The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-20
Greniiig State 5a,,rnaI.
synopsis of the Great Speech of Senator wilsou
q at the Cooper Union

synopsis of the Great Speech of Senator wiIsou
at the Cooper Union.
de cared more for the Republican party
than for any thousand men, no matter how
great they were. Applause. The Re
publican party was born amid the prayers
and well-wishes Of untold thousands of the
masses, and it had mission to fulfill thai
had not yet terminated. ANY man who
left the ranks of that party did it against
his the speaker's) most earnest wishes
and he would do all in his power to ask
these men to pause in their career. The
Repuolican party was not perfect, and
among its three millions must necessarily
contain some bad men; but that was nc
good reason for deserving it. A man might
as consistently leave his church because
it contained few bad members as to
leave party which had accomplished as
much.good as the Republican party had be-
cause it had committed few errors or had a
few bad men in its ranks. An effort had been
made to desert the great Abraham Lincoln,
but it did not succeed. [Applause.l There
were men in all parties who would become
dissatisfied with any man, no matter how
good or able, who did not square on every-
thing with their notions. The Cincinnati
Convention had been called, it had been
said, because the Republican party was in
the hands of office-holders. The idea was
absurd. A party of three millions con-
trolled by three thousand office-holders
was an absurdity too great for the credu-
lity of any. sensible man. Why Office
holding was not now q profitable thing,
More was made nowadays in almost any
trade or profession than by office-holders.
1t might be said that the Cincinnati Con-
vention would consist of office-seekers.
The Philadelphia Convention would con-
tain less otiice-holders than any pre-
vious Presidential Convention. 1t was the
people who were moving in this matter of
reelecting Gen. Grant.
The office-holders were taking very little
part in it. Senator Trumbuil had been
dislngenuous in his statements about am
nesty, for he had voted in favor of disabili-
ties as regards the South. He (Mr. Will
SOM was in favor of relieving the South of
all the disabilities that could be safely re-
moved, and he would go so far as to re-
move the disabilities from John G. Breck-
mridge, who had behaved we'll since the
close of the rebellion. Senators Trumbull
and Upton had voted against amnesty.
Civil rights measures would be passed by
the present Congress, of the most liberal
character. Civil service reform was great
cry with the so-called Liberal Republicans.
and civil service reform was being well
taken care of by the present Congress, and
the departments in Washington were never
better served than under the present ad-
mlnistration. Senator Trumbul had COM
planned because q military officer had borne
4
gress. Such things had been done by
Washington, Jackson, Taylor and Lincoln
without any comment being made. No
speech Of the same length as that delivered
by Senator Trumbull had ever been
so full of errers. General Grant has
sent away from Washington when he
came there all the troops in the city, and
had simply kept three of his old officers,
without pay, to help him do his Duty
Other Presidents had kept some of their
old comrades about them, and no fault had
been found with them. The charge of cor
ruption made against the present admins
tration was not well founded. The present
administration had found corruption of the
rankest kind as an heirloom Of Johnson's
administration, and had ever since been
performing an herculean task of cleansing
the Augean stables, and more offenders
against the laws had been arrested and
punished under the present administration
than under any preceding one. [Applause.l
There was smaller per centage of ex-
pense and loss on collecting the revenue un-
der the present administration than anv
preceding one. The assertion by Senator
Trumbull that needless payment of $685.
OO0 had been made, was untrue. The
payment was not made for work done, but
for damages, which it was proper to have
liquidated. Secretary Robson had acted
right IN examining into this matter and pay
ing the claim. The expenses of this gov
eminent, minus the expenses entalled by
the war, Were less, in proportion to
the population, than in 1858. One
hundred millions OF dollars of expenses
had been cut off every year under this
administration, and, in fact, there was not
now a needless expense the government
was becoming almost mean in its economy.
and moro liberal expenditure would pro-
badly be beneficial in many directions.
Those who found fault with this admins
tration forget the benefits it had conferred
upon the country. The people did not for
get it. Not Republican state convention
iiss ihSs III NIiSi d oilISlS mai COulu De
found dissatisfied with General Grant.
The men who were hobnobbing together to
defeat Grant were reckoning without their
host, and that host was 40,000,00O of
American people [applausel !; and they
would find that their little schemes would
not work, and that they would be left high
and dry after the election. The men who
were trying to defeat Grant would find that
they were in reality trying to defeat the
spontaneous well of the American people,
and they might as well try to dam Niagara.
lApplause.l Senator Schurz had said that
the nominees of the Cincinnati Convention
would be elected. He (dr. Wilson, would
predict that if the Democrats did not sup
port the Cincinnati nominees they would
not carry state and if the Democrats
did Grant would carry every State in the
Union.
The Chicago Relief Committees returns
of sewing machines sales show result
somewhat surprising to those unacquainted
with the merits of the different machines
competing for public favor. They are as
follows:
THE SlNGER,."... 427
wheeler Wilson 235
....... III
GroNer " Baker..,...,... III
wilcox Il Gibbs. ......'- 30