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Show A VOICE TO THE VETERANS. Tho National Veteran Inform association, winch has been orgauiml in the interests of the democratic lickrt, and whose headquarters are in Clncago, l.aj i;S'iM THE FOLLOWING AlttihfcSS: To Oi k Uom rakes THKofiiioiT TI1K UnITKI) SrATKa FtUow Culll' mI'cj: liii vet (-ran a jldters and sailors of the l.v.e war who favor the election liie Hon. Samuel J. Tdden, gov.-r-nor ul New York, und ol tno Ht.;n. tin iiiifl A. Hendricks, governor cl Indiana, to the respective, ohVes ol .ri ;.it nl and vice prtv.d' tit ot the I'nit-d States, an. I who advocate tl.oiounu reform in the adininirUia-lit adininirUia-lit hi oi (Air nat.uiK.l all.ii rs, have :'t rmtd sn organ l it'.on m ibis city wiiKli has been dintcd tin-Veteruu tin-Veteruu Kel'.-rni a.-pK'i-.t!wn. Tiie reasons whicii ):ave ied to tiie iiiaunu-riion iiiaunu-riion of tiiii move m fill are ui Te p.ll LK-Lll..rlr 1 .- ' j oiv u. n mlJrf'M. U'e have In fore r.; ( .set! o'.l ..rgauiialioim of a v""'', mmtary cii.urtcter f'tnne'l in It" interest of i,v H.liuical p.rty- Wc lao f It that in m rvioK U.c o untrv duru.g Hio ! l.iti- war, and in df riding its tl ij,' from tue n-vtu'iL ma.lo uikhi it, no t -mipiv eh-chared duly wh:ei. .al(iot:vii iuipo-'d -n When ih p..ntt.t rlwtl we put oil li e mil :,.rm of the ..ilnr it aoMiur rr-iiu-iim.-d ti .'i;Arb tA :v -n of lii" ' private cvlm-n. Tli" wr w w-g-l 1'iT li.O "jr. -.TV. it ll of t V Klli'Hl , ,r ) i .- , 1!tl. ' r.vo ol r. p il iu!l .i itiliitioit," and by a riw inti'ii ol congria coifiniiiy ui ol Uf.iuunouly i pni torti, it w ki aert'd tbt wln-ii, ili'i-e purp''fl re eeo;ni'h!."l "tho war aooiill om." We en-eonntfrftl en-eonntfrftl in tiie utbfrii aoMn-r a fin'tnun ftor;hy of our VY. oKU'AMK Tilt: 4-.SHPKKUS r-.ifM im mrriK, iul f. U when the enntt had i'o-d .n fav.r t f tu' ndifii'il arm, when . provid ih e h.wl givi n dei'i-i n iu !laorollhe ftr. neil Jiitt.au-'in, to the liinK'ifti;" ur il lutri"U nvn-io.u.iI' nvn-io.u.iI' t, (..eiirral W. T. Ne-rman, ins l. tOT Bildrea-v! b tiie mayor ot A'li'.nla, lh.it rvi ry trun 1 "would "i.nr Itio lat frA-'k'T". with the bniv- lliooch eilrvi-t l rnemy (toy had overtiiroivu in the tb-.d. With p-b rencd to lb-' anulb, wn w. ro 1. ,m to :i!l man tui d in war. ri,- :nw; , in P' .ot, Irn nda. 'lhn I'ruiU ol '' vn lory havi-brrn fnVy l.'ui'-d; the voice of fce.'-wioii h Iwon nili mad by tho tliunilrr of n himdre-l baltli- Cl IiIh; Mm "-lave has b-en emancipald nml clevati d to Um dignity of viluon--luo; the payment of r-'iifedernle war el.iinn lias I een prohibited by con-Kliliitional con-Kliliitional riiiirtmriil, nod the tUg o: tbn iiniuu ttoaU proudly and wlhoul ehiillutiK); MiroiiKhout Mi b oglb and breadth of tho land Tho tmlenUi obligiklion lOiiih we hH.k upon un on entering the n ilnnial servieo, thai wt would d!i nil tbn i'tuu d Stalin "iionenlly and faithlully iK'diiHt nil rnemiea and op poser wlmUoowr, " l oinpi'ln lin to naeiio the goveinment from the lmnd n( tboae who aeck to ilrdtmy the librrtira lor which we fought. 1VK KKJTorNfK AH ItI'lNOI'8 TIIK I1M K'V which proniotfj" diconl between Mu' raccH, which revivrs irejiuhei a J nil anmiositifa ludwnen the seel ion, null which, rtlovn nil, faUely brands an traitors and rebels thosn who havo thr inunly courago to npp(wo tbriunelvtn lo Blicll destructive aehenirn. An BoMiers and hiuIum of the lain war we acHi-rl our rigid, and sbiill lenrlcusly fXrein it, o( voting lor the cati'lulat of our eboioe, nod ol advocating the raiif.u of reconcbliidion and will among nil eln--m n of our people, Y ih iiniineo ai infanioil-ly false ami by decent lh olt viUinted nmeiliotiH tlnil the repvibllcan parly put down til? rubclhon, it i ul that tho union soldier" und sitilors ol Mm latn war rn wil.h that politii'id orgnniitalion ill tile pn-HUlit (fin I oat. I le-mocrat in nual nimibeis with republicans rulrnd "I union ranks and (ought under and fir tho national (VK, palriotimn uOl partiniiisin iiHpiiing their aelnm.---aml wn iiwei l, feni lens of BUCChsUiI ' ronlrndiclion, Ibat n nnijority 'f 01)1 lal tuimrad'-a rn lo tiny enlnleil In the eiunm of Tilden, Uriidiielm, nipl , reform. 