Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-03
know what a converted Democrat

l know what converted democrat
is. We had one of them, e Andrew
Johnson was d converted. Democrat.
Do you want anotherl We di not
lose four years with nims We lost the
golden hour of the rebellion; we lost
the harves. of victory. The South
oftwitted us; she showed the greater
craftsmanship. When the question
was conhscation; when the question
was arrangement on the basis OF secur-
ity; when in the generous impulse OF
a triumphant moment the American
people were ready to forgive, she foist
ed converted Democrat upon us, and
in those four years we lost fifty per
cent. of the value which the hundred
thousand free-born graves and the
three thousand million of dollars had
earned. | know what a converted
Democrat is. do not call my friend,
the General Gen. Butler), converted
Democrat. / call him slfted Demo
crat since 1864 was the great sieve
that took the promiscuous mass of the
Democratic party and sifted it, the
pure flour from the chat. Every man
that answered to that bugle call of ma
tioDal necessity every true bit of metal
that the magnet Of the nations danger
drew out of the mass like Gen. Dix and
Gen. Butler, is a sifted Democrat.
That was thorough sitting. There is
nothing but chaff left in what was the
Democracy after that. There would
be no use in having a second sitting
none whatever. daughter aud APP.
plause.) .... r.....
You know that the copperhead OF
your neighborhood is not any different
from last year. You would not trust
him with the care of your martyred
dead; you would not absent yourselves
from the polls and put into his hand
the national debt. You know that as
well as l do. Multiply that man by five
or six millions, and he is the Demo
cratic party that went up to Cincinnati.
A man with half an eye open can see
it, inst as he could see that Mr. Gree
ley was their candidate before the Con
vention was held. AS long ago as the
18th of May, | said that Horace Gree
ley was the secession candidate. The
Tribune laughed at me some of the
newspapers said "That is one of
Phillips follies." But it turned out to
be so, and the disguise that was used
was OF the very slimmest. After brief
reference to General Buffers efforts to
pass the Ku-klux bill through Con-
gress, Mr.. Phillips continued: Gentle
men, this is a very serious generation
10 live in. There is no boys play left
for us. God laid on this generation
the burden Of wedding out the slave
system. They did it with the sacrifice
OF wealth and blood, such as no nation
has seen He lays upon us now the
burden of watchfulness. Mr.. Sumner
has said that revolutions never go back.
That is true indeed of centuries, but
it is terribly false of dozen years.
Poor, sad, overburdened France! why,
revolutions have been going back and
back for years and years. Does any
man suppose that Horace Greeley is
foolish enough to imagine that if the
Democratic party lift him into the
White House they will not dictate his
Cabinets Who elects hima Liberal
Republicans Where are theyi ~
l venture to say, and no man says 1t
with sadder heart, that the great, the
honored name OF the Democratic can
didate for the Governorship Of this
State, with all it's undoubted honesty,
will not take thousand votes from the
Republican party next November. Ii
there is any difference in the number
of Democratic votes that lift him into
notice. il will be similar to the one
that lifted Jack Adams in his place last
year. Liberal RepublicanisIn is noth-
ing but Ku-Kluxisnl disguised, and
behind it is JEFF. Davis, Banks and
other men who miscalcuiated their
chances. There is one man, however,
who, if elected to- the, Presidency,
would have strength Of will to resist
the demands Of the Democracy. be-
lieve the Democratic Candidate for
the Governorship is SO, thoroughly
pursuaded they are all Liberal Repub.
licans who would support him, that il
he was to be placed in the White
House he would, in the sublime seren-
ity of his content, imagine that nc
owed nothing to the Democratic party.
He would not allow point in very
strength or weakness, but from the I'M
alterable conviction that the state OF
Massachusetts, owed him the chair he
would pursue the even tenor OF his
way, undlsturbed by petty calls. Mr..
Phillips paid high tribute TO the per
tinacity and watchfulness of the South,
babe Republicans be on their guard,
for secession never slept and concluded
as follows: The reason why I support
the Republican party is that to my ut,
ter surprise, to my unutterable surprise,
to nv understandable delight, to my re.
lief, | have at last found party that
is willing to execute all the laws that
are given them. IT is for that reason
that say = Long live Ulysses Grant y