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Reconciliation And Reform

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Day
13
Month
September
Year
1872
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Public Domain
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In regard to tho policy of tho pn ftdiiiinistration appertaining to the States on, and the polioy l'ter is to be adopi '- to them, there are fundamental the Grant Eepubüirty, und the party whioh, for coni. cc, I hall denomínate tho party of "ple. term rooonciliation reprcser.ts thfi policy of the latti-r party ; that ot' tary rulo and what I regara as alien or carpet-bttg misrulo - as ï'u'Jy n ] the policy of the lattor party. " V, not shake hands aoross.the bloody chasin made by tho wttr,' Bout- j well. 1 protest ogainst thia advice. this qnestion partías aro divi saya: "Lotus:. 00- let tin ; hands over tho bloody ohaam ma the war." Tho othur party re.-. " We protest agaiust that aü i r, tbr u, moment, tho dootrine of reeoneiliatioa us opposed to that oí tary rulo. The British soldier of Qeorge [II., you will remember, prior to our first revolation, were qnartered on peoplo in this country, and Iha Bostoniang were to bo dragooncd into what wub called their duty. In a similar way, iu this téine of peuoc, (iraut would quarter bis soldiora in the snbjectcd States. The polioy of England lost her ten ooloniea. The p.-.lioy of Gen. Grant's ntiministration, if ted in, will n nder States to this L'nioa what a similar rule I to Greut Britain. Etigluud has neyer yet felt it eafe to withdraw her military torces from Ir .' and uuder tho existing policy of our government wo shall nover bu saío in withdríiwiug our torces from the subjugated States. Wiiilo wo may visibly euppress whito Ku KluxiBín, wc shall develop still moro namerous bands of blaok Ku Klux. - has been done in North Carolina, Georgia aad Alábanla, will bo repeated r uu over these States, until brutal savago, ism bicornes the luw tliere. Lot mo así , y if you cun conceivo a, polioy moro adaptod to perpetúate and iiitensify old 1 hatreds, gonorated by civil war, than to ■ hold ooutinually over thepeople tbc yi.i , bol aud torm ot that power by which their suhjugation waa eiïocted. The Coa3titution of theso States says ■ tha the vrat of habea corjnit sliuil not bo ; suspended except in caso of rebellie invasión aud whero tha publio safety require it. In tho fuce of this pron, which no ono can rnisunderstand, the law passed by the Republican Congress has lodged in the hands of our Jivsidtsit the power of suspending this writ in uil theso States. Kv&ry intelligent man must regard this law as obviously oppo.sed to tuo epirit und letter of tho Ooustitutiün, und as being utterly cruel aud oppressive, and as iuexpeuient nul ; ;iud I compaste the intelligent Northercex wha dcuti not regard tho subjeut ia the saino - it, ander the load of thn -jlicau Con copied tl a of Utorgo III. He suspended tho writ ai babeas corpus in theso colonies, and thereby i'orever alioüated tliiim from tho rtiothi-r country; doing precisely our Oongro&s and the Graat adniiniatration has di. reling, as nothing oleo can íend, to aliénate furever theso Houthern Stiltes from tho rost of tho Union. By unothor luw of Oongress the President of tho United States inay exoieise sovereign power, througli marshals ;.ppoint, over all clecüona - over all our ballot boxo3 in all tho of tho uatiou contaiuiug over 20,000,000 of inhabitants, and that law is in force to-day. You are also awaro of the eit'orts made to ronder this law uni1 ovor all our eleetions. It passed the Sonate, but was objected to in tho i. The Henate then attached the law to tlio apx)iopriations iu order to force thb thing turough the House. Xow, can you conceivo of laws moro obviouslv iml flagrantly uucenstitutioual on the oiiL! Land, or moro horribly