The sun., 1872-05-31
THE VOICE OF A STATESMAN
GREIT SPEECH ny GOT. Palmer
~ DECATUR, mn.


Campaign Grants Administration n Fall
urc -Grcclry's Election TO be the Begin-
Mag Of an Era of Peace aud Honesty.
ty.r1ct, nam Gor. Tuitner's speech IN Decatur, M.
Mn President: | have the pleasure OF
beiug personally acquainted with a great many
of the citizens of Macon county, and think. Of
nHhlng more appropriate than That you lMr.
~ tn,sc whom I do not know. sixteen years
hgi you and | were what were called Sore
nj Philadelphia that nominated John g. Free
mont. A friend of mine said to me to-day that
"a we nominated Fremont we have no nsht
j said to him We only did it once YOU propose
10 do It twice. We are are wiser than YOU
thirty years ago. WA then a member Of the
Democratic party was born in the Demo-
aud ciiimJd io have come down In regular sue
Ccssiuu. when was boy learned To hurrah
for Jackson, and stood with my party, bcliev-
Ing, however, that slavery and Democracy were
Inconsistent with each other. waS an original
The DECLARATION Of Independence, and believe
today that freedom and equality before the law
every man within the limits Of this Republic In
1850 did what | could to elect Mr.. Fremont In
& eAeTed myse @ S an hS from S'fS,Sh Se satd II
In the army. aud did not vote In 1868 l voted
for Gen. Grant.
GRANT FAILURE.
Now those who seek the denomination OF Gen.
Grant have undertaken to show you that WIZ
his four years of experience, he Is success
nm not speaking to partlsans' because y, there u
parties to-day except the parties that are formed
with reference to the duties OF to-day lap
plausel Then addressing you, gentlemen, who
have been with me through those long weary
years Of strife over slavery, secession and the
civil war, addressing those gentlemen who have
differed with us during this dark and bloody
period in our history, appealing 70 each one Of
y1u as a citizen and man. ask the question OF
y,u. can q bc affirmed Of Gen. Grant that his
Administration has realized your idea OF what
shnuid he the Administration OF a Republican
.f.. I'm t SnlTit m. IL
low me to ask II you were satisfied with his
Cabinet ia the first instanceY Do you not know
that when Abraham Lincoln was made Prcsi-
dent, he called around him the gre men who
had been marked 10y public opinion as his rivals,
iepicr.s There we're Seward and Chase-but
need not euumerate that constellation OF great
men gathered around him,
WHO ARE FISH AND BORIE?
When Gen. Grant became President, he chose
NJ. Mashhurne temporarily, anu hnauy MI:
Fish, for his chief counsellor the Secretary a.
State. Now, who OF you, unless II l. some OH
fpry like myself, who happened to live good
while ago, had ever heard of Hamilton Fish be
fore lac was called into Gen. Grants Cabinet
Hamilton Fish! Who had heard Of himt For
Secretary of the Treasury, do you not recollect
that he appointed \. 4. stewart, the great incr-
chint Of New York, and then found that ne was
inrrible 10y a law passed In The l11t gcnitIIy,
should be repealed SO as 70 make stewart
eligible to the pusitiu n. lie called Juhn haWlin@
as secretary cf War and NJ digestion could Ice
urged to that appoiutmSni. Het 10 you trn.i,- .ll
ber who his secretary Uf the Navy wasf DO YOU
FpIueulhnr how. the ttit EldfN gave us INC
name, some had II Borre. or lioNcc, or B'Nler'
and great variety of other names, end finally
II turned out b. be Loric. Aui who hrd ever heard
of Bore befureI / VIII not tr9uhlf you WIN 3"
recaptulatiun of these names, because they ato
only remembered on account of the eXtrn"rdi-
mary fact that ANYBODY ever thought OF bringing
them into Cabinet.
TUE SACRIFICE oF CHARLES SUMNER.
