The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-30
GOVERNOR uGLEsBY.

His Able Address at the Republican Meeting
in Springfield, IllinoIs-The Popular Regard
for President tirunt-Keen Dissection of the
Cincinnati Movement and Vigorous Hand
ling of its False Pretenses.
AT the mass meeting held in Springfield,
Illinois, on Wednesday evening of last week,
to ratify the nominations for state officers
made by the Republican State Convention
on that day, Hon. Richard j. Oglesby, the
candidate for governor, made powerful
address, from which we quote the follow
ing:
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE.
am satisfied with my country. | have
faith in it. | have faith in our grand old
constitution. have faith in the intelli-
gence and the heart of the great American
people. In my heart, before my God, |
love my country and love its institutions.
am willing to give my blood. for it. 1t
has made me o prosperous and happy
man. | wish it to endure for generations
to come, and to be handed down to endless
posterity as grand fabric Of human liberty
to last and bless mankind and make them
happy. | am willing to make sacrifices,
and, therefore, when see this party spring
up like a mushroom, charging all kinds of
crime and villainies upon our form Of gov
eminent | become decided in opposition
to it. tt ~ rEf
know our national Congress means to
do right. Our simpe-hearted President
means to do right he is not a gaudy Pres
ident, such as Andy johnson was he is
not dignified President, in the sense gen.
orally used in speaking of persons of dig
nifty. lie is plain, simple man, with an
honest heart; he has been tried on many a
field, amid the darkest clouds, and led on
our hosts to victory |; he conquered what
was assumed to be the unconquerable host
of the enemy. He brought back the flag
and laid it down, and then, in the kindest
words, he said to the rebels, the vehement,
hard-hearted, stiff-necked rebels, "now go
to your homes take your sidc-arms and
your personal property go back to your
own states, and live obedient to law, and
that is all that will be required. Can you
call that man hated tyrant?
If this great nation turns its back on
Gen. Grant after the triumph he has ache
we'd, it will do wrong. 70 defeat that man
now and send him back into the walks Of
private life, with the condemnation of the
American people upon him, would be an
act of ingratitude not to be forgiven this
side of the great shining throne of heaven.
| ask you to go to any soldier Of the United
States and ask him if, in the fearful ordeal o.
civil war, he ever received an unkind word
from that man. He is plain, simple little
;. man, poor as poverty could make him.
poor in everything but that quiet, solemn
mien that God gave him; never heated,
ever ready for the worst crisis, he led US on
to victory and brought us back to security
and to peace. He has been President fol
d four years, and the great American people
indorse and ratify him, and we see by thu
sentiment of this grand old convention o
to day that the people will elect him fo
four years more. Enthusiastic applause.
He is not bellies lettres man; not at all -
ID He is a man Of no very great accomplish
ments neither was the immortal Lincoln
lie is a plain man, scarcely able to defent
himself in common speech. He is not flip
pant with the tongue, nor glib in speech
but deprived of that great comfort OF beirI
able to make stump speech. lLaughte
and applause.l