Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-09-20
whig National Convention.
sPRRcH or non. FRANCIS GRANGER.

Hon. Francis Granger of New York was now
loudly called for. He accordingly arose and ad.
dressed the convention as follows:
After what has been so justly and 80 eloquently
said by the distinguished gentleman from North
Carolina, it seems TO me that New York Is the
last State that should bo heard upon this subject.
had hoped, as the gentleman had clearly desig-
mated his preference for the Presidency, that New
York would not have been called upon to respond
IN any manner until gentlemen had been heard
from every other delegation here assembled to
express most freely and frankly their views upon
the subject. trust now that some other gentle.
man will be prepared to take the floor, and that
this meeting will feel with me- that New York
shall be the last heard upon this question, 30 In
teresting and so dear to her. If however, it Is
the desire of this meeting to hear what little
may say, shall say it as a Wing and nothing but
Whg. Loud applause. No matter who else
falls off, for the remnant of my days stand FORTH
as ever have been, Whig-[ cheers although
l should stand, like one of the messengers OF Job,
to declare that alone am left of that gallant
party to which was proud to belong.
IL is due to the Wing party of the State of New
York to say, that during the present canvass, ev.
erything that seduction could offer or threat in
duce has baen applied to them. They have stood
fast in their consistency. They no less regard
iaVorite son, because others, with whom they have
no special connexion, may prefer him. They cast
not OIL tried public servant because he may in
the first place have been presented in a manner
other than that which they would have chosen
For myself always speak out, and although
have nothing to do with the my sterious orders of
the day, while philanthropists throughout the
world echo that sentiment of Daniel O'Connell,
that all he asked for his country was that Irish
men should rule ireland, tremendous cheers, /
mako no war upon men from whom may differ
becaose they demand that Americans shall rule
America. Loud and long applause | come
not here to present to your consideration a plat
form on which to place President. care not
for any platform upon which he has been placed.
He has created his own firm pedestal on which to
stand Applause. Without reference to him,
! trust, may be permitted here to say that the
days of platforms viii pass away with this falls
election, and all that will be seen Of the existing
platforms, trust will be, that they have furnish
ed panks upon which you can lay out the dead
bodies OF slain candidates. [Great laughter and
applause.l What have you seen9 distinguish
ed gentleman, whom have lolg known, and with
whom have long been upon terms of kind asso-
citation, sacrifice his own identity, destroy his own
individuality, to lie down upon the plank of plat
form. Loud laughter and cheers
But let US look at Millard Filllnore's acts
lCheers. IT disturbance existed in the South, he
quelled it, if it existed in the North where even
neighborhood sympathies, you would suppose
might sometimes control action, did he not there
also put his hand upon it and quell 1t? TApplause
Does he not this day stand before the American
people as one upon whom the responsibilities were
thrown in moment of deep sorrow and mourning
to our whole people, and to no one more than him.
self; and is he not the only Of this generation
who has come out Of the Presidency with purer
and higher fame than VIXEN he went imp TAp.
plause When he took an oath to administer the
laws OF the Union faithfully it meant something
lie looked back to the early formation of this gov
ernment, and when rebellion first reared its head,
he saw that George Washington knew and felt this
was country OF laws, and the moment the laws
were trampled upon, no matter how distasteful to
any section of the Union, they must be executed
or this government must fall. Thus it was that
when rebellion first showed its head in this Union,
George Washington assembled, in an incement
season OF the year, force more than half as large
as had been at one time the force of our Reyolu.
tionary army, that he might show to the world the
necessity of crushing rebellion to laws in its very
incipiency. [Applause.]
1 stand not here in the miserable, fulsome Ian
guage of the day. to run any comparison between
the candidate that advocate and George Wash
ington have seen, as connected with another
candidate, lately, clergyman undertake to run n
parallel; he run it, as 1t struck me, till he found
that his candidate was always engaged in rebellion
and mutiny, while George Washington always pun
ished rebellion and mutiny-and he did not think
it worth while to push it any farther No sir, run
no such parallel; George Washington stands alone,
[ Applause and he who undertakes to rnn paral-
lei between any living man and George Washing
ton, knows little what he owes to his country or to
the proud fame that the records of that country
show. Applause Let every American consider
and confess that mons but himself can be his
parallel"
But this much will say had the disturbances
which now exist in this country commenced during
the administration Of Millard Fillmore he would
have crushed them at the outset Loud applause,
and cries of that is fact."l Without claiming
anything for military reputation, standing before
the world as civilian only, he would have shown
an example, to those of military fame, now in high
office, which would have made them hide their
h ads. Laughter and applause.l What have
you seeny | stop not now to enter upon the
question of whose may be the excess of blame in
this agitation. stop not to sft the exaggerated
accounts on either side | only say that civil war
RACES throughout the land-that brothers hands
are dipped in brothers blood and that every re-
turn to the department of your government they
remain as dumb as the bleeding victims of this in.
glorious contest Such would not have been the
case under the administration of Mard Fillmore.
Cheers.
Am i asked further why my preference is for
himp 1t is because the victory of either of the
other candidates can do nothing to quiet the agi-
tation of this country. What is true of commu-
mites is true Of nations, and let either of the
other candidates obtain temporary triumph in this
election, it is in my opinion but to keep the con-
test open with increased instead OF subdued rri.
taton. Canvass it by everything around ask
the men OF the South who know the feeling that
now exists, il they are to withdraw in case OF the
election of Colonel Fremont. / ask my Northern
brethren, from whom differ on this subject, are
they to sit down quietly and submit to what they
may dislike in the administration of Mr.. Buchanan
should he chance 70 be elected by the entire |
Southern VOTE joined with one or more Northern |