Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-04

Resolutions, Geo. w. Beery.
State Central Committee, j. S.
Robinson.
Hon. Parlee Carlin was selected as
Elector.
Our motion a recess till 2 p. M.
was taken.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Convention reassembled at the ap-
pointed time and Gen. j. G. Lee was
announced as President, with the u.s.
ual Vice Presidents.
SPEECH OF GENERAL LEE.
Gen. Lee, on taking the Chair,
spok out in meeting as follows, and
was frequently applauded. He said :
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVECTION 1t
is scarcely necessary for me to say
that most highly appreciate the hon
or conferred upon me in calling me
to the chair of this convention during
its work for the remainder of the day.
l can not but say that / most heartily
thank you,
You are come here to day with one
common purpose, and that common
purpose is to declare your voice in
favor of the principles on which the
Republican party is founded, and
which have guided it through it's past
hirtory, and will attend it in its tri-
umphant course in the future. IAp-
plause ] Certain men have given out
that the Republican party IS dead. II
ii is dead, tits composed of more liv.
ing men than l ever knew any dead
body to possess. Laughter. 1t is said
that its work is done. You might as
well tell the missionary as he enters
upon the borders of heath endom, and
has made few conversions, that his
work is done. With him, as with US
the heather are all around about us
Laughter.
This is tie year in which the peo,
pie of this country ore to express
their voice for President and Vice
President of the United States. The
Republican party, feeling the Respon
sihility of its position as the great
leading and controlling party of this
nation, is convening its State conven
tions throughout the Union to select
it's delegates at large, and to declare
it's purpose to re-elect the only mar
that is capable of being elected Presi
dent in 1872. Applause. There is
no use talking about it. The Com
merclal declares the fact when it says
that the convention meets to- day as {
ratification convention. That is the
fact, We are simply ratifying in ad-
vance what will be the result of the
Philadelphia convention when it shall
assemble in June next, and We are
simply pronouncing in advance what
the people of this country will ratify
in November, when they came to tho
ballot box. Applause.
After the very careful, precise. an6
lengthy review of the Republican par.
ty that was given you by your tenn
porary Chairman to-day, can moi
conceive that I should be treating
you fairly to touch upon either oI
those topics. Allow me to say that
congratulate you upon this conven-
ton, upon this assemblage of gentle.
men from all parts of the State to dc
the work that is here TO be done to.
day. =
1 will say to you firstly that 1 be-
lieve 1 bnt speak the voice of all gen
tlemen composing this convention
when I say We are thankful for all The
unmitigatedly bitter attacks that have
been made upon the present admins
tration. We are grateful for it be-
cause it has resulted in a reeoii, and
today the administration ofPTesidenl
Grant stands clear, and bold, and III
impeached. Applause.] Do I hear
that he has appointed his father, and
brothers in law, and sisters in-law to
office? l think 1 do. Well, and what
of it. I propose for one, to allow the
man that came out of a tannery in
Illinois, that said to Buckner at Fort
Donelson that he was going to move
Immediately on his works, and kept
on moving on the enemy's works, un-
til my own namesake, Lee, took of
his cap and reversed his sword to him
at Appomattox--I say he may ap'
point all his relatives in this country
and / won't say word about it. AnG
1 will say another, thing that if they
are composed of as good material a:
he is, they will make better officer:
than those would that are scoldins
about it. They say he has accepted
presents. Suppose he has. 1 have
not heard of anybody that has giver
him present proposing to play In
dian, and call it back again from him
The men who have made the presents
are not complaining. 1t IS the mel
who didn't make them,
Do hear that he is going to turi
this government into a military usur
patton, crushing out the liberties o
the people? Go with me back in mem
ory to the day that that magnifcen
army paraded through the streets o
Washington, the admiration an
prize Of the whole nation, and then q
the beck of linn who was their leade
quietly separated, each taking hi
place in the civil walks of life, an
the army was disbanded. Do yo
believe it Not at all. A voice, "No." p"
Let me call your attention to the fac
that he who was first in the love {
the army, and is now first in til
hearts of his countrymen, is an advo
cate of all the appliances of peac,
Applause.
We take pleasure in stating tht
General Lee never occupies doubt
full position. He makes a capt.
presiding offices and stands high
the esteem of the Republicans of Obi
Hence they delight to hovor him c