The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30
DAWES.
The Leader of the House on the
Political Situation.
Importance Of Sustaining the Republi.
@ can Party.

|
can Party.
The following is full SUMMARY of th
speech delivered at the Grant and Wilson ri
ification meeting in New Haven by Hon
Henry L. Dawes, Of Massachusetts, the Chai,
man of the House Committee of Ways an
Means: 5r 80
| Mr.. Dawes said that he had not come Z
utter single word to defense of the persons
character Of Gen. Grant, or In dispsrsQemen
of that Of Mr.. Greeley. The one had too re
Gently filed the Eeart' of Lis own countryme,
with gratitude, and the eyes Of mankind witl
admiration for his great military service il
the salvation OF the nation, to need it, ant
the other had too long toiled before the work.
In building up name as chief in one of tn,
noblest and most influential of professions i,
/ civil life to permit it. Each, chief in his osu
sphere, commanded therein the respect OF
mankind, before which personal detraetior
should be dumb. But they stand before the
| public, to-day, in no personal character, but
as representative men; each the exponent
and instrument through which a great politi.
cal organization ls seeking to WIN tho public
confidence, and through it take possession of
the Government of The United States, Every.
thing personal, therefore, sinks out OF sight
in the greater considerations which press
upon the mind of him who seeks the path of
duty amid the contrasts with which he Ia con-
| fronted 10y these two opposing organizations.
| Assuming that these two men are honest
| and true men, they can be nothing in power
other than what the organization behind
them shall make them. They can do nothing
to which they are not pushed by the force
though which they live and move, and can
accomplish nothing not undertaken by and
for it. To step outside the grooves it cuts is
| to fall; to turn upon il Is to be crushed by It,
10 the claims OF these two organizations,
represented to-day by Gen. Grant on one side
and Horace Greeley on the other. the speaker
invoked the candid judgment of those pres
enf. He spoke Of two organizations simply
| for he discarded the pretense that this is a
triangular contest. Whatever may be the
forms men struggle to maintain, and what
ever may be the motive which prompts men,
there can be IN the nature of forms but sub
stantially two opposing organizations. He
said that it was mOre creditabie TO the
heart than to, the lead OF the gentlemen
who associate themselves together under the
name and separate organization Of Liberal
Republicans and yet lind themselves to the
Democratic party IN the coming campaign. OF
the honesty Of ti,ese ,sen he entertained no
doubt. To their ability in public stations in
paid tribute But the very effort they made,
while striving for the same end m the Demo
cratic party. 20 keep out OF It's organization
and embrace. Is . confession that actual
touch s contamination. But the effort is
vain. 'How can two walk together except
they be srreed'" It is in moralH a. in physics,
two bodies. except they draw against each
other, draw together. and every hour spproach
eacli other, till they as inevitably tecome one
as there is a law which governs action. Equal
ly certain il II that the strongest determines
the point of the union and the direction Of the
resultant force. History and reason alike
teach this. Two bodies with one head is more
OF a monstrosity than one body with two
heads, ard neither ever did live longer than to
draw wondering, gaping crowd after it,
Mr.. Dawes then called attention to the
fact that the Southren element of that party
had determined its present course. Resist
ance had come from the North and from its
strongest me here, but 1t had been in vain.
He then aske what was to be expected from
party whose controlling men are not only
fresh in professions not nx weeks old. but
who come up to their support out of line Of
hospitality, not only 10 the principles they now
avow, but to the very hfe of the republic itself.
1t is madness 10 intrtist tie destinies Of the
nation to such hands. He believed IN the hon.
esty of his old political associates, now desert
ing TO these new leaders but he had right
TO demand Of them. before deserting with
them the grounds of their new-placed conf
dence. What right have they to look for truth
III men who had been false all their lives? Mr.
Greeley had yielded to their ostentatious offer
to " clasp hands over this bloody chasm" Of
the past, without stopping to inquire who made
that chasm? What security has he taken from
these men that they wiifnot be truer to their
instincts than to their professious that they
viii not continue in the beaten paths Of the
pa NJ rat tttHVa nh nnlG t.n
propose to stake all upon the naked word Of
these men? They talk Of their sufferings, but
who is the author Of their sufferingsS Their
plea rs that OF the brazen youth IN court, who
had murdered his parents, and when inquired
of by the judge whit he had to say in extenu-
alton Of sentence, begged that the court would
not be too hard upon him. poor orphan.
These men beg for peace. They themselves
have but to keep the peace, and no one will
modest them. Did not Mr.. Greeley notice that
those who held out their hands 70 him across
the - bloody chasm were the rebels alone?
That the poor Union men of the South were
not among them that the four millions OF
freed slaves were not there that the North
erner, who had gone down to make his home
there under the Constitution, was not of the
number? There is something calculated to
beget distrust rather than confidence in the
very exclusiveness with which this party prof
fer their bloody hands.
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On the other hand the organization whose
oOrasan,.. W .mv s,, Gem Grant anneal to ;ts
~, y;ch IN n,cofs Of devotion to All that is
SSssr' Sas' and ,r1,e and neble in American institu.
tionB. In making professions for the future it
turns with pride and codtidence to its history
onsno,ad .or the nation through the ner;ls Of
o;n;, n met ;ts burdens. II solved its com
onm ';a.,;on. !, rrronaht ont its trinmnbs TaL.
pncauoh ,'1 th. d;sicuIt nuest,ons inber;tad from
s .T up ,r ;tseN and alter the four wears Of fail
ro uno mndsr Johnson il has proyed itself com
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