The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-20
Col. mCsure at Rea,.i,.o.

Hon. A. K. ArCIURE addressed an inn
mense meeting at Reading last Thursday
evening The following synopsis of his
speech, and especially his description of the
Louisville convention, win be found to be
rich, rare and racy. 1t is fine specimen
of his varied and unsurpassed accomplish
Inents IS 4 public speaker
This is a healthy year for boilers, and, as
boltinc is always healthy for the body poll
tic. the signs OF the times are most propi-
tious whole national convention, with
delegates from every State, and many of
The ablest statesmen of the nation, bolted
from the Grant party at Cincinnati. They
did not bolt from their Republican convic-
tions but they bolted from tire personal
rule that has 80 defur1ned kepublicanism
that independent and honest men cannot
recognize it as the same party whose noble
achievements of the past have written the
brightest pages of our history. (Applause.)
/ he great Cincinnati outburst of bolters
like the outbreak of lung-smothered cur
rents, sent petty streams and sprays in all
manner of odd directions away from the
tidal wave, and each one seems To have
become ambitious To be . Hood of its own.
I.aughter.D Cameron and Tweed, and
Norton aud '.Brick" Pomeroy, and Butler
and Mosby, and others of like pronounced
patriotism (lsughter), hastened to water
the multitude OF infantiIc Hoods that have
jetted off from Cincinnati, and they we've
1inally all turned toward Gotham.
The Grant leaders would not be discour-
aged. Cameron and Morton and Butler
i'll their early religious studies (iaughterJ,
had read i'll Pilgrim Progress, or in their
primers, that III some lexicon there il no
such word as fail. And they resolved not
to fail. They had contracted for bolt :;
they had paid for bolt, and a bolt they
must have. (Laughter). If not n Liberal
bolt they must have Democratic bolt and
thereupon Nosby MAS welcomed To the hos
pitality of the " hite House. The Warriors
met and were fraternal. Uaughtcr).-
hosby differed with his brother hero in
that he was honest. He went home for
Grant and told his people that he preferred
to deal for Immediate delivery, and that
Grant was his man. Q-aughter). Mosby
bolted, and the first fruits OF the weary
efforts of the administration were gathered
Wise bolted with him for the one hundred
and nine eteenth time in his life laughterl,
and Will bolt every fortnight until the cleo
ton but 1t was All emergency that forbade
ceremony or inquiry, and ne was welcomed.
(Applause.)
Then came my old friend Blanton Dun
can. His contract was stupendous. lie
Oh the wrong side of the war. lie WAS 10
-defiantly and Extensively rebel that his fine
estate WAS contiHcated under the laws, and
he had To choose between supporting Grant
or bankruptcy. Not that he loved q rant
more, but that he loved poverty less. de-
cided his political status Qaughter), and he
assumed the contract of defeating Mr..
Greeley ut Baltimore. He got his estate
back through Buffers championship in the
House, and Grants approval, but neither
floods nor franked circulars, nor ceaselcss
opportunities, nor prayers, nor tears, nor
offices, nor contracts, nor all together
laughter) could turn the Democratic Con-
vention from its purpose. (Prolonged
cheers.)
Harris, of Maryland, who was censured
by Republican Congress for disloyalty
while member of the House, bolted for
Grant because disloyalty was not main-
tanned at Baltimore and Brick Pomeroy
and " Nendcll Phillips bolted together, for
Grant, and for the same reason. Both are
lawless and revolutionary, and neither have
supported a successful candidate within nv
recollection.
And TOombs bolts and is made welcome:
and Stephens bolts and is invited to the
Grant feast. They bolt because Greeley
was for the emancipation and enfranchise-
ment of the slaves, and Garrison and
Douglass bolt to Grant, because Grant is
more for the emancipation and enfran-
chisement of the blacks than Greeley is
(Laughter.)
Notwithstanding General Cameron's un
sophisticated habits and tastes touching
quartermastcrs, paymasters and baggage
masters, (shouts of laughter he was Sc
lected to run the several departments of
this State. He called Revenue Officer Err
rett the chairman of the Cameron-Grapt
party of the State, and gave him general
command, with instructions to enlist all
stTagglers about every camp, and to send
them free 10 Louisville. Yr. Errett an
swered his chief that tickets cost money,
and he had not the cash just at hand. He
reported that he had delegation mustered
in for ten days, and as long thereafter as
pay and rations could be kept up Qauph-
ter, but that they must have transporta-
ton. 1t was promptly furnished by Cam
eron. A relative of President Grant en-
gagged 4 band, and all went to Louisville
merry as a marriage bell. Uaughter.)
The convention Mt Louisville opened
rather inauspiciously. Instead of begin
ming with prayer, AS is usually done, Mr.
Blanton Duncan opened it with bar-room
brawl in which he probably would have
whipped the other fellow if the other fellow
had not very promptly whipped him
(Shouts of laughter.) And, while the
chivalrous Duncan was accepting . fog
ging i'll Louisville, one Of the hopeful
brothers-in-law of the President opened the
ball at the other end of the line by clubbing
an editor who was bowed by the frosts of
sixty winters. (Renewed laughter.)
Virgil antediluvian, who had been
tenderly rocked in the resolutions of '9S,
presided, and the programme was proceeded
with, according to contract, as rapidly as
could be done, with some appearance of
deliberation. Train flashed upon the gath
ering like full moon upon pile of stale
mackerel Qaughter), and, not being COM
mercial in politics, he WAS driven from the
body.
Finally, the ticket contracted and paid
for by Cameron, Tweed, Morton & Co.,
was nominated, but it would not stand
O'Conor had convictions of his own, but he
was not for sale, and Adams would die
o,l,, in ha arms of ()'( ,onOr