The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-12
THE PRESIDENT.
Splendid Defense of Elm and the Re-
publican Party-Spsech Of the Late
Attorney General, Judge Hoar, at
Boston, on Saturday Evening.

| LEU ln6 pleasure anu uOHOE VI au
dressing an audience Of my fellow
citizens in Faneuil Hall upon polit-
ical issues. That night, when this
hall was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity, and throngs were pressing
for sdmittance, but could not get it,
was called to ratify the nominations
of the first nominees of the national
Republican party.
Fellow citizens, I owe to the
Grant Club the honor of being in
vited to address you this evening
and the opportunity which this occa-
sion affords. But for myself the on
ly Grant club that 1 belong to is
the Republican party Of Massa-
chusetts (applause), and the only
ratification Which-&he nomination Of
Gen. Grant requires is that ratifica-
tion which will be given at the polls
next November (Applause.) I was
younger considerably when I ad-
dressed a meeting in Faneuil Hall
than I am now, and on that occasion
though our party in the State had
been but short time in existence, I
ventured to promise that Massachu-
setts would give the nominee of the
National Republican party a hundred
thousand votes. We gave him one
hundred and seven thousand. 1 do
not promise now that l have grown
older, fellow citizens, but propose
we give Gen. Grant that many, and
good many in addition. ZAP.
plause. Massachusetts, as far as
any indication has been given, re-
tains her fidelity to the Republican
party and the Republican cause.
We have upon the ticket our own
fellow citizen, Henry Wilson, man
who has built himself up under our
own eyes to this national recogni-
ton, a man of clean hands and an
honorable polity, a man of sympa-
thetic heart, a man who has devoted
his youth and manhood to the SER
vices of the public, doing faithful
and admirable service to the party
who thus recognizes his title to well
earned distinction. might say,
fellow citizens, that there was no in
terruption TO the respect and conf
dence which the people of Massa-
chusetts repOse in Gen. Grant, and
yet cannot forget, and 1 suppose
none of you can forget, that there is
one exception in the Senator from
Massachusetts, who has recently, 70
the regret of so many of his friends,
poured out upon the candidate of
the Republican party a measure Of
invective which could hardly be ex-
ceeded if it had been addressed to
the common enemy of mankind. 1
mentioned the name Of Charles
Sumner. Kisses and applause 7
No, no, no, fellow citizens, let no
Kissing or Of censure in Faneuil
Hall greet that honored name. No;
ne has stood up before you the
champion of freedom, the honored
son of Massachusetts, loud ap-
plause and has done noble SER
vice. Ihave wqlked humbly by his
side from my youth up, since 1 first
enlisted for that war, and l honor
him still, and the honor 1 feel for
him adds point to the regret that in
his advanced age, upon such a per-
sonal issue, upon such considera-
tions, he could have INDUCED in such
a speech at such time. 1t is sad
for Gen. Grant; it is sad for the Re-
publican party; it is saddest Of all
for him. The Republican party of
Massachusetts can address their
Senator in the language Of the
Psalmist, at is not an open enemy
that hath done me this dishonOr,
else l could have borne it; but it
was thou my guide, my counsellor,
my own familiar friend" / say it is
saddest for him, because the choice
is very soon to be presented to him
whether he will stand by the Repub.
lican party, its organization, It's
principles, its standard bearer, or
whether he will desert in the face Of
the enemy. 1 know to well what
that choice must be, from the record
of his life, to doubt that he will
very soon realize the full sense Of
the position in which he has placed
himself But, while we have looked
to Charles Sumner for an eloquent
vindication of lofty principles, his
judgment of men seems sometimes
to be at fault. But that speech has
fallen as dead upon the people of
Massachusetts as if it had been a
leading editorial of a Democratic
newspaper. And why In it so?
Confidence is plant of slow growth
but confidence once secured is not
likely or easily to be disturbed.
Why, l remember, q dozen years
ago, there was a dinner given to a
chess-player by the name Of Morphy,
at the Revere House, a hotel in this
city where, as / am credibly inform
ed, they sold wine contrary to the
statute laws Of the Commonwealth,
and at that dinner Chief Justice
Shaw, and DR.. Walker, the President
Of Harvard College, were invited to
attend as guests, to celebrate the
great triumph Of chess, and they
went, and, a short time afterWard,
that eloquent orator and amiable
critic of mankind, Mr.. Phillips,
came out with a piece Of invective
in his most trenchannt and finished
style upon these two gentlemen,
charging Chief-Justice Shaw and
President Walker with violating and
setting at naught one of the most i'm
portant laws Of the Commonwealth.
1t was most elegantly done, most
ably argued, and the astonished peo-
pie of the State read it and looked
little amused, and possibly, 1 sup
pose, some of them answered that
they ought not to have gone; they
rather thought they made a mistake.
But the great Chief-Justice went
down to his honored grave, and the
ex- President Of the college still lives
in his honored retirement without a
ripple upon the surface of their fair
fame. And Why2 The people Of
the State knew Chief Justice Shaw
and President Walker; they did not
doubt but that on some occasions
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