaign, whether the
war just closed shall produce substantial re
sults, or whether all the blood and treasure of
the nation have been expended and shed in
vain. We intend to be merciful, but oor tummy
must be tempered with justice. We ask not,
we wish not vengeance. But indiscriminate
mercy to the enemy is danger and injustice to
ourselves.
- -
Whenever and wherever our late adversa
ries come in a true spirit of sorrow and eepen
tance, sheathe the sword, and ipromise to
obey the law in the future, we will extend to
them the right hand of fellowship and forgive
them for the past. After they shall have
given us sufficient security for the future time,
y a satisfautory probation, we will then—bat
not till then—restore them to the enjoyment
of all the inestimable rights and high privi
leges which they so recently, so defiantly, and
so causelessly trampled under their feet. For
the detlant and unyielding rebel; for him who
keeps his sword still drawn,, reeking with the
blood of our brothers : for him who refuses to
accept and submit, in good faith, to the results
of the war; for all those who glory in the part
they took in the rebellion; who still insist
that they were right and the nation wrong, we
have Confiscation and loss of citizenship ; and
It, in the end, nothing else will cure, we must
have banishment or the halter.
The money spent, the lives lost, the cripples
the widows and orphans made such by the
war, planned, commenced and .waged by trai
tors, as well as the security, safety and future
peace of the nation, an requike at least this
much at our bands. They shall receive all
that justice and safety will permit us to grant.
Our treatment of them shall be moulded and
shaped by their actions and conduct towards
the nation. in ell eases where they adopt, ad
here to, and carry out, in good faith, the policy
of reconstruction generously otfered them by
President Johnson, we will cordially welcome
them as returning brothers into the great fami
ly. But if they come with hatred and bitter
ness, and only that they may the better re
store themselves to power so as to accomplish
those original designs, by political manage
ment, which they failed to secure by the hazard
of battle, justice to ourselves, duty to the coun
try and to posterity require that we shall keep
them in a position to prevent harm. By the
valor and patriotism of our brave soldiers, and
by the help vouchsafed by that Providence
which has always watched over and protected
our nation, we have proved to Cho world that
the whole host of rebels in the South, with the
aid of all their foreign friends and 'Northern.
sympathizers, have been unable to resist the
power of our country or successfully vie with
her armies on the tleid of battle. By the help
of the same brave men, and with the blessings
of the same Providence, we do not mean that
their John Mosebys and Wade liamptons shall
be permitted to rule the councils of the nation.
Our political adversaries were the first to de
mand for the rebels helligerent rights. Our
enemies abroad united in the demand. TO
save the lives of our prisoners, and from mo
tives Of humanity, we are obliged to yield to
the demand. Now that the war is over, these
are the first men to demand that they
shall be released from all the Liabilities
and responsibilities of belligerents. By the
law of nations it has been long and well set
tled that in every unjust war the victor may
exact indemnity for the past and security for
the future. So may the victor hold his adver
sary in -the military grasp until he has ac
cepted the result, and until security against
all future danger shall have been exacted and
obtained. 7t is to he expected that our politi
cal adversaries will object. Yet who but they
can object that the widows and orphans of the
land should be supported by the authors of
the calamitiesi Who but they will object that
the welinded soldier who lost his ability to
support and maintain himself shall be aided
and supported by the wickedness which
brought the injury upon him? Who but they
will object that the vast debt created by the
work el treason shall be at least partly paid
and discharged by the traitors themselves!
They tell us the innocent in the South, and
the women and children of the South will
stiller. They forget that such is the result in
all wars, and never once think that the inno
cent and the women and children of the North
suffer from the war of treason. l'et these are
the men who are now striving to secure the
votes of the soldiers of Pennsylvania. When
volunteers were needed for the army, they
were opposed to volunteering. Drafting was
the fair way—only Democrats would volunteer
—in the draft all would have a fair chance.
When the draft came they were violently op-
Posed to the three hundred dollars commu
tation clause. That was a discrimination
against the poor man. The rich would all
buy out, and only the poor would go. When
the commutation clause was repealed, they
became more clamorous, because the only
chalice for the poor man was now taken
away; he must now go, •while the rich
man could get a substitute. For a time it
was a negro war, and no white man should
go. When negro troops were called for they
were aroused to the highest state of indigna
tion. " The South wouieLnevcr stand it. It is
an evidence of our weakness. If you cant con
quer them with white troops, you never can
with negroes.” Thus they continued during
the whole, four years of the war. No single
measure of the Government eves received
their approbation. No matter what course
might be adopted they were found in opposi
tion. Are these the men to be now placed in
power? Are they to control the Government
of this nation? The late administration,_
recently endorsed by a ruatiority of four hun
dred thousand at the ballot box, is still by
them denounced and abused. They clamor .
only for the rights of rebels. They forget
than by the very act of war all who en
gaged In it forfeited all that rights they
ever had under the Constitution which
they were trying to overthrow. The
very instant war commenced, under the
laws of war and the law of nations, all
obligations, contracts treaties, and stipula
tions between the belligerents -were at an end.
g Sl i t w ll in th g ou eSe t settlement
meat questions
of
. o tj f e thi e s nto
war f ilhteleeftgl' in thehands
those by whom the war was carried to a suc
cessful issue, or shall it pass into the hands of
those who opposed it from the beginning! It
is for you to answer at the ballet-box. Upon
you depends the result of the• issue, and for
you it will he,to say whether thevar has been
a failure—Whether it existed as elect, because
in 1860 you voted as freemen had a right to
vote—or whether it was commenced by wick
ed, ambitious, and designing men, without
cause. It will be for you to say whether the
fruits of the war are only debt, disgrace, and
slaughter, or - whether they shall add to the
glory, renown, greatness and power of our
common country.
lie then presented the following list of offi
cers of the meeting;
PRESIDENT.
llenu D. 'Moore
VICE PEES/DENTS
First ward—R. J. O'Neil, John- W. Lynn,
Thos. A. Barlow.
Second ward—Crosby Sellick, Thomas
MiskilL Joseph Orr.
Third ward—George Kelly, James Sinclair,
James Smith.
Fourth ward—Adam MU, Jas. Smyth, Robt
Matlack.
. _
Firth ward—Edward C. Knight, William B.
