Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-13
DAN VOORHEES,.

iFis speech nt TorFo IInutc.
On Saturday night, Hon. DIV. NOor-
hncs, of Indiana addressed an assem-
blage of about 5000 people, in the
Court House Square, at Terre Haute,
Indiana He said he thanked PrOyi-
denco that ne was permitted 30 speak
for himself, He had for nesrly ten
years received the endorsement OF his
constituency Ind been sustained by
them at all times, because he distinctly
held to certain principles Of govern
mcnt, which he thought TO be right, and
opposed others which he thought to be
wrong. He was there to answer wheth-
or he had been false to the trust
placed i'm his hands He had neither
epithets nor abuse to hurl at his adyer-
snres. He had the advantage OF them
in the truth OF his position, and cOpse-
queutly his temper was better than
theirs he SAID, they who were con
sious of being in the wrong always get
angry first, aud destitute of argument
they at once resort to donunciations
and SANDER. As 10 the imputatlons
that have been cast on his motives in
regard to his recent speech in Congress
against the nomination of Mr., Greeley
by the Democratic party, they will re-
ceiye no reply from him; they have re-
ceiyed none here, and ii the whole
tenor of his life will not silence such
aspersions, no words could.
The Cincinnati Convention was
movement inaugurated by dissatisfied
Republicans, and it was natural that
Il Al,
with interest as likely to divide and
overthrow the party in power Many
lind hoped as he did, that the Conven-
ton would nominate as its candidate
one whose devotion to liberty, knowl-
edge of the powers of government,
atjHchn&nt TO revenue reform, opposi-
ton TO absolute equality Of the whites
and blacks and magnanimOus action
towards the south would enable the
National Democratic Convention to
nominate him.
That might have been done if the
Convention had been differently COM
posed, ii instead OF vain concert there
had been more sound sense; If, instead of
regarding the Democratic party as
mob ready to fall in with and follow
lny little squad That marched by, they
had looked on them as they are, the
hnyost, purest and most conscientious
population On the face ofthe earth. The
bare presence OF a Democrat In the city
10 that time was regarded 10y the mana
gers OF the Convention as an insult,
and he was warned away with boots and
crios, as q spotted leper would have
1. 4 ,4Ft &
Jews.
Every suggestion made 10y the Demo
sr Is WAS recoiled from with disgust. rs
II II contained the contagion of small
puX. lie asked II three million of men
had sunk SO low as TO tamely submit to
this insult and scorn like the blows a
spaniel receives. For his own part, he
would not.
But if the tone and temper of that
convention were hostile to the Demo
cratic party, how should ha character
lie the nomination itself He was i'm
his seat at his desk Ia the House when
II was announced that Horace Greeley
had been nominated for the Presi-
ducy limo more occurred to him Is
that he (Gveley) or the meu who
haL nominated Am would have the
brazon audacity to expect Democrats to
support them than he did tuat the disc
ciplts al the Christian religion would
turn away from their faith in an hour
and worship Niahomet as the prophet
OF God. He congratulated himself and
his friends about hila that the uuex-
pected folly of the convention had
opened to thems a sure and easy road
to victory and TO the restoration of
good
He knew Grant would be nominated
in Philadelphia, and then the Repub.
hcan party would be torn in twain. 4
house divided against itself could not
stand, and he saw the house OF his POI
ltical adversary divided lie believed
they could beat Grant with a pare
statesman, if he was opposed by cam
didate who had not advocated and en-
lorsed all his politics IS Greeley bad.
He was not bowed down when he heard
from Cincinnati; his face was rather