The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-12

natl Convention was q mob, Q gang as
sembled together without any constitu.
ents. They drew up declaration oil
principles, nominated Greeley and left
The Baltimore Convention was comp sed
OF delegates who represented constitution.
cies, but unluckily had no principles. So
the two fused. The first furnished the
principles, and the second the voters ap.
plAuse land called 1t oil they could do
Tor the DenocracyGE He ealledtt selling
out gpplapse and telling opt % ahe
worst Of men. There was Ashley, OF i'm.
parchment fame, who had been made
Governor Of Montana, but was elected
for malleasance, Laughter. There
was N, Z. Banks, but he was In truth q
Liberal, for had he not, while in the
Valley, supplied jackson with SIX months
provisions free Of cost, Just for the taking.
Laughter and applause.] And so he
might 60 on. They were the oldest LOT
otbummerS, politically speaking, ever got
together, made up OF the odds and ends
oil all the parties ever In existence, with
but one common tie to bind them In their
work Of hate. There was but one other
gathering In this world mt all LIKE them
That was Barnun's "happy family"
Applause II And these were the men
who presumed 10 sitins Judgment on him,
and teach him his political principles.
Applause Another strong point with
know or care anything about It, except
them was that San Domingo business. He
didn't that Mr.. Grant had offered to pur
chase = fora snms fmonsy, Mr. Jefer-
SON Ind ItirthA sed I puslatia 81 the same
way, And he didn't think me gentlemen
who are growing about this island
would like 10 give louisiana back. ZAP.
pause Another indictment against
Grant was the bayonet law. Both Mr..
Greeley and his platform indofse that.
Grant didn't ask Congress to pass IL:
Greeley did, and tpshted on 1t, and he
thought that a man advocating Mr.. Gree.
ley's election had q hard cheek 10 come
before Southern people and find fault
with Grant Tor enforcing it. Gen. Hun.
ton objects to having Mr.. Greeley's past
record produced, and says he Is not here
to defend 1t. This also was q new phase
in politics, gentlemen 6nahe stump ayoW-
ing that they are ashamed Of the reoofd
OF their candidate. BE intended, though,
to introduce it, and show gentlemen that
Il was so impish Lapplausel that even his
friends had to turn their backs on it. II
he were forced to that strait he would
never ask friend to vote for his candi,
date. Applause. How did he get the
nomination! Why, as everybody knows,
by the chicanery Of the Tammany thieves,
who, in order to get possession of the
Government, picked a man they knew
they could use, y man who, had been fhe
alleged ScareCrOw Of both continents for
the past ten years. Horace Greeley was
man whose chief claim to distinction
was his intolerant hate Of the South, the
wearing oil white hat and walking down
Broadway with one leg Of his brooches
stuck in his boot. Laughter and ap.
plause, They wanted 10 make the mas.
querade complete, and they could not
have selected more appropriate candi,
date, not even Dolly Warden herself.
And still Southern men thought hecould
be elected and give them, Office. If,that
was what they wanted, he advised them
to take chances in voting for Grant, who
was sure TO be elected. These promises
reminded him Of the devil taking the 81.
vior to the top Of the mount
and Offering TO give Him all the
world, though at the time he did
not own an acre. Applause; + Welr,
the devil had just as much show Of full.
filling his promise as Horace Greeley
has. Applause Hepreterted> Granfto
Greeley, because one was soldier and
the other fanatic. Hessupported Grant
because of his terms TO Lee, and surely
no conqueror eyer bore himself more
magnanimously to vanquished foe than
did Grant when he returned his sword To
Lee and babe him go in peace. The Gov
enant made that day has been sacredly
kept. For him there wasino triumphal
procession chanting peans Of victory, To
humble his CONQUERED foe. ! He was no
Achilles to, drag the body .of,his enemy
Ground the walls Of the conquered city.
Suffice 1t for him TO know thGEhi RofS, In
which he had thrown his whole soul,
was accomplished, and he was willing 10
drop the curtain on the scene. E[Applause
and three cheers for Grant He then read
an editorial from the r Richmond En3atrsr
which said that Mosbys the, last=man &c
surrender during the war was the l&sl
convert 10 grsntisnl, and commenting or
1t. To this he replied that he believed
his cause was just; but when it became
hopeless he surrende led thea = as now, tc
the Commander. in. Chief, not the. scrubs
and scnHl, the AoYleSs and, hangers.on
but 10 soldiers; And. that hid name and
those Of his associates were imperishably
enrolled on the pages oil his country's his.
tory, and would be talked Of and known
VIII n the man who penned that article and
his other maligners would be forgotten
i Applause. did then what do now.
surrendered in good faith, making ea
covenant which will be kept-a covenant
as before between the strong and thl
weak, and one which will protect he
What protection can Greeley give, with
his only followers a sutler train moving
from Cincinnati to Baltimore : Zap
plause. He supported GRAM, as he SAID
before, on his (Grant's) own record, which
Is the best platform man can have. Hi
friends Of the South must now make theil
choice. Itseemed TO him the election Of
Grant was dead certsinty-thst of Gree
ley a remote possibility. In fact, Greeley
never could DO President unless he wen
to Liberia, and there his election woult
be doubtful, Applause, He would
support Grant because, with all his faults
, nobody ever accused him Of deserving {
friend or violating a covenant. APP
plsuse and cheers for Grant. Dir. Sum
ner might write all he chose about thu
regenerated Democracy, Of which Mr.
Hunton was specimen, but for himself
II the regenerating waters consisted ii
voting for Greeley, he preferred to remain
among the uuregenerated. Long ap
plabse. He closed by urging upon hi
hearers, for the reasons he had given, q
vote Tor Grant, and when he took his seat
for several minutes the grove rang will