Hood '
E. A. Soma er.
Sith ward—Moses A. Dropsie, A. J. Derby
shire, Willian Gregg, M. D.
Seventh ward—Jelin Kaseßine, Ferdinand J.
Dreer, John Welsh.
Eighth ward—J. Gillingham Fell, Henry C.
Carey, William Divine.
Ninth ward—Joseph W. l3ullock, William S.
Stokley, Wm. F. Hughes.
Tenth ward—Samuel P. Hancock, Charles
W. Trotter, E. V. Machette.
Eleventh - ward—Samuel Stevenson, Charles
Carpenter, Lewis gheetz.
Twelfth ward—Peter ROVollat, Paul Mar
low; Conrad S. Grove.
Thirteenth ward—E. H. Fitler, Abraham Al
burger, Thos. 11. Cochran.
Fourteenth ward—B. Gatchell, Rich'd Cham
bers, David Cramer.
Fifteenth ward—Henry Davis, Wm. H. Kern,
Cherie% Miller.
Sixteenth ward—J. A. Sheppard,. Mahlon H.
Dickinson, Dr. J. K. Knorr.
Seventeenth ward—Henry A. B. Brown, Jos.
Allen, James Bell.
Eighteenth ward—Jacob Moyer, Geo. Smith,
James McDollgle,
Nineteenth ward—Rev. "Vatighn Smith, Geo.
Boyer, Wm. Sehellinger.
Twentieth ward—Chas. J. Ellis, D. Noblit,
Isaac Ashmead.
Twenty-first ward—Jno. Dyer, Jas. Winpen
ny, Horatio Gates Jones.
Twenty-second war _Gen. Joshua T. Owen,
Col. Louis Wagner, A. C. Harmer.
Twenty-third ward—Robert N. Murray, Na
than Mlles, Thos. Dickson.
Twenty-fourth ward—Geo. W. Patton, Prof.
W. H. Rhoads, John H. Jones.
Twenty-fifth ward—Charles Hooker, Barton
H. Jenks, James House.
Twenty-sixth ward—Wm. T. Pollock, Jas. S.
Stewart, Jos. AL:Morris.
SECRETARIES.
First ward—George W. Ghegan.
Second ward—James Humes.
Third ward—George P. Little.
Fourth ward—William Campbell.
Fifth ward—Capt. Charles R. Dougherty.
Sixth ward—lsaac H. (Marra.
Seventh ward—George W. Myers.
Eighth ward—Joseph Roberts.
Ninth ward—John Addioks.
Tenth ward—Benjamin F. Dusenberry.
Eleventh ward—George Buckley.
Twelfth ward—H. Hall Stanton.
Thirteenth ward—George Bleaborn.
Fourteenth ward—William Ayres.
Fifteenth ward—
Sixteenth ward—Joseph Nevil.
Seventeenth ward—Wm. H. Ovington.
Eighteenth ward—Wm. Weyant.
Nineteenth ward—Joseph Derbyshire.
Twentieth ward—Win. C. Haines.
Twenty--rat ward—James Shaw.
Twenty accond ward'—Edwin T. chase.
Twenty-third ward—Daniel Gilbert.
Twenty-fourth ward—HenryC. Lea.
Twenty-fifth ward—Joseph Emerson.
Twenty-six ward—James Davenport.
Hon. Henry D. Moore was then introduced,
and took the chair as president of the meeting.
SPEECH OF HENRY D. MOORE.
He said : I thank you sincerely for the honor
of being called upon to preside at this meet
ing of the Union men of Philadelphia. We
have Met to inaugurate a contest, in which are
involved all the great priridiplee for which
the Union armies have been lighting the bat
tles of death for the last four years. Although
our armies have been victorious, and haye con
quered the rebels and traitors, and th^loody
footprintS Of War are no longer devastating our
fair land, yet the great question and issue in.
volved in and arising out of that war have yet
to be adjudged by the power of the country
as represented by the National and State Ad
ministrations. The question we are called
upon to decide, is to whom we shall leave the
adjudication and settlement of these issues.
Shall we give it to the friends of the cause,
who have stood by the country through all
the dark and stormy hours of the rebellion, to
those who have sustained and upheld the Ad
ministration in all its measures and policy
for the suppression of the most wicked and
causeless rebellion ever known i or shall
we leave the settlement of these ques
tions to the political friends of those re
bels and traitors who have been in arms
against our country. [Cries of "No, no."
There is no need of discussing this fact. I
take the broad issue that the rebels and trai
tors who commenced this unholy rebellion
were the leaders and managers of the Demo
cratic party at the South ; and I further de
clare that the leaders and managers of that
famed party in the Northern States, were the
friends and apologists of those rebels and
traitors, all through the war. They now oc
cupy the same ground, and are demanding
that their rebel friends shall have the same
political rights and privileges which they en
joyed before the rebellion. They cannot
gainsay that. If you put that party, in
power now in the Northern States, my
word for it, you will. reinstate again in pa
litical power in this country that same gouth
ern disloyal party who fired upon our flag at
Sumpter, and has since deluged the land with
the blood of our sons during four years of
desolating war. These are the issues - upon
which the coming eieetiOn in our State will
have a great and controlling lutluence. Let us
see to it, then, that we remain firm and stead
fast by the Government and the Union; and
we can do this by supporting that:party which
has so valiantly upheld that Union through
the darkest days when treason and rebellion
stalised unkebuked in the land; which has
throughout the rebellion carried the dear old
deg, and triumphantly kept step to the music
of the. Union.
The resolutions were then read. They are as
follows:
REgOLIVVIONS.
I. Resolved, That we reverently thank trod for
the courage and wisdom with which lie inspired our
Statesmen and soldiers for the complete crushing of
the vile slaveholders' rebellion, for the glorious and
successful close of our country's great struggle, and
for the bright prospects of futurepeace and pros
perity which now gladdens all hearts.
