The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-18
REPUBLICGx STATE TICKET.
SPEECH OF HON. JOIN A. BISGHLm
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WHAT NOMINATED GREELEY.
Ny felIow-citizens, the fact ! have
recited, which has passed into history
accounts in part for this days action
at Baltimore. IT was the South that
nominated Horace Greeley. It was
in vain that the great organ Of the
party, the New York World, day by
day, demonstrated against the su-
preme folly Of putting him IN nOmin-
alton as the Democratic standard
bearer il was In vain that other lead
ing Democratic papers Of the North
demonstrated; it was in vain that the
leading, thoughtful minds Of the Dem
Ocratic party in the North remOnstra-
ted. The South determined that the
man who had committed himself In
the most solemn form TO the doctrine
that the States had q right to secede
from this Union, who had said that
he would resist all attempts TO coerce
seeding States, was the man for them.
They said, 1--WE take this man at his
word We were compelled TO surren-
der upon the field Of AppOmattOx be-
fore the triumphant legiOns Of the
North, led by that man Of iron, Ulys-
ses s. Grant. Appiause.l Now, We
propose to restore the lost cause by
taking this maniof the North, though
ne denounced that Wild and guilty
phantasy, chattel slavery, IS q crime
against God and man during 2ll the
years Of his honorable manhood,
though be denounced our party as q
party Of thieves and vagabOnds, and
as the keepers Of dens OF infamy,
though he has declared that the brain,
the heart and the soul Of the Demo
cratic party Is the rebel element Of
the South, YET, ,inasmuch as he has re-
corded it In his history Of the civil con-
flict, that the right OF secession, though
a revolutionary right, Is nevertheless
3 right, and that whenever any Of the
States assert It by the deliberate judg-
ment Of the great body Of their peO-
pie, he will stand by &c, we demand
that he be made President; we take
him at his word. They told the
Democratic party OF the North, take
that man or die, and the party sur
rendered. trust IL will prove as dis
astrOus 3 surrender to that party as
that other surrender that Il made un-
der the apple tree at AppOmattoX
Courthouse. Cheers.
His earnest advocacy Of the right Of
secession Is not the only evidence that
Mr. Greeley has given Of his unfitness
States. IL / remember Alright land it
is not IN my heart to do the man the
least injustice) in the midst Of the
Struggle for the integrity Of the Union,
when good men held their breath
lest the holy cause Of the representa-
tive government should perish forev-
er,here on the spot where It had its or
igiD, by the hands Of its own children,
he put into the columns of the I5-i6-
lfne and sent abroad to all the world q
declaration that it was the duty of
the United States TO submit this ques-
ton in issue 70 foreign arbitrament
How comes It that it did not occur to
Mr.. Greeley that for the United States
TO submit the question in controversy
TO any power whatever was simply TO
admit away the whole case? How
can there be q national submission
unless two equal natiOnalities are par
ties TO that submission I do not sup
pose Mr.. Greeley intended TO surreH-
der the cause Of the country by IL, but
he simply put forth another Of his
profound philosophical reflections IN
the interests Of humanity as he suppOs-
ed. II the country h2d acted upon
this suggestion the country would
have been undone. The whole Ques-
ton In controversy was whether there
was one national sovereignty within
the jurisdiction Of the United States,
or two; whether the United States,
as organized under the Constitution,
was the sole and exclusive National
sovereignty over these thirty-seven
States, and over the outlying terrific
ries Of this Union, or whether that
authority was divided between the
United States and the so called Con-
federate States Of America. To sub
NIT the question to foreign arbitra-
ton was simply to admit at once the
equal nationality with the United
States OF the Confederacy Of the
Southern States. This furnishes an
other indication, I submit, Of Gree
ley's unfitness for the Presidency.
BY accepting the Democratic nOmin-
alton he does not renounce his phi
lOsophy. Elect him President and
the next year after his election the
same question might arise by the de-
liberate secession and confederation
of States, when it might turn out that
the philosopher would still be Of that
mind, and submit the whole question
to foreign arbitration.
There are some other incidents, my
friends, which may tend to satisfy
the people that Mr.. Greeley is hardly
fit to be President of the United States.
In the year 1864 this party that he
now represents, under whose banner
lac this day marches as the Democrat
ic nominee for President ofthe United
States, did resolve in National Con-
ventiOn assembled at Chicago that
'4the war for the Union was q failure. -
They sent that word out along all your
lines; they sent it to your wounded
soldiers dying in hospitals; they sent
it along the lines where the earth
quake and the fire led the charge, and
where the soldiers OF the Union strug-
gled hand to hand with the enemies Of
the Union for the integrity ofthe Con-
stitution and for the unity Of the Re-
public. The party said the war for
the Union isa failure; itcan not restore
the Union. In the midst OF that struR-
gle every thoughtful man in America,
and every thoughtful man within the
pale OF Christian civilization the world
over, who looked on and took an in
terest In the great cause Of represeu-
tative government, who desired the
restoration of the Constitution. who
desired the perpetuation Of the Union.
who desired that the lNst sanctuary OF
an inviOlable justice might not Derisb
from the earth, knew right we'll that
in that day and that hour these i'm
periled interests rested upon the re-
election OF the COmmander-in-Chief
OF the American armies, Abraham
Lincoln. [Applsuse.]
In that hour so full of danger, Hor-
ace Greeley deemed it his duty to con-
spire with Others to defeat the re-elec-
ton Of Abraham Lincoln, and to that
end sent out his secret circular bear.
ing his name, SIS late as September.
1854, after the party Of the people with
a unanimous voice, directed by that
instinct which God guides-and If
errs never-had looked to and selected
tnat man to lead them safely through
the rebellion and restore again the
union OF these States, Knowino, al
TINS oelectlon d Mr.. Greeley to the
hepuOllean party in the moment of
its greatest trial, is it surnrisin1 that
when the Democratic party found bin1
willing 20 serve under its hanner -
its candidate and the represenfet; t;vo
Of It's principles, that the orVs,, - -
party, the World, would insist y as s';e -
did, that a Democrats booI- Sho1IS -
be put into his nosen lest he sboUI5
falter in the march, or fail to kaeO ~
to the music of the party. 1P
1 do not come here tonight as tbo
mere aecuser OF Mr.. Greeley, but
point you to his record, and askis-be
fit for the Presidency?
GRANTS QUALITIES.
What occasion, my feIlow-citizens,
has the Republican party to change
the Judgment it has already recorded
touching the fitness Of General Grant
for the Presidency IN 1922
Hou know that on the 5th and 9Th
days Of June last the represenfafjve-
OF the people assembled in Convention
at Philadelphia, the spot where fhe
Declaration Of Independence and the
Constitution had their origin. and
there proclaimed that what Is decIar-
ed in the Declaration and what Is
guaranteed in the Constitution shall