Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-23

among those who help elect him. No sensible
man believes that all the loyalty and patriotism
OF the country is possessed by the Grant repub-
Leans. In 1861 aud subsequently we
didn't say to democrats, "Stand aside, we are
hOlicr than Thou Tour best men here in
Worcester stood up to welcome them in this
hall when they stood shoulder TO shoulder with
you for the cOuntry'S defence.
Gen. Grant has failed because he has been
capturet by the worst men of the party. Mr..
Bird excepted Mr.. Boutwell, from the general
statement, that as a rule Gen. Grant has been
governed by the most rotten and corrupt indu-
enceS that are harhorcd in the republican party.
lie gives Ben. Butler powcr--not that he loves
him-but because he is afraid of him. Butler
has hold upon him so that he is a controlling
power Though why he should be afraid of
Butler, is past comprehension. In this
connection Mr.. Bird stated that when
the republicans desired TO make a reform
in the Boston custom house and get Collector
Russel ont of it, the president notified Mr..
Gooch that be should appoint him to the post,
He told Mr.. Boutwell, so, also. Russell went
Immediately to Washington; got BOutwcIPs
powerful aid, and the president backed out and
no change was made,
| Who, asked Mr.. Bird, admitted jeff Davis to
| bail? Here was a man specially held response
| ole TO the government for halt million MUIR
| ders. Did the government believe the charge
| OF course not, or he would not have been admit
ted to bail by the attorney general. The Con-
! gresslonal Globe contains the fact that it was
| Henry Wilson who moved in the senate
that jeff Davis be admitted TO bail
on his o'Cn recogniSdnce. If that had
been allowed you would never have
| heard of Horace Greeley, Gerrt Smith, AMI their
associates in the bail bond. History shows that
| political overthrows occur as often as once in
| eight years There is wise instinct Of the peo-
| pie which demands change as often as that.
| And never was there Il time in the history OF
hi ,rI,, IL
| than now, for the purity of our government.
| Parties grow corrupt after having the spending
of seven or eight hundred million dollars yearly
| for term of years, and if the new party should
| grow as corrupt as the party now in power, he
| would be the first one to move to turn it out.
| Hon. Charles G. Davis of Plymouth was the
| next speaker He said, as one who for twenty
| five years had made his annual pilgrimage to
| Worcester, he was anxious to come up and say
/ why he cast his heart with his vote for Horace
| Greeley. The men who for thirty years have
/ carried on the battle for the rights of humanity
| are Charles Sumner, the statesman and orator
Horace Greeley, the great journalist, enlightener
| and reiormer; b. Gratz Brown, who, in his fight
| for the repeal of the Missouri compromise and
| for free Kansas carried on the greatest political
/ contest, man to man, grapple TO grappe,
| that ever took place in this country
/ or in any other. 1t made Missouri a
| free state. 10 him belongs also the honor TO
| first teach the doctrine Of reconciliation after the
| late war. Next in the list comes George W
| Julian of Indiana, and then Montgomery Blair,
| under whose persistent urging Abraham Lincoln
| issued the first call tor 10000 men. To the
1 list OF great political heroes who have carried on
| the fight for humanity may be added the names
| of Chief Justice Chase, Charles Francis Adams
| and William II. Seward. None of these con
| SiStent advocates of human rights in this coun.
| Try are for Grant to-day. They are all opposed
| to his reelection.
1 Mr. ,nl tI,,,- A., q
| the south, and the ruinOuS rule of the carpet.
| baggerS, who while saying to the unSuspecting
| and ignorant negroes "let us pray" were all the
| time meaning, Let us prey. The debts of the
| southern states have thus been increased six
times and taxes fifteen times what they were
| before the close of the war No wonder the
| government of Grant was not looked upon as a
| paternal one in the south Mr.. Greeley went
| south as far as Texas, saw the wretched result
| OF the government policy, and urged reform.
But the president and his bad republican
| advisers turned deaf ear. The speaker spoke
| OF the excellent spirit that characterized the
| CINCINNATI convention, and of the subsequent
| gathering oil southern men and others at Mr.
| Greeley farm at Chappaqua. He said no man
| could have been there and not come away will
| ing to work heart and hand for the new move
| ment Those men brought up under the slave
| system had prejudices to battle with. They
fought in the war in defense of slavery. But
| they would not on any account desire to have
| the old system back again. Not a man of them
| expects pay for his former slaves They repudiatC
| he idea of pension from the government they
once sought to destroy. The question of slavery
and suffrage is in the nature of things forever
| settled. What motive has the south to &C
back. None at all. The republican press and
| speakers are humbugging the people by the
scare-crOw story, that if Horace Greeley is elect.
ed the rebel debt will be paid, and other stories
of that sort. The fact is, there is no rebel debt
| fpfp 10 aIIi Al,
| establishment of the cOntederacy. The south is
| not DESTROYS to pay these bonds, which are
| mainly held abroad. Moreover, all the southern
| state constitutions as well as the federal con.
| stitution, make it unconstitutional to recognize
| any such debt.
Mr.. Davis made plea for Cancellation, and
rebuked the Grant republican press for then
| constant appeals 10 the passions and prejudces
| engendered by the war. The demagogues are
not all dead yet, and it is a cheap sort of patri-
| otiSm to talk about "voting as they fought. ("
| Many of the conspicuous soldiers of the Union
/ army counsel against this keeping alive the old
| war passions. They believe in reconciliation
| He alluded to the printed speech of the
| honorcd and able Worcester representative,
| TO crticiSe some conclusions in it. He doubted
| the honesty OF party which proposes to Join
| with the extremists in Georgia in order to elect
| Hcrschell V. johnson, and Today in West Vir-
| ginia vote for Davis, a Bourbon who introduced
| the resolution to pension rebels, and is one OF
| those hard-shell slavery democrats who bolt
| Greeley.
| The speaker claimed that Mr.. Greeley is the
| most consistent and persistent man in his polt-
ical course in this country, aud explained
| how he was wise in being a peace man
| before the war broke out an con to
| Richmond man when the war was tagging
| and our army was wasting itself away
before wooden Quaker guns, and afterward
put his name on the jeff Davis bail bond The
| personal question a material but
when Mr.. Hoar delivers and prints a speech in
| which he endeayOrs to give the impression that
| Gen. Grant does not drink anything intOXicat-
| ing, and at the same time tries to show that B.
Gratz Brown does, statement of the truth is
not out oil order. Mr. Davis then gave state
| ment which he said was known to thousands,
and could easily be proved that Gen. Grant was
| so intoxicated the night Mr.. Sumner made his
speech that he had TO be taken home from La
fayette square, where he was found leaning on
the railing. At Mr.. Fargo's mouse in Buffalo he
was in much worse condition when he went
| with johnson on his swinging round the circle
| tour, ana again in like condition at Cleveland
and other places.
Mr.. Davis closed by urging hts hearers,
as citizens of great and noble country, before
casting their votes to ask what is for the public
| good
Messrs. Bird and Davis were applauded occa-
| sionally, the illusions to Sumner and greeley
| calling forth the most enthusiasm. DR.. Kelley
announced that the liberal republican head.
quarters would soon be opened and that speeches
might be expected from Senator Trumbull and
Mr.. FarnswOrth in a week or ten days; also that
Messrs. Sumner and Banks would both speak
here during the campaign. 1t was after ten
when the meeting adjourned, the band playing
yankee Doodle" as the corowd passed out,
which by the way was very much smaller than
at the beginning.
COUNTY NEWS.
The Athol and Enfield railroad have spent
$50 900 since they began WORK on the extension,
a few weeks ago.
E. f. Wetherell conductor on tho Roston