2. Pseobutd. That while we have ovetyfeonfidenCe
in the integrity and wisdom of President Johnson,
we trust to his own glorious record, to that of the
great statesmen, his constitutional advisors, who
so nobly stood by the country and his martyred pre
decessor in the terrible hour of trial, and to the pa
triotic Congress about to assemble, to maintain that
treason is a Ohne which RU/St be punished, and that
such guards most be thmiwn around the future as
trill futile another rebellion impossible •
3. Resolved, That the constant reduction of our -
State debt, during the term of office of Governor
Curtin, proves his judicious andihonest manage
ment of the State enrolees, while his patriotic and
unwearied ex• rtions for the Union cause, and ror
the comfort and well-being of_eur soldiers 4 claim
our lastinggratitude.
4. Resolved, That we cordially endorse the nomi
nation by the Union State Convention of those gal
lant soldiers, Hartranft and Campbell; for the high
Cat Offices at present in the gift of the people of
Pennsylvania, and will do all in our newer tO *O.C4Te
'their triumphant election.
5. Resolved, That we ratify and confirm the Union
- nominations for our city, county and Legislative
offices, bellevin,q that such gentlemen as 310.11-
otao, Burnell, l: ••
Brewster, Given, Mann,
anti Wolbert, must be successful by large majori
ties, not only for the patriotic , principles and wise
measures which they represent, but a sO On account
of their own individual merit.
6. Resolved, That the American people owe a deep
debt of gratitude to the brave men.to fought in
their defence, and are bound to make ample provi
1310D for their future comfort by liberal pensions,
4.qualization of bounties, nod the elevation to offices
of trust and prollt of those found qualified.
7. Resotred, That the local interests of our city
demand that it should continue to be governed by
the same high principles and inflexible Impartiality
in matters of pollee which have characterized the
talministration of the present Mayor, and it is.
therefore,
acause for congratulation that the Union
sandidate for the position, our highly.esteemea fel- .
low-citizen, MortonMCMlelmel, Esq•, is wc/I"known
to possess all the integrity of purpose, the intel
lectual power, the business the untiring
assiduity, and the devotion to order and good go
vermin nt so conspicuous in Mayor Henry.
8. Raro &eel, That in every measure for raising
revenue great care should he exercised to afford all
possible protection to American Industry,
9. Resoeveq, That the free-trade doctrines so per
sistently and obligingly urged upon us by the Bri
tish aristocrats who preyed upon our couunerce in
the time of our tronide,and took every Mean advan
tage of our misfortunes, have no just claim to the
respect or consideration of the Americanpeople.
to. Reached ; That the Constitution of tne united
States is not a compact between independent Save.
reigntles,hut the fundamental law of a great nation.
IL Resolved, That the pestilent doctrine of State
rlights,as announced by the Virginia abstractionists
of '9B, anal now advocated by the so-called Demo
cratie party, was the chief source of the strength
and early successes of the rebellion, and should be
indignantly - reprobated by all good citizens as the
ninth cuss of the untold sufferings of our gallant
FOldien,_and of the loss to our country of tens of
thousands of valuable lives and thousands of mil
lions of property.
SPEECU of EX-GOVERNOR POLLOCK%
The president then introduced ex-Governor
Poliock, who spoke in substance as follows :
Although the war was ended so far as. the
clash and din of arms was concerned, yet the
light is as deep in its intensity,as strong in its
reality, and tremendous in its consequeneeM
as when army met army in deadly conflict%
and life after life 3 5 Med. away in deanCe.Qt
liberty and law, country and union. The bul
let has &melts work, and now the work of the
ballot remains to ho accomplished. TWolve
mouths ago, - when the hell-hounds of freaSon
had your country by the 'throat, your repre
sentatives in convention gave you as pont
standard-bearer; , whose name is a tower of
Strength to everyman who - lovea his country.
Inscribed in letters of living light e is the im
mortal name of Alkahara , Tiny[Tremem
dons applause.] Araan - greatatriveg the first,
and first among the great. ould you learn a
nation's appreciation of Itis Worth? Follow
the mournful thronie as it wended its way
through this Country to his last resting
place. Pilgrim of American liberty, visit
his shrine at Springfield;- and as you
stand there with the ashes of the . ;immor
tal dead before you, raMembee that that
tomb contains the worlfas - representative of
its noblestmanhood. [Applause.] trwwaslame
dom's best friend, and his couiatry'ssavioar iii
the hour of danger. Ile stiMek the shackles
from the slave, and the day has come . when
not the clank of a chain is dears thrOughout
glorious and redeemed America. The' rebel
lion is crushed, and the slaveliOlders arwsuing
abjectly for pardon. The Union must
though every traitor die, Wernalet teach the
South and the world that there is an Ameri
can nation, and not a confederation or part
nership of sovereignties. It was the custom
with the Southern orators, such' as John
C. Calhoun, in speaking of the country, not to
say the United States but these United Staten,
thus implying a division. We hare Vindicated
that secession is a crime and coercion a duty,
and thus exploded the idea of the old' inbecile
who said that a State had no right to secede,
and that the United. States had. no constitu
tional power to prevent , secession. Intim lan
guage of President Johnson, " Treason is a
crime that must be crushed." The Democratic
party, the party of peace, have put a soldier On
their ticket, and thus they belie their own , de
clarations. They have villified the defenders
of the Union, and now they ask the. suf
frages of the men they have persistent
ly denounced. They want to cloak over
their treason with assumed loyalty and
devotion, but it is the old story. It is the don
key in the lion's skin, and the first sound they
utter betrays them, as the donkey betrayed
himself by braying whenhe attempted to roar
in his assumed charaetar. The party of the
Union ogres you soldie,rs, men who have
fought for its idea, and foremost among them is
General ltartranft. [Cheers.] It was only
the other day that I saw a vile sheet de
nounced him as a murderer. Of whom? I
looked, and there in Nur letters was the
name of Mrs. Surratt. So e was her murder
er. [Laughter.] r, ecauze a soldier in the dis
charge of the noblest duty an American ever
performed vindicated the power and majesty
of the law in the execution of the most vile
and devilish set of criminals the world ever
saw, he must be denounced as a murderer. I
suppose next they will be asking a pardon for
Wirzc, in defiance of the war-martyrs who
will come from their graves and tell of the
horrors of the prison pen at Andersonville.
REMARKS OF HON. NB NWT' WILSON, OF MASSA..