ineulting to juthorn mind on the otherV V'o must change this ndniinistration or its polioy, or nover agaiu eau we beco no a united peoplo, THE KINGLY GKAKT. In a show-caso in ono of the most fashionablo thoroughfares in New York may bo geen suspended, over somo of the most costly fabries, likeneeses of our President, with a crown en his hoad. ïaat ia tlie symbol to which the poliuy of this admiuistration is conducting U3 through this ono man power to whioh wo are now subjected. These aro but examplea of tho spirit and tho inevitable poiicy of . ion undei the lead of tho Qrant Bepublioan C iwatd theso ; a polioy which has nofchiug wise, bonevolent, meroiful or human in it. A polioy whioh had its oisigin in nothing but prejudice aud a ose-idea military domination. A policy which has but ono tendeucy, end tliat to produce permanent alienation and hatred between tho parta of this confederaoy, whioh.like kindrops, shouid bo blended iuto one. BECONCILIATION TUK Pol.il PLE'a i'. Consider now tho policy of the peoplo, tho polioy represented by tho noble words nttered by tho noble Senator from Massaohusetts - itocouciliation ! This term, as we underetand it in its literal , menus a iull und cordial amnesty for all partios, ft rail j oHtical offenders; a full und universal enfranohiseinent of tho whites in common with tho colored population of tho eubjocted States- reconstruction and the enjoyment of all rights in the samo senso and torm in wliich State i'iirhts are onjoyed in Sliehigan and Massachusotts to-day. This, we say, ia tho poliey of the day and hour. Wur has dona all it eau do ; so has military rule. In tho n&tno of religión and humanity, let mo ask, "Shall tho i - " If so, %vi!l it not bo " bitter in the lattor end Y' ihould wo not have an administration which bid tho pooplo return from following und opprossing their L." Two Cliristians, as Christians never ghould, had a íoarful dispute, and ■■■ ted in mutual anger. Une of theni, eÜucting upon tlie subject of what had ocourred, and . e day wue about to c: to miud tuo divine i go down upon your wruth." Ho immediately t 'hbor, oontaining words: "Brother, tho sun is al down." Boon tl artns nover to bc let the Houth receivc froiü tiie Noith such a mo ; aassage of and frcoiloui from. military rulo, and from tho misrule of carpet-bag despotism ; a tge of liberty und ei iberty J front this hour to tho end of timo. all never aguiu bo a divided pie. "HYBBVmtCffi." If any person has occfision to entertain ill-will to the South, I oertainly um ono. My only eon received his doath. from injonea received iroin tho .Southern bullet, and from a hoavjr elod of earth Muown against him by a ball from Southein cannon. ln tho Army of tho Potomao was lost the only remaining child, a - man, of my niiVa only gister. From tho siok und 'duiithbcd of my sou, tho wifo of iny youth having tuxeil her strcngiU cvor und nround that bod, returnod to me to dio. And a blooming daaghtcr from no ether cause than heartsickness at thoso bereavemonts, drooped and finally diopiied into the lap of God. Such are iny grievanoes, and 1 intend to have my revengo for t.icin- o. f otm of revengo that will fully satisfy my beari and consoienoo both. In seeking this revengo 1 ghall follow tlio oxampleof n, late Southern gentleman, who, at the house of lloraco ■ jr, in the presenoe of sevtral hundred guestn, addressod liis hoat to this eííuct : " Mr. Qxeeley, you havo robbed me of my slavos, aud I am glad of it ; you have also Biudu t hum cqual to mysult' bnïüro the law and the buHot-box. I acuopt tliis also mot sincerely, butlshall r the ujnriea yu haya uono. I thall go hon . do all Í cun to makc you President of tha United States, fully agsured that you will do all ycu eau for the freedom oí' tho whites as ■ut hern States, aad perijetutit; the sïsterhood of onr ouce dividod country.1' :, 'fellow-citiatens, iilustratca