The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-13
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Amsrloan Matters.


responding to serenade, concludes:
'You will find Missouri, and Arkansas.
and Iowa. aud Illinois, and Kentucky,
and Tennessee, are coming mp in solid
phalanx and casting their votes. You
will hud that the State of Missouri,
which gave 40. 900 majority for the Libe.
raj Republican ticket in 1870, will give,
in 1879, not less than 10000 majority.
You will find that the State of Illinois
will be carried by 10000 majority. You
will find that all these great States are
coming up, and are going to supplement
the votes thut are cast in the Eastern
States; and while L am no prophet,
whilst I do not pretend to be prophet,
yet I am frank to say to you, that in my
judgment shall not be surprised if
Gen. Grant does not carry three States
in the nation" Applause Abiding
to Greeley, Brown said: ''lt has been
the custom aud habit thnt when any Of
the gentlemen who may have been anita.
gonistic to US, or to some Of the gentle
men who have been in the Liberal Re.
publican movement, to say that they
had no confidence in that great chief
who had been nominated at Cincinnati;
that they were willing to recognize him
as their leader; that, perhaps, they were
WllJuk tO fOLo ASk utnl oo L IColuGuLs
all the time qualifying it with doubts,
wisk arohed eyebrows and large mouths.
I want to say to you that I do not be.
long to that class. believe him to be
groat and grand statesman. Ap-
plause. / do believe that he has got
the largest head in America. |Applause. |
Now, my fellow.citizens, l have some
opportunity of understanding this ques-
ton. I have been, as far as Mr.. Greeley
is concerned, in conflict with him on
large and vital questions. have known
him for long years, and have been in
relations with him through the press.
II any of the gentlemen who stand be-
fore me have been his renders, say to
you frankly, with the honest experience
OF an antagonistio journalist, that I be-
lieve he is the ablest man to-day in Ame-
RIGA. have differed with him in great
and, as believe, in fundamental Ques.
tions. have differed with him on great
and grave questions in the public p~"-e
I have antagonized and hnye opposed
him, and l may, perhaps, have occa.
sionally ridicnled him; but I am frank
to say that of all the men who assume
the opposing, there was, as long as he
represented that question, no man that
undertook to say he was ridiculous or
captious. He took the plume from them
all, and the men to-day who are assailinQ
him are the very ones Who were formerly
pluming him to the skies as their chief,
their leader. Now. I say to you, in per-
feet frankness, that il Mr.. Greeley had
been nominated as President of the
Unitsd States on distinctive Issues of
what are termed protection, I should
never have sustained him; but when he
had been nominated on the recognized
grounds of his craftsmanship, his pa
triotism, his pure and unsullied honesty,
amid all the perversities of politics, then
am ready to accept him as my chief,
and to say that will go to the last ditch
with Greeley"
New YORK. July 12.-Horaoe Greeley
was serenaded at the Lincoln Club
House, and on his appearance was en-
Enthusiastically oheered. Mr.. Greeley
stood smiling on the up-turned faces,
while the band played "Hail to the
Ohief," and then retired. The clamor
failed to bring him out again. Orators
from Kentucky, New Hampshire, I'LL
nois. Tennessee, Missouri and Masen-
ohusetts have pledged their respective
States for Greeley.
u4ONAdOhlEnIS 6aAA't OuIy 1G.-Ino
caterpillar in unusual numbers has ap-
peared all though the cotton belt three
weeks enrlier than ever before. The wet
weather, which develops the worm, still
continues
NEW YORK, July 12.-The JYorld's s
special says Sumner was asked directly
yesterday, whether he would support
Grant or Greeley, and he replied that the
time had not como for him to speak out
yet. At present, no man was authorized
to speak for him.
Police arrangements are so complete
that it is believed repetition of the
scene of last year will be impossible in
the Orange parade to-day.
Mr. Greeley will be notified of MS
nomination by the Baltimore Conven.
ton at the Lincoln Club House, to-day.
The Union Republican General Com
mittee, at meeting last night, passed
resolutions, changing its name to the
Liberal Republican General Committee,
and accepting the Cincinnati platform
and nominees.
The members of the Southern delega-
tions to the Baltimore Convention are
requested to mail Immediately to the
Associated Press, New York, carefully
corrected lists Of delegates, for use in