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 c'f^ ^lugtisia, Georgia. July 4, 1873. k^^/-' 
 THE KATXOI^.aL REPUBLICAF PAETY THE HOPE 0? THE NATION. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Fcllorc- Citizens ; 
 
 A meeting lika this, oa this auspicious 
 day — this great Republic' t; National Birth- 
 day — tbo anniversary of American Indo- 
 pend'jnce. ought to be a success, and happily 
 it is one. Yet, I confess my own preference 
 would have been to have deiirered to you 
 aud all our people an oration instead of a 
 party speech, for alas ! this glorious day 
 2 Jo too few to pay it that reverence aud 
 'V.'.'X all our fathers used to do without 
 1 tinction of party, secticnality, or reservn,- 
 a of affection. 
 
 i'.it, ray fellow-ciiizeas, it is not an of- 
 
 : se, nor objectionable in justice, that on 
 
 ;3 anniversary a lojal, Union-loving party 
 
 :.uld asscniblo and cle-irly avow to the 
 
 .tors of this country the principles by v/hich 
 
 ■ profess to bo governed — the principles 
 
 . the great Republican party of this na- 
 
 ica — the policy and platform of our candi- 
 
 ^les, and the justice of our cause as politi- 
 
 :r-> asking the co-operation and suffrages 
 
 all oar people. « 
 
 OU?. STAKDAKD-BEARKKS. 
 
 I' ■ ': incousi.'acnt Willi the highest 
 
 ua.::' .1 djvodon to duty — the honor 
 
 "0 bear aloft inscribed on 
 
 the flag of our beloved country, in letters of 
 gold, or living light, the names of Ulysses 
 S. Grant for President and of Henry Wilson 
 I for Vice President in the political cam- 
 paign upon v/hich wj now enter. [Great 
 applause.] 
 
 The nomination of these distinguished 
 citizens by the great Convention at Phila- 
 delphia was an ovation of itself never before 
 witnessed in any National Convention — 
 .Republican, Whig, or Democratic — in our 
 couutry; and was such a spontaneous and 
 enthusiastic tribute to them as men, and the 
 place they respectively hold in the affections 
 of the masses of the people, as no man had 
 ever before witnessed in any country or by 
 any people. Certainly no Liberal Republi- 
 can, or Democrat, had ever dreamed of such 
 unanimity, such enthusiasm, such an assem- 
 blage on earth, and surely there never was 
 on3 like it before in this or any other coun- 
 try. Not a discordant element, not a tech- 
 nical question or a dilatory motion, not an 
 opposition vote, but one noble, solid, in- 
 vincible phalanx of the people's harmonious 
 standard-bearers shouting forth in thunder- 
 like tones the people's free choice— record" 
 ing State after State by ballot nnanimously 
 

 .Td'S 
 
 for tbe great soldier and statesman ■whom 
 the nation deliglit3 to honor, and who will' 
 with firmness, justice, moderation, and 
 safety hold the helm of State for the next 
 four years. [Cheers.] 
 
 And it was most just anW grand that such 
 a convention, fresh from the people of this 
 great land, should select as standard-bearers 
 in this political campaign we are fairly 
 launched upon these great names for the 
 suffrages of this nation. They are men who 
 give no uncertain sound. They are read and 
 linown of all men. And that they combine 
 all the true elements of American charac- 
 ter—of self-made, self reliant, great men- 
 no just man can successfully deny. And it 
 is no exaggeration nor eshorbitant praise 
 to say that few men of any age or country, 
 in ancient or modern times, have inscribed 
 their names so high on the scroll of fame as 
 great chieftains and civilians, as have Grant 
 and Y/ilson by their own acts and deeds. 
 [Loud cheers.] Neither of them were born 
 to greatness, but greatness has been achieved 
 by them. And such greatness how few at- 
 ta,in? 
 
 GRA'N'T AS A GEKERAL. 
 
 No common mind, no common man, 
 could GO conspicuously have written his 
 name on the roll of honor as General Grant 
 has done. Surely no man without brains, 
 v;ith only ordinary or common understand- 
 ing and comprehension of men, without 
 knowledge of himself in this 19th century, 
 in this age of wonderful activity and almost 
 miracutous progress, this age of intelligence 
 and unexampled competition, v/ithout capa- 
 city of intellect, power of combination, 
 sagacity, discrimination, and a comprehen- 
 sive knowledge of men and things, time 
 and events, could have accomplished what 
 historical facts show that he has done. I 
 confess I can conceive that s. man may 
 blunder into a good thing — may be lucky at 
 times — may influence men by eloquence, 
 by flattery, by money even to a certain ex- 
 tent — but no miui ever yet moved battalions, 
 ■ brigades, divisions, large armies of meii, 
 commanded and moved hundreds of thous- 
 ands of men, like a great and uncrrin't 
 machine ihrou^-h lonsf and terrific war. ;. 
 
 then by spontaneous and electrical enihc- 
 siasm awoke a nation's gratitude to elevate 
 him to its Chief Magistracy, and agaia 
 unanimously renominate him for the same 
 position without capacity equal to that of 
 ihe highest, noblest, and purest of earth's 
 great dead or living. [Great applause. J 
 In vain we seai-ch Grecian, Roman, Galic, 
 Anglican, every historic page for his equal 
 or parallel, (for few men indeed in all the 
 world's history have ever been able to move 
 or command even a half million of men,) 
 and yet many able, consciencious, truth- 
 loving men either do not comprehend o^ 
 prefer not to admit this fact. I am no man- 
 worshiper, but where shall we find anothe:? 
 who never met with defeat, so far, in tbe 
 field or Cabinet? [That's so, and cheers.} 
 
 GTvAXT AS A STATESMAK. 
 
 As a statesman, some of his opponents 
 say he has failed, but they fail to shoxv 
 wherein. And, without personality, or the 
 slightest disposition or desire to awaken 
 animosities, or carry thought back to strife, 
 I may be pardoned for asking these men 
 was it in his correspondence with Peraber- 
 ton? W»3 it with Lee at Appomattox? 
 Was it with Johnston? I do not mean Andy. 
 [Laughter.] I mean the greater, Joseph E. 
 Johnston ? Was it v/hile he was Secretary 
 of War, when President Johnson bore tes- 
 timony that "he (Grant) had saved tbe 
 Treasury, during, his short service, three 
 millions of doUaf 3?" Was i I; when he said 
 "Let us have peace?" Was it in r.ny of 
 his messages to Congress, by all who have 
 read them, acknowledged to be State papers 
 unsurpassed for clearness, statesmanship, 
 and directness of expression? Was it In the 
 negoiiations of the Washington treatj? 
 And has it been shown in the ecouoniyc^ 
 his administration ? In the management 
 the finances of the nation aud in the red : 
 tion of the public debt? In the rednct : 
 and collection and disbursement of ' 
 revenues? And in the management of '-,' 
 Indian affairs ofthe Government, crigina' 
 organized, aud carried out by himself, 
 repeat, no common man holds the heir 
 ?tr.*o. th? rri-i?, of this grea' Govern 
 ' e oovt-ers of PresiO. 
 
complishin^ so quietly, so unostentatiously, 
 
 " ;;^o vigorously, without being in the posses- 
 
 . sion of chciracter, ctbility, and mental power 
 
 . that the vrorld as yet knows little of. 
 
 ■ ^ [Cheers.] 
 
 t-T» But our Democratic friends say he is a 
 ^ ItliLiTART President, and will yet make 
 *i5 himself dictator ! and they cite as authority 
 ibr their night-mare apprehension : 
 
 Ist. That he is surrounded by a military 
 family guarding the V/hite House. 
 
 2d. That he wishes to control elections 
 and enforce his re election by the bayonet; 
 and 
 
 8d: That he favors Ku-Klux laws and the 
 unlimited suspension of the writ of habeas 
 corpus. 
 
 Now, in reply to the fust complaint, his j 
 being a military man, that is granted, for : 
 he has proven that by his deeds. But that j 
 he has surrounded the White House v;ith a 
 military guard, is entirely untrue — not a 
 soldier, nor epaulette, nor shoulder-strap 
 of any kind is to be seen within its walls 
 nor anywhere upon the premises. But if 
 Grant is a military President, so was Wash- 
 ington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, and the 
 same objections were as bitterly made 
 against them, and with what efifect history 
 will tell and some of ua personally remem- 
 ber. 
 
 In regard to his making himself a dicta- 
 tor, and perpetuating a dynasty in his family, 
 I have no doubt he will do so in the same 
 ■way exactly as Washington's and Jackson's 
 political enemies said they would, but did 
 not. The persons who affect to believe 
 such trash as this better bear in mind "the 
 great cry and little wool" the man had who 
 shaved the hog I [Laughter.] And, fur- 
 ther, it is true there is not to- day one v.-hole 
 company of United States troops stationed 
 at Y/ashington, the capital of this great 
 country, nor does the President wish one. 
 Nor had this Government ever a more 
 modest, unassuming, unpretentious Presi- 
 dent — one less given to display and ostenta- 
 tion than General Grant. He is as far free 
 from making military display as if he h^d 
 never drawif a sword in his life, [Applause.] 
 
