New-York tribune., 1872-08-02
GREELEY VS.. GRANT.
SPEECH OF GEORGE W. JULIAN.

SPEECH OF GEORGE W. JULIAN.
THOSE DREADFUL DEMoCRATs-HARD FACTS
ABOUT MORTON, BUTLER, GRANT, AND THE
PRESIDENTS PARTY-MR. GREELRYs RECORD
THE ISSUES OF THE DAY-THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY FALSE TO ITS PROFESSIONS
The following is the concluding portion of the
speech of the Hon. George w. Julian at Williams
port Ind, on Wednesday last: '..--.
Our Republican friends say they cannot work along
eide OF Democrats They say the conduct o. those men
during the such that they neither forgive
it nor identify themselves with movement In which
they are the principal element They say that Greeley
is elected President the great body OF his supporters
will be Democrats that he himself viii become their
instrument and tho Democratic party will IND It's way
back 10 power Let dspassionately consider these
objections My old Republican friends, let me ask you
why this dreadful apprehension OF Democratic contami
nationi Since when did you become 80 sensitive and
uneerly as TO your political assocaonsi Let us con
slider the matter in light Of known facts REFER iT
the first place. to little matter OF history which my
old Freeso frieuds have not forgotten In lS49 was
elected TO Congress from what was known az the
Burnt District" by o political combination. was
nominated by the FreeSoil party OF that distrc Dut
the great body OF my supporters were Democrats DID
become tool of these Democrats and betray the Anti
Slavery cause In Congress- No man, OF any party In
the district or out OF It made such an accusation
About the time Chase was sent 10 the unteu
Senate for ak years by handful Of Free5oers IN com
bnation with the Democrats in the Legislature OF ONO
Did he become Democrat and turn his back upon MS
Anti-savery professionsi The whole country knows
how grandy he fought Douglas and Buchanan and the
slave power during the whole OF his Senatorial term.
Some 81 years ago Charles Sumner first elected to
the Senate OF the United States by combination OF Con-
science Wings, FreeSoilers, and Democrats the latter
forming the great body of his supporters Has Charles
Sumner wavered the advocate and champion Of
Haa he hean tha fool o1ofa fao-
ton, or partyi need not answer the question.
OLIVER p MORTON
Let come nearer home and refer TO later events.
In 1856 the Republicans Of Indiana nominated Oliver p
Morton as their candidate for Governor If my recol-
lection me, he came to from the Democratic
party, and had been very disasteful specimen OF
Democratic politician He tells u.s. to-day that Liberal
Republicans all soreheads. and that every who
went to the Cincinnati Convention had plaster on his
cranIum. But when he over to he had been a
candidate for Office in the Democratic party year
from the time he became Of age till he Joined The
quite willing surrender their claims him to us
His head at that time needed plaster almost
since. But with all his SINS political and moral
we took him and made him our standard
could persuade Democrat TO Join US, we gave him
cordial welcome. If we saw Democrat coming toward
political embrace, and bestowed upon him fondest
earesses You know how many prominent Democrats,
and how glad all were TO receive them. When
the war came they were equally welcome and
number OF them. Ben. F. IButer, who had voted for
Breckenridge 65 times In the Charleston Convention,
became converted political sinner, and we turned
him TO the best account we coud durl ng
the war OF course, his conversion s was gen
DIX, Gen. Rosecrans, ana scores OF othets tbat
were Democrats and we were glad glad tGet, 70 get their
Democrat and his Republican followers would do well
to remember this wnile boastng that the Republican
questionable one since we are certain that If the
Democrats who gave their help had served the Rebels
have riampSed The boast at all events is not alto
gether consistent with the claim now constantly made
that Gen. Grant is the savior OF the country for ne
never voted except Buchanan in 1885, when the Re
publican party struggling into life and never be-
was made one by the bribe Of the Presidency ana the
assurance that he should have IL for two terms.
WHY THIS PANIci
My friends in the light OF these facts, which could
readily be multiplied, how to account for this
nervous dread OF cooperating with Dem6cratsi And il
they were good enough to fight with during the
why they not good enough TO vote with us after the
war IS over II agreed as to public questions
And what preense OF deceney there be in stunning
political association with Democrats who support Gree
ley, when we find you handin-gloye with the same
naughty people who are willing to support Grant
Should not decent respect for the opinions Of mankind
make you ashamed OF such ptifu subterfugesi How
is it that you are willing TO fellowship one class
OF Democrats and at the same time denounce Liberal
Republicans for ass0ciating with another class
whose political principles and antecedents are the
same And how IT, that through all the years since
the Republican party formed, you have been so
willing to accept the help OF Democrats in detail or In
small squads, while you blaze with Indignation
the idea OF welcoming the whole body Of Democrats in
the nationi Can some OF you Grant men solve this
problems Can you tell me why you consider IL capital
thing to have caught few struggling Democrats now
and hen during the past l6 years while yet you count
1t fearful disaster Ior the whole pody OF Democrats TO
Join you say shame upon such logc.and such politi
cal morality DO you not see that no mans essential
that votes with himi Can any contamination arise
from such circumstance Am / responsible for the
made responsible when he openly subscribes to my
political creed, and processes to have the political
from voting till all who vote yourscket known
to be honest men, and inspired by pure aims, that you
could never vote for anyb0dyf Would not all political
action if your ideas are to be accepted and put in
practicei For myself. 1 rejoice unspeakably in the
united action OF the Democrats throughout the country
this year, in their readiness TO stand with rejoice
because promises reconciliation and 10 the Ma
mels and wicked strfes OF the past and thus opens the
way for the calm consideration and wise settlement Of
those living problems which for years past have invoked
the judgment OF the people.
GREELEY's INCONSISTENCY.
But even granting the truth OF all have said old
Republican friends satisfied. Let me- therefore
follow up my appeal to them still further. They say
they cannot support Horace Greeley because he is
consistent They say he is validating old man. who
could not safely be trusted President. They say he
is a political weathercock, and they copy this from an
English Journal ask you TO consider these objections
for a moment For nearly third OF century Horace
Greeley has been the leading editor OF OF the fore
most journals of the world. For years past he
has each day written down his opinions and impress
sions upon current events telling the people Just
what he thought at the time as to political social and
reformatory questions Undoubtedly he made mistakes.
OF course he expressed opinions which afterward,
fuller information, he reconsdered. II would have re-
quired the talents of angel 10 write down the truth
IN every instance ana upon all subjects or course the
record OF such man presents some Inconsistencies, for
the very reason that he grew wiser from year year.
and an honest man, ready confess his errors
But, ask you has Horace Greeley really been
sistent and vaciatng upon great and vital questions
Has he not been firm and unhinehing Republican
since the Republican party formed You
say he is political weathercOck. / have q right