The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1872-08-15
ApYERTIsING rERMs

who had been the alleged
scarecrow of both continents
for the past ten years. Horace
Greeley was a man whose chief
claim to distiction was his in.
tolerant hate of the South, the
wearing Of a white hat and
walking down Broadway with
one leg of his breeches stuck
in his boot. daughter and ap:
plause.) They wanted to make
the masquerade complete, and
they could not have selected a
more appropriate capdi date
not even Dolly Warden herself,
And still Southern men thought
he could be elected and give
them office. If that was what
they wanted, he advised them
to take chances in voting for
Grant, who was sure to be
elected. These promises re-
minded him of the devil taking
the Savior to the top of the
mount and offering to give Him
all the world, though al the
time he did not own an acre.
(Applause.) Well, the devil
had just as much show for ful.
filling his promise as Horace
Greeley has. (Applause.)
He preferred Grant to Gree
ley, because one was a soldier
and the other a fanatic. He
supported Grant because Of
his terms to Lee; and surely
no conqueror ever bore him
sell more magnanimously to
a vanquished foe than did
Grant when he returned his
sword to Lee and bade him 20
in peace. The covenant made
that day has been sacredly
kept. For him there was no
triumphal procession chanting
p@ans of victory to humble
his conquered foe. He was no
Achilles TO drag the body of
his enemy around the walls of
the conquered city. Suffice it
for HIM to know that his work,
in which he had thrown his
whole soul, was accomplished,
and he was willing to drop the
curtain on the scene. ZAP
plause, and three cheers for
Grant,) lie then. read ali
editorial from the Richmond
Enquirer, which sad that Mos.
by, the last man to surrender
during the. war, was the last
convert to Grantism, and com.
menting on it. To this he re-
piled that he believed his
cause was just; but when 1t
became hopeless he surrender
ed then, as now, to the Com.
mander-ln- chief, not the scrubs
and scum, the howlers and
hangers-on, but to soldiers; and
that bis name and those of his
associates were imperishably
enrolled on the pages of his
country's history, and would be
talked of and known when the
man who penned the article
and his other maligners would
be forgotten. (Applause.1 l
did then what l do now; | sur
rendered in good faith, making
a covenant which will be kept
"a covenant as before between
the strong and the weak, and
one which will protect me-
What protection can Gree
ley give, with his only fol-
lowers a sutler train NOV
ing from. Cincinnati to Bal
timores lApplause.) He sup.
ported Grant, as he said
before, on his (Grant's)
own record, which is the best
platform a man can have. His
friends of the South must now
make their choice. 1t seemed
to him the election of Grant
was a dead certainty-that OF
Greeley a remote possibility,
In fact, Greeley never could
be President unless he went
to Liberia, and there his elec-
tion would be doubtful. Zap
plause.) He would support
Grant because, with all his
faults, nobody ever accused
him of deserting a friend or
violating a covenant. Zap
plause and cheers for Grant)
Mr.. Sumner might write ali
he chose about the regenera-
ted Democracy, of which Mr..
Hunton was a specimen, but
for himself, if the regenerat.
ing waters consisted IN voting
for Greeley, he preferred TO re:
main among the unregenerat;
ed.( Long applause.) He closed