The Shasta courier., 1872-10-19
ANYBODY TO BEAT GRANT?"

Why, an old political rake, constitutional,
lifelong growler-a man whose only objection
to Grant was that he and all his audacious
schemes had not been properly considered.
GApplause.]
he (the speaker) had attended the Baltimore
Convention and saw John T. Hoffman, the Gov
ernor of the great State of New York, rise in
his place and present what he said was a peti-
ton of fifteen thousand Germans for the nom
ination of Greeley, while the fact was it was an
old petition in regard to the excise law, with a
new heading put to it. Those were nice men
to talk about reform. [Appfause. But this
double nomination was the richest thing of ALL
The so-called Cincinnati Convention was mob;
gang assembled together without any constitu-
ents They drew up a declaration of princi-
Piles, nominated Greeley and left.
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION
Was composed of delegates who represented
constituents but unluckily had no principles;
so the two fused-the first furnished the princi-
Piles and the second the voters, Capplause, and
called it all they could do for the Democracy.
He called it selling out Gapplause,] and selling
out to the worst Of men. There was
CHARLES A. DANA, THE LIAR, LIBELER
AND SLANDERER,
The man who. as Assistant Secretary Of War,
Monroe and see that the hands of Davis were
manacled and he placed in the deepest dun
geon There was Jim. Ashley, of impeach-
ment fame who had been made Governor of
Montana, but was kicked out for stealing.
Laughter. There was Mp. Banks, but he
was in truth . Liberal, for had he not in the
Valley supplied Jackson with sir month"; pro-
visions free of cost. just for the taking.
daughter and applause.1 And'so he might 60
Id II
bummers and shyst6rs, politically speaking,
ever got together, made up of the odds and
ends of all the parties ever in existence, with
but one common tie to bind them in their work
of hate-plunder. There was. but one other
gathering in this world at all like them-that
was Barnum's happy family. (Applause.] ]
And these were the men who presumed to sit in
Judgment and teach him his political princi-
Piles. Applause.
Santo Domingo business He didn't know or
care anything about it, except that Mr.. Grant
had offered to purchase it for Q sum of money.
Mr.. jefferson had purchased Louisiana in the
same way, and he didn't think the gentlemen
who were growing about this island would like
to give Louisiana back. GApplause.1 Another
indictment against Grant was the bayonet law
Both Mr.. Greeley and his platform indorse
that. Grant didn't ask Congress to pass it,;
that a man advocating Mr.. Greeley's election
had hard cheek to come before Southern peo-
pie and find fault with Grant for enforcing it.
Gen. Hunton objects to having Mr.. Greeley's
past record produced, and says he is not here to
defend it. This also was anew phase in poll
on the stump avowing that
they are ashamed of therecord of their candi-
date. He intended, though, to introduce it,
and show gentlemen that
1T WAS so DEvILISH BAD
[Applausel that even his friends had to turn
their backs on it. If he were forced to that
strait, he would never ask q friend to vote for
his candidate. Applause.
How did he get the nomination. Why, as
everybody knows, by the chicanery of the Tam
many thieves, who in order to get possession
Of the Government, picked a man they knew
they could use, one of their former tools, a
man who had been
THE sCARECRow OF BOTH CONT
NENTS
For the past ten years-Horace Greeley-a man
whose chief claim to distinction was his intol-
Grant hate of the South, the wearing of white
hat, and walking down Broadway with one leg
of his breeches stuck in his boot. Laughter
and applause. They wanted to make the
complete, and they could not have
selected more appropriate candidate-not even
Dolly Warden herself
And still Southern men thought he could be
elected and give them office If that was what
they wanted he advised them to take chances
in voting for Grant, who was sure to be elected
These promises reminded him of the devil
taking the Savior to the top of the mount and
offering to give him all the world, though at
the time he didn't own an acre [Applause. Il
Well, the devil had just as much show Of fulfil
ing his promise as Horace Greeley has. [Ap-
plause. He preferred Grant to Greeley, be-
cause one was q soldier and the other fanatic.
He supported Grant because of his terms to
Lee, and surely no conqueror ever bore himself
more
TO A vANoUIsHED
FOE
Than did Grant when he returned his sword To
Lee and bade him 60 in. peace. The covenant
made that day has been sacredly kept. For
him there was no triumphal procession, chant
ing peans of victory, to humble his conquered
foe. BE was no Achilles, to drag the BODY Of
bis enemy around the walls of the conquered
city. Suffice It for him to know that his work.
IN which he had thrown his whole soul, was ac-
and he was willing to drop the cur
tain on the scene. Applause and three cheers
for Grant
he then read an editorial from the Richmond
EnQlir~, which said that Mosby, the last man
to surrender during the war, was the last CON
vert to Grantism, and commented on il. To
this he replied that he believed his cause was
Just, but when it became hopeless be surren-
dared then, a. now, to the commander-in-cbief
not the bcrubs and SCUM, the hswlsrs and