 In the second place, it is charged that he 
 wiJihes to use the army to control elections 
 
 and enforce his re-election at the polls in 
 November. 
 
 Such a charge as this must either bo true 
 or preposterously false ; and surely no evi- 
 dence of the first proposition can be pro- 
 duced. I believe that General Grant never 
 thought even of such a i hing. And that a 
 President of the United States, with its en- 
 tire army constantly on duty to garrison and 
 protect its thousands of miles of frontier and 
 further thousands of miles of sea coast de- 
 fenses—its forts, fortifications, barracks, 
 depots, arsenals — to perforna its escort and 
 transportation business — to protect its In- 
 dian affairs and prosecute its Indian wars — 
 I to guard its continental railroads and mails, 
 with its wliole effective force less than 
 30,000 officers, artJIlCers, and men, including 
 all arms — should attempt in addition to all 
 this duty to subvert their Government and 
 enforce by bayonets, his reelection to the 
 Presidency, is too ridiculous to discuss. I 
 dismiss such a charge as not only utterly 
 preposterous, but idle and contemptible — 
 because no President could even hope for 
 success in so fool-hardy an undertaking — 
 certainly not while freemen are' worthy to 
 be free. No President can ever live and do 
 such a thing — never ! Thirdly., in relation 
 to his favoring the ku-klux legislation and 
 
 THE EUSPENSIO:^ OP THE WRIT OF Jiobcas 
 
 corpus. 
 
 In answer to that, it is well known that 
 General Grant did not originate one of these 
 laws. As the Executive of the nation he 
 must carry them into effect as passed by 
 Congress, but further than this he has never 
 taken one initiatory step. On the contrary, 
 he has even opposed them, and as long ago 
 as 1807 he wrote the Secretary of War touch- 
 ing this very question, as follows : 
 
 " The necessity for governin^g any portion 
 of our teri'itory by martial law is to be de- 
 plored. If resorted to, it should be limited- 
 in its authority, and should leave all local 
 authorities and civil tribunals irQQ and un- 
 obstructed, until they prove their inefficiency 
 or unwillingness to pe'rform their duties."' 
 
 And when called before the committee of 
 Congress to give his testimony in regard to 
 the war, condition of the South, and espe- 
 cially in reference to the contrcverRy at TjoVA- 
 
more, bclwcen Gov. Swann and tho Police 
 Commissioners, ho said : 
 
 '' I understood that Gov. Swanu wanted to 
 use tlie military power of the Government, 
 and I called his (President .lohnson's) at- 
 tention to the law on the Kubjec", which 
 changed his views and determination evi- 
 dently. I called his (Johnson's) attention 
 to the only circumstance in which the mili- 
 tary force of the United States can be called 
 out to intc.'itre in State matters. It was his 
 intention to send United States troops 
 through Ballimorc to enable Gov. Swann, as 
 he termed it, to enforce his decision in the 
 case of those Police Commissioners." 
 
 And again he said : ' 
 
 ''I was sent for several times — twice, I 
 think — while Gov. Swann was then in con- 
 8i;Uation v/ith the President. Finding that 
 tlvj President vranted to send the military to 
 Baltimore, I objected to it.'' [Cries of 
 good; hear ! hear!] 
 
 And it was not finally done nut'l General 
 Grant had communicated with the Secretary 
 of "War, and through him drawn an opinion 
 from the Attorney General against the con- 
 stitutionality r.nd legality of sending troops 
 to Baltimore, that President Johnson ac- 
 quiesced in General Grant's views. 
 
 And every act, and expression, and mes- 
 sage of President Grant touching these mat- 
 ters will conclusively show his opposition to 
 martial law, to the suspension of the writ of 
 Jiaheas corpus, and to the Ku-Klux laws in 
 States unles-s as a dernier resort; because of 
 the non-execuiion of statute laws by State 
 and county courts, and their failure to pro- 
 tect the life, liberty, and property of per- 
 sons. On this point his record is unequivo- 
 cal, and no man, be ho lawyer, politician, 
 or partisc.n, can truthfully gainsay this fact, 
 and the proofs on this point could be multi- 
 l)lied almost ad wfinitam. [Cheers.] 
 
 And now for tiik otiiku side of this 
 PICTURE — but before we xn-occed on this line 
 (one of Grant's lines we are going to fight 
 on all summer) [ajiplause] permit, me to 
 introduce here the opponent and Democrat- 
 ic adopted nominee — "anything to beat 
 GrantI" Do not be startled. Let no man 
 be afraid. It is not an apparition, a myth, 
 710 ghoul that I am going to bring forth by 
 "tricks that are vain," nor jugglery. The 
 opponent of Grant is no less a man than one 
 
 who is to swallow tho wli:,ie i^.i-l,;::. 
 Democratic Convention, or be sw.allo wo 
 it! Of course there is but one man i:- ■ 
 United States who can perform ih-at 1- 
 and he could not if he had not all the 
 I able i'UiLosoi'iiY of thk xe-.7 voiik t,-.!, 
 I [laughter] and the ins and outs, isms, . 
 i whito coats, that Horace Greeley aioi 
 i wears. [Cheers.] And this man wiio. : 
 I 1868, at a dinner in Montreal, saiii ; 
 
 "Mr. Webster was not o;iIy a .-^aatiemai 
 I but he had the elements of moral greatnes 
 and he had faults as well. He failed onl 
 in one re.spcct, and in this rG.^pect I difft 
 from him — he wanted to be President an 
 I don't. [Sensation.] Wc have also se 
 our greatest man, Mr. Chase, making t! 
 j Game blunder. I have .seen men v.'ho ]i;i 
 the disease early and died cf it at a very o; 
 age. [Laughter.] General Lewis Ca'sdii 
 about 82, and up to the day of his d.-ath^;. 
 v.'anted to be President. No one ever j:; 
 capes who catches the disease, he lives :.ii 
 dies in the delusion ; and being a reaie 
 and an observer at an early age, I sav/ Lot 
 it poisoned and paralyzed the very best c 
 our public men, and I have carefully a I'oide' 
 it." [Laughter.] 
 
 We hope he will be disposed of at Baltil 
 more, for it is certain if the Democrati 
 party are so hungry for office, so famisiiea 
 for the spoils of victory as to sacrifice al 
 their life-long professions — their mos 
 solemn asseverations of years for .a 'en 
 offices and for success in the Presideniia 
 race by taking up for the head of their party, 
 for their chief and spokesman, their leader 
 and guide, the chiefest I'adical of Radicals 
 their life-long opponent, scourge even — iriec 
 the great Republican party will be con: 
 No man will be more easily beaten as t 
 will cleai-ly bear witness; but on this poi 
 I Avill ask your attention to Greeloy o 
 Greeley in a speech that he made in Trun: 
 bull county, Ohio, in October, 1871 : 
 
 "If the Democratic party v^ere called upo 
 to decide between Grant and myself, I kuov 
 that their regard for what they must cal 
 principle would induce nine- tenths of then 
 to vote against me. Why? I am a decide 
 en-eray of that party, even in its most re 
 spectablo aspects." [Applause.] 
 
 On another occasion, also in a publi( 
 speech, he said : 
 
 "We are led by him who first taught our ar- 
 mies to conquer in the West, and subse- 
 
quently in the East also. Richmond wouH 
 not come to us until we sent Grant after it, 
 vand then itluul to come. [Cheers.] He has 
 never yet been defeated, and never will he. 
 He T.'ill be as great and saecessful on the 
 lield of politics as on that of arms. [Pro- 
 longed applause.] 
 
 Again, on the 6th of January, 1871, Mr. 
 Greeley said: 
 
 •'.'As to the Administration of General 
 Grant, I recognize no one as a Republican 
 who is not grateful for it;i judicious, ener- 
 getic, and successful efforts to procure the 
 ratification of the fifteenth amendment, tiiat 
 key-stone of our political arch, where- 
 , by tlie fruits of our great triumph over re- 
 bellion and slavery are assured and perpetu- 
 ated. That the President has made some 
 mistalies in appointments is obvious. It 
 v/ovJd be strange, indeed, if one so inex- 
 perienced in the conduct of political affairs, 
 had wholly escaped them. While asserting 
 the right of every Republican to his untram- 
 meled choice of a candidate for next Presi- 
 dent until a nomination is made, I venture to 
 suggest that General Grant will bo far bet- 
 ter qualified for that momentous trr.st in 
 1872 than he was in 1868." 
 
 WHAT HORACK THOUfiHT OF GRF-ELEY. 
 
