Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-08-09

Ath. FITZPATRICK SPEECH
The General commenced by thanking hi
friends both those who sg-eei sld disagreed
with him IL politics for bis cordial reception ir
/ Vermont. lie then paid high compliment tc
/ Vermont soldiers. especially the First Vernon;
/ Cavalry who had beea under bis command IN Il,
WAY. lie then in his wonted fiery manner proceed.
edto deliver set speech carefully prepared chief
/ u devoted TO viiupersiion Of General Grant. lie
said he was not successful leader: that since
his accession to the presidency no government
bad been 50 plunderei since he days Of Repub-
lican Rome. Corruption filed the highest
places, through the iuordinGte ambition and lust
for power on the part Of the President. So
terrible had become the condition Of affairs that
such men as Sumner, Trumbull and Schurz
we're obliged to rise in their high stations, feel
ing the responsibility Of their senstoriAl oaths
upon them, aud seek to turn him from the posi-
ton he has 50 long disgrscei. lie cited the
San Domingo outrage. the Chorpenning
swindle, nepotism, the accepting Of presents &c,
as evidence ofhis unftness TO rule over the nation
He bitterly attacked the Leading defenders Of the
President, Matt. Carpenter, Roscoe Conking.
Gen. Logan snd Speaker Blaine. lie charged
Gen. Grant with disposing Of places Of trust for
pecuniary considerations, insisting ouch to be
the case IN the app .intments Of A. T. Stewart,
as Secretary Of the Treasury; Borie as Secretary
Of the Navy, and Gen. Butterield as Assistant
Treasurer Of New York. He repeated the stale
sud false democratic assertion, that under his Ad-
ministrStion it required four fitths of all the in
ternAl revenue to psy for it's collector.
He next Discussed the Liberal Republic
can movement lie declared that with
the Cincinnati Convention snd the
nomination Of Horace Greeley. it was clear
that all the brains, galsntry and talent hkd
gone out of the Republican Party. He then pro-
ceeded to attack Henry Wilson st leader Of
Know nottingham, forgetting that the Liberal
Republican candidate for Governor Of Vermont
is reported to have been member Of that effete
sad unpatriotio organization. He next analysed
the Philadelphia platform /; insisted that Grant
had done nothing TO save the Union. Lincoln |
with million and half Of soldiers, half Of
whom we're Democrats did that Lincoln freed |
the slaves. Universal suffrsge had not been es-
tAblished by Grant, for it did not exist. The |
people were paying the national debt, not |
Grants administration. Speaking Of the condi- |
ton of the South, he said if Grant had hung |
JEFF Davis and hundred of the rebel leaders, it
would have been common charity to the treat
ment the South had received from the present
4 administration. Grant had been successful in
maintaining peace, but in go doing he had lower
I'd the dignity of the American people. Irith
American citizens were now suffering in British
prisons (who and where Gen. KID lie hsd
1irn.elf been abroad and had blushed for the in
lignities heaped by foreigners upon American
,itizen, He deyelt on the case Of DR.. Houard
Gen. Grant. had done nothing for the soldiers
md s.ilors He charged him with want ofper-
,onsl integrity, with defrsuding Gen. Sherman
,ut OF S25, 900 in the purchase Of house by
committee Of soldiers for the latter with cruel
neglect of Admiral Fsrrsgut, Henry J. Ray
nond rnd Gen, Anderson, in declining to attend
heir funerals and refusing to leave ball At
Saratoga when summoned to the bedside Of the
lying Rawin,. He had appointed that jolly
)oy, Robson of his State to be Secretary of the
lsvy, who could not tell full rugged chip from
Delaware canal boat. He had banished Han
ock TO Montana for daring to use his name
gsinst him, in connection with the Presidency.
irant had no heart. His soldiers never loved
i'm lie never rode over the battle field with
he flag of victory in his hand. He never WAS
cen in the hospital. He fpoke of him as an IL
iterate man, who never read, and knows no law
ut his own will inordinstely selfish proves
is antipathy to civil service reform by retain
ng incompetent and dishonest men in office, and
hows his love for soldiers by turning one-leggsd
nd one-armed veterans cut Of place by the
core. Gen. Fitzpatrick finally protested sgainst
ROWING him with the glories Of the war, n an
nsult to the bravery Of Sherman, Sheridan,
homas and Meade
The soldiers did not want such man reelected
resident. He could mention five Major Gen
rails for Greeley to one for Grant who are
hey, Gen. KID Gen. Fitzpatrick then claimed
nat the republican party WAS dead and told
ome funny stories to illustrate his point. He