12E3E2
The enthusiastic and long-continued ap
plause with which this speaker was received
having somewhat subsided, he spoke as foe
lowe
Mr. Chairman and Fellow-eitizens: I thank
you sincerely for the kind welcome you have
given me. To be welcomed by the men of Phi
ladelphia, whose patriotisme whose liberality,
whose devotion- tothe country during the last
four years is in the heart and on the tongue of
the American' people, is a. compliment Of
which any man may be proud. The slave
holder's rebellion, by the ballots of American
freemen, and the bullets of American soldiers,
has gone down ; the rebel chiefs are impri
sonel or in exile; the rebel Confederacy lies
prostrate under our feet;. a . 1
the nation
stands before the world stronger than when
traitors raised their bands to smite it. When
the n ation was plunged into the - nre and blood of
civil war, patriotism bade us forget party and
appeal to the heart and conscience of the na
tion. But I now appeal toyom men of Philadel
phia, end Pennsylvania, you who in November
last carried your city and State trirompluintly
for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson,
to stand where you then stood. I ask every
man of you, from the Delaware to the Ohio, to
go to the ballot-box in October, and stand by
your counta'y now as you stood 'by it then. The
bullet has done its work ; the rebellion has
gone down in fire. and blood;: the duty of
statesmanship now begins. You, men of Phila
delphia and of Pennsylvania, are called upon
now as strongly as you were called upon last
November to trust your own friends, and put
down rebels and rebel sympathizers forever.
Five months ago your city Wag draped in
mourning ; half a million of your people
gathered in your streets with tearful eyes and
throbbing hearts for their murdered Presi
dent, whose remains were then passing to
their last resting-place. You loved. him ; you
gloried in his renown, which Was resounding
over the world. And why did you solove, so
honor Abraham Lincoln?' It was because
Abraham Lincoln was the embodiment of the
patriotism, the love of liberty, the sense, of
justice, and the humanity of America. It Was
because Abraham Lincoln was the leader
of the Republican party of the Uuited States.
[Great applause.] Though not yet ten years
old, the Republican party has indelibly writ
ten its name upon the records of the country
as the champion of liberty, humanity, justice
and patriotism. No party since the dawn of
the creation has done so much to endear itself
to the memory , and the gratitude of mankind
as the Republican party of the United
States. There is the record. It is a record
that speaks of patriotism, of liberty and of
justice. During no one moment of its exist
ence has it ever stood before the nation other
than the representative of the higher and
better sentiments of the American people.
You called Abraham Lincoln from his Illinois
home in lace—you re-elected him in November
last. He was your chosen leader—the emboli
mom, of your principles; and for being, as he
was, true to your principles, dying becauSe of
his fidelity to your principles, he has left a
name second to man of this century. [Long
continued applause.] Every Republican, every
Union man that has stood side by side with you
duringthe last four years of bloody strugglecan
walk the earth today proud and erect in the
gonsciousness that he is a member Of a party
which ever stood by the defenders of the old
flag . ; a party which to-day represents the
Christian civilization of America. [Applause.]
Gentlemen, are you prepared to still further
trust yourselves—to rely upon your pyince
pies and measures? Or will you now, in the
hour of victory, let the men who have sympa
thi zed with the rebellion, who have denounced
the war, and sneered atyour noble sentiments,
take possession of the Government of Penn
sylvania and of the country? [Cries of "NO,
never!"] The Democratic perty of the United
States has no more Claim to take the control
of the Government of Pennsylvania or the
Government of the United States than had the
tories of the Revolution to assume control of
the country after the achievement of its bides
pendenee. If the men who carried this coun
try triumphantly through the last foot bloody
years are true to themselves, and faithful to
the trust reposed in them, the Slave De
mocracy will never more take possession
of the Government of the United States.
Gentlemen, I ask you to trust 'yourselves—to
elect your own men and stand by your
own principles. There are differences of opin
ion amon us in regard to some of the mea
sures yet t g o
be decided. But let me remind
you that the Republican party was born in
free discussion, and that it lives by an open and
manly exposition of public questions. And I
would tell those who think that the Iteptibitean
party is destined to defeat because its members
happen to differ among themselves in regard.
to some questions of public policy, that the
Republican party has differed before and won
victories and will differagainLin and triumph;
its face is 'Zionward, and it will still keep
marching in the right direction. By free dis
cussion, the Republican party will more clear
ly distinguish truth from error and solve all
questions touching the prosperity of the
country and the rights of man in the light of
reason. [Great applause.) There are differ
ences of opinion in regard to reconstruction
and suffrage. In my State we are all one way—
e are for security for the future. [Applause.]
We do not ask indemnity for the past;
there can be no indemnity for the three hun
dred and twenty-five thousand dead heroes,
whose lives were offered upon the altar of our
country ; there can be no Indemnity to widows
and orphans—none. We can forgeye the mur
derers of our defenders, hut we want security
that our sons shall not be murdered in the
future. [Repeated rounds of applause.] We
went loyal men to govern America, forever
more. (Cheers.] In conversation with the
President, the other day, I asked him whether
he made any discrimination between the men
who elected him, on account of their views on
the questions of reconstruction and suffrage?
Ile declared to me that he bad never made
any such discrimination, and did not in
tend to make any such discrimination in
the future ;" that he was " in favor of the full
est and freest discussion on all the questions
now agitating the public mind." [Great cheer
-
Mg.] Gentlemen, so long as we have free dis
°melon, we can go right on, shoulder to shoul
der, striving to settle rightly the questions
that are before us to be solved. .T. believe now,
as I believed during the war, that wo will come
out of the contest victorious.
Why, gentlemen, should we not have confi
dence in ourselves? Look at the record, the
glorious record wo have made during time last
five years. We have freed the capital of our
country forevermore. We have written free
dom on every foot of the territories of the
United States. We have wiped from the sta
tute-book the fugitive-slave law. We have
made good a proclamation that emancipated
four millions of men, and made the name Pitts
author the dearest name of the nineteenth
century. [Enthusiastic applause.] We have
set apart the public domain for the poor la
boring men. [Applause.] We have begun the
great work of the, Pacific railway. We have
protected the industries of our people. (AP
plause.] We have established a money syss
tam that makes every man holding a dol
lar in currency interested in siipporting the
national credit—a system that can scorn and
defy the efforts that may be made by dema
gogues to impair the sacredness of the public
debt of our country. [Applause.] And how is
it with the Democratic party? Where does it
stand to-day? On every question vitally affect
ing the interests of the country, it has proved
itself recreant. It stands before this nation not
only as the enemy of a poor, despised. and
bated race, but it is not the champion M the
rights and interests of the laboring men of
this or any other country. I say to you that
the Republican party, as an organization,
stands before the country the peer of any
party that has ever appeared in the history
of the human family. I do not say that RepUb-
Beans are all good men—they have the weak
nesses of humanity—but I do say that their
Ideas, their principles, their sentiments and
their policy are borrowed from the New Testa
ment and the Declaration of American Inde
pendence. There are thousands of noble men
who still cling tothe Democratic party,,yet I ant
constrained to say that the Democratic party
is false to liberty, justice and humanity.
