Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-08-13
eRANTAND WILSON CLUB.
, he Meeting at Lancaster on Saturday evening
An Enthusiastic Gathering-speeeh by
Hon. A. IL. Bushnell Torch
hf Light Procession.

| alreete presented scene Oh unuSuAl
tumult and excitement. The Ian
caster Tanners and Cobblers' were
out with uniform and torch, From
the country, as well as village, came
old and young-men, Y women and
children-in hundreds, to witness
the march and evolutions of the
Grant company. Under Capt. Bax-
ter's lead the company. marched
! through the principal streets and
performed the usual drill evolutions,
during which time athc frequent
cheers from the spectators for Grant
and Wilson proved that not only the
scene but the cause also was one OF
interest to the multitude.
After the procession it was an
nounced that Capt. A. r. Bushnell
would address the people at the
court. house, and thither the citizens
crowded, not more than halfuf whom
were able to obtain seats. After
the enthusiastic tumult subsidized,
Hon G. ". Ryland called the m Get
ing to order. An enivening pairs
otto song by the Grant Glee Club
followed, when the speaker was in
trOduced. His address was an To-
quent one, giving a record of the
parties, and ably defending the ad-
ADMINISTRATION against the charges of
the oppos ton and picturing in clear
light the position of its tradercers
We would be glad to publish from
our Iull notes q lengthy report of
Capt. Bushnel's speech, but have
space only for brief notice of some
OF the points presented
Capt, Bushnell opened his speech
with q review of the record of Horace
Greeley, the Democratic candidate
for President. He told US how tho
great editor had in his life adv ocs.t-
ed all sides Of many OF the great p0-
litical as well AS social questions.
Many years the follower of the abo
lition movement, he to-day clasps
hands across the bloody chasm with
the late slav: masters. A life.long
advocate of protection, he is now the
leader OF the party that tor thirty
years labored for the adoption Of
tree trade principls. The RepubH-
CT rs have charged him with selling
QUITE the Democracy, but neither
the n. Y Tribune or Greeley him.
self had denied it. The speaker
then reviewed briefly the history of
the Carmichael and Greeley bargain,
in all its various phases; running
through the Passive Policy first adj
vocated by Montgomery Blair, the
New Departure by Vallandigham,
the gradual adoption Of Republican
principles, then the attacks on Grant
to create dissatisfaction, the scheme
Of Carmichael, tho convention of
dupes who believed and rogues who
pretended at Cincinnati that Gree
ley's uomins ton was the voice Of
the people, and lastly tho Baltimore
nomination controlled by the same
schemes.
He showed up the character Of the
mongrel elements of the opposition
and told us where most of them were
during the war that rebels, gueril-
las, Sons Of Liberty, Ku>klux, Cop
perheads, deserters and bounty Jump
ers are almost TO man with Gree
ley. They claimed that there was
now no Democratic party that
there were only different sorts of Re-
pubicans, and that Greeley men
were the pure variety. He gave an
apt illustration, of an aged negro,
who had long been in the belief that
he was dying, saying the angel Of
the Lord would soon call him. A
wag TO test his nerve, knocked at
his door at midnight. "Who dar p
shrieked the dying man. The am
gel of the Lord" said sepulchral
voice 81 come after old Niger i'm
y III HiAbO uhOOt LuS OSh dbN lOui ~
out, g way dar No such niger
here Niger jim been dead six
months y And so Democracy,
when we are about to give it the
final call cries out mo such niger
here Died at Cincinnati ~
Mr. Bushnell next compared the
two platforms, showing that general
amnesty, the first Liberal plank, had
ever heretofore been advocated by
Grant, and that there were to. day
only 100 or 200 leading rebels who
are DISTINGUISHED. Why do not the
Liberals ask the restoration of rights
of citizenship to cur northern jail
birds, whose crimes are as nothing
compared to that Of the men who
brought on the war?
But how can We give space to all
the telling points of our legislators
speech his pungent attacks on Gree
ley and complete defense of Grant :?
Those who want the remainder must
invite him to speak at other times
and places.