The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-18

Now York, July l2-GrecIey was Scr
radei at the Lincoln Club ~IIoass, ~
night. His appearance was checred.
Grccler stood smiling IN the upturnod
faces while the band played "Hail to the
Chief and retired. TIE clamol failed
to bring him out again,
Orators from Kentucky, New Hamp-
shire, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri and
Massachusetts, PLEDGED their respective
States for Greeley.
Green Haven, July l2.-Gratz Brown,
responded to q Scrrade, concluded "You
will find Missouri, and Arkansas, and TO-.
wa, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee are
coming up in solid phaIanx aud casting
their votes. You will find that the State
Of Missouri, which gave I0,0sO majority
for the Liberal Republican ticket in 1870,
will give, in 1872, not less than one hun.
dred thousand majority. You will find
that the State of Illinois will be carried
by thirty thousand majority. You will
find that all these great States are coming
up and are going to supplement these that
are cast in Eastern States, and while | am
no prophet, yet am frank to say to YOU
that in ny Judgment shall not be sur
prised if Gen. Grant does not carry three
States in the Nation. Applause.
Abiding to Greeley, Brown said 1t
has been my custom and habit, that when
any of the gentlemen who may have been
antagonistic to us or to some of the GEN
tlemen who have been in the Liberal Re-
publican movement, say that they had no
confidence in that great chief who had
been nominated at Cincinnati; that they
were willing to recognize him as their
leader; that perhaps they we're willing to
vote for him as President, at the same
time qualifying it with doubts, with Ques-
tions, with inteIrogation', with arched
eyebrows and large mouths-I want to
say to you that | don't belong to that
class. | believe him to be a great and u
grand statesman. Applause. I believe
that he has got the largest head in Amer.
lea. Applause.
Now my fellow citizens | have some
opportunity of understanding this ques-
ton. have been, so far as Greeley is
concerned, in conflict with him on large
and vital questions. have known him
for long years and | have been in rela-
ton with him through the press. If any
of the gentlemen who stand before me
have been his readers, I say to you frank
ly, with the honest experience of an anita
gonistic journalist, that | believe he is
the ablest mar to-day in America. have
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lieve, in fundamental questions. | have
differed with him on great and grave
questions in the public press. | have
antagonized and | have opposed him and
| may perhaps have occasionally ridiculed
him, but | am frank to say, that Of all the
men who assume to the opposing side,
there was as long as he represented that
question, no man that undertook to say
he was ridiculous or captious, he took the
plume from them all and there are men
to-day who are assaiIing him. who were the
very ones who were pluming him to the
skies as their chief, their leader. Now |
say to you in perfect ~frankncss, that if
Mr.. Greeley had been nominated as Pres
iaert Of tho L. $ on distinctive issues Of
what are termed protective, | should new
er have sustained him, but whcu he had