Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-20


would read in history like the record O
, | long resurrection at the close of our rev
dictionary war.
Fourth-That the.Republicans elected tt
office mainly by those who aSSailed the
Union at the South and at the North en-
barrassed its defenders, would inevitably
become serviceable to the powers that sus-
tanned them, like those Northern Presi-
dents who were chosen by the South and
did its bidding Setter than its own states
men.
| Fifth-That the patriotism that made
Grant President of the republic he saved,
is akin to that which placed Washington
at the head of the nation he created. The
trust was accepted by each at a manifest
sacrifice of interest and inclination, with
modest misgiving as to civil experience
and qualification but having been well
and wisely administered, the confidence
implied in reelection is an appropri-
ate reward for faithful services, and ac-
cords with the broadcast views of public
policy,
and unfOunded imputations, against allur-
ing promises and prismatic theories, we
array the practical reforms constantly in
augurated, and the practical results al
| ready achieved by the present Admins
tratiOn. The chronic vices of existing
systems, unfairly paraded to its injury,
| have been placed in course of ameliOratiOn
or removal. The reduction of the nation
al debt has elected the admiration of the
world. Our diplomacy has made peace
! the ally of national honor. And our
| President has been in deed, as well as in
name, a Great Father to the Indian tribes
| still lingering within our borders.
Seventh-That while honorable OppOsi-
ton is entitled to respect, every effort to
| blacken for political purposes the charac-
| ter of President Grant is a crime against
| the truth which vindicates him, and an
| insult to the American people who honor
| and exalt him. Pure in private as ire
prOachabIe in public life, with strong con-
victioDs, yet defferential to the popular
will, patient under attack, more ready to
listen than to speak, with no display and
| no OstentatiOn, those who know him best
| bear testimony to the sense, sagacity and
power of analysis by which his utterances
are characterized and impressed.
Eighth-That, i'll the judgment of this
meeting, a majority Of the people of this
country expect, desire and decree the re-
nomination of Ulysses 5. Grant.
ADOPTION OF THE ADDRESS AND PLAT
FORM.
Smith, i'll a few pertinent remarks, COM
mended the address and resolutions, and
called for the unanimous adoption of both.
They were adopted with cheers.
VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX.
A letter was read from Vice President
Colfax, in which he says /" AS my ab-
sence would compel the Senate to elect a
President pro tempOre, | must remain at
the post of my duty. If l could be with
you, the thought on which / should speak
would be the patriotic and political neceS-
sity of Republican unity. The brilliant
triumphs which in the past ten years have
so interviewer the history of the nation,
were won by the liberation of all minor
differences in the ranks, happily enjoyed
with almost universal willingness to abide
by the decisions of a majority of its mem
bers.
Republican divisions, dangers not only to
the party itself and its future, but to the
nation and its future also. Nor can any
one else shut his eyes to the fact that the
grandest reforms which the country owes
to the fidelity of the Republican Organiza-
ton were carried through when its unity
and permanency were warred on by foes
from its own household, who proclaimed,
as is now again proclaimed, that its Use
fulness and ability to achieve great results |
had ended, and that the time had arrived
for new affiliations.
What it has done since then is, how
ever, a noble heritage to bequeath to our
children, illuminating, as the record does,
some of the brightest pages of our cOun-
try's annals, and | have no fear, when
impartial history records theadministrative
results of the American executives of our
time, but that side by side with the once
bitterly criticised but now universally hon
Ored Abraham Lincoln will be found the
name of Ulysses S. Grant"
OTHER LETTERS.
Letters were also received from Senator
Conkling, George William Curtis, George
F. Edmonds, Gerrit Smith, and Joseph r. |
Hawley, and George w. Gibbons, presi- |
dent of the WOrkingmen's Central Union. |
THE WORKINGMEN.
The latter says " / regret that cannot |
be present at the meeting at Cooper Insti-
tute this evening. You can state to the |
meeting that the WOrkingmen's Central |
Union of the State of New York, number |
ing nearly twenty thousand members, will |
vote and work for the reelection of Gen. |
Grant"
DISPATCH FROM FRED DOUGLASS.
The following dispatch was received:
"NEw ORLEANS, April 16.-Henry |
CleWs and Ed. Morgan, New York 1t is |
impossible to be with you. The colOred |
people are one and indivisible for the Re-
publican party and its nominees.
fSignedl " FREDERICK DOUGLASS"
A telegram was also received from