1 WK nri'l'lHATIt TIIK rr.AiM ' ' ho nflm putforlb Mint the parly In pow.r has proved ilelf the rpenml gimrdinn anil fiiehd ul Ibe ttolthwa mid sailors uf the union. Wo emiuot closoouf eyes to the fact that the laurels which our late comrades pur-j : chased with their blood have boeu stolen for base party purposrs from, their craves; that tneir very tombstones tomb-stones have been made an article of currupt traffic; that the massacre of our late comrades the gallant Custer and his heroic command is unavenged, un-avenged, while the troops who should . have pursued their barbarous mur- j dcrers aro engaged in tho ignoble, taak of overturning republican liberty in the south; and last, though least, that our navy, once the pride of the whole land, has become a national disgrace, while our bravo soldiers have been forced to accept service under a foreign flag. j WE ARE IMPRESSED WlTlj THE COS VIC- , T10N j that the union is in danger, that a crisis has been reached in our na tioual affairs, and that the contiDU-i contiDU-i ance in authority of the party misnamed mis-named republican must lead to gen-; gen-; eral disaster and ruin. The record of i it. dark"past admits no ray of hope for its future. That party must die that republican liberty should live, j Corruption, extravagance aud usur-. usur-. pation of authority the deadly enemies ene-mies of popular government are threatening the national life, and ' those entrusted with the guardianship j of all that is precious to the American , people are holding up the casket while tbey are extracting the jewel. I We aro not ashamed of our stand- j . ard-bearers and associates in the con- test being waged. Every tree is i known by its fruits. The honest aud 1 economical administration of the nflairs of New York by the Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, and of those of Indiana by the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, shine forth as lights in. a dark place. The cast and west, appreciating tha national emergency, I have joined hands, and are standing side by aide and houldor to shoulder 1 n the contest. They have placed TIlFiB MOST TRIED AND HONOBLD LIAD-j LIAD-j EES in the front, while tho south, once' our enemies, but now our friends, j extends to us the olivo branch, and asks once more a union in which tha i distinction of east, west, north, and south biiall be known. We have with us in tho fight a majority of those who commanded u in the wr men whose brilliant achievements in tho field have given them names which posterity will not willingly let1 die. Asacounliy wo may be be strong in nur ability to repel assaults from j without, and stront; also in our power lo suppress tumult fnjin within, and yet we may be weak and in danger j where tho cancer of corruption has fiialeucd uion the eyrtem, and is gnawing its way to the national heart. 1 The strongest ship which ever sailed the oceau, which may have withstood the storms of nature and the wralh ol man. is liable to the attack ol a con lemtitible worm, whose insidious as sault may penetrate its elanchest timbers, and ultimately sink it as a helpless wreck beneath the waves. WE ASK OCR LATE COMRADtS IN THE WAB lo do as we havo done to organiie themselves in every county and state in the union. We a-k ihem to lorm associations in their npctivc- luih-tmruoodi, luih-tmruoodi, and lo I rward to these heAL'.piarlers the name of every comrade, com-rade, with the number ul his resilient, res-ilient, or the lumeol uiri war vi-nael, who is ti'. w fighting on the side of Ti'den, Hen Jricks, and reform. The coDthct is upon us, aud too watchword watch-word I.ns pM oJ a'ong the linui. Veteran Vet-eran jold;-?ra ai.d scours of the b.te war to ti.e froi.t. Ianiei. C.mh;o", llrig.idier ticner! l". S. A., Chairman tVmnnllee on AdilrLSS. Lieu. John M. O-r.-e, Ulinnif. ticn. Jtihn M. Pal.Ltr, On. T V lien. Cliarhs Hlack, " (ien. Edmund Juveii, " t.en. M. K. M. W:.a v, ' (h-n. W. U Morr: n, ti. n. T. I. D.ekev, Col. E. S. J.n-tlyii, i'aviii.v;t' r C. S. Warn n, Ma,. K. H. Mirab. lieu. K S. Wtmiz, Wi..nin. li. n. H. H. S.h:. v, Minnr-nla. tirn. Kit T Httwy Warrt'ti. Iowa, li- n. Jamff r-i c'da, Mioun, ii-n. A S. Wih.an... Mirhipm. ;. ti. I. rt. II int. K'-M"' ky. lini. Tiiotna Kmory. 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