The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-13
A Ringing Speech.

Ringing Speech.
Hon. w. A. Wheeler, upon taking
the chair as presiding officer of the New
York Republican State Convention, at
Utica, paid the following eloquent trib.
ute to Gen. Grant:
Ysu remember from what quarter re.
lief first came, and whose military
proves at Donelson gave the first sub
stantial check to the swelling and ad.
vancing tide of the rebellion. This is
not the place to sketch the details of
the interim, but whose blood does not
even now course more rapidly through
his veins as he recalls the wild, tumul-
tuous Joy, the rapturous gladness, which
filed every loyal heart on that April
morning when the glad tidings were
flashed through the land that the
brave rebel army OF Northern Vir.
ginia which had so long and so def
antly borne the fortunes of the insur-
rectionary Confedercy upon its bayo-
nets had at last gone down under the
irresistible strokes of him who, through
the wilderness and many a bloody,
hard-fought field, had patiently pursued
it with unrelenting purpose and tenac-
ity, until at last, at Appamattox, the
| gigantic rebellion lay PROSTATE at his
feety Under his guidance the god OF
battles had delivered us from the eX-
| igencies of war, and we came out of
its furnance heat with unimpaired ma
tionality and the redemption of the
race whose perpetual enslavement had
4 h. oH oil ola,Y cd
of the new government which the rebel
lion was waged to establish. Did ever
other war yield such rich fruition ?
Well sang the liberty-loving Whittier
"Did we dare,
In our agony Of prayer,
| Ask for moro than he has done?
When was ever his right hand,
Over any time or land,
Stretched as now, beneath the sun?
How they pale,
Ancient myth and song and tale,
In this wonder Of our days,
When tho cruel rod of war
Blossoms white with righteous law,
And the wrath Of man is praise"
How the land rang with the plaudits OF
the great captain who had proved it's
deliverer, and how every patriotic heart
went out in gratitude to him for his
priceless services Each OF the great
political parties at the North sought his
acceptance of support for the highest
Of all earthly honors, the Presidency OF
the great Republic. The Democratic
party would fain have hidden it's igno
minious abatement of the rebellion in
the shadow of his great deeds, ready
then as now, under whatever GU Sc OF
pretense, to steal back into the places
of power and trust from which it had
been hurled by an outraged and indig
nant people. But the brave man who
had thwarted the traitors in their at
tempt to overthrow the Government
and who had foiled the renegade John
son in his efforts to rob the country oil
the just results Of the war, spurned all
poffers Of the Democratic party, and
adhered to that which had ctayed up
his hands in saving the country from
dsintegration and ruin.
The Republican party elevated Gen
Grant to the Presidency, and now points
with just pride to the results of his AID
ministi alton as illustrated by his un.
falterng fidelity to his principles, the
wise and discreet use of unusual powers
conferred upon him by Congress, tn
; steady and safe reduction of the debt
and taxation, the removal of intricate
foreign complications, the growing re-
spect for our country abroad. wise
benefcent, and humane Indian policy
and the advancement of the nation IL
every element OF wealth, growth, anC
power. With undated confidence il
his exalted love of country, stern integ
rity, selfreliance, and increased ability
to administer the affairs Of Government
the Republican party through its chosen
representatives., has, by acclamation,
again made him it's standard.bearer.
/ Gen. Grant encounters in the pending
I canvass the opposition and intensified
$ hate of his old enemies of the battle
G field and the ballot.box, who, heater
r and Inundated at every point for tn
last twelve years, have, in their desper
alton, made a hollow, hypocritical
= huckstering alliance with struggling
malcontents, have donned the garb an,
1 stolen the countersign of that party
and are now seeking to pass its pickets
e to capture by fraud what they failed t
n capture by force. They will meet thei
e Appomattox In November next, an,
n trail their hybrid banner to the grea
!. chieftain who their own leader has sal
t "has never been defeated and neve
!, can be-"
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