The Shasta courier., 1872-10-19
CHARLES E. PICKETT.
Remarks of Colonel Mosby.

Remarks of Colonel Mosby.
On rising to respond, Col Mosby was re-
ceived with applause and three cheers. He
said he had come to discuss the great political
topic of the day, to define his position, and to
defend himself from the aspersions and opin-
ions of partisans.
If his counsel had prevailed, all who had
heretofore been fighting the great battle of con-
stitutional liberty together would be united and
active, pressing on honorably for success. But
in an unlueky moment some of the leaders of
the Democracy were seized with an unaccount-
able panic, and while thus demoraized had SUR
rendered to the enemy; not the main enemy,
but band of
PLUNDERERS, BUMMERS,
Feraesrs and dead beats who had assembled at
Cincinnati and styled themselves Convention.
lApplause. He preferred Grant to Greeley,
IL applause, and he came to proclaim it boldly
and give his reasons for so doing. What claim
had Greeley on him or on the people with whom
he ivedq Had not his paper, the Tribune, for
the past thirty years been perfect Vesuvius,
belching forth and scattering the hellish lava Of
hate and discomfort through the South, tramp
ling under foot its institutions, insulting It's
noblest and best men; in fact doing all that
ldevilish hate and ingenuity could suggest to
crafty his malice and creed7 and yet he was
asked to vote for this man for President BECAUSE
the Conservative party could not afford to be
beaten. The party had been oftentimes before
There was no dishonor in defeat; but, the fact
was, they could not afford to be honest.
1t means that honesty is not the best policy
1t means that political contests are not inaugu-
rated for great principles, or, in other words,
principles don't pay; or still further, they don't
want any principles which do not pay. IAp-
plause.] For the first time in the history of a
great party, they deliberately inscribe
"SPOILS'
Upon their banner, and expect to march to
victory.
According to this theory of theirs, all men
who battled for principles were fools, and the
gallant three hundred at Thermopyl@ ought to
have surrendered at once-gone over to the
enemy and secured as much as possible of the
garbage Of the re- camp: applause The sps;
That had been the cry Of the outs ever since
he had heard Of parties. But the trouble with
such men was THEY were not corrupted. Zap
plause. But, oh! how willing they were to be
corrupted Why, if by any accident Greeley
should be elected, the railroad companies would
have to run double daily trains to Washington
in order to accommodate this patriotic crowd,
and aid them in their efforts to be corrupted.
lApplause.
SASSsAO-a oAASA1
MED Walker had come to Virginia, entered
business, conducted himself as q gentleman,
and he defed any one to say truthfully that he
had been guilty of one mean act toward the
people of the South. Would his friends and
hackers dare proclaim that of Mr. Greeley? and
the fact is, the worst thing which can be said
against Grant is that he took Horace Greeley's
advice-was forced by . pressure of circuIn-
stances to follow the plan advocated by Greeley
inf kho he a<xf ~,
South. Gentlemen say Mr.. Greeley has now
changed. He said that Greeley had not changed
q single spot in his radical hide. Applause
he next discussed the complexion of the
Cincinnati Convention, which he said was com
posed of political lazzaroni beggars on horse
back, suppiants for spoils, men who were
offended with Grant because he could not feed
them all. CApplause and shouts of hurrah for
Grant,
Those were the men. It had got so now that
as soon as Radical got out of Office or was
kicked out for rascality, he assumes the air of
injured innocence,
TALKS soRRowFULLY
About corruption and nepotism, [appiause, I
and then joins the Liberals Dr. johnson once
said the last refuge of scoundrel was to call
himself patriot. Now-a-days the last refuge
of disappointed o6ice seeker is to call himself
q Liberal fLaughter.1 The gang at Cincin-
matt were 80 mean that they even attempted to
steal from Grant the man they were moving
heaven and earth to beat. They had the i'm
pudence to insert the amnesty plank in their
platform, when they knew full wen Grant had
been Recommending it to Congress for two
years. fCheets for Grant were then given with
. win.
Col. Mosby then read several of the resolu-
tions of the CincinnEi platform, and said they
might be good enough for some men to stand
Applause, ] and he did not think good enough
for any Southern man.
It contained every heresy Of the old party in
its most radical day, and just here he wanted to
say that he spurned alike both platforms. His
support Of Mr. Grant was purely question Of