the heart of the%8outh, as it bends toward us to-day. ■ü(t shall our responso be? i lie thu tongua that cries out agaiust aninosty, good will, f univorsal brotherhood, nd in ti:oi oí pui-putnating military doininatii m. ';ir as my owa rovonge is concerü is: All tho ends for h thoao brave boys lost tbeir livos fully ttcoojupiishcl; the subi0(!tet! situation, and havo, in tho B.iltimoro Oonvention, bion with tho othcr States, ■ il fealty to tho constitu-ud have extended over the "bloody i" the hand of' liberty nnd equality. I shall pray for the final oblivion of all past id uil causo of disnnion and anirnosity, for the total suspension of militury rule, Bnd for absolute eqnality iti the matter of internal self. control. ■11 have been aecompüshed, and oor conntry bo eeen moving on ward, as God's pillar of fire, in the forefront of all notions, then, my fellow-citiwill my revengo be completo. 1 havo read in a ceitnin book, which I respect xery nraoh, this precopt: "Bo not overeóme by cvil, but overeóme evil with good." ïhiuk for a moment of the blood of our lathors, brotherg and sons with w e Southern fields have been staiaed. That blood has a voice a voico whieh from tho ground crien to (od nr:d to us. liut what is its cry V Ia 11 for wngeaneo, for perpetual hate and disunion 't Is its language as ropresented by the candidato for the YicoPresidoncy a cry to "rempinber Andersonville," to " remember Libby prison'r" Is that the cry P That blood, like tho sacrod drops which feil on Culvary, ppeaketh better thinga. It is tlie blood of a Uuion, and not of a dii-union armv. It speaks for peaco, for amnesty, and for a unión of hcarts and union of hands ; for a reign of law, and not military rule ; for a conimon sisterhood and government of all the States. OABPXT-BAB KI8HT3XE AND OrrRESSIOX. Consider now tho bonefits of roconciliation as opposed to tho intolerable evils . inflicled upon thoso f tho alien or carpet-bag misrule whioh ibis administration lias forced upon tho majority of thosb States. ITced I dciine what is meant by carpet-bag rule 'i It does not mean - ,ho has come into these State to settlo and transact business aniuug them ; suuh a oue is no carpetir. lt means a native of the Xorth sent there by the govennnent to fill tho asmwoiu offices in tho gift of the govenimont, and who there becomes a politioian and manages politics for bis own iLiry benefit. Contémplate two most appalling faots that havo been developed in thoso States under tho seven continuaaee of this misrule. The I ff om ■ to trpwárd of $391,000,000 I havo the exact figures befare ido - and no living man can show a solitary benefit whioh these Statos have receivcd from this aceumulfitíon of indebtedness, while erery well-informed man of the Nurth and South knowa that fouv-üfths of the monoy actually raised hns gone, not into the State Troasury, but into tho pocketa of thoso robber oarpet-bag men, who care aa little for tho blacks as the whites, but who uso the former for the puipose of robbing both classes. Thoso men are swarniing over thoso States as clouds of vampiros, lighting upon uud sucking the blood of the. body politie. [" That's bo," and applai rinON FOUNDBD OX IXJUSTtCK. I beg you to contémplate another result oí this state of things. The population of those States is everywhere dividod into two hoatile parties - whites on one eide and blacks on tho other - parties having the same deudly hostility toward oach othur tlmt tho Know ivorhings and foroignen had in the Korthern States a íew years ago. Under tho present military rule ouly one destiny awuits these Status, military domination, a war of races with anarchy, intensifled with whito nd black antagonism. Ererywhere the qnesiion belbre tho peoplo is not how tho army of carpet baggers shalt be removed, and the national interest of uil bü promottd in tho best practicable