The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-07

says 1, or not AZ all. You did not mean
1t, but Horace Is nominated in spite Of
you, and now, like Capt. SCOTS coon.
you've got 10 come down" "That 10 co."
he replies. ~ never liked Greeley, but
he Is great man, and that other man that
you are running only graduated SO and 80
Ut West Point" ~ don't remember what
II was" l reply, "but II l understand
Alright, he graduated No. / Of Appomat.
tox. [Applausel And there were some
good scholars In that class. You know
your friend Lee was there. Laughter
and applause And we are told, in 1879,
that the man who commanded twelve
hundred thousand Soldlers-that was vic.
torious at Fort Donelson, OF VcksburR,
at Port Hudson, down through the vii.
derness to Appomattox-thst that man
is not a great man ! Loud applause
My friends, from the time that Nimrod
learned the art Of war there never has
been but one man equal to Ulysses 8.
Grant, and that man was the first Napo.
lean. 1t Is true Of Grant, as 1t was of
Napoleon, that he is not only great as q
military leader, but 10 civil affairs, also,
second TO no man OF ancieut or modern
time. But Mr. Grant has not paid tho ma.
tional debt himself Laughter.1 He has
not the money to pay It. Renewed laugh.
ter Yes, 1t you and who have paid the
debt, and he has taken care OF what we
gave him. And he has not done all this
alone, but through the honest, intelligent,
faithful men whom he has had the sagaci.
" TO bring around him and keep about
him. Enthusiastic cheers That is how
1t has been done, and, by the blessing Of
God, 1t Is how II Is going to DO done for
four years more. Tremendous applause.
But who is the leader Of these defamers
of Grant, and how CAME he before the
countryg tell you, my friends, with all
respect for him, that he came hero as q
fraud; That's So that his nomination
at the Cincinnati Convention was conf.
denCe game. Who remembers the calling
OF that Convention? Was It TO nominate
him? We all know what great anxiety
these men pretended to have for reform
If God had only given them the grace to
reform themselves what q glorious thing
that'would be land the particular thing
that was troubling them at that time was
revenue reform. David A. Wells and
Prof. Perry delivered harangues on the
subject. And then there was Grosvenor.
and Gratz Brown and one or two others
called a Convention that was to nominate
a candidate that was to break down pro.
lection. And they got together. And
there was school friend Of nine and
your neighbor, John Cochrane, misses,
that went to Cleveland to get up nomi-
nation TO beat honest Old Abe, who Is in
heaven now. Well, they met, and they
made the nomination, and when this Free
Trade Convention that met to put down
protection came out with their nominee
we felt as Pat did when he had been hunt.
ing rabbits. When he was going home,
he suddenly came upon donkey standing
up to his knees in clover. "HOly Jasus,"
says he, iii there's not the father OF all the
rabbitsl" We felt that that Free Trade
Convention had presented us the father oil
all the ProtectioniSis. [Applause and loud
laughter. But those men who nomina.
ted Greeley knew that the Southern States
could not be fooled, so they set up howl
about amnesty, and they arc telling you
now that the Southern people are all dis.
iranchised. "What do you mean by
that?" let me ask. That they can't
vote? Why, there is not man Of them
that, under the laws of the United States,
can't vote. The third clause OF the -Four.
tecnth Amendment only prevented from
voting those who held Office at the time
of the rebellion, and who added perjury
to their crime Of rebellion; and your ma.
tional Congress has been restoring to
them their rights until, to-day, there Is
less than 100 Of those villains, black with
crime, perjured as they are, that are not
permitted to hold office. Now, Ben But.
Ter has been mentioned here tonight.
Applause, Ben amt handsome man,
but never sec him or think OF him with.
out thanking God that there was at least
one man that hung rebel for doing dis.
honor to the national flag; and If we c.
cape signal judgment as nation TOR
not hanging every rebel that Is now dis.
franchished, / shall thank God and take
courage. Now, here are two things that
work beautiful together. There is Mr..
Sumner, nextto the father OF all the rab-
bits in this contest, telling you that Mr..
Grant has no business to be in Washing.
ton. And why? 1t makes the rebels
feel bad. Loud laughter.] After re.
terring to Mr.. Greeley's willing TO let the
Southern States go rather than risk the
hazard of war" speech, in Pittsburgh, he
continued: and yet, perhaps, l ought not
to blame Horace. There Is eminent au-
thority for Horace's views Of secession,
no less than the Bard Of Avon. In his
play oil "Much Ado About Nothing" Is
introduced Dogberry, who is called upon
to set the watch for the city, and In Civ.
ing directions, tells one, "You shall com.
prehcnd all vagrom men; you are to bid
any man stand, in the Princes name"
And the Second Watch says: "How If he
will not standI"
DoGDERRY-"Why, then, take no note
of him, but let him go; and presently call
the rest Of the watch together, and thank
God you arc rid OF a knave." Roars Of
laughter,
In conclusion, Mr.. Townsend, after al.
luding to some Of Mr.. Greeley's vagariGs,
declared that tho country could not afford
to elect him. The meeting then adjourn.
cd, with three rousing cheers for the Re.
publican National and State candidates.
The Forthcoming Roorbaoh.