New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1860-07-27
No 5O.5


him when he pushed the jack plane in q
village in Illinois. (Cheers.) I knew
him as a village. school master: as tha
attorney general Of his State; as Judge
upon the Supreme court bench, and sub
sequently when he was elected to tho
lower branch of Congress and from there
to the Senate, where he is now serv-
ing his third term. (Applause.) And
gentlemen, if the boilers and political
tricksters who are now at work to de-
feat the choice of the people for the
highest office in their gift succeed,
he will grow upon their hands
just as old Hickory did, when
he was defeated for the same position.
and by tho same means, in 1924.
(Cheers. The familiar name by which
he is now known among his country
men, is that of the s'Little Giant" but
if he is cheated by these Secessionists
and Disunionists, he will be known in
the future as the ''Big Giant" before
whom intriguing politicians will fly, a.
from the wrath to come. I tell you,
that if he ever comes down on any of
them, the unfortunate man will think
he weighs more than ton. (Great an
plause.) -, ,..- . y... r1.', E'o
II he is beaten now, his success in fu-
ture is certain; while those who op-
pose the party because he is the nomi.
nee, will be consigned to oblivion.
So" and cheers,-The people
love him because he is true to them
and maintains their rights, They have
watched with interest the persecution
to 1-hich he has been subjected; they
have seen him removed from the chair
manship Of the Committee on Terrific
ries by a tyrannical majority, because
Of his independence and they have seen
those who seould have sustained him
and strengthened his hands, resort to
every trick to disgrace him, because
they we're jealous and enyious of his
hold on the popular heart. The results
of these attempts IS before you. With
out patronage, without .power, he has
stood forth in the Democratic conyen-
tion at Charleston and at Baltimore
triumphant and victorious. He receiv-
ed from that convent IN the greatest
honor it could pay him, the regular, le-
gltimate nomination for the Presidency
and il you are true t, yourselves, you
will ratify that nomination at the bal
Prentice, Of the Louisville Journal,
furnishes the following graphic biogr.-
ply Of Horace Greeley. afl 81.
Horace Greeley was born in Oregon,
near the, conf,x of Astoria. During
his infancy, he subsisted chiefly on
roots and Herbs, and was remarkable
for wearing a copper stock about his
neck. He sailed for this country in =
Galway steamer. He got employment
rs gardener, but in trying to root out
large weed, tore his linen. His en-
ployer, one Seward, forgetting to pay
HIM his wages, he left the weed and in
vented S"Greeley's Corn Slave" He
discovered the slieyegammon funds; was
elected a member of Congress, and i'm
mediately after requested his friends
not to call him Honorable. Retired on
his mileage; was presented with the IT,
tie Of 'Galvanized squash,' by Japan
ese G. Bennett, Professor Of Heraldry.
He has since gone into the fence rail
business upon small capital.
Quilp and his wife had bit Of con-
tention the other day. I own you have
more brilhancy than I, said the woman,
shut have the better Judgement"
+" Yes" said Quilp, "our cheicc in mar
riage shows that" Quilp wasinformed
that he was brute.
A Western paper, chronicling the Ia
mentable occurrence Of a staging at
tached to a church being blown. down.