The Portland daily press., 1872-08-08

sherman gave him house in st. Louis and
| $4,000 in money. / wish it had been more
| Admirals Farragut and Porter received $780,
| 600 of prize money. l am not enough of a law
yer 10 know how it is that naval officers become
| entitled to prize money, but 1t was given to
| them. Now if Gen. Grant had received a like
| compensation for his victories, he would have
been made richer than the Astors for he cou-
quered the rebellion and delivered the country
over to the loyal people. The bare interest at
current rates OF the sums which grateful Eng
lisb>people bestowed upon the Duke of Well
lington would be more than the value of all the
gifts to Gen. Grant. The wars ia which We'll
lington conquered We're wars of ambition but
the war in which Gen. Grant participated in
volved your very existence. Had he not con-
quered you and | would not be here discussing
political issues; there would be no United States
for us to elect q President of. Suppose when
Grant was in the midst of his Peninsular cam
paign, it had been said that $4,000 would
have contributed to the success of the campaign
could it have been raised? Yes, it would have
been raised in Wall street in five minutes. You
in Portland would have given it. The whole
people would have cast all their wealth at
Grants feet and gratefully crowned him the
greatest hero of history. But Horace Greeley
says the Administration hasn't done enough of
amnesty have been doing something i'm the
way OF amnesty myself for the past seven years
as member of the House of Representatives,
and we have amnested all the men who parti.
cipated in the rebellion but about four hundred;
yet Horace Greeley complains that these have
not received amnesty because it gives us no
chance to vote for them for office. Are any of
you here laundering to vote for jeff Davis?
lcheers. One of those who have not been am
nestled is Jake Thompson, who by his own con-
fession plotted to burn Northern cities and de-
stroy the aged and infants the sick and WELL
the rich and the poor. While Gen. Grant was
at the front Horace Greeley was a. Niagara
IN secret conference with these arch-rcbels and
and came from there to propose to Mr.. Lincoln
the payment Of $4O0,OO0,000 to these men for
Their slaves Horace Greeley complains that
you have no chance to vote for these men The
Horace Greeley party talk much about concili-
alton! We have almost ruined ourselves by
conciliation. We have given the South better
terms than any other nation Oh earth would
have done. Twenty-Five officers of the Confed-
Grace army are now members of the House of |
Representatives.
Mr.. Blaine made very proper acknowledge |
ment of the eonsummate ability of Mr.. Greeley |
as journalist, whom he had perused with |
pleasure and interest for twenty-five years, |
and went on to say that if there is man in the |
United States totally untitled for President it is
Horace Greeley. If there is any special gift re-
quired for this great executive power Horace |
Greeley does not possess it, If all the men who |
have filed the great Office none has yet shown |
a greater degree of ability than Gen. Grant Zap
plause and three cheers The great question |
to be determined in this country is constitution
al liberty. The Thirteenth Amendment freed |
three millions of slaves, but gave them no pro- |
lection. The Fourteenth gave them protection |
and clothed the government with power to ex |
ecute the acts according protection; and Con-
gress passed the Ku-Klux bill as an enforce
ment of this principle Down to March, 1871 |
$4,000 persons in the South were whipped, |
manned and murdered. Eight thousand were |
murdered
This billwas opposed with all the power of |
the Democratic party because it interferred |
with the Democratic doctrine of local self-gov-
ernment, An American citizen in a foreign
land could invoke protection from outrage, and
the whole force of the government was at his
disposal A few years ago naturalized
American citizen by the name Martin Costa,
was claimed as an Austrian subject and taken
by force Commodore Ingraham, commanding
an American man-Of-war, threatened to
lombard the town where he was confined I'M
less Costa was instantly delivered up. Recent
ly DIR. Howard, the son of naturalized citizen,
though himself absent from the country for
more than thirty yeas, was arrested and impris-
onod by Spain for suspected political crimes
ana tried IN manner not in accordance with |
treaty regulations. With q modcum of Ameri-
can citizenship he appealed for protection, and
this government demanded his release-not his
pardon, for pardon signifies guilt Int COM
plete surrender; and Spain relucta
him up. Yet you or / molested i'm the south |
cannot be protectedbecause it conflicts with the
democratic doctrine of local self-government
his Is not the kind of government we fought
tor. Horace Greeley got his nomination by |
to the worst instincts of the South,
as expressed in the fourth resolution of the
Cincinnati platform, which declares local self
government, with universal suffrage will guard
the rights of all citizens more securely than
any centralized power; a declaration that
means in truth, the power to maltreat loyal
man in the South withoutsany power of inuerfer
ence by the general government Mr. Blaine
closed with brief appeal to the citizens of
Maine to speak for Grant as other States had
already spoken.
piece was played by the band, when the
chairman gave notice of the great Republican
in Bangor Friday, and of the or
ganization of Grant and Wilson Club at Ian
caster Hall this evening. The meeting then
dissolved with three cheers for the national
and State tickets, three for the speakers and
three for the Contnentals and Republican Ar
tillery.