Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-05-02
BeeCher on the Republican Party and
the Administration.

the Administration.
A GRAND mass-meeting of the citizens |
of Brooklyn was held, last evening, at |
the Academy of Music, to nominate Gen. |
Grant for the Presidency. The call was
signed by most of the influential citizens |
of Brooklyn, and the vast building was |
crowded to its utmost capacity by an en- |
thusiastic gathering of the friends and sup |
porters of the present Administration. The |
text of the inaugural address of President |
Grant, AZ shall on all subjects have pol |
icy to recommend, but none to enforce |
against the will of the people," and SIM
liar patriotic enunciations of Washington |
and Lincoln were gracefully suspended |
from the top and sides of the platform, |
between festoons of evergreens. A BAN
ner bearing the words, 1.-The Peoples
Choice, Grant and Colfax, 1872" hung
Immediately over the Presidents chair,
and called forth repeated bursts of en-
thusiasm. Precisely at o'clock Mr.. E.
d. Morgan was called to the chair, in the
absence of II. B. Claflin, who was ex-
pected to preside. Among the resolutions
passed were the following:
Resotyed. That the Republic took no harm by
reelection of Washington, jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, jackson, Lincoln, and to that illustrious
roll we would add the name of Ulysses 8 Grant;
ResOiUed. That we present. as the peoples choice
for reelection to the office of President OF the
United States, Ulysses 5. Grant and to the office
of Vice-President, Schuyler Colfax.
Henry Ward Beecher made lengthy
address from which we extract: The
question before the people is whether
you desire to split up the Republican
party in two, or determine to trust the
affairs of the nation for four years more
in the present hands, and my own con-
clusion is that the people are not tired of
the Republican party, but mean to take
it again, and put it through to victory.
And now consider what has been the ad
ministration of it in the time past; and
pointed out with pride the policy of the
Administration in its management of the
South, in its treatment of the Indians, in
the difficulty with England, in the pay
ment of the national debt during Gen.
Grants term of office. He was called to
that position by the almost unanimous
voice of the nation at the termination of
the great civil struggle. His promises
were few. but his fultillments have been
ample He said in answer to the Com
mittee that bore him the nomination: eff
elected to the Office it will be my endeavor
to discharge my duty in good faith"
Point me to the law he has failed to ad
minister in good faith. "With economy"
Where is there single breach of econ
omy within Gen. Grants power to re-
strain? "And with the view of giving
peace, quiet and protection every
where" Was there ever more quiet
on the Continent than there is to-
day? In times like the present it is
impossible, is at least eminently i'm
proper, to lay down a policy to be ad
hered to, right or wrong, through the
four years administration. New political
lailxr and in hot xriaxxy ha
said: 81 have always respected, and will
respect, the will of the people" Gentle
men, there never has been an officer at
the head of the Government more
sensitive to the will of the peo-
pie than General Grant. They talk
about one-man power, and the dan
ger of military dictatorship. The danger
is in their own imaginations. There is
not a hair of his head that tends to die
tatorship, and so soon as the will of the
people unmistakably is announced so
soon is it obeyed. The thermometer that
hangs on the side of your house is not
more sensitive of the changes of the at
mosphere than is the present Administra-
ton of the changes of the popular mind.
Gen. Grant has shown a quiet firmness
and some slowness, which may perhaps
be called delIberation; but he is not
amenable to the charge of resisting the
will CT the people. His official character
is marked by the popularity that when it
is announced he submits to it, not Lin
coin more. Gentlemen, it is said that
Gen. Grant is no administrator. l don't
know what he is, but know what he has
accomplished during his term of office.
1t is said of him that he attempted to
consolidate the Government. / declare,
Jealous as / am of any consolidation, be-
1ieving in the sovereignty of the States,
subject to Federal sovereignty, have no
fear of consolidation from anything that
has yet been said or proposed. In short,
while sympaihize with many criticisms
that are made, while think there have
been some notable mistakes, l believe that
Gen. GRANTS in position to rectify them
in the next few years better than any new
President would be to avoid them. | be-
lieve that Grant learns with apparent deli
beratlon, but he never forgets. And as
to the one-term principle, don't know
but that there are as many inherent evils
in one term as in two or three. 1t is said
that if Gen. Grant would only withdraw
from the fight this Republican party
would go in then unitedly. / sup
pose that is so, and / may pledge that
General Grant will withdraw if Sumner,
Schurz, Trumbull and Greeley will with
draw. But it is not Grant who seeks the
position. The people who confer it seek
him, for his past administration has been
noble success. Looking into the future,
we say to ourselves, although we can
conceive of an ideal President that may
do nobler and better things, we know of
no one who during one term proved him.
self more honest and faithful, and we pre-
fer the old horse, tried and true, to the
unframed and untried. / believe in the
wisdom of the great body of the citizens.
In the substantial wisdom embodied in
the Republican party, in the honesty
and substantial submission to the will
of the people on the part of General
Grant-if this great people insist upon
reform, and they ought to; if they elect
to Congress men that really mean it and
believe it, and they ought to; if they
maintain at the head of the Government
General Grant, who has been the only
one that has shown practical disposition
to reform, and has recommended and in
fluenced all the reforms of the Govern
ment, / believe we shall have, in the time
to come, prolongation of our prosperity
under Republican auspices, and our
country will become tie joy of
her sons and the admiration of the world.
[Cheers. IN. Y. Times, April 12.
Is General Sheridan has sent two COM
panies of his boys in blue to regulate af-
fairs at the scene of the terrible slaughter
in the Indian Nation, described in our
dispatches of Saturday. Now let Palmer
protest against such use of troops as an
outrage upon the rights of the people. If
there can't be dozen or SO of Deputy
United States Marshals shot down with
out the army being called into requisi-
ton, isn't it time to know what we are
coming TOP Chicago Post.
A New YORK lawyer, who procured the
acquittal of man who was under arrest
for assault and battery, was waited upon
the next day by his client, and most CRATE
fully thanked for his services. 'What
can 1 do for you?" asked the client.
Nothing" replied the lawyer. "Don't
YOU want an Office? l can control any
number of votes" 81 have no political
aspirations, replied the lawyer. "But
amt there some man you want to have
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