The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-16

Il $685. l3lCWCuuOu0 opplnuoOsJ ANOllOO
given that there will be a meeting OF indepen.
dent Republicans In the City of Cincinnati
Applause and three cheers for the Cincinnati
ConventioDl-on the first day of May next.
That will not be a meeting of office holders
assembled for the purpose of devlslng schemes
to hoodwink the people and mislead and to
prostitute the name of q great party to their
schemes, but 1t will be
NESTING Of HONEST MEN
determined to bring about a reform and purl-
1cation of the government. [Applause.1 am
glad to see that indication: The best element
| Of the Republican party will be assembled on
that occasion. I notice from my OWN State.
that a call has been issued and signed, as l am
told, by the whole body of electors, and, l
believe, by every officer of the State who was
elected on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln,
with the exception, perhaps, of the Governor
of the State. It was signed by the auditor Of
treasurer of the State, who were elected on
| the same ticket with Mr.. Lincoln. We have q
| similar intimati0n from other States, and 1t
will be made q success, but to make 1t q sue.
cess, Republicans must be prepared to put
| down the minlons and hirelings that plumber
the people, and who will excommunicate you
from what they call the party, because they
set themselves up to be the Republican party.
CApplause.1 They are no more like the Re-
publican party,
THESE P-LUNDERERS n THIEVES,
they are as far away from party purity and
| honesty as the devil Is from the angels in hea.
ven. Laughter and applause. Will they 60
on discussing the issues Of the present day
No; but during the coming campaign these
same persons will be engaged In fighting over
| again the battles OF the war and abollshlng
Laughter and applause.] To your demand
| for an honest administration of the govern
ment they will reply, You are a traitor to the
Republican party" GLaughter.] To your de-
mand for reform they will reply, "We abolish
| ed slavery" To your demand for a reform Of
the revenue service they will answer, 'We
| put down the rebellion" And when you de-
intercourse and harmony among all our peo-
| pie, the reply will be the recital Of the horrors
| of a war that was ended seven years ago.
[Laughter.] With the living Issues of the
present they have no concern. They desire
to return to power by seeking to resurrect
| those which are dead. lApplause.l
| Now, II there be any Republican who has
not Independence and manhood enough to
| meet the scorn and contempt of such denun-
| Citations and subterfuges, he has no business
to 20 to Cincinnati. Leave him under the
| control of the whippers-in. Let these old
| Bourbons, who still talk o. slavery, and who
expect to vote for Andrew Jackson, with those
WuO MIC 5llll I0ihl1e u pugtih6 ooWn ~
| belIion and crushing slavery. and who expect
to vote for
! GENERAL GRANT, WHO IS AS POLITICALLY DEAD
AS rs ANDY JOHNSON.
CGreat laughter and cheering, mingled with
| groans and hisses.l Let these old Bourbons
| fight. their battles over again, and continue
to pirate about their dead Issues, but let in
dependent Republicans all over this land,
who believe In progress and reform, and In
living issues Of the present assembly at Gin
| cinusti, and let them there inaugurate meas.
| and man-which the living men Of all parties
| shall recognize. tApplause.l
The Scene after Trumbull's Speech.
The senator was frequently interrupted dur
ing the delivery of his eloquent speech by the
| clamor OF The multitude at the entrances seek
ing admission, and finally the police were In
structed to admit as many as could find stand
| ing room In the aisles, requiring those already
in the aisles to crowd forward toward the
platform, which made room for q few hundred
additional people, which In q measure ap-
peased the clamor. The scene when Senator
Trumbull pronounced Grant politically as dead
as Andrew johnson battles description. The
applause continued for nearly five minutes,
when some ofice.holders undertook to raise a
counter hiss, which was Immediately drowned
by q renewal OF the applause, so earnest and
determined that the oface-holders gave up n
despair.
Colonel Conklipg was compelled to retire
| during the delivery of Senator Trumbull's
speech, surrenderlng the chair to Mr.. Greeley.
Alter the senator had concluded, Mr.. Ethan
| Allen read the following letter from Senator
Penton, which was received with applause:
COMMITTEE OF FINANCE, q. 8. SENATE,
WASHINGTON, April IL, 1872.
Dear Sir cannot be with you tomorrow
| night, but I deem it my duty to say that the
movement for reform and purity OF govern
| ment il the State and nation, and also to Sc
| cure at the head of affairs a Republican states
man, trained In Republican ideas, has my
| cordial sympathy. 1t is a necessity OF the
hour. I say this as q Republican, anxious for
| The success of honest government and the
revival Of fraternal feeling throughout the
| country. Very truly, R. 2. FENToN.
Colonel F. A. CoNKL1SG, New York.
Delegates to Cincinnati.
Mr.. Allen also moved the following resolu-
tions:
RESOLVED, That the officers of this meeting
be, and are hereby, Invited to attend the Gin
| cinnati Convention.
Resolved, That the chairman Of this meeting
appoint a committee of twenty-five, of whom
he shall be one, with authority to take such
| action during the approaching national can.
| vass as circumstances may require, and to fill
| vacancies In their number.
Adopted with cheers, when Mr.. Greeley an
| nounced the committee as follows: Sinclair
Tousey, E. Krackowizer, George P. Bradford,
VIM. B. Stewart, Charles Allhrop. Charles 7.
Blake, I. Glaubensklee, VIM. q. Rapnor, F. j.
| Fithian, Samuel Sinclair, DR.. Adolph Tessler,
Ira O. Miller, General F. 7. Locke, Hartwig
Gerche, Charles T.. Polhamus, Henry Merz,
Dr.. F. W. Howe, Ethan Allen, Peter Cook, j.
N. Hegerman, Henry D. Lloyd, Arnold Taen-
ger, George Van Cleft, &. G. Anthony.
Speech Of Carl schurz.
Senator Schurz was then introduced. As he
stood up to speak the applause fairly shook
the building, winding up with three times
three enthusiastic cheers. After alluding to
the times before the present one, when ne
had stood upon the same platform, he said:
And now I stand here again, not as one who
has renowned any Of the great principles ana
policies he ever advocated, but as ose VINO
has resolved to continue their advocacy and
defence With as much fidelity and energy as
ever; as one who In that advocacy was wholly
In earnest before, ls wholly In earnest now,