The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-04-25

Il convention OF OHC-nOiuerS. W ell, sup
pose we say the Cincinnati Convention i
/ to be an office seeking convention laugl
ter but will not say it. Laughte
and cheers However you may think
! what you like about it. Laughter.
Bnt this much do say, that the Nation
(al Convention that will meet this year a
/ Philadelphia viii have fewer oifice-hold
ers and fewer members OF Congress thar
4 party in power. Great applause. Ant
now take this home and remember it
/ Go to any section of our country where
there is little in the shape of governmeu
patronage, and you find the Republican
party united and supporting the meas
ures of the Administration. aud almost
unanimous for President Grant. Go tc
I other sections. Look at New York,
where you have great patronage, and you
] have dissentions and divisions, | tel
you it is Office holding, office seeking
petty ambitions. that are disturbing the
unity of the Republican party, and tina,
threaten disaster. Applause. Mr.
Trumbull is an old friend of mine. |
have honored and respected him and |
! do not want to say one unkind word OF
him; but must say that he made speech
here which every man who read it. and
/ is a fair minded man, instantly pro-
| nounced it a disingenious speech. ZAP
| plause. Let Us look at it for moment.
He tells Us that we have kept disa biiities
on men of the South. Well, gentlemen,
L stood up alone in the Senate Rerubli-
can caucus and voted against putting
those provisions in the Fourteenth
amendment. Applause. [ did not
believe 1t was policy to do it, and [ have
| been for years in favor of letting every
body off, and any man who behaves him
self as a patriot and respectable man, and
asks to have his disabilities removed,
will vote for removing them. Applause]
[ will vote for removing disabilities from
John c. Breck enridge, tor ever since the
war has closed he has behaved himself
like fair-minded American citizen, and
| honor him for it. [Applause. Mr.:
Irumbuil told US that one set of men in
the South were kept out of Office. and
another kept in. Now, gentlem en-, they
have got nearly twenty rebel Colonels
and Generals, and men who served in
the rebel armies, whose disabilities were
removed by US. elected to office, and they
were elected, and Gen. Grant, in his
message, recommended the removal of
their disabilities to the House of Repre-
sentatives, and the House by an almost
unanimous vote decided to remove them
1t came to the Senate, and Mr.. Sumner
proposed to put in the Dill a provision
for civIl7rights, SO that when we remov-
ed disabilities and gave amnestysto tie
old slave masters, we should give pro
lection to the poor freedmen, and [
voted for it, and Others did SO, and it
was put in the bill, and when it was in it
the bill was lost by vote Of 33 to 10,
and Messrs. Trumbull and Upton, who
propose to 60 to Cincinnati for amnesty,
there voted against amnesty,
and if they had voted for it, it would
have passed-the Senate of the United
States. Now, gentlemen, have anoth
er word on that point. Mr.. Irumbull
knew very well that we have been strug
CLING to get through the House for sev-
eral weeks Civil Rights bill, and we
have both Civil Rights and Amnesty
before the House. and have been work
ing to put both biAs trough: and 1 ex-
pect We will do it. Applause
| will advert to one other matter. Dir.
Trurnbull told US he is going to Cincin-
natl TO get Civil Service Reform. Why
pointed a Commission, at the head Of
which was your eminent fellow citizen,
Geo. Curtis. sIApplause. That Com
They reported a partial plan, which did
not work practically, and now they have
agreed to practical plan to carry out
those, ideas Of Civil Service Reform, and
to-day Gen, Grant has proclaimed them
to the country Cheers These men
tell you they will go to Cincinnati for
Civil Service Reform. | say to you, to-
night, that all through these years past,
the Departments at Washington have
been struggling night and day to improve
their condition, and they have succeeded
in doing so, and never had we as good
clerks, or our Offices in the city of Wash
iugton been so well filed as they are filed
now. Applause. But there is anoth
er matter about which Senator Trumbull
told US. want TO call your attention to
that, too. He told you it WIS contrary
to law for military men to discharge civil
duties. | am sorry he told you that, for
it is net,true. We did not pass any such
laws. We have a law that will allow
military men to be appointed to civil Of
fees, but we have no law 70 prevent
men In the army from being detailed to
civil duties. Mr.. Trumbuil complained
that We have an army officer that brought
us the presidents messages. Laugh
ter If he looked into the history of
the country he would find that it has
been done before The first message
ever sent to the Senate OF the United
States was on the Tth of August. 1889,
and it was-5orne by hlajor-General Hen
ry Knox. [Checrs.l That officer car
ried one more message from General
Washington to the Senate lie was the
President companion during the war,
and perhaps his most intimate personal
friend and when General jackson came
in he appoiated maior Donaldson Secre
tary. When Ahraham Lincoln came in
he took John Hay, an army oificer. aud
dstailed him for duty in the White
House [applausel, butwhen Andy john
son came in [au. .shterl he flied the
White House With military men. Gen
tlemen, Mr. Truillhul should know all
this, and, when Senator OF the United
States leaves his post at Washington,
and goes up and down tie country sneak
ing to the people. he ought to under-
stand whereof he speaks, and be ac-
auainted with the facts of history. and
know what he is talking about Laugh
ter. In short, gentlemen, L never read
speech so fall Of errors in the short
space of couple Of columns as Trum.
bull 5 speech. He says, or rather asks
the question: II Andrew Johnson
filed the White House with Office hold
ers and military inca, hat would be said
about,it? He did. He appointed Co
lolel Moore, Colonel. Morrow, Colonel
I1eer. ICe.enel Reeves. Captain Mckeev-
er. Colonel r.. johnson. his own relatives
and. .faessare- officers of the army They
set about posting guards In and around
the White House. When President
Grant came in they paid him salute
and he asked what they meant, and next