manner, but which raco shall rule, theblack or tho white, lu tho last caávsfia in Xorth Carolina the party orators were thus divided ; tha ono party evtrywheröised large classes of black?, with a : prinkling of whites, while tho othei addressed large aisemblies of whites, with a small sprinkling of blacka ; tlmt is, the two races r.re arrayod agninst eacb, othcr. Is that a deairable state of' things ? But that is the inevitable tendenoy of tho policy of ihis administration. What will bo the rcsults of a oessatiun of uiilitury rule and the termiaaiion of carpetbag misrule, -with full am. l :i restoration of all tho privileges and imiuunitiea of oitizeaahip, suoh is you enjoy in ate? TTudeithi state ot' things legislation wiU pass from under the control of alion i atolligoncf, and will come ucdei the be it practical home iniluonce. Under thia 1 ttor form of legislation, alluuuecessf.ry accuinulation of State debt, ftll&rm ,: mdreckleaa wast öf rundg in tho State Treasury,. will cea ge, whilo '.' (he peoplewil'lbedireoted, thro'ugh their legislators, to remedying existing evils and enaothig law torpromote the mental and physival relfaroof thecomniunity. Trno, the cclored peenle will viaiMy old tho balanoe of power, nud tlieir rijihts willbo as safo in thoso States as those of tho Trishmen, Gertaons or colored men uro in these North -. With no class opposing 1'b.u electiyè franchise, thore will be no : i, norwill tho ircedmenever p;s: from the egis of tho national ' protec I ■■VI) OEEE] I wiU now soy a few worda as to tho two individúala from whoiu we we to ohoose our n;xt Chief Eiecutíve. i sialí not attempt to compi men with ea,cu othcr. VVo oannót compare a nionntaLii with a mole hill. Mr. Qreeley is affirmed to be, in ono of tho most widely oiroalaied papers of tho Grant administrütion, a di ■ of tho highest order ; hu ia aíErmed to bo a secessionist, uud is said to bo everything thut is bad, witho .: ' of gOOCi qua;_' ities. I dou't kno-r tlio it is necessorj toaUEvrcr this. lication of Horaeu Oreeloy tln c can I igainst i I -.- hii His life is knoivn p.nd read by all incn. AVhon Chirborazo lifts its majestio form to tho hf.lVens, for itself; but if the)' a utood ono with a microscopu in bis .ünd, he might discover soiue objeö■ tions aud protuberancea upon :tr; Burfaoe, still it wonid stimd. thero as ono of tho soblim ms of Qod. liven the DeniocraV1 ín former ytars liavo admitted ' - -'"ty. hiaj frreatness and his unsulliod oharactor ; mul we think he i. just the man we for our next President. [Cheors.] Ju uu irti.'l' I read n the New Voi 't tnt. Mr. (rreuley is statwl to bo a i jioirun of low order : in the samo number ofthai i.:mprwehavo this testimony to his ckaracter : "Horneo Greeley, whether ha becomes President or not, will liva in tho futuro arumifí' til'' roen foremost of his cotr mportirii'S as the man wlio, more thnn auy otlior, left his distinotive, individual mark apon the timo in whioh ho lived." This bestiinony is trae, mij it is all tho bette1 beoaus i it comes froiu a Oraut Itupublicnn paper. Bat was Mr. Greeley a secossionist ': Por myself 1 have not been nble to niingle üiy te.irs with tho rivera of water tha now f rom the eyesof my Gnmt Republican friends on account of the prinoiples of Mr. Greeley. I now roinmnbeT theré wan one secessionist who once boro u commission in tb rebel army, who has been set up in the interest of Grantisra nnd has been reoeiving asalary (A 10,000 a year iu gold as u foreign rainister. I can sympathizo with the grpat sorrow of our Grant K!publioan friends, vt-hen I remember that suoh n Bi i ist as Settle was thoaght worthy to oocupy tlu high poeition of ohairman of tho great convention that non: Grant. " First cnst tho raote out of tbine own eyo, then shali thou seo cluarly," Ac. I5ut, then, they ask, did noi Mr i help to bail out Jefferson Davi3 ? I ara hera in tho