Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-09
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
Address of the Grant Central Campaign
Club of MassachnseIts.
Well Tried and Undiminished
Patriotism.
LET THE ISSUE BE MET MAEFULlY.

The tissues involved in the present presidential
campaign having been substantially completed
by the nomination of the democratic convention
at Baltimore, we now have a clear view of the
question presented for decision at the polls in
November next.
The various efforts made to disrupt the great
republican party of the country have resulted in
simplifying the contest into the old struggle
with the democratic party, in which we have
been victorious during the last twelve years,
when questions of no less magnitude were at
stake than the very existence ofperSOnal liberty
on this continent and of national government
republican in form and in reality. All the mani
fold interests of society, social, moral and
political which underlie these cardinal bless
ings were tiercey assaed, first by years of re-
bellious opinion and doctrine, and finally by
years of rebellious war. The republican party
embodied the principles, originated the policy
and conducted the administration of the govern
ment through this terrible contest, amidst
storm of Yituperation and SANDER to which the
present cutlery OF ITS opponents IS but q feeble
and empty sound.
The result is presented to the candid and con-
slderate judgment of the country and of man.
kind, who behold a war ended in victory for the
right; liberty preserved; slavery abolished; the
public credit established; the national debt re-
duced and diminishing: the taxes removed;
capital abundant; commerce reviving; industry
prosperous; labor gaining its Just rewards:
peace with all nations secured and domestic
tranquility restored, save in few isolated dis
tricts where the opposition to the government,
recently manifested in open warfare, now turks
in the Stealthy ambush of the kukluX and the
assassin. BY this matchless record the repub-
lican organization stands undismayed in the
present conflict; and dismissing alike the ae-
cusations against lis leaders and the fruitleSs
efforts to impair its integrity, bears aloft this
unanSwerabe vindication. Relying upon the
well tried and undiminiShed PATRIOTISM intelli-
gence and Just Judgment of their fellow coun-
trymen, the appeal cannot be made in vain for
sustaining an administration marked by such
unparalleled success.
Our opponents have already virtually sur
rendered by the abandonment of their princi-
piles; and scourged by popular condemnation,
have been driven beyond the limits of their own
organization for candidates. Thus both the
right and the victory are ours by their own con-
fession. Defeated in their own position, they
now seek by adopting in part selection from
our own principles and by seducing the unstable
among our own friends 10 make one more des-
perate struggle for supremacy in the govern
ment. Let this last issue be met manfully; un-
alarmed by occasional detection, unseduced by
promises, undsmayed by the vanity or the
ierceness of the contest let us lead on to another
and final triumph.
The Grant central campaign club of MaSsa-
chuSetts has been organized as an auxiliary in
strument to give unity and efficiency TO the
efforts of the friends of the national administra-
ton throughout this commonwealth. 1t invites
the organization of republican campaign clubs
in every town in the state, and in the wards of
cities; and requests that lists of their respective
officers be reported TO this club. The presidents
of all local clubs will be honorary members of
the central club. Its rooms, No. Hamilton
place, opposite Park street church, Boston, are
open at all times to the free use of republicans
from all quarters, and information affecting the
progress of the campaign in any and all loca-
ties is invited and will be exchanged; docu-
ments will be provided and speakers engaged,
and every possible assistance rendered on appl-
cation by letter or otherwise, addressed to the
secretary, 0. L. Doolittle, Not Hamilton place,
Boston.
Let Massachusetts be heard from in Novem-
Der, with an old-fashioned and undimnshed
republican victory.