Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-06

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Mr.. Morton proceeded to vindicate the
Ku-Klux law and claimed that the President
had executed and not abused 1t, and that it
had effected greater good in the least space
OF time of any law ever enacted. We only
want honest, fair elections, that all men of
all parties and creeds may have unrestricted
enjoyment Of political rights, and the Ku-
klux law looks to the securement of that.
He also enlogzed the republican party as the
one which had saved the country in the past,
and by which it must be preserved in the
future. Break it down and what security
have you that any other will carry out and
complete its work. Sometimes great light
is extinguished. Some one whom we have
trusted falls by the wayside; but we should
not falter or pause. The principles of the
party are greater than any, aye, of all its
leaders. 1t is said Grant has committed err
rors. Admit it, and we say his errors have
been trivial, and any man that thinks that
he can break up the republican party for that
or any other reason, commits great blum
der. The man who tries tins will utterly
TAIL, and will pass away unnoticea and for
cotton Stand fast to your principles. To-
morrow you will nominate General Grant.
He has told you he had no policy save the
will Of the people. He has redeemed that
pledge. The general judgment is better
than the opinion of any one man, and the
executive who follows the general judgment
Will be the wisest and will best subserve the
public interests. If General Grant ever be-
comes recreant to public principles, he will
pass away under public condemnation just as
others have passed away who became recreant
and unworthy of trust
Mr.. Loring of Mass, said the committee
on permanent organization was ready to re-
port. He asked that they report as soon as
ready, without waiting, as is usual until the
committee on credentials have reported, as
the latter had mere formal duty to perform.
A South Carolina delegate expressed graft.
LEGATION with which he had heard Gerritt
Smith, and now asked that the South be
heard through Gov. Orr of South Carolina
Mr.. Orr took the platform and pledged his
State for the ticket, referred to the ISLANDERS
to which Grant had been subject and COM
pared his experience in this respect with that
OF Washington and jackson. He ulogized
the President, whose election he considered
necessity. 1t Grant has failed as President,
The liked such failures. He claimed that the
administration had been a success at home
and abroad. He debated at some length on
the operations of ku Kluxism in the South
He sustained ku Klux legislation and claimed
the laws had been fairly and firmly executed.
Gov. Oglesby was called upon as the next
Governor Of Illinois.
He advanced to the platform and paid
grateful compliment 10 Gerritt Smith, who he
said had stood before the convention the i'm
personatipn OF American dignity and banevo-
lence. He referred to linn also as the great
agitator who, long before the republican
party was born, had championed the rights of
the down trodden, ut Il timc when most of US
were young and useless. (Cheers). The
speaker eloquently eulogized Grant ex-
pressed his grief when Senator from the
noble State that rocked the early cradle OF
liberty, pronounced against Grant the insult
ing sentence that he had been once tanner.
He eloquently sketched the Presidents his
tory as Il cadet AS a laboring man, "a sol
der, as a general the saviour of his country
He was frequently interrupted by immense
applause. Grant has been an enigma from
ms birth and to-day is puTer, greater and
nobler still than we ever thought him.
Speaking tor Illinois, which gave us the
immortal Lincoln, (great cheers Mr.. Ogles-
by desired to express the utmost confidence
IN Grants patriotism. good sense and purity.
We have perfect confidence in him and will
trust him four years longer without suspi-
cion or doubt. (Great applause
Great cries for Gen. Hawley of Conn who
was brought forward amid the widest cheer
ing.
He thanked the convention fer the kind
ness, but begged to be excused at this time
from making any remarks, and be permitted
to call tor the report of the committee on
permanent organization. Considerable con-
fusion and calls for the report and various
speakers
Mr.. Boruck of California asked that the
colored race might be heard through one of
Its own members (applause).
Mr.. VIM II. Grey of Arkansas come TO the
platform. He is medium sized colored man.
He said this was the first instance in which he
had appeared before a national convention as
representative of that oppressed race which
had lived among us for two hundred and fifty
years, and had so recently been lifted, through
the grace OF God, by the hand of men, out Of
their political degradation. He proceeded
with some well timed remarks, i'll clear and
educated phaze, delivered in good style. and
gracefully complmented Gerritt Smith, whom
he had seen for the first time to-day, and the
sight of whom had revived his faith in that
humanity which is divine. He advocated the
nomination Of Grant, whose name was tow
er of strength in the South, and the only name
which repentant rebels respect (cheerng).
The great problem to be worked out by the
republican party was not yet solved, nor its
duties ended. In the South the common civ
ilities Of life were withheld from the colored
people. They demand their civil rights, and
proper respect. There were two classes of
men whom the coored people feared they
were the people who hated them, and the
people who loved them too well.
He was afraid that if Horace Greeley, like
Abraham Ct Old took Sarah instead of Hagar,
the colored people could not afford to go for
him daughter and cheers. He was afraid
the old lady would have to hunt for water in
the wilderness. The colored people knew
that there was no chance for them outside of
Tit republican party. With all their ignor-
ance they were Grant men to- day, from Ar
kansas to the Gulf of Mexico (appause). He
praised God that the republican party would
keep their organization intact, and that victory
would perch upon their banners.
Mr.. Elliott of South Carolina, n member of
Congress was next called out He stood here
with the colleagues of his race, as the minis
tration of the accomplishing OF emancipa-
ton, and as being an example of the Justice
of the American people, pledged to earnest
cooperation and support of 5000 colored
voters to the work of this convention zap