samo diffioulty X wits before. I civnnot wuep over Mr. Greeley's faultin this respect ; and, aiuong others, for this reason : Tho man who, ibovo all others, was most earneit at the Philadelphia eonventiou, exoept General Grant hiraBolt', was Mr. (Jiriit Bmith, who signed tha bail bond of Jcfforson Davis with Mr, Greeloy. BJSKATOR WIL80N TUK CHAMTION OF JEI'F DAVI8, Lot rao read to you a resolution introduct'd into the United States Senate by ?ilr. Wilson, the candidate for the Vice Presidenoy : "WHKÈEA3, Tho said Joffereon Davis, a citizcu of the State of Mississippi, was eaptured by the military foroos in the gervioe of the United Suites, on thu llth of May, l.sö.}, and has sinoe been held in oonünouioiit as h prisoner of war and pvieoner of State in Fortrena Afonroe ; and "Whbeeas, Said Teffenon Davis stands charged with the heinous crime of oonspiracy in tho murder of President Linooln, otü., and is iudictcd for tieasou ; and WQBKEA3, JoiTiTson Davis has persistoutly dedared his innooenoo of the offen-seö chargu.I agsinst liim, and through his h'l advisurs, by all nieiins known to th law, h:w itought and demandod a ■peedy trial by the procesa of law, bc-fore a oivil tribunal o-f competent jurisdiction; therefore lir.tolrc'l, By the Sonate, the Ilouse ooncurring, thut tho longer oonfinoment of Baúl Jeíferson Davis, without trial, or tho auignment of specific time for trial, is not in aooordanoe with tbo demanda of justiot, the 6pirit oi'the lawa and the requiivinents of th Constitution ; and that coinmon justice, sound policy and national honor uuite in rocoiumending that the said Jefferson Davis bo brought to a Bpoedy public trial, or that he bo releaecd from confineiuent on bail, or on his iwn rccngniHnoe. Whcn that party talks so much about ilr. Greeley siguing t)it bail bond, I want you toreinember that thero is suoh a thing as straininsr at a gnat and swallowing a camel. [Laughter and chuers." WHAT WB KNOW o!' OBEELBT. The assertiun that Mr. Qrueley is a blunderer and an upholder of foolish opinious is in direct O}:)osition to wha ■we know of him as an independent think ar. Our concern is with Mr. Greeley to dny, and hero wo are quito content to rest. His life revéala him to bo a grea gtatPBinan. and im honeet man, eminent ]y fitted for the great truet to whiol the country is ubout to cali him. He stands before us pledged to all the prin ciples of the Cincinnati plutform, and we know him to bo abeblntely trustworth; and true to his plightej iaith. We ar' content to leavo to our Grant friends al the consolation nnd hope they can derive from the errors of Mr. Érreeley whiol they can scent out. liETlTXa DOTTX1 OS GRANT. Had General Grant consonted to rotirc from offico at thoclosoof his present torni, wc would not seek to briiig his fruilties to tho light; but, when ho is forcoJ upon us for our sufïïagea for a socond tjaie it becomei our dufy to know him ae ho is. In my judgment of him I differ from most As & military commander, while ] jfivp him credit for honeet inteution, ] regard him as one of tho most ignorunt erriug aud recklesa mortals that ere lec an ariny. [Laughter.] I hold mysell ready, when tlie proper time comes, to demónstrate that tho war of tho rebolliou ought to have oeaeed at Ie:ist a yeftl before the period of Lee's surrender ; that frora no want of good intontiou, but whoily to his ignoruuue, do wa oxc to Qaneral Grant a needlesa protractiou of the war for ut least one year, and a needless sacrifice of ons hundred thousand lives, and a noedless addition to tho national burden of five bundrod raülion dolían. On the pressnt occasion. I will not discuss his claims as a military man ; it is exclusively hs a citizen, as a staiesuian, nnd as the IliU Magistrate of this great Ropublin, and as u oaudidate for re-loctiou, that he is now on trial beforo tho American people. In speaking of hi standing