I am willing to meet any man in Phila.
delphia or in Pennsylvania on this platform,
and demonstrate that you cannot find., on any .
partof the globe, a political Organization that
has made a _record during the last ten year§
so false to patriotism, to liberty, to justice and
to humanity as the Democratic party of the
United States. Gentlemen, do you not know
that this was a Democratic .rebellion? Do you
not know that Lincolnxteen states tat voted
against Abraham , twelve or thirteen
of them went into rebellion. Let me say to
you (and I say it to every maimed and wounded
soldier in Pennsylvania, and to every widow
and orphan,) that every shot voluntarily fired.
against the old flag of our country and into.
the bosoms of its defenders during the rebel
lion, was tired by a man who would vote the
Democratic I icket.
. .
We want no revenge upon our Southern peo
ple. I can say here, in the presence of Al
mighty God, that, in spite of all their cruelty
and outrages of the Ihst four years, I never
had an unkind sentiment in myheart towards
the people of the South. I looked upon them
as mad and drunk with slavery; that it had
poisone,d the very fountains of their feelings ;
that they had rushed into fire and blood to es
tablish a great slaveholders' confederacy that
Isls t 9 puwe as alayckoldixtg statealoxico,
livostooDisaligli
Central America, and Cuba; that was to build
up a great bemocratic slaveholdiug• empire
that Should command the tr o lliCall , P aue " ns '
To-day their ideas, their principles, the
measures—the* i themselves—lic prostrate un
der the heel 41 American patriothine Since
the morning of creation no set of Men were
ever so subjugated, so conquered, so abstdute
ly to powder, as the rebels in the
L nited States. Tisq Aare utterly proStefifo' itt
our limey, creeping and crawling up the
Ways of the White House, begging for a' par
dOn ! [Laughter.) They have - been purdSlied
&Most beyond human. endurance. If k was
their bitfrr enemy! clittrd not ask for a greater
pinithinilent upon MOM Wan that with which
they have already been. visited. What we
want df them is simply tglitu-we want this mat
ter of reorganization to' be so settled that it
shall lid settled forever. Iternember, gentle
men, Mit narlwht is settled' that is not right.
Presid ent•Jobnson can maiip - his name as dear
to his c crintrywren a% did OM' minted Lincoln.
The settling of the question df reconstruction
will either bring honor ordiShonor. !have
confidence In °arability to settle it right, and
in such tv Manner as to sestre the safety,
peace, and honor of our colintry, and the
rights of all incrt In America,-oft every clime
and race. CAliplati[se.]
I ask you, men of Philadelphia; I ask yon,
men who have contributed of year - substance
to establish and maintain that noble institu•
lion which has red solnany hundreds- of thou
sands of heroes passing through , Tom city; I
ask you, whose liDerwiny and patriotism com
mands the admiration of our cotehtr-T, to rei
member that in this crisis you owe to:My to
your country: to to. the ballot-bow,.and, in
the words of the' murdered Limn:dill help to
" keep the jewel or liberty in the faintly of
freedorol [Great - applMoso, renewed' again
and again, during Witielrihe speaker iiitliVed.]
IICOZE!;
The lion. Cbarles.Gilphr„ after a few prefato
ry remarks, read the following letter'fvom
Mayor Henry, Whin eliolbea hearty applause;
John G. Eviler, Esq., Online= on the tkonnnietee
on Town Meetings:
DEAR Siu : I am prevented through various
causes from accepting tlicluvitation of your
committee to address thetmeeting to be heki
OR Saturday evening next,. in ratilleation.og
the recent nominations , by the UiliCIP party.
Although unable to be present on such occa
sion, I cannot withhold a.mexpression of warm
interest in the general success of the ticket,.
and especially in the election'of its candidatot
for the mayoralty. From the intimate know
ledge which Mr, McMichael possesses of the•
people and institutions of!Philadelphia, and!
from the personal qualities• which have'
justly secured for him the respect and con
fidence of the community,. there is assu
ranee of the wisdom and; ability that will
distinguish his administration of its municipal
affairs. No one, in my estimation., is worthy
to be elected chief magistrate of this city who
has not during the entire conflict from which
our Union has just gloriously issued, approved
himself the avowed, steadfast, and hearty sup
porter of that Union, [Applause.] No one
whose whole influence has not been openly
and constantly exerted to strengthen the
hands of Government—no one whose means,
whether of time or money or talents, have not
been freely bestowed for the suppression of
rebellion—no one whose voice• has not been
fearlessly raised to cheer the despondent, to
rebuke the dastardly—to denounce the traitor
[renewed applause]—shoulcl be chosen to that
Position.
Such an one you have in your nominee,
Morton McMichael—[cheers]—and in his
choice his fellow-citizens will evince their ap
proval of the enlightened patriotism that has
ever marked his course.
I am, very respectfully,
ALEXANDER' HENRY
SPEECH OF GENERAL OWEN
Gen. Joshua T. Owen was the next speaker.
