Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-06-27
GRANT AND WILSON MEETING.
Ratification Of the Philadelphia NOmf.
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Ratification Of the Philadelphia N0mf.
On Monday night meeting was
held in front of the Crofut's store for
the above purpose. The gathering was
not particularly large or enthusiastic.
Gen. Smalls called the meeting to or
der, and stated the object of it He
said he need not tell them who Gen.
Grant was, as many of his hearers had
served in the army with him during the
rebellion and found him brave SOL
dier. Henry Wilson, they all knew
as one had battled for their rights for
a long time. After a few further re-
marks he introduced Judge j. j.
Wright of the supreme court of this
state.
Judge Wright said he came not here
to make speech but simply to have a
talk, he was glad to meet them here
at a meeting to ratify the somination
of Gen. Grant and Senator Wilson. He
must not be expected to take an active
part in politics, as the duties in the ju'
dietary department forbade him from
so doing. He had been the legal advls-
er of many of them for a number OF
wears, he had not only given them le-
eal adyices but other advice for their
general good. He wished however to
say few words aboutthe Philadelphia
nominations. Gen. Grant had admin
istered the laws, during his presl-
Dental term, in a spirit of justice, tenn
pered with mercy, he has reduced the
national debt with a rapidity never
known before in the history of the Re-
public. He was the hero, who had
crushed the rebellion, and given them
the rights they now possess. He had
been tried and had come out of the fire
as pure as gold, therefore he ought to
be President four years more. Gen.
Grant was poor man in his early life,
he had been tanner, but it was soon
discovered that his sphere of action
laid in another direction. Henry Will
son was also poor man and had been
a shoemaker, but while setting on his
eobblers bench he had felt the necessity
Of improving his mind, aud this he
wished to impress upon his hearers,
the necessity OF following the example
Of Senator Wilson and improving their
minds. The man who neglects his
mind was not the man for the nation.
Senator Wilson had been ever true to
the principals of American liberty, he
had battled slavery until it no longer
existed, he was the firm friend and ad-
wiser of that patriot Abraham Lincoln
when he took the quill and diped it in
blood and wrote upon the canopy OF
Heaven Liberty to all. The speaker
passed high encomiums upon the peo-
pie of Massachusetts,, from whence
Henry Wilson comes.
Referring again to the former occu-
patton of Mr.. Grant and Mr.. Wilson,
he said Grant would tan the leather
and Wilson would make the shoes for
all the Democrats in the land.
AS to the Cincinnati Convention,
the Judge said, it was the assembling
of a certain class of politicians who
were dissatisfied with Gen. Grant, be-
cause they could not get office, They
were principally Democrats of the
North, who did not care any more for
the black man than they did about a
black snake. He claimed that the
Northern Democrats were at the bot
tom of all the troubles Of the South;
were the cause of the South seceeding,
SC. The chief plank in the Cincinnati
platform, (he would give the substance
of it from memory was that the Gov
ernment of the United States shall not
interfere with the government of South
Carolina or any State; practically it
said, stand off, hands Off. 1t was, in
fact, the old doctrine of State rights
revived. The speaker confessed him.
self to be a believer to some extent in
that doctrine, but when any State at
tempted to deprive any part of the
citizens of their rights it was the duty
of the United States to slip in and in.
terfere. The speaker thought if these
men were elected Greeley and Brown
they would leave the States alone to
manage their own affairs, and Ku-
Kluxism would be rampant The OBJ
jact he thought of Ku-Kluxism was to
kill off the colored population so that
the white people would be in the ma
jority. He recommended the old south
ern people to help elect Grant and
Wilson. The Philadelphia platform