The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-08-09

raised on whisky. That We We
thieves, gamblers and traitors, a
he hoped it might be said of hi
: when he died, that he owed nothi
but hatred to the Democracy. Uo
cheers.)
Candidly, as Democrat that b
n been prescribed, socially, financial
and professionally; as one who b
been martyr to Democratic prime
pies; as one who has always adv
Gated those principles believing the
to be right; / say to him with th
record, with those surrounding
Mr.. Greeley can die ere / will CO
sent to owe him anything or pay {
legiance to him. Applause.
The Democratic party like 6
great parties, has rendered great se
vice to the State. 1t has also COL
mitted great faults. But it is Il
party in which l was born-the pa
lty Of my father and of my gram
father-the party which my fami
has loved and cherished and acts
with since the foundation OF tn
Government, and with all its fault
with all lis shortcomings, I love
still. -
| When some political gambler
dickerers and traitofs-men who ss
that the hesrt of the people, !,
utterly debauched, based upon Ii
proposition that the people are lik
so many cattle, to be bought and sol
l-get together and say "here-w
will lay down the principles Of ou
lifetime, Danish all the traditions {
our fathers, Danish home itself, an
take q man whose whole life, up t
sixty five years Of age, has bee
spent in denouncing, msligning, an
trying to destroy us''-1 say as
Democrat that is, like "the last ros
Of summer, left blooming alone,"
stand solitary by myself, / will no
60 Horace Greeley under the circum
stances. ID.
.Tshere is not a Democra-kae<
there is not a man mere, who has
brains enough to be clerk to sec
ond-class huckster-but knows that
1 tell the exact facts. T"Bully fol
you," and laughter. Can any man,
with Horace Greeley's record thus
made up, with his position before the
American people for long lifetime,
question the Democracy OF anybody
on earth?
/ have been ell my life q Demo
crat. l have not one sinister motive,
not one single aspiration or hope in
this matter; God knows how painful
it is to he placed in antagonism to
these with whom I have always been
associated. / saw some Of my OLD
acquaintances to-day, who turned the
cold shoulder upon me, and yet / was
entirely conscious that upon the
square principle OF manhood and
right they had no business to ques-
tion my motives. We may differ in
opinion, but II the old political house
hold ties are sundered, if we have
to look to future hopes rather than
to the bright memories OF the past,
to the time when our honor was with
us, when our principles were things
that we dared to name, when our
past glories and traditions we dared
detail to the people-if these things
are gone, then l say to them, "gen
tlemen you may count me out"
Let us recollect these things; In
the events and issues OF the immedi-
ate future, let us look back and con-
slider the past, and II, after calm de-
there is anything found
that will warrant you in going for
Horace Greeley, or give the smallest
shadow of an excuse for you doing
20, / would like you to explain it
consistently with your claim to be
Democrat.
The question is next presented :
'What shall We do 2 We have got
TO 90 somewhere: this ia q fight
between Grant and Greeley, for the
party is dead.' You have read Shak.
,peare's great tragedy Of "Macbeth."
You doubtless remember the witches
scene; howone witch after another ours
,ssnd throws into the cauldron the eye
of newt and toe of frog, tooth OF SER
pent or adder's sting, and by and by
one comes along and throws in the
liver Of blaspheming Jew. ! sup
pose that is August Belmont. | Laugh
.er.1 II he can deal in notes and
bonds he will do so; if not in those
he will try clothing; and il he can
not deal in new clothing he will wan
der around with a battered bat on
his lead and a dirty bag on his back
sing ing "Old clo' clo'."
In the scene l have called to your
mind, the witches, having just finish
I'd the mixture Of their hell.broth,
md sung their devilish chant OF
"Hubble. bubble, toll and trouble
Cauldron boil and trouble double"
ire alarmed by some sounds from the
outside, and say
aBy the pricking OF my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes"
/ feel that way to-day. l feel by
he pricking Of my thumbs, that
wicked this way comes );
md l know that that something wick
ID is in the shape Of q Chappaqua
philosopher.
TA voice: sAre you a Democrat p
Yes. G"Wha. kind of one p" l am
not one Of the Horace Greeley kind.
Loud laughter and cheers.
Ordinarily, when the Democratic
assembled, they assem-
bled for the purpose OF fixing a plat
form. Now, what did they do at
Baltimore ? They would not even
Iix upon platform. The gentlemen
1T Cincinnati said that the Demo
Gratis should not have anything to do
with it. They cooked up a lot of
resolutions and made platform, and
placed Horace Greeley upon it as its
dgure-head. After doing that they
come to you, and say to you, "Here
is your platform-you did not make
it or have anything to do with it
here are some candidates that never
belonged to you in the world, but
have to take them and swallow them
all down; you three millions OF
have nothing to do with
Il: YOU have to take the platform
that was made at Cincinnati" Laugh
ter
Now the Democratic party in na-
tional convention assembled, have q
right to nominate q Democratic can
didate and run him; but whenever
they choose to select q Republican as
the standard. bearer OF the Democrat
ic party, that is something beyond
their jurisdiction. They say We have
to vote tor Horace Greeley. say
he is, of all the Republicans, the
most obnoxious to true Democrat,
to sny man on this continent. new.
er was q secessionist myself, but look
at the record of Horace Greeley !!
Away back in November, 1861, right
after the election OF Lincoln, Horace
Greeley, as editor Of the New York
Tribune, came out and declared that
if the South wanted to get out OF { 9
Union, they might 60. John c. Cal:
houn never expressed or advocated
secession clearer, stronger and less
adulterated than Horace Greeley did