Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-07


!, veniion were adopted, when both adjourn
!. ed TO the park to listen to speeches fror
=, johnson Of Oregon, Thayer ofNcw Y or
:; and others. In the evening Gen. Xii
" patrick held forth at the city hall.
r ----l-#...- -. tE-
g Fired Douglass the great eolored or
. ator made speech at Richmond. Va.
the other day, which the Springfield Re
= publican admits. to he a mastery one
f. We insert the last part Of il regarding
the candidates, aud commend the scnti.
ments there expressed to all candid read.
efs for consideration l"- fg
''But lot MS come.to the great question
! that we are here TO discuss to-day. We
are going, in the course of few months.
to choose a president and vice president
OF the United States, and you and | and
all OF usare 10 have voice, free voice.
an uncontrolled voice, an untrammclled
vote on that question. We are going TO
have It, AMI now it is of the gravest pos
slble consequence what the choice of the
American people shall be in regard to that
hear from several sources that all the
Intelligent colored people of the South are
going to vote for Horace Greeley and b.
Gratz Brown. Well, hope you won't
have many such intelligent ones in Vir.
ginia.
"Now, | did not come here to abuse
Horace Greeley. didn't come here to
say harsh things of him, nor of Gratz
brown | can call man knaye and n
tool, CT mean. miserable wretch, and all
that sort OF thing il want to, but that
don't prove anything. | should like RIGHT
well to be able to vote for Horace Gree .
Iey.l should like to do it on the scorethat be ,
is workingmau, aud on the score that he |
Is an editor, brother editor with me. |
should IKE to vote for Horace Greeley if 0
only knew which Greeley my vote wouId $
elect But there is Just where the troub. G
e Is with me. He is a many sided man. O
mere have been good many Horace n
ireeIcys You know when Cough pre- o
ented himself at the door of the Taberno. G.
lie OF New York he said to the doorkeen.
r; Let me in, | am Cough" I'm be
ID II | do, said the doorkeeper, "there
ave no less than seven Coughs zone l.
here already" There have been 4.
rea' many Horace Grceleys in my time. hi
knew one once who used to say red hot On
llngs against slavery. liked that man. 6,
ap'tal man he was. IT my vote would
cct that Horace Greeley. and was sure l.,
would stay "put." why, | would vote m
n him, But there is just the trouble, wi
'ntIemen. In voting for Horace Gree. W,
y we don't know which Greeley we are nm
ylng to elect-whether it is the Greeley v,
thirty years ago,of twenty years ago. r,
OF ten years ago, in the van of the re :. IN
lolcan party, or the Greeley OF to-day, VIZ
the head of the democratic party. ma
What the South wants. what Virginia ma
'n's, what the whole country wants at pla
is time above all things after this ter. w
Die ten years of commotion, after this NO,
rribIe ten years of agitation and suffer. be,
3 Is quiet and repose, by which all the wa
wounds IL the body polite shall be We,
aled, and the nation come into one HON. Tn
eneous whole. That is what we want sist
want that above all things. You and pro
'noW as well as We know anything, that can
re can De no repose, no security with me,
certainty My objection to Alr. abs
eeley is that he is an uncertain man !; her
1t he Is vacillating man that he is fall
the present moment in doubtful COM pro
~ 10 say the least. Any uncertainty ten,
doubt at the head of affairs cannot MD
other than disastrous to the highest inc
'rests OF this country. What we want tho
the helm is a clear head and firm hos
ID and these we have in Ulysses S. ial
INT, We want certainty. We do not dav
It candidate that is neither fish, br;d
nor fowl. | object to Mr.. Greeley aros
he ground that he is ambiguous. sort mon
mphlbious animal, living on neither of So
nor water, neither republican nor win
locrat; neither protectouist nor n
trader; in favor of Capitalization and u,
INST It; In favor Of ku-klux laws and vour
INST them opposed to Tammany and piva
1t. Well, said was not going to latlo,
any harsh things about him, but let lnsto
ell you, my fellow citizens, speaking ..abo
colored man, | regard the election of versa
ice Greeley as one of the most calam. dur;n
events that could possibly befall has o,
republic. mai
hat we want, lrepeat, is certainty. show
Know Ulysses Grant. We know Uanrr o,,t ;,