 And in the year 1866, Horace Wcite, Mr. 
 G^reeley's greatest friend in the "West, an 
 able man, but certainly a changeable one, for 
 lie is now for Greeley, co-operating with 
 him with all his powers. Mr. White then 
 said : 
 
 "Horace Greeley is not now, and never 
 Las been, a man who ought to be trusted 
 ■with an official position requiring practical 
 Iv/isdom, ordinary statesmanship, or firm, 
 'consistent action. For twenty-tive years he 
 ■•has been a marplot in council, an unrelia- 
 'ble commander in action, a misanthrope in 
 victory, and a riotou-s disorganizer in defeat. 
 He has always been fanatical in his demands 
 for the estremest measures, and when the 
 party has reached the eve of triumph, inva- 
 riably thrusts himself forward as a negotia- 
 tor cf terms of surrender to the enemy. 
 His course during the war v/as but a repeti- 
 tion of his course in polities. In 1861, lie 
 wa3 an open defender of secession ; he 
 changed to a vigorous champion of the war, 
 and thereafter was forever recklessly making 
 proposals for peace and as recklessly with- 
 drawing them — making war in spite of Mars, 
 and negotiating in spite of Minerva. 
 
 "For twenty years he has been an uncom 
 promising advocate for a square fight with 
 the pro-slavery party, and when that kind of 
 a fight was forced upon the Republicans in 
 1860, he was here in Cliicago, voting not 
 
 for Lincoln, nor for Chase, but for old Ed- 
 ward Bates, of Missouri, one of the fi.'sshs of 
 the slave party. He was thou the :i::.s('-iate 
 and CO lal)oror of that oiher inipracricable 
 and unreliable squad — the Blair family. 
 The country at this time wan! 3 no inspired 
 harlequins in the national councils. Still 
 less does it want men with statesmanslup so 
 microscopic that they can see nothing in 
 public business but the mileage and per diem 
 of their fellow-members. If Mr. Greeleyis 
 not satisfied with his position as a journalist 
 — a position which ought o be equal in point 
 of influence, power, and dignity to that of 
 six average Senators — and if the Republi- 
 cans of New York want to do something for 
 him let them make him State Prison Inspec- 
 tor, or even Governor ; anything that will 
 not make the outside of the State responsible 
 for his follies." [Laughter, and cries of 
 good.] 
 
 In addition to these, I could multiply the 
 letters, speeches, and testimonials of nearly 
 every public man, distinguished Liberal Re- 
 publicans who attended the Cincinnati Con- 
 vention, iucluciing it:- presiding officer, Judge 
 Stanley Matthews, against its nomination, 
 but will only nov/ read yon the following 
 from'Mr. Bryant's New York Evening Post: 
 
 "Should Horace Greeley ever be the 
 President of the United Statea wc lirmly 
 believe that the corruption and tlie cr:::ie of 
 an Administration with a man at its he;",d so 
 weak in principle as he. so infirm of purpose 
 as he, so imbecile of character as he, go sur- 
 rounded by such a crowd of adventurei'S, and 
 cormorants, and knaves as would surround 
 him — that the corruj.tidn and the crime of 
 such an Administration would reach propor- 
 tions thai would put their jierpetrators be- 
 yond the cognizance of ordinary courts of 
 law, and that would or.ll for and compel 
 other correction than ordinary penitentiaries 
 can afford. Wliere the rebellious clement 
 and the corrupt element of the country arc 
 combined to gain possession of the Gcvern- 
 ment, and on a fr:l5e pretense, we may pre- 
 pare ourselves for any calamity that i:i the 
 course of human events can possibly befall 
 any people in their political relatio::.- .vith 
 each other and tlie world " [Cries -Jitit's 
 so, and good.] 
 
 In addition to tlw.s, ilr. Grkelby was the 
 fiercest of the fierce in advocacy of alt the 
 Ku-Klux legislation, and the suspension of 
 the writ of habeas corpus. 
 
 WHAT COL. JIO.SIiY THIXKS OF OUEELEY. 
 
 Says Col. Mosby, of Virginia: 
 "Will the partisans of Greeley point to one 
 act that was odious to us that he has not 
 
iusl^fied and approved? Nay, more. The 
 tyrn-jni^al acts of Congressional legislation 
 v,-erj un nxprcs^ion of a Northern Eonlimonl 
 of hostility to the South for which Horti-'e 
 Grec-Iey, more than nny other man, is re- 
 sponsible. General (!rant htis been the in- 
 8tvuir:ent of executing many laws obnoxions 
 to U3. -which were enacted under the pressure 
 of a, public opinion, created by Greeley, 
 whicli no man could resist." I 
 
 ^^.■■r does Mr. Greeley tay in his letter, of j 
 acccitance of the nomination of the Cincm- ! 
 nati Gonvfention, these laws ought to be re- j 
 pealed— nor that be is opposed to such leg- ' 
 islation. How well do we all remember, too.- 
 how he advccutcd siud demanded Presi-Ier.t 
 Johusoa's irapsachmcut with all the feroc'ty 
 of h-'s changeable and impctuons nature, and 
 when he was acquitted charg-;d every one of 
 the then Republican Senators, who voted to 
 acquit him, with corrupt and dishonest m.o- 
 tives, and that some of th'-r.i Iiad received 
 bribes for Iheir votes. 
 
 •aiTSELKY o:r Tin-: elkciio.v laws. 
 
 He has urged, also, over and over again, 
 with all the vehemence in his power, in the 
 press and by public speech, the very elec- 
 tion laws which it is pretended he now dis- 
 claims. V/hat hollow-hearteduess this is, 
 ■will appear more clearly when we turn to 
 his own acts in connection with this law. 
 The original law only applied to cities of 
 20,000 inhabitants in the South, but after 
 the New York election, two years ago, Mr. 
 Greeley, again and again, through the col- 
 umns of the Tribune, urged its being amend- 
 ed and made applicable for every election 
 in-ecinct ia that State! And this man is 
 now deemed worthy of Democratic sympathy 
 and support. Well! "e 'ni' -p"! [Ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 GENERAL GRiXT V l.\Ull.'ATEi>. 
 
 It is next charged that General Grant is 
 re^-ponslble for the reconstruction and dis- 
 franchisement laws. 
 
 To this declaration. I reply unhesitatingly 
 and defy a successful rejoinder to my aver- 
 ment tliat at no time, from the first inccp- , 
 tion of the correspondence of Grant, previ- 
 ous to the surrender and the paving ihe wa.y 
 thereto of General Lt;e and his brave army 
 at Anpomattox, did Grant ever favor by 
 
 recommendation any laws in this connection 
 not originated and pr.s3ed by Congress. And 
 that he was from principle and as a soldier 
 opposed to them, hii whole course shows. 
 And his subsequent acts, as well as his mes- 
 sages, prove it. But as President he was 
 compelled to execute the laws of Cor^gress. 
 His oath of ofiice (not taken i!i vain) being 
 obligatory, and nnle?s he executed the laws 
 he' would bo liable to impr',-,nnment. 
 Gu.vst's last ;iii;mai message contains the 
 ! faiiowing : 
 
 ! "It mey well be considered whether it -is 
 I not now time that, the disahiiities impose^i 
 I by the fourteenth amoLid.mont should bo re- 
 moved. That am-^cdmont does not exclude 
 j the ballot, and only imposes the disability 
 'to hold ofiice upon certain classes. V/hen 
 I the purity of the ballot is secure, majorities 
 I are 8ure to elect officers reflecting the views 
 ' of tlie majority. I &> not see the acha:itage 
 or pro2'>ndii of excluding men from office, 
 inerdj/ because ihe;/ u:cre, before the nbdiion, 
 of standinj awl charac'er, sufficie'it to he 
 elected to 2}Osi'^o^^s requiring them to fake 
 oaths io sup'poTt the ConsUlution, and admit- 
 ting to eligibility those entertpdning pre- 
 cisely the same vievrs, but of less standing 
 in their communities. It maybe said that 
 the former violated an oath, while the latter 
 did not. The latter did not have it in their, 
 power todo so. If they had taken the oaih 
 it cannot bo doubted that they would have 
 broken it as did ihe former clans. If there 
 are any great criminals distingui&ued above 
 all others for the part thc'y took in oppo.r.tion 
 10 the Government, thc.v uiigJit in thp judg- 
 ment of Congress b.e cxcludtd From such an 
 amnesty. This subject is recimmcifid^e-d to 
 your ca"reful consideration. The coaditioa 
 of the Southern States is,_ unhappily, not 
 sach as all true patriotic citizens wouli like 
 to see. Social ostracism, for opinion's :iake, 
 personal violf^ncc, or threats towards l)3r- 
 sons entertaining politicil vii-.v.^ oppose'il to 
 those entert.iined by the majority cf the old 
 citiifens, prevents immigr:biion"a:;.d the flov/ 
 of much needed capital lata the States late- 
 ly in rebellion. It will be a happy condition 
 of the country when the old citiz'?n.3 of these 
 States will take an interest in pabUc affairs, 
 promulgate ideas honestly^entercained, vote 
 for men representing their views, and tol- 
 erate the saaie freedom of expression and or 
 the ballot in thoie entertaining different pp- 
 j litical convictions.'" 
 
