The Portland daily press., 1872-04-20

speeches. were so far ABOVE uho "'"''i ',
campaign addresses that the audience was heiu
enchained for five hours AT quarter past
o'clock every seat in the house was occupied,
and at a quarter past II, when Mr.. Rainey, OF
South Carolina concluded his remarks, very
few of the seats had been vacated. The meet
ing was organized at 8 o'clock precisely, but /
before the chairman could be heard the surg
ing masses in the back ground determined to
break through the Gordon of police, and the
chairman was obliged to give the required per-
mission. Then there poured forth towards the
platform the
GREAT MULTITUDE
that filled the aisles and every inch of availa-
BILE space in the hall. Order having been at
length established, the chairman, Mr. VIM. E.
Dodge, one of the finest types of a merchant
Prince our city contains-a genial, kindly
gentleman, with immense. endowments of head
and brain and heart-who came here forty
years ago raw Yankee boy with his bundle on
his arm and has amassed fortune of at least
dozen millions of dolars-every dollar of it an
honest one-besides giving literally all the
while to every deserving charity, whether secu-
lar or religious-this practical shrewd man of
affairs opened the meeting with some sensible
remarks expressive of the Importance to the
business interests of the country of the re-
election of Grant. An address and resolutions
| followed after which
.r GENERAL sICKLEs,
standing ON the clutches which are the only
substitute he can find for the leg he lost at
Gettysburg-where he condoned all the offences
of his earlier days and became member of the
Republican church by the baptism of fire-re-
viewed the political situation with force, can
dor and eloquence.
.y SENATOR WILSON 80. -.
was the next speaker, and he was at his very
best. Such compact grouping of facts was
just the thing for his audience. He was listened
to with the closest attention, but although he
requested the vast throng to refrain from ex-
pressions of appreciation, they found it quite
impossible to repress the applause which his
strong points elected. When he ridiculed the
pretence that 81 900 postmasters and 1000 post
masters clerks $4,000 of the former receiving
salaries, the highest of which was less than
$500 per year, and $1,000 other Federal office
holders could control three and half million
OF Republican voters in the United States, COM
prising party that 'came into being by the
prayers, the labors and the noblest aspirations
of our countrymen,' the house came down
with whirlwind of laughter and applause.
He made some telling points on Trumbull and
Schurz, particularly when he demonstrated that
their votes and the vote of Upton would have
carried the last
AMNESTY BILL
in the Senate it passed the House. He
maintained that the Government had not been
SO well administered as it is now since 1929
that the offices in Washington were never SO
well filled, and he fortified his position by such
an unanswerable mass of evidence that he car
ried conviction to every unprejudiced nearer.
Although it was within five minutes of II
o'clock when Senator Wilson concluded his
mastery speech, the crowd did not diminish
nor the enthusiasm abate when an armed chair
was brought to the front, and
SENATOR MORTON
his lower limbs being paralyzed-took his
seat in it as he was introduced by the chair
man. For an hour the Senator held his audi
dence in wrapt attention as he proceeded to
show in the clearest possible manner how well
the country was governed what improvements
had been made in our Indian policy, with what
sagacity our foreign affairs had been handled,
how utterly groundless and mendacious the |
charges of corruption were, and how MAORI
ty of the Senate had surrendered nearly the |
whole session to a series of Investigations, the
only result of which had been to prove that |
there was nothing to investigate. He observed |
Oh the rowing commission the New York
custom House, that its report, when printed
would make volume at least six times as
large as the Family Bible, but it would resem-
BILE the Scriptures in no other particular what
ever He compared the Democratic party to a
man riding in the cars backward He never
sees anything till he has got clear by it. His
remarks on Amnesty were well received. After
stating that every rebel was allowed to vote.- |
that - .-sr r.
10 "a. BUT ONE DISABILITY
rested upon any man engaged in the rebellion.
and that is eligibility to hold office, that this
disability applied to only three classes, viz ex-
members of our Congress who joined the rebel
lion, deserters from our army to that of the
Confederates, and members of secession con-
ventions who voted to carry their States out of
the Union,-he declared with emphasis that he
never would give eligibility to Senatorship to
jeff Davis, and the sentiment was received
with vehement and prolonged cheers off"
said he, you bring such men back into public
life you cannot convince the children of the
country twenty years hence that there was any,
thing wrong in the rebellion"
At five minutes before IL the eloquent Senator
from Indiana concluded his admirable speech,
and late as it was the announcement of the
name of
HON. J. H. RAINEY, F5-t-
of South Carolina, was received with cheers,
vigorous and hearty. Mr.. Rainey is man ap-
parently about thirty-iye years of age, of
dark olive complexion, curly hair, and a very
pleasing, modest expression. He spoke for
about twenty minutes quite rapidly and in ex-
ceedingly good taste. He referred to the boon
Of freedom which his people had received from
the Republican party, and affirmed that they
would never be ungrateful to or deserters from
a party to which they owed SO much. He spoke
with deep feeling about the Ku Klux outrages
and the demoniacal spirit in which they were
and concluded with a glowing apos-
'rophe to the land in which every man over
whom the flag floated was free call'
In all respects the meeting was
A BRILLIANT SUCCESS
It goes to show that the solid thinking people,
who have no interest whatever in the struggles
and squabbles of mere politicians, are DESTROYS
Of renewing the lease of power which this Ad-
ministration has made such sensible use of dur
ing the past three years, and that there is a
and deeply abiding confidence felt
in the ability and integrity of Gen. Grant 81
YARMOUTH.
Our Pennington Letter.