as a man, I niay ètato whatkind of '.hild was tho father of our President and I simply say what his friends say f him. Thi New York Bvening Pot ianoir advooating tU: re-election of Grant ; but botuie this it seiid : " His ignerance nnd contempt of law are daily beooming more prominent, uud he deeeives to be di'ivüii out of the canvass by the battec eonso of his party." In the htdtpmámt of New York, whicb is, as you know, as absolutely sick of love for Grant as ws the Egyptian fpouee for htir lord, General Grant stands revcaled as ono of the tmallost specimeng of human naturo that ever towored iu greatneaa, and, wbile his ügotism Í6 fullj admitted, and hiaingatia ble greed for gifts, it is all excused on the ground of. dsfecta in his early education ; and it is not to be wondered at, for he roally does not know any better. And the Grant famUy irepresented as being of thn most comme n-pliico oharacter that was ever met. A Washington correspondent lately said : "I have looked upon the face of General Grant in the drawing-room ; I have seen him smoking-, and ■when he bas boon drivisg fust horses on tho aveuaiv und havo said ' Iznpossiblu ! he is not our hero i'" But thon ho is; not that he was braver, or had half the turning enthuú&sm that filled the lieaïts of ten thousand of the boys ho lod ; but he led ! This was tho thought whiul: filled thoso who iaisid tho thrice ten thousand oheers whioh rent tho air of Philadelphia at the mention of his name. Hie bost frionds say that tha reason why we should vote tor General (Scant at tho coming electiou is - although when ■we think of him as he is, of himself, we soy, " Impossible 1 He is not our hero;" )nt yet he i- he led them. That ninliidea oí' the dead i)ot ia the guiding star of thi Grant Repúblicas jj.'irty to-day. Think ot (his iioi'i as bo sits amongthe magnates of th naf ijii, on that platform in the heart of the groat audienoe assembied to witnoss the exercisos of Harvard University, whero ho reoeived from tho authoritics the degree of LL. I) ; risin, ho eaid he wonld not make a speech, and Vquesting the Attornuy General tosppak fbr him, ho took his seat, aud in tho luidst of. thoso magnates, and iu tho prosence of thut lefinea and iutelligeut audionce, he oommenoed smoking hia overlasting eigar. [ Loud laughtor.] Look at that seemingly idiotio Bpectucle and you have faint specimen of our I'msiic'tit as n man. X repróbate the conduct of the grct National party which urges npon our ■ for the Chicf ïlagnstracy of the Republio BUoh a specimen of human ñutuve. Nothing tenrls so much to belittle nud render ignoble the National mind of our youth as to presout for tlicir imit: - tion and our elcction puch ft pinuH and vulgar speoimon of humanity, and I affirpi tiint evory mnn that sliall cast hip vote for General Grunt wil! infuct, if not in intention, volo for thu belittlemenl and ignobiement of ths mind and aoter 'if the rising generation. [Louil applauae.] SOMETIM.MJ MOBB OF QRNBBAIi OKANT'd NEP0TI8M. The nepotUw of General Grimt bos inaugurated a ncw cru in Amerioan politn'-. Prior to his election thu public sentiment of the oation had b;en iuomutably fixed aboutsuoh oonduot on thi of the President. Under General Grant this vice hns assuaaod monsttous and iisgusting proportiont. Senator Conkling snys tbüt but nino of hi rclatives ever received appointiocnts from the President. The New York Sun speoifled twenty-two appointments. Pcrmit mo tofurnishtwo additional example. A cousin of the President, named Bimpson, whoe emplovment from ohildbood to manhood had boon farming, who hJ re1 nothing bnl a common sohool ed a itttion, 1 i v i 1 1 lt i'i tho southern porti'' of , and who had nevex nwned n farm, but aimply rentad one; sooj' after the in. ktion of President this noii9in rocyivad th orship of t!m city of Dayton, a nity of sixty thousai d inhabitants. Another