 I Now who, under the heavens, iu all our 
 ! land is more rr^sponsible for the passage of 
 I the Ku-Kla:c. reconstruction laws, and gus- 
 1 oensiou of th'; wric of habiinf c y/pus than 
 
Horace Greeley, [cries of that's so ;] nor 
 will tbe Cincinnati and Baltimore nomina- 
 tions ever save him from this responsibility, 
 whether people condemn them or not.. 
 [Cheers.] 
 
 H05. B. U. hill's MISSTATiiMEXT REFUTED. 
 
 And here I wish to call your especial at- 
 tention to some statements of Mr. B. H. 
 Hill in this connection, made in a recent 
 speech at Atlanta. He said ; 
 
 '•Mr. Greeley has said and done many 
 things which t need not tell yon I do not ap- 
 prove — you do not approve — bat Mr. Greeley 
 has always been in favor of'one policy which 
 relieves me of the most vital objection to his 
 support. He never has at any time approved 
 of those features of the reeonstmctionpolicy 
 which disfranchised the virtue and intelli- 
 ijonce of the South and enfranchised the ig- 
 aorance and vice of the South. He has stood 
 Up like a man from the beginning and pro- 
 tested against every one of these odious 
 features of the reconstruction policy." 
 
 In opposition to this unwarrantable and 
 marvelous assertion, I recall your attention 
 to the speech of Hon. Daniel H. Yoorhees, 
 of Indiana, and the letters of Col. Mosby, 
 Col. Benj. S. Ewell, John H. Gih-aer, Hon. 
 James H. Lyons, ex- Got. WicklifFe, Gen. 
 Longotreet, and scores of others who might 
 be quoted, besides the v/hole record of Gree- 
 ley's life, as published in the columns of the 
 Now York Tribune, in coatradictioi of this 
 statement. Surely no one man in the 
 United States has written and published 
 8Qch persistent and unequivocal articles in 
 favor of recoastvuction, Ku-Klux laws, and 
 disffauchisement as Horace Greeley, and 
 I confess my amazement at reading the 
 above unblushing panagraph from any man 
 who has ever, for one moment even, been in 
 public life. I now ask honest men of all 
 parties and all colors to listen to this lan- 
 gaage of this suddenly became immaculate 
 Democratic candidate for President of the 
 United States. [Laughter.] 
 
 '•'■When the rebellious traitors arc ovir- 
 whclmed in the field, and scattered like leaves 
 before an awjrD wind, it must not be to 
 return to peaceful and coiitenkd homes. 
 They r,iust find poverty at their firesides, 
 and sci prioution in ihe anxious ei/es of 
 mothers, and in the rags of children."' — 
 Horac; G-vtiolo/. 
 
 Comment on this utterance is unnecessary 
 by any living soul. Thank God the dead 
 hear it not And again he said ; 
 
 "I therefore, on eveiy occasion, advo- 
 cated and justified the Ku- Klux act. I hold 
 it especially desirable for the South ; and 
 if it does not prove strong enough to effect 
 its purpose, I hope it will be made stronger 
 end stronger." [Oh, and sensation.] 
 
 And on the 21st April, 1871, after the? 
 Ku-KIus bill had passed Congress, the Nevr 
 York Tribune— \. e. Horace Greeley— said 
 this : 
 
 " It ia a great point gained that there has 
 been legislation of any character upon this 
 question. The lawlessness at the South has 
 been greatly fostered by the heretofore seem- 
 ing indiSerence of Congress and the North 
 to the outrages committed upon loyal citi- 
 zens. Legislation, however imperfect, was 
 cfilculated to restore the confidence of the 
 friends of the Union and to wani its enemies. 
 The bill, now become a law, should be en- 
 forced with such power and firmness as to 
 intimidate those who seek to regain politi- 
 cal power by outrage and crime, and to pro- 
 tect fully all friends of order and peace, 
 irrespectively of party or of pplitical con- 
 siderations. The Democrats in Congress 
 have fought the Ku-Klux bill as a party 
 measure directed against their adherents iu. 
 the South. The Republican Administration 
 will enforce it as a measure of peace to_ the 
 country and security to all its citizens.'" 
 
 In this connection I wish to place on th3 
 record right here one other testimonial — 
 from the New York Tablet of last month- 
 its matured opinion as well as political (al- 
 ways Democratic in sympathy) views of th<5 
 fitness of Mr. Greeley for President, viz : 
 
 "Mr. Greeley has shown alike his want of 
 statesmanship and of principle in his readi- 
 ness to seize upon every popular excitement, 
 every radical movemenf., every popular 
 insurrection, or projected reform at hom3 
 and abroad, as a means of secunng i.opu- 
 larity for himself or of his party. In a word 
 he is a professed philanthropist, and phil- 
 anthropy has been well defined, 'Ihelove 
 I of all men in general, and the hatred of 
 I every man in particular,' unless, perchance, 
 I he has a black skin or a black character. 
 'All your philanthropic movements ot the 
 i da." tramnle down more good by the way 
 ' than could possibly be gained by success m 
 their schemes. Few men have exerted a 
 more disastrous political and moral iniluence 
 on the couEtry during the last llnr y years 
 th'^n this same Hora,ce Greeley, r.n 1 nothing 
 couid more seriously di;grac« the American 
 
people than to elevate him to the Chief 
 Magistracy of the nation." [Uprorious ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 WHAT CHARLES A. DAXA TuOUOnT OF GESEP.A], 
 GUAKT. 
 
 And further, what Charles A. Dana, the 
 editor cf the New York Sun, now active 
 supporter of Greeley and abuser of Grant, 
 thought of Gen. Grant, until the President 
 thought there were better men to fill the 
 custom-house appointments in Nev* York 
 than Mr. Dana. [Laughter.] 
 
 "The personal qualities of UIjgecs S. 
 Grant, like big historical achievements, are 
 such as to attract and justify the confidence 
 of the loyhl people of the whole country. 
 His modesty, his disinterestedness, his 
 magnanimity, his bravery, and his patri- 
 otism may well be held up as models for 
 emulation. His fidelity ta duty, and his 
 llrmnessin trial and in danger, prove ijiat 
 the Republic will be in safe hands while 
 Iiis masterly common sense and unerring 
 judgment in siilecting the right men for 
 .important trusi/S, afford the bes*; reasons 
 for our belief that bin administration will 
 be no less remarkable for the wisdom of its 
 measures than for the elevation of i+s mo- 
 tives.'' 
 
 HILL rUAISISG GREELEY. 
 
 But to return to Mr. Dill, who must think 
 the people of this country only Rip Van 
 Winkles, oblivious to facts, current events 
 of the day, aad the active history of the 
 times, 1 beg to call your attention to what 
 he tells the Democrats of Georgia, v.'ho musL 
 Lave been asleep longer than Washington 
 Irving's Rip ccnli have been, v,'hsn he 
 
 "He (Horace Greeley) has "never -bee:i j 
 what is called a partisan, and au independ- i 
 ent thinker, I think, has the greatest hon- ' 
 esty." ! 
 
 Well ! well ! The last part of this sentence | 
 must have been to qualify the first part, or j 
 to let k down easy ! [Laughter.] j 
 
 It is possible, hov/ever, that the De- j 
 mocrac-y of this -State may swallow the i 
 assertion tha!; H. G. "has never been j 
 a partisan," but I venture to say it will! 
 take very largo draughts of soinething a j 
 great deal stronger than water to get it down i 
 most tiiroat?, whether Democratic or Re- I 
 publican. [Prolonged laughter.] And mo | 
 thinks when Horace reads that at Chappi,- | 
 
 qua he too will not only be somewhat sur- 
 prised, but smile an unusual smile t [Laugh- 
 ter.] If H. G., as tlie editor of the Tribune 
 for upwards of twenty years past, has not 
 been a partisan editor, what in heaven'."? 
 name has he been? [Cries of "Philoso- 
 pher, Farmer," &c.] What will the old 
 editors of the Charleston Mercury, Rich- 
 mond Enquirer, Jaumai of Commerce, and 
 the New York IVorld, be calltd? Such c 
 statement as that might be made by the in- 
 mate of au insane asylum, but to be made 
 by a Democratic orator to a Democratic au- 
 dience, as Paddy would say, " would make 
 a dacent horse laughl" [Laughter.] 
 
 And, while I am referring to Mr. Hill's 
 remarkable speech, mure remarkable, I beg 
 leave to say, for what it omits to say than 
 vrhatit does say, let m© call attention to his 
 remarkable assertion that the Cincinnati 
 Convention had the effect to compel the 
 Administration promptly to pass the dis- 
 abilities bill or amnesty bill. And, further, 
 that a coalition cf the Democracy and Lib- 
 eral (Greeley) Republicans had prompted 
 the passage of the election or bayonet bill, 
 as he terms it, In the House ; also, to defeat 
 the bill authorizing the suspension of the 
 writ of habeas corpus in certain cases, &c. 
 
