Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-10-22
Senator Henderson on the Pesident.

Ex-senator Henderson, OfN1issOuri, does
not favor the nomination of President
Grant by the Republican party, but does
not let his prejudice lead him to commit
political suicide. At recent Republican
meeting in st. Louisa meeting of the
State Central Committees of the Brown
and McClung wings of the party-he made
the following remarks, the spirit of which
we commend to sore-heads
General Grant has done some things that
| do not approve; but even in the btterest
of my opposition against him | give the
credit of saying that he has certainly givtn
US a model administration in some things.
He has secured an honest administration
of our finances; he has collected the re-
venues of the country, and honestly de-
voted them to the payment of the public
debt; he has raised our financial condi-
ton at home and abroad he has elevated
the character of our public officials, al
| though great many (as there will be a
| great many at all times,) have proved de-
faulters, have proved bad men, and yet, as
| a general thing, | take it that this admin
| istratiOn has been a model administration
as far as the finances are concerned.
| 1t has been good administration in an
other respect, that, although General Grant
| Is q military man, and we would naturally
suppose that his feelings would run large
ly in favor of the army and of things that
would add to the glory and eclat of the
military organization, he has given us
peaceful administration. He has reformed
the international law, and succeeded in
making treaty with the greatest power
on earth, which has established the best
and purest principles of international law,
0nlpnlQfpd in al fn o
between US and England, and to preserve
it amongst the nations of the world that
have abided by it. Applause. In this
respect, then, it has been q model admin
istratiOn.
He has given us peace; secured us what
we need above all things, and that was
peace, in order that this country might de-
velOp its resources, and that we might re-
cover from the long disasters of our coun-
try, which of course we desire, in case we,
as liberal men, could carry out the policy
of universal amnesty and universal suf-
frage. We want to cement the Union
rebuild the country; build up every lost
interest, and make our country what our
fOrefathers intended it to be-the greatest
on earth. Applause
Then, gentlemen, there are many other
things in which the administration has
been success. There are some things in
"iAIOh ~ Has AOG Deen Il success out IL
you expect that we, as liberal men in op-
| position to Gen. Grant, or as illiberal men
In opposition to him-if you expect that
we can get man who will follow out our
views of public policy in every respect, i
have simply to say that you are mistaken.
| Get the pureSt men upon earth; take YOUR
choice of all men and make him YOUR
President and you will find that in MANY
respects he will come short of your calcu-
lations. Then, if Grant is renominated,
let it be so.
Ipresume he will give us as good an adj
ministratlOn in the last four years of his
| term as he mas given us so far he has served
US, and if so, we, as Republicans, can eer-
talnly stand it. CApplause.] He has pre-
served the peace of the country he has
preserved the finances of the country, the
nonor and credit of the country reduced
She puoilc debt, and in these respects say
he mas done we'll, and we will not be hurt
as Republicans by his reelection.