Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-18
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TO THE
Daily Kennebec Journal.
Enthusiastic Grant Meeting
in New York.
Cooper Institute Crowded to Over.
flowing,

o'clock tonight by Henry Clews, who ad-
dressed the audience as follows:
Fellow Citizens In calling this meeting
to order can not pay you higher compl-
ment than | offer to the gentleman l am
about name. II nominate for President of
this meeting the Hon. M. L. Dodge, Presi-
dent of the Chamber Of Commerce. Mr..
Dodge was enthusiastically elected, and upon
taking the chair made an able and eloquent
address.
Hon. f. Delaield Smith read an address to
the people to the effect that the administra-
ton OF public affairs under the government of
President Grant has been emineDtly wise
conservative and polite that it is an act of
perfect justice that the soldier whose victory
In war, and the statesman whose triumphs in
peace has made the last decade the most
glorious in the annals of American history.
should receive an earnest of gratitude of his
countrymen by reelection to the Presidency.
The recommendation of the President in
favor of the principles enunciated in the re-
port Of the civil service commission were
timely and opportune and deserve universal
endorsement. The investigation set on foot
during the present session of Congress have
demonstrated his purity, while their cost has
exceeded the aggregate loss sustained by the
government through the dishonesty of its
subordinates since the administration came
into power. A record SO clear and honora-
BILE challenges the admiration and compels
the approval of the people. With the griev-
| ances Of disappointed offlce-seekers the
masses cannot be expected to sympathize.
Believing that General Grants civic career
fifty supplements his military greatness, and
| that he possesses and deserves the confidence
of the American people, we pledge him our
united and treaty support as a candidate for
re- election.
Mr.. Smith then read the following series of
| resolutions:
First, That the merchants, mechanics,
bankers and business men Of New York,
represented in this meeting and in the call
under which it is assembled, are satisfied
with the wisdom, ability, moderation and
fidelity with which the national government
is administered, and in common with the
bulk of our brethren throughout the Union
favor the continuance of its distinguished
head in the office which he holds with use
fulness and honor.
Second, That the practical result of the
coalition movement would, if successful, be
to restore the democratic party into power.
Third, That such restoration, after the
late glorious triumph over rebellion, would
read in history like the record of tory
| resurrection at the close of our revolutionary
war.
Fourth, That republicans elected to office
mainly by those who assailed the Union at
the South and at the North embarrassed its
defenders, would inevitably become service
able to the powers that sustained them, like
those northern Presidents who were chosen
by the South and did its bidding better than
its own statesmen.
Fifth, That the patriotism which 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 the manifest sacri-
| fee of interest and inclination, with modest
| misgiving as to civil experience and qualifl
| cations, but having been well and wisely ad-
ministered, confidence implied in q re-elec-
ton is an appropriate reward for faithful SER
vices, and accords with the broadcast views of
public policy.
Sixth, That against hostile criticism and
unfair imputations, against alluring promises
and prismatic theories, we array the practical
reforms and substantial results already
achieved and constantly inaugurated by the
present administration. The chronic vices
| of existing systems wrongfully paraded to its
injury have been placed in course of smeli-
GRAFTON or removal; the reduction Of the ma
tional debt has elected the admiration of the
world; our diplomats have made peace the
ally of national honor; and our President has
been indeed, as in name, kind and "Great
Father" to the Indian tribes still lingering
within our borders.
Seventh, That while honorable opposition
is entitled to respect, every effort to blacken,
| for political purposes, the character Of Presi-
dent Grant, is crime against truth which
vindicates him, and an insult to the American
people who homer and exalt him. Pure in
private IS irreproachable in public life, with
strong convictions yet deferental to popular
will, patient under attack, more ready to list
en- than to speak, with no display and no os-
| tentatiOn, those who know him best bear tes-
| timony to the sense, sagacity and power of
analysis by which his utterances are caracter-
lied and impressed.
Eighth, That in the judgment of this
meeting a majority of the people of the coun-
| try expect, desire and decree the renomina-
ton and reelection of Ulysses S. Grant.
The following letter was received from
Schuyler Colfax:
Vice-President's Chamber,
Washington, ID. c., Is.
"Gentlemen 1T would afford me great
| pleasure to attend your meeting next Wednes-
day night in accordance with the invitation
with which have, been honored, but a. my
absence compels the Senate to elect presi-
dent pro TEN, must remain at the post of
duty here. If i could be with you, that on
which should speak would be the patriotic
and political necessity of republican unity.
The brilliant triumphs, which in the past ten
years have been SO interviewer in the history
of the nation, were won by the federation Of
all minor differences in its ranks, happily en-
joyed with an almost universal willingness to
abide by the decision of the majority of its
members with its millions of voters. Thus
invited it won victory after victory, despite
secession from its ranks on the one hand and
the bitterest antagenism by its political oppo-
nents on the other. l cannot shut my eyes
to the dangers of republican divisions; dan
gers 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 republican organization,
were carried through when its unity was
warred on by foes from its own household
who proclaimed, as now again proclaimed that
its usefulness and ability to achieve great re-
suits had ended, and that the time had ar
rived for new affiliations. What 1t had done
since then, 10 however, noble heritage to
bequeath to our children; illuminating as the
record does, some of the brightest pages of