 In view of the fact that Mr. Greeley has 
 advocated these two last bills, as I have 
 before shown, and that ©eneral Grant has 
 alw.iys persona-lly been opposed to them, 
 always advocating an:nesty and the removal 
 of disabilities, &c., and that the Liberal or 
 Greeley Republicans, as Mr. Hill would 
 have us believe, defeated these measures in 
 the House, where not a corporal's guard of 
 Greeley Republicans can be found, and I 
 believe not one can be named in the House 
 of Representatives as a GrcelcTj man in pref- 
 erence to Grant. I also state that I believe 
 it a fact that not one single Republican but 
 Grant Republicans and Democrats voted on 
 either of these bills. 
 
 THE AMNESTY BILL PASSED BY BEPUBLICA>:S. 
 
 And as to the amnesty bill especially, it 
 was passed by the resolution and determina- 
 tion (previously agreed upon) by the Repub- 
 licans in caucus-long befuro the Cincinnati 
 Convention had assembled, lir. Greeley's 
 
influence in that direction Was as barren and 
 ineffectual to accomplish the final result of 
 that vote as it would have been, nay, as it 
 was, to stop the war before it was fought 
 out. [Loud cheers.] Not only that, but 
 Mr. Hill certainly must know General Grant 
 has been in favor of amnesty from Appo- 
 mattox down to the day and moment he 
 triumphantly and cheerfully signed the bill 
 making it the law of the land. And to at- 
 tempt to give the credit and honor of that 
 reat deed to Horace Greeley or his influ- 
 ence is but a mocliory of justice, an endorse- 
 ment of his most outrageous, yee, abomina- 
 ble, worse than heathenish, sentiment, utter- 
 ed in the extract. 
 
 Greeley's viNDicTisvEyE.ss akd heartless- 
 
 NESS EXniMTED, 
 
 That the soldiers of the confederate 
 armies, on the return to their friends, 
 whether paroled or not — the rank and 
 Sle of . the rebellion must find only poo- 
 'criy at tlicir fire- sides and witness hut 
 \prlvaiions of their anxious uices and raqs 
 and starvation of their cJiildren ! No man 
 North or South, in any country or age, black 
 or white, federal or rebel, bond or free, ever 
 "made such a declaration, or could have ut- 
 tered such language, but he who would sell 
 
 I body and soul to be President, and for 
 "anything to beat Grant," eat up all the 
 
 [Tvords he had ever spoken in his life. [Con- 
 
 f tinned and loud applause ; cries of we won't 
 
 'vote forhim.J 
 
 ISATION'Ar, P.EPUEUCAN ADMINISTRATION KE- 
 VIEWED. 
 
 But I must pass on, and now let me ad- 
 vert to some of the works of General Grant's 
 
 ladministration. 
 
 1st. The great Republican party in Con- 
 gress have initiated under his own recom- 
 mendation a thorough civil service reform, 
 not in words, but in deeds, to be carried out, 
 
 'and it is being carried out in all the De- 
 partments of the Government. And this is 
 
 Jno Cincinnati chimera, catch-penny, Schurz 
 
 wn a bean-pole affair, [great laughter,] but 
 
 a tangible reality to be fully perfected and 
 maintained. 
 
 2d. We have an economical Administra- 
 tion, and such an one as the country Il^s not, 
 had for many years, and certainly would nc". 
 have the next four years if Greeley, Tweed, 
 Hoffman, Sands & Co., get to Washington. 
 On the 4th of March, 1861, when the Re- 
 publican Administration came into power 
 and assumed tlie business of this Govern- 
 ment, its Treasury was so bankrupted that it 
 had to borrow money to pay its current civil 
 expenditures. Scarcely a dollar was left in 
 the Treasury. The average annual expendi- 
 ture of Mr. Buchanan's administration ex- 
 ceeded the receipts by $1-5,066,275.17 per 
 annum, making a total deficit in four years 
 of $60,265,100.08, which, added to the 
 amount of cash in the Treasury, on the ac- 
 cession to power of President Buchanan, 
 viz : $19,842,114.10, made an excess of ex- 
 penditures over all receipts to the Trervsr.ry 
 in a time of profound peace less a balanc-3, 
 March 3, 1861, of $2,496,035.32— of $77,- 
 621,179.46. 
 
 Beside this bankri-pt state, it left the 
 country in a state of v,-ar which ha.n since 
 further added thousands of millions of dol- 
 lars to the Government debt, with an untold 
 amount of loss of capital, suffering, and 
 death. Not only wcls this the legacy to the 
 Republican party, but the credit of the Gov- 
 ernment was fearfully undermined, for, on 
 the 19th of December, 1860, when the Sec- 
 retary of the Treasury opened proposals is- 
 sued on the 14th of December for a $10,- 
 000,000 loan, he found tendered but one- 
 half million dollars, and that at from 12 to 
 3G per cent, discount for gold. Undei* 
 Grant's adminLstratiou Government bonds 
 are again above par, and, prosperity points 
 to an abundant Treasury. And in addition 
 to the above, General Grant's administrri- 
 tion the past year has cosh the country less 
 2}er capita than it did in 1860-61, taking in- 
 to consideration the increase of poi)ulation, 
 territory, and the natural increase of public 
 service, both at home and abroad. 
 
 The whole expense of Government in 1860- 
 ei was $61,402,408.64. 
 
 The same for 1870-71 amounts to $68,- 
 084,613.92, showing an excess of only $7,- 
 
lO 
 
 282,205.28, while the population of 18C0 
 vras bat 31,443.321, and that of 1870-71 was 
 between 39,000,000 and 40,000,000. 
 
 Thaper capita tax for 18G0 was $1.05 per 
 cont. 
 
 The jyer capita tax for 1871 is $1.73 per 
 cent. . 
 
 Of course the interest of the ipblic debt, 
 the diiFercnce between gold and paper cur- 
 rencj, the increased pension lists, and sun- 
 dry other miscellaneous items incurred by 
 reason of war are deducted, but taking the 
 legitimate current expenditures of the Gov- 
 ernment, we find the present 2^cr capita tax 
 &iQd expenses are less than in 1860-61. 
 
 Cd. The collection of the revenue is re- 
 duced enormously. In the year 1800-61 
 the customs collections amounted to $53,- 
 187,511.87, and the cost of collecting under 
 Democratic administration was $6.25 per 
 cent. In the year 1870-71 the customs col- 
 lection had nearly quadnipled, being $206,- 
 270,403.05, while the cost of collection un- 
 der General Grant's Republican administra- 
 tion was but $3.01 per cent— £. e., less than 
 one-half what it cost ten years ago. [Cries 
 of "you are are right, that's so."] 
 
 And not only this, but under Republican 
 administration defaulters and plunderers arc 
 punished and sent to prison ; and more have 
 been found guilty and punished than under 
 any other Administration since the foun- 
 dation of the Government, not because 
 there is more rascality now, but because an 
 honest Administration enforces the penalties 
 of the law, and because roguery and dishon- 
 esty is at discount, notwithstanding the 
 Democratic thieving in New York. [Cries 
 of "Hurrah for Grant ! he is our choice !"] 
 
 We have also the knowledge that the per- 
 centage of loss on collections, disburse- 
 ments, and transmissions of revenue, and 
 by defaulters of all classes, has been less 
 under General Grant's administration of 
 three years than any other Administration 
 that ever preceded it. John Tyler says that 
 Le knows that under Van Buren's adminis- 
 tration there were but 96 receivers of pub- 
 lic moiieys, and that 96 of those were de- 
 faultQr.s_,l 
 
 4tb. While the debt of the nation under 
 GTaa*"' s administration has been steadily re- 
 
 Iduced to the amount of $333,970,916,39 
 ; fcince March 4, 1869, and the interest on the 
 I same, at the rate of nearly $22,401,087 per 
 I annum. The internal taxation and custom 
 duties up to January 1, 1872, have been re- 
 duced nearly $250,000,000, and during the 
 session of the Congress which adjourned 
 June 10th last, in a -farther sum for 1872-3 
 of between 53 and $54,000,000. And this 
 contraction of the public debt and reduction 
 of interest continues to go on. Can any 
 Democrat say he hopes or can possibly ex- 
 pect the same favorable state of finances and 
 reduction of debt and interest and taxes un- 
 der the Radical-Greeley- Liberal-Democratic 
 administratioa ? [Cries of no I no I] I do 
 net think any sane man, North or South, 
 will have the temerity nor the brass to say 
 he believes any such thing. 
 
