Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-08-14
Whole No. 1913
Hos. BEN WADE IN IEFFEnenr

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The Conneaut Reporter says: /: Hon.
Is: +. Wade addressed a Graut and
WllsOn meeting in Jefferson, on
saturday evening last. He made enc
Oh those speeches characteristic of
himself, which was received with con-
siderable enthusiasm By the audience.
we do not pretend to give a complete
synopsis, but will note the principal
points. He commenced with the
usual apology in which he paid a high
tribute to the Republicans of ''Old
Ashtabula." He then started with
the proposition that there never were
but two great national political parties
In any free country. and from the
very nature Of things, there never
could be. He then traced the history
of the Republican and Democratic
parties on the questions of slavery,
secession and equal rights. He
thought, notwithstanding its plat
formI the Democratic party of to-day
was the old Democratic party. There
was no evidence that they had
repeDted. 1t was more probable
that the few thousand liberals had
changed than that three million
Democrats had changed. He did
not know why they are styIed
Liberal Republicans " unless it was
because they were more liberal to
TRAITORS perjured to H." Amnesty
had been carried as far as he wished
to see it. He was not IN favor OF
granting amnesty to those rebels who
had been in Congress and taken an
oath to support the Constitution, and
then taken a counter oath to support
the Confederate constitution, all
others have been pardoned. If Gree
ley were elected it would be a Demo
cratic triumph and a Democratic
administration. The eOpperheads
boasted that they had led Greeley
by ring in his nose, y and wanted
to know If the Liberals would ''steer
him with ring in his tail" Demo
Gratis would elect him and it would be
but just for them to control him.
That the Liberal Republicans would
stand no more show with Tweed,
Seymour, Forrest and Company, in
regard to offices and Federal patron
age, than q bOb-tailed bull in fly
time" We consider this as decidedly
the best hit of the evening consider
ing that he was speaking in the
Jefferson court house. He then passed
to the record Of Horace Greeley. He
had been friend of Mr.. Greeley for
a great many years. Had been a sub
seriber to his excellent psper for about
thirty years, and it gave him no
pleasure to speak against him. But
his conduct for the past few months
had been the most unaecountable of
any public man he had ever known.
In fact, he could not account for it on
any principle Of honesty whatever.
While being the leader of his party
he had attempted to betray it into the
hands of its enemy for the sake of a
Democratic nomination. He COM
pared him with Judas 1seariot and
Benedict Arnold. He then spoke
very highly OF General Grant. His
position during the rebellion as chair
man of the committee on the conduct
of the war, gave him an excellent
to become acquainted
with General Grant. He had spent
many nights in Grants camp, and he
knew him to be an honest, unassum-
ing, hard-working man. There had
been the most villainOus Systematic
to break him down, of any
public man that ever lived. General
charges had been made against him
in such a manner as to deceive q even
the very elect, )" but they were "false
as h-l.n He thought the nation
owed Grant a debt Of gratitude it
never could pay. He explained the
San Domingo quarrel between Senator
Sumner and General Grant, claiming
that the removal of Minister Motley
was the cause of Summers opposition
10 annexation. Sumner would have
to do with the President or
State Department, except to quarrel
with them. There were nine Treaties
n his hands that he would not send
% the Senate. For this reason, when
he committees were organized fer
he next session he was not chosen as
Chairman of the Committee on For
ign Relations. but was given the
,hairmanship of another committee.
he highly esteemed Mr..
sumner in many respects, yet from
'ersonal knowledge of the whole
flair, he knew Mr.. Sumner to be in
he wrong. During his speech he
vas interrupted by man exclaiming,
But Grant burdens us with taxes ~
lr. Wade replied that Grant taxed
10 man, that his whisky and tobacco
Iere the only articles taxed by the
eneral government, aud Congress
'as responsible for that That if the
entlemen had "a horse or an ass it
light be taxed by the State but not
y the general government" He
len spoke for some time on the
nances, showing that while the
lministration had paid $500, ,OOO, 600
the public debt, and thereby
Opped so, COO, 900 q year of interest,
had reduced the taxes $3.50, 100000
er year. He had been a close OBJ
'rver of the different administrations
+ eighteen years, and he knew the
resent administration to be the most
onest and economical one our gov
srnment had during that time. He
osed with a strong appeal to Repub-
,ans not to go into eO-partnership
it'll the rebels, eopperheads and