The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-25

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Chair.
CIV. PRnpoINT-When am through
saving what have got 10 say, you can
say Just what you please. II itbecomes
necessary to put another man on the
track, Il will, II done, heal this terrible
break that Is now dlsrupting the Republi.
can party. There Is no kind Of question
OF II. The objection is personal one.
Tho objection OF Sumner, Of Schurz, Of
Trumbull and Of Greeley. l may name
those four leading Republicans in the
North, their objections are personal obiec.
tions. They arc such objections as can not
ba healed. But when another man Is put
Into the field, Gen. Grant standing aside,
then all the trouble Of the Republican
party Is ended
Now, my fellow citizens and Mr.. Pres.
ident, | have seen parties divided before
that were strong, or thought themselves
strong. In 1860 the great Democratic
party in this country was confident Of
success, with bright prospects. To-day
where Is itg II you had sounded tho toe.
sin in 1868 and said the Republicans Of
West Virginia would DO defeated before
1872, you would have heard hundred
mouths open: "That Is not So"
My fellow citizens, was in at the birth
Of the Republican party. l have been
through with II. do not know that l
have any political fortunes. l do not
know that shall ever occupy or ask for
an office on the face Of the earth; but II I
have read the signs Of the political times,
and think l have Us carefully as any
man, you arc, sir, in that Recommendation
to tic the hands OF your delegates In the
Philadelphia Convention, standing on q
precipice that Is going to break this glori.
Gus Republican party. He who has given
stronger evidence Of his attachment 10 the
great Republican party OF this country
than have, should like to see him. He
whose heart and every pulse beats more
strongly in unison with the success Of that
party, l should like to see him. Zap.
plause l did say four years ago that II
the Republican party Of West Virginia got
out of the majority | would sell every.
thing l have got on the earth and leave
the State before l would sec my Republi.
can brethren that had stood by me in all
the difficulties l had ever encountered
here IN this State trampled upon and spit
upon by the returning rebels. Applause. !
l feel all that to-day; and II any man will
give me within 25 per cent OF what my
property is worth, according to the esti.
nation Of any five disinterested men in the
State, SO help me God, l will sell it and
leave the State in 49 hours rather than re.
main under the domination l have been
living under.
But, as sure as weare standing here and
you carry out this resolution, and that
nomination is made, so sure will you see
the humiliation OF the defeat of the great
Republican party. That is all l have to
say. [Applause.l
REPLY OF CYRUS, THE RETICENT.
Mr.. CYRUS NEWTON, Of Monroe-I
shall not detain the Convention, at this
late hour in the evening, but few min.
utes, in reply TO the remarks that have
fallen from the gentleman who has Just
taken his seat; but, as member of the
committee whose report he has attacked,
in matter with regard to which, less
than any other, we had expected oppo.
sition TO be met with here, l feel it my
duty to say one or twowords as to what
l conceive to be the position. l have
seen-Young as am in political lite-the
Democratic party crumble into fragments,
because Of the abandonment OF principle.
l have seen that party, as founded by JET.
ierson, gradually abandoning, on the
ground Of expediency, one after another,
the principles that made it great, until Il
has become laughing.stock and scorn,
and is about abandoning its organization.
l, too, sir, have entered the Republican
party carly. |, too, may boast OF having
been in ut It's birth. l was an active
member OF that parry before l ever had
vote; and beg to say to the gentleman
that in the vocabulary Of that little band
of gallant men who formed the incipiency
Of that party in 1S54,'5,.'0, there was no
such word as "expediency!" Applause.
They sought to know the right, and, hay.
ing found it, they sought to do it. They
had confidence 10 the American people
confidence that in time land they felt it
would take time) their prejudices would
disappear, likes mists before the morning
sun, and that, in their clear Judgment, the
great PRINCIPLES Of equality Of all men
before the law; of the greatest good to the
greatest number, on which their whole
theory was based, would be made appar.
ent.
Sir, see no danger to the Republican
party OF to day or the future except the
adoption Of what gentlemen are pleased
to call measures OF expedlency, instead Of
bravely doing the right. Applause I
sentative capacity. If all the gentleman
said was true-and Ideny Its truth, and
shall say something on that question
later-as to the consequences that would
follow the nomination OF Gen. Grant-a
man who has been so true to the trust
reposed In him-a man whose renomina-
ton was so unanimously called for by the
Republican party not only throughout the
United States, but more especially so far
as we are concerned here, by tho people
OF the State-I say here in our represen-
tatiVe capacity we arc bound to give ex-
preston TO that sentiment. Applause. I
III my section, sir, there are no Colfax
men, or Schurz men, or Wilson men
whether from the West or East.) All
the Republicans there are Grant men.
[ Applause. ."-"
But, sir, tho gentleman Is mistaken IN
his schedule Of politics in supposiug
Greeley's nomination is equivalent to an
election in the event OF no Democratic
nomination. / know perhaps as much
from experience of Northern politics us he,
and can assure him that, as between
Greeley and Grant, that wing of the Dem.
ocratic party led by the Chairman of their
National Executive Committee, August
Belmont, assisted by Voorhees, and ALL
that class Of Democrats. will to a man
support Gen, Grant, and that the chances
of Greelcy's election are not whit better
than those OF any regular nominee they
put up They are between Scylla and
Nhnr1yG1iu OpI IN nnonY1n