Do you not remember that Il has been ground
Of complaint, among Republicans, that Gcn
Grant called around him such inirri"r men i"i
his counsellOrs, without going at Icugth over thc
pu6IIcan ~ here who attempts 10 defend that
most extraordinary act OF attempting 10 ac'
guire the island Of san Domingo, Even Gen
Grant himself was compelled, bold ~ he l., i'
back down from II I'm view Of the storm OF pub
lie sentiment, And, gentlemen, you rememhel
foremost statesmen Of his tasoY You rccuilec,
the man who was smitten down years ago, ~ b s
place in the Senate, because he dared 81, al, t'i
human freedomy The man whose cluqurn'
voice. has been always loudest and hrmgsI
uanded and obtained the sacrifice Of Chirlcs
sumner because he was not " Hing 20 agree tu
the acquisition Of san Domingo. Summer was
stricken down from a position viii ne ha,
Gllcd, aud for which he Is better hited than any
other public man In this country and Simon
Cameron made Chairman Of the Commitje, ou
Foreign Relations What was the crncf CLal'
son Fish. Charles Sumner was not In favor 20
the acquisition Of san Domingo
Let me ask you, Is there a public man In the
country, who has dared TO resist Gen. Grant
will, who has not been visited by his wrath ans
smitten down. If he could be Olerthrowht III.
a republican government II is not the proviuc,
Of a President To make war upon citizen hc
cause that citizen prefers to he true % his OWL
convictions rather than To be the sert OF IL,
President. Assent
GRANTS NEGLECT or DUTY.
Now. will not speak Of the l.ret and stock.
inr affair, which has so often made ~ blush.
viii not SPEAK II the disgra ef'il pro.ntment of
Lasey at New Orleans the ,!lin1 the Custom
convention, but will simply alude to these
things. will do no more than alludc TO the
vice Of the Government 70 be used hy faction
l-ts in Louisiana 20 enable minority Of the
the right to compel them, under the Con-titu
tlon, TO attend and constitute quorum for the
than allude to the fact that Gen. Grant, abou
this time last year, left Washington, and spcn
nearly the whole season at the sea shore NJ
example Of neglect OF public duty which ha
DO parallel In the history of American Prrsl
but not urged. Gen, Grant seems t. regard H.,
once of President in the light OF reward;
conscientious statesman refards tue once ul
hin. Tie duties Of the ONCE of President arr o.
the most solemn, imperous, and pressing char
Hctcr. They involve the wel-bcng of forty mil
lions II intelligent and free people, and a states
man who falls short Of conceivins the high posi-
ton or the duties which he assumes, ought no
t. be reelected to the Presidency. Now. yol
may. say that this is censorious and eNacting
But = not the government Of a free people
matter Of sufficient Importance to require th,
hithful and earnest labor Of even a great man
Think Of the Immense interests connected will
the National Government, and ask yourselves l.
II is possible that any man, however industrious
however earnest, and however faithful. coult
hui time TO travel, to fit from one end Of thi
continent 10 the Othcrabnndouing his place 10 -
b. tlle -oashoTe, and spend months there, forget
ting. lt least apparently, and not attending 1,
uyGutie, II his placer
HORACE GREELEY.
Now we have presented on the other hand
We yes, the gentlemen who met al Cincinnati
Horace Greeley. Is there a man III this Cpuu
Try who II a better model Of patient, unialte
Ing, unnagging Industry Is there man in thi
country who has exhibited higher evidence %
rapacityg | say nothing about the iests an
mirth At his expense, for | propose TO speak Il
yuu seriously. In this country our presen
teachers are the newspapers. There l., an,
there has been for twenty years past, as muCI
talent connected with the newspaper press q
with any other pursuit Think of the labor
talent, and learning that press demand
and exhibits. You regard the professiO
of the law as one requiring a hg
order Of ability, aud If a man attain III
highest place at the bar, you cOnccde to hin
greatness. But II seems 10 me equally Just {
Bay that man who commenced thirty year
h-0, has been engaged in all the controversial
political and social, that have agitated the peu
pie in The last thirty years, and who to-day
the acknowledged head OF the newspaper pres
Of the country, has won right To he characteI
l2cd AS one OF IT, ablest and most lntellcclu.
citizens. l. not that fair reasonlngf Selrr
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