The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-10-12
FATHER GRANT SOUND TO THE
CORE. y

At a recent meeting IN Mozart Hall, Gin
cinnsti, assembled. TO hear speech from
Governor Morton, Mr.. Grant, the father of
the General, was called out and spoke as fol
lows, as reported by the Cincinnati Gazette
am not in the habit of public speaking.
| never learned the art and it is family
failing. ICheers.
The chairman has said Gov. Morton will be
here in a few moments, and possibly may
say something that will keep you from going
to sleep. Well, we have, you know, been
engaged in putting down most gigauticre-
bellion, the greatest that has ever disgraced
a civilized nation. We have fought through
i, aud crushed it out by the power of the
sword. ICheers.]
There is yet work to be done; there is
another fixed battle to be fought, and that
battle is TO be fought Tomorrow. Applause. ]
The grand con,ending armies srrased against
each other must be narrowed down to the
Republican and the Democratic parties. All,
but, says some one, !" The johnson party =
Sure enough, but where is it? daughter
and cheers. The truth is, it was only q
trick played off upon the people in the Philn,
| delphia Convention, nine>tenths of whom
we're Democrats, and whose object was SIM
| ply to transfer Mr. johnson and his friends
into the Democratic party.
| The plan WIS laid, and what has been the
result believe that the Democratic party
has absolutely gained FIVE votes. all told.
Cheers. Raymond, of New York is one ;
poolittie, of Michigan, is another; Senator
C6wan, of Pennsylvania, is another; and in
a little village on the Ohio river they CALI
am not good at recollecting names--ah yes.
Cincinnati, there are two more. They got
ri.yht No ,XIopE Exa 4
heir leather breaches, aud down they went.
Il Great laughter.
j There were three or four more that had n
great notion of getting on the plank They
| went 50 far TO take the bounty, get one
foot on the plank, and then they eased them
selves down gradually, until they could see
the yawning gulf beneath them-ths mlry
slime oil Copperhead Democracy-a gull
Tiled with dead mems bones-and they
shrewdly concluded TO take the back track
lGreat cheers.
Although these men have taken their boun-
1 ty, and enlisted IN that mean party--which,
Tor short, they call the National Union Dem
ocratic johnson party-they now come out
and say the, think the constitutional amend
inent is pretty near right, and we had better
sustain Congress. For myself, don't think
those men whose hands are reeking with the
blood of their fellow citizens ought to be in
trusted any further with the affairs the Gov
eminent. Cheers.
Now. my fellow citizens, have never
claimed any distinction for any services !
have ever rendered. Accident, fortune, good
luck, something or other, has enabled me TO
raise up son who has rendered some ser
vice to his county [Great and continued
I cheers.l But may say the services thus
rendered by hat boy of mine have not only
been fully appreciated but they have been
4 put down, perhaps, at more than they were
worth. Cries OF NO, no, never At any
rate he has Received as much credit, as much
promotion, and as many substantial tes,imo.
malls, or mere than many other men who
have done more. Voices: "No, no."]
1t would seem from the foregoing that the
reported CONVERSATION of Father Grant with
the President on his late tour was an unmit-
igated roorback.