His appearance at the front of the platform
elicited lively and hearty applause. He said ;
I greet you to-night, my countrymen, with a
heart bounding with joy, for I feel that you
are equal to any emergency which theeireum
stances of your country may present t that if
it be neeessary to break the shackles of ThiTtY,
and to cut loose from the ties of even a life
time, and conquer the prejudices that neces
sarily cling to us from the associations of a
lifetime, you are equal to that task, ready at
any time to stand by your country, and by
the men and the principles which are -in
accordance with the great interests of the
country. The Union party presents to the
world au exampleworthy of imitation—worthy
the applause of all those who love liberty, and
desire the perpetuation of such a Go-cerement
as we bare. I see around me men who were
formerly my coadjUtOrS M the ranks of the
Democratic party. That was years ago. We
have never changed our principles; but the
party has.. The Democratic leaders in the
hour of trial were false to the country, and
we left them. (Applause.] The resolutions
offered here all9lllo meet the cordial approval
of every Union man throughout the State, for
they look at the best interests of our be
loved country. lam ready to co-operate with
men who will put upon our statute books
such laws as shall in the future be necessary
to properly punish the crime of treason. I
am glad, too, to find that a large proportion of
my fellow-officers and soldiers of the army,
and the officers and sailors of the navy are
enrolling themselves in the ranks of the Union
Party. They fought the enemies of the
country in many fields and scenes of blood,
and now they fight them agai at the polls.
The enemy is still at work, and the danger Is
as great now as it was then, and we must
be watchful, and put such men in power
in the States that will retain for us the
inestimable rights and privileges that were
purchased for us with the blood of our ances
tors of the ReVOilltion, and secured anew, and
saved to us by the seg-deniai, the suffering,
and the immortal valor of our fellow-citizens.
[Applause.] Every soldier who has passed
through Philadelphia on his way to the field,
or on his return to his home, bears witness to
the liberality and generosity of your citizens.
Your refreshment saloons, where the weary
and hungry soldier rested and was fed, and
your hospitals,uhere the sick soldier received
kind attention, have given you more reputa
tion, perhaps, than any other institution you
possess, [Applause.]
SPERM OP HOP MORTON M'IIIICTIADir.
The neat speaker was Morton McMichael,
who was received with loud and continued
cheering. After the applause had somewhat
subsided, he said
Ah ! that's right 1 - That makes me feel that
I shall be the Mayor. [Go it old horse.] Old
horse, chi Well, I have been an old horse for
a good many years, and perhaps it is right,
now that I am getting old, that I should be
come a Mayor. [ - Cries of "Good," and laugh
ter.] I have not come here to make a formal
speech, nor to discuss any of the great public
questions which are now agitating the coun
try ; that has been most ably done by those
who have preceded me. Brit I will say this, that
I cordially endorse, with all my heart and all
my strength all the sentililante which my
friends have uttered tomight.. I am herd to
say a word about myself. The convention of
the Union party, during my absence, without
any solicitation on my part, almost without
my previous knowledge, did me the honor to
nominate me for the office of Mayor of this
city. It was not without doubt and hesitation
that I resolved to accept that nomination, for
I felt that under all circumstances the office
of Mayor was one involving large responsibili
ties and onerous duties, and I felt still more,
when I thought what the man, who entered
upon those duties, after seven years of such
administration as we have had under Alekan
der Henry, would have to be. Mr. Henry has
j
always been a wise, upright, intelligent, just
earnest, dignified and useful magistrate, and
the man who is to succeed him must feel some
hesitation and some doubt whether he can
realize all the expectations which liis friends
and the public form of him, But, for ail that,
I have accepted the nomination, and, please
God, I mean to make the office, if it can be
made. It would be affectation in nie to stand
and say that I do not feel myself qualified to
discharge its duties ; I know that I am quali
fied, [Applause.] It would be useless to tell
you who I am and what I am, and what my
opinions are and have been. lam now where
I have always been, earnest in my desire to
Promote the interests of this great city. lam
proud of Philadelphia. I have always believed
in Philadelphia, and I have never shared in
the doubts and croakinga Of those who would
put us in a secondary position. If we are true
to ourselves we shall be the very first. [Ap
plause.] It is because I desire to have my
name officially identified with the interests
and welfare and progress of Philadelphia, as
for more than thirty teal's it has been unoffi
cially identified, that I want to be the &layer.
[Applause. There needs no pledge from me
I
as to what shall do if I fill that office. I shall
administer it to the best of my abilities is the
interest of the whole community. I shall do all
in my power to enhance the - prosperity . of the
city, and to peomote its welfare in ail diree
tions. I shall do that not only with all the
ability that I possess,but with all the strength
and earnestness that I can bring. In the dis
tribution of patronage—because that is a mat
ter of some interest—l shall take care of the
Union men and none others, [Applause,] i
Patronage s a distinct matter from mere ad.
ministration, and while in the administration
of all that relates to the public., I shall know
no creed or sect or color, and will endeavor to
do my duty. to all the citizens of Philadel
phia, I desire to Say that, so far as I have
offices under my control, they Shall be
given only 'to the men who co-operate with
me in the work. Now you know exactly
where I stand. I thought, until within a few
days, that if there was a man in Philadel
phia who had a right to the good-will, the
regard, Mid kindly feeling of the workingmen
of Philade]phia, it was he who stands now be
fore you. [Applause.] From my earliest con
nection with public affairs, beginning when I
was a little over seventeen years old, I have in
every. possible way endeavored to iiromote
the interest, the welfare, and the pros
perity of the working-elesses of the count
try. I prided myself that I might be called
and considered the workingman's friend.
And yet within the last month an attempt
has been made—a most deliberate, careful,
and elabefrate attempte.4B I am htferMed, to
prejudice me with that particular class of my
fellow.eitizens, and to denounce me as an one
my to the working man, and calling upon the
workingmen of Philadelphia to vote against
me on that account. lam not afraid that any
sensible workingman will dO it, They know
me, and their own interests too well, after
thirty years of the best, service I could render,
that now, when my, name it presented to
my fellow-citizens for au office I have not
sought, that I should be assailed in this
way. I know that my friends, the working
men, will regent this indignity cast upon me
and upon them. [Cries of „ So they will .e] It
is done by those men, Who, under the auspices
of the Democratic party, those who under the
wing of the Democratic managers, seek to
break down, not me, for I am of no conse
quence to them, but through me the hold
which the Union party has upon the City of
Philadelphia, its power, acrd patronage. livery
man of sense knows thattf Morton McMichael
is defeated Daniel M. Fox must be elected, and
Mr. Fox, who as I truly believe, is an honest
and respectable man, must turn out of office
beery Union man no call rsseli,and fill the
place of that - Union man with a vediperhead.