 5th. A simple comparison of the adminis- 
 tration of the Treasury Department under 
 President Grant and the Republican party 
 with that of the Democratic- Tammany-Hall, 
 Tweed- Greeky party of Nev; York, wheu 
 the latter increased the city debt from $29,- 
 324,949.82 in December, 1839, (eight 
 months after President Grant went into 
 power,) to upwards of $95,000,000 January 
 1, 1872, establishes the difference between 
 Democratic and Republican honesty, econo- 
 my, and trustworthiness. 
 
 0th. The currency circulating medium 
 and financial steadineis of General Grant's 
 administration stands without a parallel in 
 the history of -this Government, and no man 
 questions its soundness and permanency in 
 any part of the land. A dollar note or 
 greenback to-day is as good in Maine as in 
 Georgia,' or in Texas as in lHauesota or 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 7th. The forcigu rtlaiioas of the Govern- 
 ment never were conduc'cd v,'ith more abili- 
 ty, discretion, and honor, than at present; 
 and at no time in the pas'^ have we had such 
 assurance and guarantee of honorable and 
 harmonious relations in the future with all 
 the Powers of the earth as we have under 
 General Grant. Mr. Sumner's medly turns 
 out, so far, to be only his own, and the peo- 
 ple of the South certainly want no more of 
 them, nor him either. [Sensation.] 
 
 Sth. The management of the Indian af- 
 
fairs of the nation, under a new S3'st.eni de- j-j 
 vised and carried out under the personal jj 
 supervision of the President, is proving eco- 
 nomical, friendly, and eminently successful, 
 and will save the country millions of dollars 
 i',ev annum ; and 
 
 9th. And lastly, (on this line.) the do- 
 ;aestic and internal affiirs of the Govern- 
 r.-icut and States are csastantly improving, 
 and becoming more and more satisfastory ; 
 sz\d it is now only for the people to get back 
 ;o the " old path" — into the right track — 
 L-ogulating their O'.vn State matters, dealing 
 ,;ustice :n their own administrations and 
 couvts, 'ander the Constitution and laws, as 
 th'jj v;:re -n-ont to do in the oldeu time, Or 
 days before the vr^r, to have peace and los- 
 ;;:3ration to its fullest extent. 
 
 Returning again to affairs in Tiit; Soutii, 
 I recall your attention to Mr. Hill's Atlanta 
 tpeech, wherein in great bitterness he re- 
 proaches and denounces the Administration 
 tor filling Northern prisons with the best 
 btood of a neighboring State, &c. &c. 
 
 I am sorry Mr. Hill is not here face to face 
 to hear what I would Eay to him on this sub- 
 iject — delicate and unpleasant as it may be — 
 the smallest practical part of v.hich he but 
 'faintly alluded to. Nor can he be oblivious 
 to indisputable facts — to notorious truths — 
 that neither he nor any just man can deny. 
 He cannot have forgotten, either, how the 
 distinguished Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of 
 Maryland, in open court, finding the cases, 
 known as the Ku-Klux cases, he was called 
 upon to defend, were so grossly cruel and 
 revolting to humanity, to civilization, to 
 Christianity, he abandoned their defense and 
 denounced the perpetrators of the crimes 
 charged is unworthy defense ; so that these 
 very men, for whom pity and sympa;hy is 
 novr asked and excited, on the advice of 
 tiieir friends, tl?en and there in open court 
 plead GuiLTV to tlie almost namele^'s charges 
 against them ! "What a commentary is this 
 on the rights and wrongs of men, citizens of 
 thia country, and that the administration of 
 this great Government, the President of the 
 United States, is to be held responsible for 
 injustice and as depopulating the country 
 and devastating States! The Administra- 
 tiou is v.o more responsible for this matter 
 
 than ilie iiur(5tar:go[in the highest hcarenlj 
 host! [Load cheers.] 
 
 Possibly there may b-» c-SCi ot hanlship — 
 indeed cases of safTering innocence— buthow 
 this can have been shown wlien most of the 
 accused plead guilty, it "is difflculr. to compre- 
 hend. Bat'in jas.ice do let the triiih be told, 
 though the heavens fall! for it i:5 certain 
 where there h so much smoke there must of 
 necessity be fire! [Criss. "That's so."] 
 Besides, -the report of the C«ngr.\-:;:onal 
 committee, both m.ajority and minority re- 
 port, condemn unauinously must, of these 
 very case.?. But just, or uupi.^!". nn one 
 v/isbtes v,-rong perpetuated ; rxu-i 
 
 '•Tvuth crushed to eai'ih wiii jia-j t!g:i-:i.. 
 The eternal years cfuod are, hers, 
 "While error wounded writhes. in pnla, 
 And dies amid her wori-^hipi'io !'' 
 
 [Loud cheers. 1 
 k .-■'■'. 
 
 TIIK DUTT or THE GOVESSfJlB^^T TO rUOTECT 
 
 xr.V) PEFKN-D nra rion'rs of cn';':i:KS. 
 The rightful powr^rs of this Govf'riimcnt ■ 
 cannot bo doubted. Its duty to protect and 
 defend the rights of citizens of its humblest 
 wards cannot be questioned. [Cheer?.] 
 And that it is a Government, "as so felicit- 
 ously expressed by the immortal Lincoln, , 
 "of the people, by the people, and for the 
 people," will no longer be denied. It is zr. 
 admitted fact, too, that we have a General 
 Government and State govcrnmeht'3, and, 
 that while in a measure independent of '.-acli 
 other, still they iatermesh, are wheels within 
 a wheel for the good of all— t!ie grcitest 
 good of the greatest number-- for the amplest 
 protection of life, liberty, and the pur.uit 
 of happiness, of aU its people, irrespective 
 oflatitude or longitude, ■.-"-. ('-:■;;■•;• ■ 'or, 
 or previous condition. 
 
 A FEV.- OF OrwEELEi'S (HlSU'Lt:.)': -1^ 
 
 DEMOCKATIU F.^ilTV. 
 
 Without taxing patierice too lon-,^ I wlU 
 here call your attention and that cf out 
 Democratic friends partieu^.arly ti> two far- 
 ther Grech^jisma, which yosslbiy »njy prove 
 hard pills for them to swnllow, i-i addiuon 
 to the author of them, but which tiioy mn.xt 
 swallow if they vote for G^'ccley. Speaking 
 of the New York election of 13GB, Goto ;er 
 16, ISGO, Mr. G. said : 
 
12 
 
 "The vote of our State was stolen from 
 Gen. Grant by the foulest, most audacious 
 conspiracy and g'ganlic fraud. She is far 
 more decidedly Republican than Pennsylva- 
 nia is, ov ever was ; she "'as carried for 
 Seymour and Hoffman by crimes that ought 
 to fill fifty State prisons to overflowing." 
 [Laughter.] 
 
 And again, on October 11, 1870, he said : 
 
 "The one thing a Tammany Democrat 
 oannol abide is an honest election. The 
 Ring makes no attempt to conceal its deter- 
 mination that repeating shall not be stop- 
 ped, even if that dearest privilege of the 
 party have to be defended with the slung- 
 shot and iron dog." 
 
 And again Greeley said in 1871 : 
 
 "The brain, the heart, the sorJ of the 
 present Democratic party is the rebel ele- 
 ment at the South. It is rebel at the core 
 to-day. It would comejinto power with the 
 hate, the chagrin, the wrath, the mortifica- 
 tion of ten bitter years to impel and guide 
 its steps. Whatever chastisements may be 
 deserved by ©ur national sins, we must hope 
 that this disgrace and humiliation will be 
 spared us," &c. [Loud cheers.] 
 
 I have already called your attention to 
 •what Mr. Greeley has said of Gen. Grant's 
 fitness for his first and second term nomina- 
 tions. And, by the way, he was one of the 
 first, if not the first, to nominate Grant for 
 a second term, before he found he could 
 not use and control him for his own per- 
 sonal ends, although his Cincinnati platform 
 liasa "one-term" plank init, ontheground, 
 probably, that one-term of Greeley would 
 be enough for the country and people, and 
 doubtless it wcrJd. [Applause.] 
 
 ■WHAT THR new VOUE V.'0ULD FAIT) OP GENERAL 
 GRANT. 
 
 I ask your attention now to what the New 
 York World said cf General Grant's fitness 
 for President; 
 
 "Apply to Gen. Grant what test you will ; 
 measure him by the magnitude of the ob>ta 
 cles he has .surrounded, by the value of the 
 positions he has gained, by the fame of the | 
 antagonist over whom ho has triumphed, 
 by the achievements of his most illustrious ; 
 co-workers, by the sureness with which he 
 directs his indomitable energy to the vital 
 point v/hich is the key of a vast Held of op- 
 erations, or by that supreme test of con- 
 summate ability, the absolute completeness 
 of his results, and he vindicates his claim to 
 
 stand next after Napoleon and Wellington 
 timong the gre-it, soldiers of this country, if 
 not on a level v.ith r,he latter." 
 
 And again : 
 
 " Of the steadfastness and staunchness ofi 
 Gen. Grant's patriotism, or the uprightness 
 and solidity of his character, no man in the 
 country doubts or affects to doubt. 
 