caso was n ptTson who nmrried n sister of liia, living in the same place, just ai'tor the inauguration i to Newpori, ió'. :id t'ii-ro reoeiTed Iha appoiutraent of Postmastcr of th:tt city. A LITÏI.K tCOSl AHiilT OUT-TAiaNO. Our President bus an ineatiable (freed for gifts, ii we tftke fi-r the tmth nothing more than wliat his best f rienda afflrtn. They admitthat he has been in the hnbit of rewardiag tiiose friends with the fiitU:tt offices from whom he has recorred hi wealth. What shnll we think of ft President who has introduoed such a tuint into our nationnl politics? The sentiment of thu world !ms heretöfore boi'n that a hijíh ofiicür has not dared to recive any grc:it friiis from the people, Over any human judgme&t is tho deep deprecatioo huns: "Thou sbalt take no I gift; fora gii't blindeth tlic wiso and perI Terteth the words of the righteous." Tuis law, with tha reason annexed, i1 subse ' quently ro-eoaoted na th.i immut.iblu law for rulera and judgfg. We h.ive a constitu tion al provisión iguinst officers of the govornnient recoivinjf gilts trom fo:igu potentates and powers without special ïeavo tVoiu Congrees. Suoh is tie jiubüc scutiincnt of tha world and tho spirit of our Constitution us against tha h.ibit of our Presidnat. Shall we not righteously Bot our faces agikint huuor düñlcd, bribery and corruption, that it m.ty not invade our judicial, commercial aud oivil relations ? No party oTor stood before thio great Republio in a position so perilous toward the morality of the ñutios as the groat Republicau party of to-day. To Tote for thu bulk ot' th'ir cundidatus is to vote for u'ttional dooiorilization. The reinoval of Grinnoll becaass he rofused to pay over more than $25,000 for no services whatevor exhibits aj iufainous a code of moráis is allowing Ieet to continue his pilferings, or appointing Murphv when hia disoteditable doods were so wel] known, or in retaining (';isey after hi.i doinga luid been uuoarthed, and his crimes had been shown up before the nation, and iu violation oi' pligbtec ! faith ; and finally sending the uu mbej of hiu Cabinet abroad electionöering, when tliü President and lus Cabinet oujiht to have been in iheir places, engaged in tho konest performance of thoir duty. ADVICE TO DEMOOriATS. To my Demooratio friends I would give a word of advioo. It is one of the wisest maxima of war not to do what your opponent desires you to doT and abovo all tbings to do what he desires you not to do. Nov7, your Grant lïepublican friand?r desire you abovo all other things to vote for Graut. If you are wiso and patriotic, tbat you will not do. Their neit degire is that you thonld not vote for (Jreuley ; that, if patriot ism has moro influence over you than old prejudices, you will'certainly do. [Loud cheers and laughtcr.J One consolation romains to ourfriends. Üur opponpnts gay that this exoitement will 9oon xubside and pass away. That it is rising now they admit. This diseaso of the sora-heads, to which 1 referred, i a very oontagious one, even in the grand Republican party, and, if it continueë to spread, it will occasion the deatb ot' that party in the next olection. [Loud laughter and cheers.] You remember the old falle of the giant who clamberod up thu monntain in the day of Noah's flood. lío was near tho top when the ark camo floating by ; he oalled to Fathor Noab to take him in. The vosscl floated on, when the disappointed giant called ont : " Well, go on, old fooi, its only an April shower." (Langhter.) The hope of tho Grant party is about as good as thut ot' the giant. The tide that is rising has its origin in the he:irts ot the poople, and it will continue to rise and exteiul till it ovi-i tiows tho whole land. We shall have a new era, and tho uation will enter a new lite of liberty, equality and brotherhooii. (Loud applause.)

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