Ile cannot help it if he would, and he
would not If he could. And yet here
is an attempt made on the pretext that 1
nun not a friend to the working-classes to de
feet, upon the city tielcet, the election of that
man by whom Must be distrihato4 the largest
amount of the city patronage. I haTe
ferred to it here to put my friends on their
guard against it, and not because it touched
my personal interests. It has been m c c rule to
let denunciationS go
ewer nhed ar! neither
thnor stoop to a them. But t tis is in
entereSt of the great Union party of Phila
delphia, and I feel bound, as I. have accepted
the standard of that party, JO stand by it
explanation s, and, therefore, • f make this
I verily believe, just as truly
as I believe that I stand below you, that if
live until after the second Tuesday of Octo
ber I shail be the Mayor elect of PhOlelerlia.
[Applause.] I can see nothing that woui sub-
I eet me to the slightest doubt on that subject.
*Laughter and cheers.' I feel, too, that it is of
the highest i] ipormo to the WktO of rctlhe
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where, that the vote of Philadelphia should be
as large as the diertlons of honest and patri
otie men can rinflte it. I arc happy to warn
from my friend,* Ali- Ut snihthat every.:
thing in the Staff is proinislng, ,and that
he entertains the Most entire confidence
in the success of our ticket. I believe
It will be successful; - and I .knoW that if we
brace ourselves prelierty to ' the' worlr, and
take hold earnestly, id'e: cali aft? 9 1 4 WPC'
rents as crushing a defeat-as they received
last year, and put our sitellSe throUghOut the
State beyond allossibility qr peradventure.
Will you dolt'? Iles! Yee . So far as' it is in
my power I will give tayse4 f 'to the Work. I
will not abate one .jot, or tit l 9 nn iit, until the
time has passed when work lerno longer re
quired. All I ask of you is to;lanat down the
abetwel stories you hear about me, and indig
nant:lV frown dawn such as those I have re
fer'!ed to. I shell be elected. dome to my
house On the second Tuesday of October with
a band of music, and though I eannot take you
all Ii my house, the street is wide, and there
is a big lot in front of the house. - .1. will be
there, and ready to , receive yon,' Mond all
pla tise.] .
SPEECH OF HON. , WM. D. IiELLEt
The Itch': WM. D. KO,lla was then lett:Gamed.
He spoke sulietentially ae follows :
I would gladly take up_ the strain where my
old schoolniate beft it oil. 3le has justly earned
his presilut proud position by his nevev-lailing
advocacy ofthe rights of American citizens.
What I SIMI say W'fll De in atm. of the whole
ticket, and , nOthing. but the ticket. Mae 16
no time to struggle'll you are in the midst .of
war. But there will come h time of pace
when our country shall have been reeen
struetcd mitt the army disbanded and then
We may set aside , present quATIVIS, In 1161
we were not irr greatell danger than we are n
The So - Ahern people have said, " e
will lay down our arttfy and quit fighting you
with bullets; we will unite with ear Northern
friends, the CoptustheadtS. and witty. you with
the ballot," They nave only changed the form
of the weapons to be o4ed. They want to
come into power While their fields are lying
waste, and to cripple Northern industry by
removing , the protection to American indus
try afforded by the tariiti. In 18113 that dis
tinguished Virginia Delalocrad,RObert Edmund
Lee, brought up portion oil his people to at
tend the Democratic Conventiell at Harrisburg.
The people of this city thoUght it an insult to
the people of the State,anduearlyevery one—
people of all classes, mover the city govern
ment—went into the militia; and buckling on
their arms, went down to the border, and kept
the rebel horde from ravaging,vour fields and
burning your towns. Could it "emocratio or
ganization have been so trristedl Their sym
pathies would have been witlithe slavehold era
and traitors. For this reason:l wish that the
government of the city of Philadelphia should
be kept in .the hands, of loyal mum who will
make it defend your homes against robbers,
thieves, and armed traitors. The Northern
Democracy have changed like• Polonias, in
the play, who, when the prince pointed . out
the cloud in the sky, chimed in with the
rt i Vgs titl e :l)o 6 o f f a e m alli le et"Vteit t , i st
"very like a whale. ,,, So the Northern matte•
gees have twisted and turned about at the
beak of the Southern leaders. There is a groat
work before us which demands theattent
of every man Who has the interests of the
country at heart, Many soldielia, and sot.
(tiers' widows and orphans, are now draw
ing pensions, more of them than I know.
They are a sacred trust upon the American
people ; you are the trustees of every soldier
who has been disabled, and the widows and.
anthem of those who have Bled upon the
field of battle. But those who hew the
counsels ofWilliamll. Reed and Edward Inger
soll and Vallandigham, and the various dema
gogues of our own and. other States, would re
pudiate that pension list. They would repu
diate the national debt, or assume the indebt
edness contracted by the South in liinkt4g
war upon the Union and attempting to de
stroy the national existence. I have no dirt
to fling at the Southern people. • It is unmanly
to kick a fallen foe; but I believe with Andrew
Johnson, that treason is a crime that should
be punished, and I hope that he will soon stop
flardonirig that there may be some banging,
Applause.] Ido not aalt a general punishment,
Jut only a vindication of the law by the trial
of some of the leading traitors ; I do ask, that
the close of such a rebellion, and the declara
tion of the sanctity of the doctrine that we
are a nation, alien be sealed with the blood of
a few distinguished traitors. PaldOiiing the
guilty is an Insult to the innocent. Nally ha
you have clone, as regularly and solidly as you
did every Fourth of July, when you rose and
donned the uniform of blue, and hurried to
the border, and there, under the flag stood a
wall of fire against theliiiiiintllg foe. 'Rally in
your strength at thepolls as you did then, rant
success is assured. [Loud Applause.]
SPEECH OF MAJOR GENERAL C. 11. T. COLLIS
Major General C. U. T. Collis then took the
stand tw a spoke as follows :
If there are any soldiers preSeni litre to
night, I desire to say a very few worchs te them,
You ure called together to enroll your names
once more in the great cause of our country,
and be again mustered into service to fight
sympathizers with treason, as faithfully with
your ballots as you have fought the traitors
thernsclvesWith your muskets.
