The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-30
WAUSHARA.
Organization of a Grant and Wilson
Club.
WAusnARA, Aug sth, 1872.

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EDIToE EMPoRIA NEWS: Pursu-
ant to previous notice the Republi-
cans in this section met in school
District No. 8 for the purpose OF
forming Grant and Wilson club.
Messrs. Pinkerton and Bachelor, OF
Emporia, were present, and after
the organization, which was Eer-
fected by the meeting calling Mr..
John j. Leeper to the chair, they
expounded the principles of Repub-
licanism, and we regret our iDabil-
itv to lay the whole of their speech
es before your many readers. They
did remind US, however, that as far
back as the Mexican war, "Grant
fought gallantly under Scott, and
Taylor, while Greeley remained in
New York and opposed the war
with might and maip, and advised
the Mexicans to welcome our army
with bloody hands to hospltab!e
graves ;" and in our late ''unpleas-
antness" Grant says there can be no
terms offered but unconditional sur
render; Greeley lifted up his voice
and says, s'Let the Maynard sisters
depart in peace" Grant captured
the rebel President and lodged him
in PRISON. Greeley bailed the rebel
President and set HIM at liberty.
and was the most persistent advo-
cate of the Ku Klux law, and the
loudest grumbler against its enforce
ment. He still points with pride to
the magnificent results attained by
the administration, aud condemned
with blatent tongue the man who
achieved them. lie has long been
everything by turns and nothing
long. Grant, with all his acts
spread before the people, was unan-
imously nominated at Philadelphia,
by one of the largest and grandest
conventions ever held IN this coun-
try, while Greeley was nominated
at Cincinnati by trick, or mistake,
and his nomination ratified at
Baltimore as distasteful ne
cessity, and should their NOM
inee be elected we would be-
hold the old white hat marching
forward, crying progress, with all
INSCRIPTIONS horde at his back to
| whom he has promised the ''spoils
of victory" The life of one has
been plain, straight forward patri-
otto and successful. The life of the
other has been crooked, full of con-
tradictions and bright with brilliant
absurdities. Two men are before the
American people; let them choose
whom they will follow. They say
Greeley is Republican-and Mr..
Pinkerton makes a happy illustra-
ton just here, with the negro and
the snake. 1 cannot just at this
time use his remarks, but will do
so as near as possible: The negro
had a very large foot, in fact, No.
Is brogans made near fit, and one
day during the summer the lad,
feeling tired, sits down to rest, and
the drowsy god. Morpheus, over
comes his faculties. A black snake
era~ls mp ard swallows cuffee's
leg, foot and all. Sambo cried lus-
tily fol help. His mistress comes
with the axe and commences chop
ping up the snake, when Sambo
cries, ''for Gods sake, Missus, be
careful how you chop, for You
doesn't know how much of dis 'ere
Niger dar is in dat snake" and so
it is with Greeley-beware, for no
telling how much Democracy there
is in this same Horace Greeley.
And now word about General
Grant. "With gentle hands we for
o moment put aside all the dignities
and honors of his present position,
and allow memory to picture her
halls with visions of other years,
with illustrations of events which
are to occupy large space in the
history of our time. While our
ears are listening to that roll of
battle drums which more than de-
cade ago called the nation to make
war for a righteous cause, we see
an untried volunteer leaving behind
him the duties of an humble but
honest occupation, and with many
of the rest of us girding on his
srmor for the struggle which no
man could then measure, for the
performance of deeds of valor that
were not only 10 secure the desti-
MES of his own country, but which
at the same time were to astonish
the nations of the earth, long accus-
toned to grim-visaged war. We
follow him along the pathway of
glory, from that early and inauspi-
cious beginning, to the final and
decisive victory. Sometimes when
the sunshine of victory crowned
our arms, and sometimes when the
shadow of hope deferred darkened
and lowered above him; often the
subject of detraction, of ungener-
Gus and unjust criticism, we see
him rising from grade to grade,
leading ON from victory to victory,
while the armies of the rebellion
are melting away before him.
When superseded he utters no COM
plant, when abused he in silence
bides his time. When his friends
| ofror 70 6ofond him 10 eaTD,I.y on
swers, "Truth and just cause are
mighty and will prevail; only
falsehood and fraud need be afraid"
Four bloody years go by, so filed
with suffering and sorrow, bercav-
ment and deaths, that the heart
| sickens when we remember them
all. But at last the end approaches.
Our humble volunteer, now Com
mander-in-Chief of million and
half of brave soldiers, receives the
proGered sword of the surrender
ing rebel chieftain, who was almost
as brilliant but less fortunate than
himself-and ali the flags of treason
| arc trai1ed in the dust.
| But while we look and listen and
remember, the whole vast scene is
TRANSPORTED before US; our armies
have scattered, to engage in the ten
thousand avooations of civil life.
Four millions of slaves have drop
ped their shacklcs and rejoice in the
blessings of freedom; peace reigns