 " On the score of loyalty and solid public 
 services, no man in the country can come 
 in competition with this illustrious soldier. 
 
 •' The Presidency can be nothing to him ; 
 he has a more valuable office. But if, in the 
 hands of Providence, he could be an in- 
 strument for tranqiilizing the country, that 
 is an honor for which lie could afford to 
 sacrifice ease, congenial pursuits, and tlie 
 pos.sibility of still greater fame as a sol- 
 dier." 
 
 This was spoken in 18S8, and tliough the 
 World has since changed. Grant has not 
 changed but for the better, both in experi- 
 ence and riper.ed statesmanship. [Loud 
 cheers.] 
 
 WHAT GEN. K11a:KELAIR SAID OP GEN. GKANT. 
 
 One other testimony, that of Gen. Frank 
 P. Blair, of Missouri, Greeley and Brown's 
 right-hand man, and I close. • When Blair 
 was making a speech in Leavenworth, Kan- 
 sas, in 18G8, some wise Democrat called out 
 in reply to Blair's criticism, "Grant is ?„ 
 fool." !ilr. Blair immediately turned upon 
 him with all his animation, sharpness, and' 
 usual expletive language, said ; 
 
 " Sir, you are mistaken. Grant is no fool ! 
 I know him well. I knew him before he 
 went into the army, and when he used to 
 haul wood into the city of St. Louis. I met 
 him often in the service. I know the man. 
 
 He is, by , the greatest man of the age. 
 
 Sherman, Sheridan, and Thomas are good 
 nien, hut Grant is v/orth more than all of 
 them. [Groat cheering and laughter.] 
 
 " Oliver Croniv.-ell and Napoleon Bona- 
 parte wore both great men, but, sir, I tell you 
 that Grant is a greater man than Cromwell 
 and Bonaparte put together. He is not a 
 talker, but he is one of the d — est ihinlsers 
 in I he world. 
 
 ' ' Yes, but don't you think he wiil.be con- 
 trolled by such men as Sumner, Wilson, and' 
 VVasliburnc ?" * 
 
 " Controlled I Controlled I Why, Ijy G — , 
 he would sweep thera away like a straw." 
 
 "But, General, don't you think that cir- 
 cumstances have done a great deal for 
 Grant?" 
 
 " Why, h— 11, the fellow has inade the cir- 
 cumstances. 1 tell you that it is no luck ? 
 
*' The man that can spring right up from 
 poverty and obscurit}', and dj what he has 
 done, is no mere creafure of circumstances. 
 Circumstances don't run so much in one 
 
 way-" 
 
 '• I am a Democrat, but it General Grant 
 is such a great man as you say he is, I am a 
 Grant man from this out.'' [Cheers.] 
 
 '• Well, if you want a despotism, vote for 
 him ; but if you want a Republican form of 
 government, you will have to vote as^inst 
 him. I liuow thai he is a great man, and, by 
 G— d, in saying so, I simply tell the truth." 
 [Prolonged cheering.] 
 
 Y.'ith all these testimonials, this know- 
 ledge of our standard-bearers, let »3, from 
 this time forth, be up and doing. Aye, from 
 now until November's tritimph, which surely 
 awaits us, move on the column?? ! March 
 on, March on I 
 
 General Grant and Her.ry Wilson are hon- 
 est, tried and, true, and under the proud 
 banner, our red, white, and blue, we will go 
 on conquering and to conquer. The very ele- 
 ments all conspire to this, and the shouts of 
 freemen proclaim it everywhere. Yes, with 
 Hekicv Wilso.v, the friend of labor, the 
 friend of man, the friend cf right against 
 might everywhere, even v/heii might seemed 
 to make right — the self-made statesman and 
 scholar, whose record and fame is as broad 
 as the land is, wide — indefatigable, unflinch- 
 ing to duty — judicious, discreet, good, and 
 true in every tried position, as Vice Presi- 
 dent, with General Grant as President, the 
 country will have the assurance doubly sure, 
 that their Administration will be honored, 
 useful, respected, and the integrity of the 
 country be maintained against every foe. In 
 the Senate, on the stump, on the bench, 
 (shoemaker's if you please !) no man stands 
 higher, purer, moro honored. And he is 
 strictly a representative man — East, North, 
 South, and West — having enlarged public 
 views and no narrow sectioual, contiacted, or 
 partisan prejudices or animosities to avenge. 
 His heart, too, is ever opened to sympathy 
 and a world's charity, while his mind is as 
 clear and unclouded as his own New England 
 mountain air is pure and healthful. In 
 whatever position placed, he has always been 
 found faithful, untiring, genial— and he will 
 be emphatically, one other right man in the 
 
 I right place. [Cries, that's so.] Hecompre- 
 \ hends the wants and necessities of the labor- 
 I ing classes and interests of the South, as well 
 i as of the Norih, as perhaps few Northern 
 : men do ; and our people here, all of you, 
 I always know where to find Henry AVilson. 
 ! He is no weathercock, nor traducer, nor- 
 falsifier of his own record, but will be, as an 
 : au:ciiiary, counselor, and Becond to the 
 t President, without a superior in all the land. 
 I Prolonged applause.] 
 
 i CONCLUSION. 
 
 j And now with such men as candidates for 
 the high ofSces of President and Vice Presi- 
 I dent, with such principles, ability, and hon- 
 ' ors clinging to and clustering round them, 
 I and such a platform as that of the Philadel- 
 I phia Republican National Convention to 
 I stand upon, there can be but one response 
 I in November next, and that vi'iW be ''see 
 i the conquering heroes — Grant and Wihon — 
 I come." [Ai^plause.] That they will be 
 j triumphantly elected the ides of November 
 will show, and with such a majority as never 
 before was given to a President and Vice; 
 President of the United States. [Cheers.] 
 And then will all our country be freer, 
 better, stronger than ever before. And we 
 shall see a prosperity, advancement, devel- 
 opment in arts, in sciences, in knowledge, in 
 legislation, in agriculture, in mechanics, ia 
 internal navigation and commerce, in edu- 
 cation, in morals, in material wealth, and in 
 all that contributes to make a great and free 
 nation flourish and prosper as at no tim3 in 
 the past. Vv'^ith such hope, inspiration, 
 promise, rightful expectalion of the future 
 before us — 
 
 Our country ! who would not iofe it? 
 Who, not uphold it, bravely, e'en with tears 
 And blood, and life's last ebbing flood ? 
 Aye, ho foe shall crush thee, no loud roar 
 
 ofLattle 
 Bend thee nor break thee while frcoiuea 
 
 liv.M 
 Yea, thy sons and daughters too will fall 
 In heaps around their altara and tucii fires, 
 Beside the green graves of their sires, 
 But not our country fall ! 
 God bless and keep our native land? > 
 [Long and continuous cheers.] 
 
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 GRANT'S AMNESTY PuEGOED. 
 
 A fitting appendix to the foregoing able 
 argument is found in the following extractSj 
 showing the kindly interest taken in the van- 
 quished confederates, and his course in ad- 
 vocating amnesty. At the memorable sur- 
 render at Appomattox Court House, one 
 •writer says: 
 
 "After the signatures were attached (to 
 the terms of the surrender) Lee said that he 
 had forgotten one thing. Many cavnlry and 
 artillery horses in his army belonged to the 
 men in charge of them ; but of course it 
 was too late to speak of that now."' 
 
 "Grant (interrupting)— I will instruct my 
 paroling ^thcers that all the enlisted men of 
 your cavalry and artillery who own horses 
 are to retain ttem just as the officers do 
 theirs. They will need them for their 
 spring plowing and other farm work." 
 
 "Lee (with great earnestness) — General, 
 there is nothing you could have done to ac- 
 complish more good eiiher for them or the 
 Government." 
 
 FIRST WORD Fon am:;esty. 
 How General Grant's heart longed for re- 
 conciliation and peace between the sections, 
 and how ready he always was to stand be- 
 tween the extremists of the North and the 
 disheartened people of the South, and say 
 to the former, bo magnanimous, and to the 
 latter, take courage, is manifest upon every 
 proper occasion. During the excitement 
 which cv/cpt the North at the assassination 
 of Lincoln, General Grant, in a letter to 
 General Halleck, made the first great plea 
 for amnesty, and thus set the example for 
 others at the North, who, like Mr. Greeley, 
 have fiince — as '' his enemies — claimed the 
 .parentage of that forgiving and fraternal 
 'movement. He said : "although it would 
 meet v/ith opposition in the North to allow 
 Lee the benefit of amnesty, I think it would 
 have the best possible ciFect toward restor- 
 ing good feeling aad peace in the South to 
 have him come in. All the people, except 
 a few political leaders in the South, will ac- 
 cept whatever he does as right, and will be 
 guided to a great extent by his example." 
 
 GENERAL LEE INDICTED. 
 
