The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-13
A STIRRING AND PATRIOTIC SPEEGH
BvGOYERNOR CRATE BR0WN.
NEW HAVEN, July IL

NEW HAVEN, July II.
Governor GratZ Brown, responding to q
sersnade, said lyon will find that Missouri
and Arkansas, and Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky
and Tennessee are cunning up IN solid pnalan1,
casting their votes. You will find that the
STATE Of Missouri, which gave forty Thousand
najori for the Liberal Republican litket In
1870, will give, In 1872, not less th, ', "ne hum
dred thousand majority. You " Ii ilnd that
the Safe of Illuois will cas .aed by three
thousand majority. You will nnd that all
these great States are coming up. and are
going to supplement the votes that are cast In
the Eastern States; and while l am no
prophet, whilst do not pretend to be a
prophet, yet am frank t6NAy to you that, In
INV Judgment, shall not be surprised if Gene
raj Grant does not carry three States In the
Union" [Applause.1 Abiding to Greeley, he
said: ''It has been the custom and habit, when
any of the gentlemen who may have been
antagoniHic to us, or 70 some OF the gentle
men who have been in the Liberal Repuoll.
can movement, to say that they had no conf
dence In the great chief who had been n0ml'
mated at Ciucinnatii that they were Wiling
to recognize him as their leader, and that,
perhaps. they were willing 10 vote for him as
President; but all the time qualifying this with
doubts, with questions, with inlerrogati0ns,
with arched eyebrows and large mouths. ]
want to say TO you that do not belong to that
class. believe him 10 be great and good
statesman. [Applause.l I do believe that he
has got the largest head In America: lap
plause.1 Now, my teIlow-cllizens, have
some opportunity OF understanding this
Question. I have been, as far as Greeley is
Concerned. In conflict with him on large and
vital questions. ! have known him tor long
wears, and have been In relations with him
through the press Fany ofthe gentlemen who
stand before me have been his readers, say
to you frankly, with the honest experience OF
an antagonistic journalist, that believe he is
the ablest man to-day In America. nave dif-
tered with him In great, and, as pelieVe, IN
fundamental questions. nave dlnered win
him on great and grave questions 10 the pub
lie press. I have antagonized, and have op-
posed him, and may perhaps have OCCASION
eeiIv ridiculed him, but am frank to say that,
of ali men who assume the. opposing side,
there was, as long as be represented that ques-
tion, no man that undertook to say that he
was rldiculed or captious. He took the plume
from them all, and there are men to-day who
are asssiling him, who were the very ones
who were praislng him to the skies
as their chief, their leader. Now,
saw 10 you, In perfect frankness,
that If Mr. Greeley had been nominated
for President oil the United States on distinc-
live Issues, on what are termed Protection,
should never have sustained hin; bnt when he
has been nominated on recognized grounds,
on his siatesmansnlp, his patriotism, mis- pure
and unsullied honesty, amid all the parodies
of politics, then am ready to accept him as
my chief, and to say that will 60 the last
ditch with Greeleyn