Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-06-13
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Patriotic Sentiments.

Patriotic Sentiments.
At the Grant and Colfa1 ratification meeting
held in San Francisco, May I'd, Newton Booth,
of Sacramento, spoke in the following patriotic
strain:
l entirely concur with one of the Union papers
of this State, that it is misnomer to call this
ratification meeting. The only ratification
meeting which our party has held this year was
that of the convention at Chicago, which simply
gave expression to the public sentiment of the
party-the nomination that the people will con-
firm at the election in November for that is the
only way in which the good of the nation re-
quires that the will of the people should be con-
frmed Applause. Our Democratic friends
sometimes tell us with air of patronage and
countenance that we have made nomination of
an available candidate, but that he is not man
fit for the ofice-that he is successful, but not
great. Well, now, know he is not respondent
on full-dress parade, like Mcclellan. [Applause.]
He hasn't got any of that pinchback brightness,
with tinsel show, that makes great men out of
very small men. He does not need it, but in all
the characteristics that men seek for in leader,
in all that this people require for an Executive
head he is head and shoulders above any man
in the nation. Applause.] One of the char
acteristics of his greatness is that he has an I'M
erring judgment of men. Why, do you not
Der that when all our correspondents said
Sherman was crazy, Grant more method in
Sherman's madness than in Buell's sanity.
[Laughter.] And then when he was placed
where he belonged, at the head of the army,
did he not put Sherman in the right place; and
Sheridan in the right place Applause.
Didn't he put Ord in the right place, and Meade
in the right place, and more than that, didn't
he put Lee in the right place? [Great applause
and laughter Possibly he put jeff. Davis in
the right place, too, and possibly he was not
kept there. [Appause.] But then they tell u.s.
sob, he is military man" and their pa
pers are filled with most virtuous fear OF mill
tary rule. Well, that does sound rather strange
for men who supported Mcclellan four years
ago. Yet | do not know, second thought,
that they were inconsistent in that, because,
possibly, Mcclellan was not soldier enough to
establish him. His campaigns generally ended
in defeat and he never suffered but one defeat
that hurt the feelings of the Democracy that
benefited the American nation, and that was
when he was defeated for the Presidency. APP
plause and laughter But what is there in this
bugbear of military rule that should brighten
these people from their propriety? What has
been the history of the nation Washington
was first soldier President. [Applause.] Is
there any Democrat who is so timid of the idea
of n military chieftain that he would like to eX-
punge from the history of the nation the admin
stration of General Washington? Applause.
Jackson was next. [Applause.] Well, there
are some Democrats who are SO welded to the
principles so devoted to the memory of Calhoun
that they entertain unpleasant recollections of
sold Hickory but none of them would be
bold enough to arraign it before the rank and
file of the party to-day. Then we had General
Harrison and General Taylor; and whatever
may have been said at the time, in the heat of
party discussion, man will place an i'm
putation upon their memories. Both gathered
around them Cabinets of distinguished ability.
Both commenced their administration under the
very brightest auspices Both died too soon,
leaving the American people to regret in the one
instance the succession of John Tyler and in
the other the succession of the renegade Willard
Fillmore.
The next military President will be Ulysses S.
Grant Applause "a man unsulied by hattery,
untainted by jealousy, interrupted by power
man who has arisen to the level of every occa-
sion he has ever had, and no living man has
ever had such great occasions. Applause.]
| The man who turned the tide of victory at DON
elson-who set the seal of triumph upon the ma
tonal at Appomattox-a man who, in the
! four years of his administration, will so weave
the principles for which the war was fought into
! the very web and wool of the Government that
they will shine part of the glory of the
American name and nation forever and forever.
[Cheers and applause Now, fellow-ctizens,
| let us be true to him, he is true to US. APP
plause.1 Let US make this campaign end in
! ordinary vctory-let it be Vicksburg capture,
an Appomattox surrender. Let the watchword
of this division of the Grand Army be, in the
words of the lamented Tuthil, God, Grant,
Victory!' Enthusiastic cheers.