 General Lee being afterwards (June, 
 J 805,) indicted for treason by a Virginia 
 
 grand jury, General Grant interceded for 
 him, urging as follows : "In my opinion the 
 officers and men paroled at Appomattox 
 Court House and slue?, upon the same 
 terms given to Lse, cannot be tried . for 
 treason so long as they observe the terms 
 of their parole. This is my understanding. 
 Good faith as well as *rue policy dictate that 
 we should observe the conditions of that 
 convention." On this point he sometime 
 later, in an examination before the Judiciary 
 Committee of Congress, revealed the cease- 
 less activity with which he had plead for 
 charity and forgiveness, while Andrew 
 Johnson was howling anD' kaging foe 
 VENGEANCE upon Lee and the Confederate 
 l^ders. The official report furnishes these 
 extracts. Eldridge (Democratic member of 
 the committee) — "Have you had interviews 
 with the President about granting amnesty 
 and pardon to rebel officers and people?" 
 Grant— "I have occasionally recommended 
 a person for amnesty. I thought there was 
 no reason why, because a person had risen 
 to the rank of general, ho should be ex- 
 cluded from amnesty any more than one who 
 had failed to reach that rank. '"' ••" '^ -' 
 I don't see any reason why the volunteer, 
 who happened to rise to the rank of general 
 should be excluded any more than a colonel. 
 ■>!■ *, * -:r J frequently had to intercede 
 for General Lee and other paroled officers 
 on the ground that their parole protected 
 them from arrest and trial. The President 
 at that time occupied exactly the reverse 
 grounds, viz : that they should be tried and 
 punished. He wanted to know when the 
 time would come that they should be pun- 
 ished. I told him not so long as they 
 obeyed the law and complied with the 
 stipulation." 
 
 THE OPINIONS OF OTHEBS. 
 
 Upon this point it will be interesting ta 
 observe what some of the able men who have 
 never acted with the Republican party have 
 to say in comparing the magnanimity of 
 Grant and Greeley. We first give an ex- 
 tract from a speech of Hon. Mr. Voorheee, 
 the great Democrat of Indiana : 
 
 "Sir: It is sometimes said, and I regret 
 to hear it, that this nominee (Mr. Greeley) 
 went bail for Jefferson Davis. It is toa nar- 
 
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 row a platform for a Presidential campaign. 
 [Laughter.] It is a most dangeroua appeal, 
 a most miscuievoas issue to raise l.-etweeii 
 the man who put Mr. Davis in jail and the 
 man who bailed bim out. It would not be a 
 prudent issue, and, as a friend of the South- 
 ern people, I Imolore thera not to make it. 
 It will arouse a feeling which is rapidly pass- 
 ing away, for the soldier element of the 
 North is magnanimous, just, and good._ It 
 will, ia other respects, provoiio a comparison 
 not favorable to 'the nsminf-'e of the Cincin- 
 nati Convention. A hundred millions of 
 property stood ready to bail Mr. Davis. He 
 was not hfelpless ; he did not need support ; 
 the whole South would have bailed their own 
 prisoner. But there was a time when An- 
 drew Johnson and his adminibtration, espe- 
 cially guided by his Secretary of War, de- 
 sired to arrest Robert B. Lee and Joseph E. 
 Johnston, and other prominent leaders of 
 the South. But one man could prevent it. 
 That man is now the Chief Executive of this 
 nation. General Grant at that time stepped 
 forward and told ihe authorities that he had 
 taken the paroles of the=e distinguished 
 Confederates as soldiers, and those paroles 
 should be respected. [Applause.) * ^' " 
 I fear, Mr. Speaker, that if 1 should take 
 the stump and pi ess the claims of Mr. Gree- 
 ley, [ sliould find a candidate opposing him 
 who had done more and kinder things for 
 the South than he had," 
 
 .Governor Wise, the indomitable defender 
 of the South, presents the case this way in a 
 letter to CoL MoSby : *' Was Greeley super- 
 serviceably benevolent in going bail for 
 President Davis? Grant was far more man- 
 ly in giving us honorable capitulation at 
 Appomattox to go homa with the honors of 
 war, and, so long as we obeyed the laws, 
 there to remain unmolested in all respects 
 whatsoever." 
 
 'HE URGED AMNESTY ALL THE TIME IN HIS 
 MESSAGES. 
 
 In his messages he has throughout em- 
 phasized the question of amnesty, appealing 
 to his friends in Congress and to the North- 
 ern people in the strongest and most direct 
 language, to hasten the bestowal of that 
 cherished boon upon the late Confederates ; 
 and to his persistent efforts in private and 
 public council is to bo credited the final 
 passage' of the general amnpsty law at the 
 last session of Congress. Ptcad his appeal in 
 his last message, observing as you v/ill, that 
 it is in spirit and substance the same gener- 
 ous argument which he advanced soon after 
 
 the surrender, when others were d-mandlng 
 trials for treason, and punirihmcnfc in chains 
 or upon the scaffold. 
 
 " More than six years having elapsed since 
 the last hostile gun was 6red between the 
 armies then arrayed against each other — one 
 for the perpetuation, the other for tlie de- 
 struction, of the Union — it may be v/cll con- 
 sidered v/hether it is not now time that tho 
 disabilities imposed by the taurteenth amend- 
 ment should be removed. That amendraen: 
 does not exclude the ballot, but only impose-; 
 the disability to hold offices upon certain 
 classes. 
 
 " I do not sec the advantage or propriety 
 of excluding men fr«m office merely because 
 they were, before the rebellion, of standing 
 find character sufficient to be elected to posi- 
 tions requiring them to take oaths to sup- 
 port the Constitution, and admitting to eli- 
 gibility those entertaining precisely tlie samo 
 views but of less standing in (heir communi- 
 ties. It maybe said that the fjrmer violate 1 
 an oath, while the latter did not. Thelatte:- 
 did not have it in their power to do so. I- 
 they had taken this oavli it cannot be doubl- 
 ed they would have broken it as did the 
 former class. 
 
 AN APPEAL FOR, VIRGINIA. 
 
 The Old Dominion, the mother of Presi- 
 dents, vras one of the first Slates to receive 
 President Grant's assistance. In the very 
 first month of his administration he urged 
 upon Congress her claims in a special mes- 
 sage; and in the election which took place iu 
 1869, on the adoption of the test-oatli clauso 
 in the State constitution, he allowed a sepa- 
 rate vote. 
 
 THE TEST-OATH. 
 
 Y/hen the military Governor proposed to 
 apply the test-oath to the members of tho 
 State Legislature thus elected, the President 
 prevented him, and on the reassembling of 
 Congress in the fall, the State officers, by 
 his urgent recommendations, were recog- 
 nized, and its national Picpresentative's were 
 admitted to their seats ; and in no way since 
 has he Interfered with the sovereign fights 
 of Virginia. A similar policy was likewlco 
 pursued towards Texas and Mississippi. 
 
 From the beginning of his career at Bel- 
 mont to its brilliant close at AppomattoV; 
 there is not" an act of crueky or uni'v •: - 
 verity charged against hi;:: 
 historian, rem—''! '':-'- 'i ■• 
 
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 dices of to-day, when he reviews the career 
 of General Grant, will hesitate whether to 
 give pre-eminence to his skill as a soldier, 
 or his magnanimity as a man. 
 
 With the surrender of Lee he sheathed 
 bis sword, buried the animosities of- war, 
 and labored as earnestly to restore peace 
 and prosperity to the South as he had to 
 preserve the integrity of the nation. He has 
 been a consistent peace-maker, and since 
 his accession to the Presidency, has done 
 all in his power to promote the best interests 
 of the country, by maintaining peace, not 
 only within our own borders, but with all 
 nations of the earth. Ilis chief object has 
 been to restore the Republic to its original 
 unity of purpose, securing to each State a 
 Tei>ublican form of government, wherein the 
 few shall not oppress the many, or the ma- 
 jority disregard the rights and privileges of 
 the minority. Under his wise policy the 
 South is beginning to recover its former 
 prosperity. Business which Las been pros- 
 
 I trated since the war is reviving, and old pre- 
 I judices, engendered by four years of strife, 
 I and kept alive by designing politicians, 
 : are gradually dying out. Northern capital 
 ! is turning southward in search of invest- 
 I menta. Railroads are being built to develop 
 the resources of the Gulf States, and tc 
 bring their chief cities in closer and more 
 friendly communication with the great com- 
 mercial centres of the country. Dema- 
 gogues may endeavor to blind the people to 
 the true state of affairs by charging Presi- 
 dent Grant with a design to cripple the 
 South : but citizens who do their own think- 
 ing cannot be imposed upon by these un- 
 scrupulous enemies of law and order. Fair- 
 minded men, whether they agree politically 
 with President Grant or not, accord to him 
 honesty of purpose, and believe that he ha;: 
 done the very best that could be done under 
 the circumstances to secure to the South 
 the full enj6yment of its constitutional 
 rights. 
 
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