Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-27
"The Grant ConYention.,,
TRANSLATED from the editorial columns of
Staats-Zeitung, June IL

Staats-Zeitung, June Ill
If the beatitude in the Bible is true
blessed are the poor in spirit"-the
writer's for the Liberal" press may be
assured Of the highest degree of bless
edness- For more dreary poverty of
spirit than they exhibit in their scan
dalous attacks upon the Republican
party cannot be found beyond the mar
row limits of lunatic asylum. The
entire context of their howlings is made
up of such verbs as these-"Grant
slaves" Z" hirelings," mercenaries,"
purchased knaves." The unan nifty
of the Republican Convention Is rep.
resented as q consequence ut the bold
est bribery. While of the 800 delegates
there were not more than two dozen
Federal office holders, the statement is
impudently circulated that the entire
assembly consisted of g band of Gus
tom House officers, revenue officers, and
postmasters.n This is an impudent and
brazen lie, which Horace White, who
in the last eight days seems to have lost
his head, does not hesitat. to repeat,
although from personal observation on
the spot he learned beyond peradven-
ture that the assertion is baseless lie.
In short, the vilest sIattvrn Dervish
could not excel this bowling band or
Liberar' brothers in sheer and blank
stupidity.
But as the ignoble ISLANDERS of Sum-
ner not only failed of their desired re-
suit, but returned to curse their inven-
tor, in like manner the still more stupid
and coarse attack upon the "Grant
Convention" will accomplish directly
the contrary result from what had been
intended. The thousands of people
who congregated from all quarters of
this great land at Philadelphia, and
were there personal witnesses of the
intense enthusiasm with which the Re-
publican party gathered around its old
time victorious banner, cannot be de-
ceived by such simple lampoops. They
have taken the glad news to all States
OF the North, East, South, and West,
that the mighty popular army of the
Party of Freedom stands unEoken and
undlsmayed, and that the detection of
handful of traitors from the party has
not weakened, but strengthened it-as
the human body is strengthened, when
some internal disease which threatens
to poison the blood system finds its
scapevalve through an abscess. Noper-
son, competent to generalize from facts
ana opinions, attended the great Coun-
Gil OF the People at Philadelphia, with
out returning home convinced that the
Greeley movement within the Republi.
can ranks is wholly dead, and that of
the Republicans who allied themselves
to the Missouri treason in 1870, not one
IN thousand IS now willing to vote for
Greeley or Brown.
These facts may be gall and worm
wood to those popular demagogues, but
ISLANDERS and lampoons cannot change
the facts.
In nearly every State care had been
taken that few Federal offic e-holders
should be sent as delegates to the con-
ventlon. The most liberal estimate |
shows that they did not constitute more
than three per cent. of the membership. |
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An additional circumstance Ito which |
every Greeley man o. Democrat then
present will bear witness) which great
~ added 10 the enthusiasm, and brought
1t to the boiling point, was Summers
speech Of Nay 81. The frigid malignity
with which Sumner had labored over
the speech for months, the Infamous
venom with which he magnifed the
most descipable ISLANDERS, the careless
un concern with which he fred his in
terEal machine, at an hour when it
seem I'd so late hat the fire could not
be ret1rned,-these circumstances ma
awakened in the mind not only of
every honorable Republican but of every
impartial, right-minded man, feeling
nearly akin to contempt for Sumner,
and called forth a feeling of benevo-
lent sympathy for Grant Thanks to
certain natural qualities, the American
is always inclined to favor the under dog
In the light, and this national sympathy
was developed in the contest between
Sumner and Grant The same was true
with regard to Wilson. Had the con-
Ventlon met week earlier Wilson would
have received a respectable minority of
votes, but Colfax would have had the
majority.
But Summers speech gave an i'm pc
us to Wilson, whose election would be
A rebuke to Sumner.
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The Staats-Zeitung here pays a high
compliment to the character and CON
iuct of the negro delegates, and dis
'usses at some length the present status
md future probable condition of the
negro element in our politics. The ar
lcle concludes with the following elo- ,
luent passage
i" This the civilization and political
'ducatlon OF the negro race) is a giant
tep IN humanitarianism and legal re- l
atoms: proof of the great vitality and s
of the American national. 6
ty,--and 1t is guarantee that, in spite |
II all the conflicts of contending par. t
les, and of the gloomy passivisn of G
ertain b. pochondriacs who are weary $
# American life, the development of q
he American republic in freedom, JUS /
ice, morality, and humanity, is pro- I