Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-03
SPEECH OF SEC. DELANO, AT
CINCINNATI.

GENTLEMEN:-lc come tonight TO see
you rekindle the old fires of the Repub-
1ican party. The Democratic candidate
for the presidency has said very lately
that he has seen parties rise, become
corrupt, and be overthrown, and he
desires to see the immediate overthrow
of the Republican party. He wishe:
to become President himself. l dom
belong to that class of men that wan
tosee the Republican party overthrOwn
Do you? ICries of "No, "No."] But
/ belong to that class of Republican:
that did want to see the rebels over
thrown during the war, and that de
sires to see them overthrown whenever
they attempt to raise their heads fol
authority hereafter, until they fully
and faithfully assent to all the legiti'
mate results of the war. Overthrow
the Republican party, that party which
has given liberty to four millions o.
slaves! Overthrow that party that has
saved the Unionl He is as much 6
traitor to-day as he was seven years
ago who desires to overthrow the Re-
publican party.
Why should the Republican party
be overthrown What has it done
that it deserves destruction What has
it failed to do that it was in its po wer
to do in order to advance humanity,
civilization, and prosperity for this
great nation? 1t has eXtinguished,
during the present administration,
three hundred and forty millions OF
your public debt, and reduced annual
interest on the public debt over twen-
ty-two millions, and, during the same
time, it has reduced taxation in all
forms until, so far as the internal reve-
nue. is concerned, there is nothing on
the tax list, except spirits, tobacco,
malt liquors, and small amount OF
taxation on stamps. It commenced
the reduction of taxation the moment
the war was over. It said then: "We
will reduce the burdens of the people
and lift up their prosperity, as we have
saved their government" There were
former Republicans, gentlemen, who
know as we'll as / do the great work of
the Republican party, and, indeed,
who participated in the consummatiOn
and accomplishment of this great work
of the war. But they were not satisfied
with the nomination Of Gen. Grant in
1868, and L want to tell you why. There
were large number of civilians-it is
needless for me to name them-who
dreaded the idea of seeing man who
had been In the army put In the presi-
DENTAL chair. They knew that the
brave men OF the country would natur-
ally prefer men of the army, when they
knew them to be true and good. They
remembered that there was not only q
Grant, but that there was Sherman;
not only Sherman, but a Thomas;
not only Thomas, but a Butler;
CHEERS ]; aye, and not only a Butler,
but a Phil. Sheridan. TRenewed
cheers.] That is why you heard the
cry of a military ring. But, gentlemen,
have been in public life some thirty
years. have seen Gen. Jackson, Gen.
Harrison, Gen. Grant Chief Executives
Of the United States, and never want
to see better, more honest, faithful and
true men than the men Of the army
have been when they have been Presi-
dents. lApplause.]
This convention at Cincinnati that
ended in the nomination of Greeley
was no new idea. The spirit of the
convention was at least four years old.
| don't say that it was not new that
they should take Mr.. Greeley-far
from it; but / do say that there has
been a premeditated and combined
and preconcerted determination to pre-
vent any of the great officers of the
army from receiving the nomination,
and that effort eliminated in what is
known as the Cincinnati convention.
Now, my friends, that convention
rave the country as candidate Horace
Greeley. They say that it was Re
publican convention. They say that
,ratic party; don't believe it. / do
believe, my friends, that Jonah was
by the whale, and not the
whale by Jonah, I believe, therefore,
hat Horace Greeley was swallowed by
he Democratic party, and that he is to-
lay, and will be tomorrow, as much
he candidate of the Democratic party
8 JEFF. Davis would have been had he
,een nominated. [Applause.
Now, my friends, do not understand
ne as comparing Horace Greeley with
Tef. Davis. He is better man. Hor-
ce Greeley never deserved halter
md JEFF. Davis did. But I never want
d to see jeff Davis have o halter. Oh,
10, my friends. One of the glories of
his country, one of the glories of the
PARTY, is that when it had
,ut down the rebellion it put down
malice, envy, hatred, and i'll will. 1t
lung nobody. 1t punished a few of the |
ssassins who murdered Abraham Lin |
oln, and those, you all admit, ought |
o have been punished. More of them |
'ught to have been punished than were |
punished. But its mission from that |
lOur to this has been one of peace, Or |
Ter, and reconstruction and reconcilia-
ion. 1t demanded, as it ought, the |
liberty and the civil rights of the |
1t gave to the emanci
'ated, as ought to have been done, uni
'ersal suffrage, and it has given to the |
ebels almost universal amnesty. There |
re none now outside the pale of am
esty which has been given by the Re- |
ublican party, except those officers Of
he Federal government who were in
flee when the rebellion broke out,
nd were under oath to support the |
These were perjurers as |
yell as traitors. Do you want them to |
ave amnesty? lCries of "No."] Why,
hen, is Horace Greeley pleading for |
eace? Great God ofjustice and truth, /
,ok down tonight upon this intelIi-
ent audience and behold within and |
eyond the reach of my voice men
pho want nothing but peace, men who
ave given peace to rebels, men who
ave given peace to traitors, and who
ny to them: "All we ask is good be-
avior for the future"
And now I desire to call your atten-
ion, these broken remarks, to the par
Icular merits of Horace Greeley. Why /
oes Horace Greeley go to Pittsburgh |
nd say to the largest collection of
rave and patriotic men that ever
together upon this continent,
You have come here for the purpose
fstirring up warp Why does he an
ounce that great-whst shall 1 call it
rntrtrth q Those men had no thOuoht