The Boys In Blue

(en. Grant's order to the Boys in Blue, to "re-organize in thcir respective states," as will be seen by the following words, to promotc the clection of Gens. Garfield and Arthur. suma up the political situation with the force and brevity wbich has always characterized the utteraoces of our stalwart heir: In my opinión the best interetts of the whole country, north and touth, (Iemand the succes of the tUJcet headed by Garfield and Arthur. "The best interests ot the whole country"- that is the issue. Tbc Boys in Blue are a political power. They are the uien who scod their ballots in the same way they sent their búllete. The New York Boys ia Blue organization has already iHued an aldress in respons ; to Gen. Grant's order, wbich says : War summoned you to the ranks. lts end saw you return to the voeations of peace ; but your work was not done. The enemy you had conquered on the field withstood you at the polls, and in three succes-iive presidential elections was your work in the war crowned with the affirmative suffrage of the nation. A fourth election approaches, and efforts are preparing to sieze from you by deceit what other uicans have failed to reach. Your adverpary is the same- the democratie party, lts doctrines are the same- state rights and the justification of sceession and rebellion haired to the war, hostility to Union soldier and sailors, opposition to tneir claims upon their country for the relief of themseWes, their widows and orphaos. You did not trust the democratie party duriug the war. What of its acts since tho fwrender at Appamattox renders it worthy of your trust now ? lts desperate f'ortuues compelled the nomination of a general of the Union army for the pre.'idenev- a new figurehead, but the same old huik. A thousand generáis of the Union army received to its embrace could not palliat nor annul tlie terrors and bloodshed wuich the democratie party has utilized, and it again sets in the field a solid south aeainst a patriotic and peace-loving north. The strupgle is again upon us. It is our country that oalk Let the name of no soldier or sailor be wanting upon the musbo nKirched or fought for tbe Union. In the historie wordj of our great commandcr, "Push things," coinrades in ' A worthy southsrner was speaking of the distress through which hiH state hsd 1. "Wc lost cverythinp in thc world bot ltonor.")ie said. "Why, eir, therc ' !ol. Carter, of Cartcrsville, as hightoned a gentleman as you ever saw. He d los cvrrythinj; in tho world but his honor. Now, (rant Mnt a ïankee postniaster to rtvtlle, and oiie day tlic oolonl wanted to scal ¦ letter to his f'ae-or in New ( )rle;in, and as he'l lott everyüiini! but honor, he , the Yankee to trust luin lor a three cent lUmp, and thfi fellow wouldo't do H, and, of' course, tho eolonel drew his putol tad -hot liiui dead. And do you know. sir, it took all lh exertions of Judíje Bowie and tome of cmr mo.-t influential Mtiseoa to prevent that ihug f rom coming to a lawsuit?" This i, not unlike the narrativo of the two Kentuckiansat a Chicago liotcl One of them was fiercely disputinj; tbe correotness of the bilí which tho clurk bad iu-t prcHonted to him, when tho other took lúin by the arm and said: "CoJopeJ, ii.ver fOTffét Uut you are a Kentuckian. Kill the elerk, hut pay thc bilí."