The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-18

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another favor to ask OF you, and trust you win
have have little time to say them in, and
nor appreciation. am republican from convic.
ton and by association. care more for
| THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
| aspirations or the ambitions Of any lesser men in
| America. Cheers) ! labored from the year 1886
to the year ls56-twenty years-to bring into being
| LIBERAL LIVING ORGANIZATION
that should make the republic Of the United States
free thing. Sixteen years ago the republican
party was brought into being. relgiously believe
| that 1t came into being by the prayers and labors
and the nobest aspirations OF the best portion OF
| our country. (Cheers.) believe 1t was brought
| into being to meet
| THE NEEDS OF THE ENDANGERED COUNTRY,
to carry out in America, under the Providence OF
Almighty God it's great mission so believe ana I
so from the time it was created to this power l
have never consciously uttered word or per,
formed an act to drive a man out OF
he win leave us against my wish, and
and would il it were OF any use, go on my Bonded
knees and ask him to stay with us, fight with us
| and go on with lis to victory. ] am not here to
appeal to you for small part OF our organization.
| The republican party Is made up or
THREE AND A HALF MILLIONS or MEN,
and for the most part OF the noblest, purest and
fight on, work on toll on, pray on to make II better
and make it worthy Of that great history II mas
already. achieved and which Is destined
come lCheersl Gentlemen, l would as soon
think of returning to the little church OF
which my wife is a member, and myself an I'M
worthy one and seek to dsband it, because some
clergyman has proved false to his God and his soul,
or some poor mortal did not live up to the profess
sion he has made, seek to do harm to the repub-
lcan party because OF these disaiiecti0ns.
Gentlemen, speak to you tonight from the deep
est convictions Of my soul ana ask you TO nave ave
faith in the republican party for 1t has produced the
greatest character OF our century,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
ADDlauSe) / ask YOU who held up his hands In
this city, and for him waded through blood for four
yeers, and vino emancipated your country
and your race, You wn9 ia si A Mh
reelected Abraham Lincoln; and you who stood by
and voted for
In 1868; ask you who supported your countrys
cause its liberty, its Justice, its humanity. its
Christianity, its ciyllizaton-I ask you, one
and all, to stand together, and you who
have started for new departure to come back
cheers)-join our ranks join In our victories, and
let rejoice together in the trlumphs of our cause
Gentlemen, there was a meeting here the other
night, about which do not propose to say anything
unkind or Of the men engaged IN It, ! do
not propose to initiate their example or to utter
reproachml things OF my Old comrades or to utter
words of condemnation OF party with which |
have acted and whose measures have assisted in
carrying. But, further, want to notice few of
those remarks that were made and adduced as rea-
for calling convention at the city OF Cincinnati.
1t was said that the republican party Is controlled
by oficeholders. Great God! Why, that party Is
three and half millions OF men-strong men, in
dependent men. What these men controlled by a
few thousand beggarly offceholders Why, gen
tlemen, there never was time, and no man ever
saw time, when ,,nuo, nrns
exercised so little control as they do now. Why
thirty years ago OlllcehOlders were power but
now look at the PROFESSIONS; lawyers or example
have dreamed OF. Look at your railroads and
their patronage. Look also at your telegraphs
Indeed all the vast Industries by which talents and
character find theatre for action. These are the
powers that control the governments. What is
paid to these oilcenodersS There are but
and postmaster's clerks, and fifteen thousand
postmasters, who get salary Of less than $500 per
govern us. Q4aughter) Gentlemen, this is not so.
will not say, but you can think what you please,
that the Convention at Cincinnati will be
AN OFFICE SEEKERS CONVENTION.
Qaughter) l will undertake to say that the con-
vention at Philadelphia will have fewer office
holders it than any convention that has met for
thirty years. (Cheels) find that on eight States
who have sent delegates there are only five Office
Senator Wilson proceeded to say-Let them go
to any section of the country and they would find
the republican party in favor of the measures OF
the administration, and the people were almost
UNANIMOUS IN FAVOR OF GRANT.
seekers that disturbed the unanimity Of the
t ept party We're stronger than that party
ITSELF and he and they knew 1t. He was sorry that
Mr. Trumbull had made these declarations he had
Trulnbnll was an old friend OF his. He had honored
and respected him. and he did not wish to say any
thing unkind of him. He made speech In that
hall, and every one who read 1t must
say that it was a most disingenuous address.
party had kept the men of the south under disabil,
tiles; but did not Mr. Trumbull himself vote for all
those disabilities Yes, he did, and he Senator
WILSON, had something to say on that subject.
every man who had gone into to-, the s rebel,
in the Cabinet. He would take of the disabilities
OF those who, since the rebellion, had behaved as
respectable men; he would remove the disabilities
of John Breckenridge, who had behaved himself
as an honest American citizen. Mr.. Trumbull told
them that these disabilities were maintained
ansS the to ssp ooe e Gee s ss haa ns
not there in office twenty rebel generals
and colonies whose disabilities had been removed
wanted to show the meeting that General Grant had
recommended the removal OF these disabilities.
The House of Representatives, by an almost unani-
the Senate Mr.. Sumner voted to put in the bill a
provision for civil rights-that II we should give
amnesty to the slave masters, we should extend
FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE.
He Senator WILSON, voted for that bill, but 1t was
lost. MIR. Trumbull and Mr.. Upton both voted
against amnesty, and If they had voted for it the
bin would have passed the United States. Jap
bill and he knew that the republican party had been
trying to get through the House
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
so that they could have the Civil Rights bill and
able to accomplish that work this session. Mr.
Trumbull said he going to Cincinnati to obtain
civil service reform; but upon this point it be
observed that the President of the United States
had appointed commission at the head
OF which was their fellow-citizen, Mr..
George w. Curtis That commission had
taken into consideration the question of
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,
they sat for two months, and they had finally agreed
upon a practical plan which would aid General
Grant in the principles he had proclaimed to the
country in regard 10 reform in the civil service. All
through the last three years the departments at
Washington had been trying to improve the condi-
ton of the civil service and effect reforms therein,
and he must say that never in the history OF the
country had they had such clerks as now; never in
the city of Washington were there clerks so efll-
cient as those who at present were employed in the
departments there. Mr.. Trumbul told them in his
speech that they had passed a law that military
man should not do civil duty. He was sorry
Mr.. Trumbull said that; for they had
not passed such law. They had law that would
not allow military man to be appointed to civil
Office, but there was no law to prevent man who
had been in the army from doing some civil duty.
Senator Trumbu said it was military man who
brought tho Presidents Message TO the Senate but