The national Government wards volunteers,
The " assembly , ' is sounded and we must fall
in. By and by we will hear the " attention,”
and our solid column must be formed; an d when
we are ordered " forward, ,, on the 10th of Oc
tober MI TA, there must be no stragglers ; and
I believe that before night " pee - It-up 7 ' will
echo through the enemy's camp, preparatory
to an ignominious retreat.
It seems to me not a little strange that it
should be deemed necessary to say anythin
- to soldiers on this SUbjeet.' It is believed that
the men who have imperilled their lives for
the nation in times (Over will desert it in the
midst of that blessed peace whichltheir valor
has iron. Never ! It is believed that all the
sophistry of which our wily antagonists are
capable can wean cl'olla our battle-tofu nag
one tittle of our devotioni Neifott
But, soldiers, it is just as well we should
meet together and calmly talk the matter
over, to assure ourselves that we are working
in earnest.
Yon must not be deceived by the head and
front of the so-called Demoiratie ticket being
dressed in the national unifOrins i you must
not be deceived by finding the enerhyls column
of candidates headed by a couple of your cora
macs. Didn't Moseby play this very same
game when he stole your boots 1 Didn't he al
ways head his column With a feW blue coats?
Didn't this wolf in sheep's clothing always ISP:
proach you as a friend and then strip you 01
everything worth carrying away . '
So it is with this modern Moseby party, who
on the 10th of next month will approach you
carrying the stars and stripes, and led by a
couple of blimeoats. When the head of their
column appears I want you to look well down
its ranks, and I think you will dad following
in the rear as sorry, and seedy, and hungry a
set of greybacks as you ever set eyes upon 'be
tween Petersburg . and A_ppamattox Court
House and if you do not hurl theln Weis apon
their reserves in Virgibia and South Carolina,
Moseby like theywill rob your soldiers of the
hard-earned fruits of your four years' toil.
Talk to me of their advocating an equaliza
tion of bounties. Humbug ! They would strip
yon of all,vou possdse, and by del/I'OO4OV
the national tredit deprive the widow of your
dead comrade of the mite she now receives, as
pension, from the national treasury.
Let me give you a few reasons why, in my
opinion, it becomesthe solemn duty of every
returned - veteran to vote with the National
tin ion
First, Because, When the question "Shall the
soldiers be allowed to voter , was presented to
the people of Pennsylvania, the Union party
• devoted their time, their voices, their infin.
ence and their means to secure for you the ex.
erclse of that right, whilst the Moseby party
as faithfully devoted themselves to dellriVe
the soldiers of that aacred privilege.
Second. Because, through the evil influences
of sympathizers of treason, who will, of course,
all vote the Moseby ticket, our final triumph
over armed rebellion was long delayed, thus
causing the„ useless sacrifice of thousands of
the best citizene or the Republic, who were
your comrades.
Third. Because the Droseby:party, eonVeri
t ion assembled at Chicago in 1864, when the
National Government required the hearty
support of every man - woman, and child .in
the nation, after (Weill% and Mature deltbera
ti on , arm Milited to the whole world (and Oise
elegy to rebeldom, that the efforts of the dead.
patriots who had poured out their hearts'
blood to sustain the national honor, and the
Patriotic efforts of the survivors who, with
GO'S help, still hoped to save the life of the
Republic ad been a miserable? failure.
Plnerth.' 'bad
our Union Leagues, our Sam.
tary Commissions, our Christian Commission
our Volunteer Aid Societies, and lastly, but
not least, our Volunteer Refreshment Saloons,
were organized and sustained by supporters
of the Union party, and no dollar of the
called Democratic party ever found its way
into their treasuries.
Fifth. Because we believe that should the
Moseby party be successful, they will torn an
alliance with the leading traitors of the South,
endeavor to repeal the law requiring mem
bers of Congress to sneer that they have
never given aid or comfort to the rebellion,
and thus securing the representation they de
sire, will advocate a repudiation of the na
tional debt, and the payment of perishing to
the wounded soldiers of the recent insurgent
erode 1.
Because, while we were absent, feglit
ing the good fight under Lincoln, Grant and
Sherman, the lioseby party carried , ridi
cule the elegies of those devoted patriots
through our public streets.
Bevena, Itemise we desire the Moseby party
to understand that *,), repudiate their Impart
thy, as declared in their recent resolutions,
for the simple reason that loyal soldierSOf the
republic ask no sympathy from thOSO who
have heretofore sympathized with. their ene
mies,
leighth. Beattie° lYtIl will not vote for that
party Which musters in its ranks till the miser.
able cowards who secreted themselves toe void
the draft, and who now come out front their
hiding-places to exercise that pnivueffe of
eithgenship, of which they Fought to deprive
you and Inc.
Ninth and lastly, because tide of oar
murdered President, who in his earnest and
patriotic efforts to save. tho was
thwarted at every step by these same sympa.
thtaers with treason.
Them area few of: the /Webs why you
should vote the Calm ticket, Wherciore,heys,
close up rho ranks; dress. Ott the colors; iet,
there be no gapAn the line, a,s.tt moves steadt,
ly forward. Let us soldiers be true to our past
history and let us once more save the day 514
we i
die n October,lsol,
Tile meeting inch adjourned.
CIN,CIPTNATL
FAILIIHE OF A ii.votiNci ILISCIIPTIONAKta
0411 13 ‘ 4 4. °RANI%
CINCINNATI, Sept, 10.—E, Ellis, Jr., 42 ;
bankers, failed yesterday, ?String to. haittry
losses in gold, transactions.
The Ohio State If air closed yesterday.'`
receipts were ela,ooo.
At the - 'request of a number of oltizens, the
Mayor has called a meeting fa 0.11104 to
make arrangements for the reeeptlon of
General Grant, who is expected to arrive here
next week. The city Councils have tendered
him the hospitalities of the city.
The Illoropoon taisitallsta arrived at Chieafti)
last night, and were met at tho doiidt by a.
large committee of the Board of Trade.
The Alabaann Convention.
MorraoissliT l Ala,, Sept 15.—A test vote
was taken this inerniar„ and the conventi6o.
decided, by a vote of 6B to Si, againet the re.
pudiation of the Confederate State debt.
ittirvrtocK has taken the stump_ in
NOW Jereey for the Union State ticket, The
gallant General announces that he came from
South Carolina to fight the Copperheos s aUd.,
lie meant to to it with a will, •