The weekly clarion., 1872-07-18
GREAT SPEECH
GREAT SPEECH
OF
EX-SENATOR DOOLITTLE
TO THE
BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
GENrLEMEN OF ruE CoNvrNr1oN :

= bloody period of the civil war had closed
the Liberal Republicans OF Missouri. lap
e plauseJ feeling keenly all the evil of tn,
prescription. test-oaths. the hates and til,
strifes, the passions the war had left npoI
/ them long after the war itself had ceased
and feeling keenly the Executive Fedora
dictation in their local elections, determin.
ed to organize a movement TO restore eUua
rights 20 all our citizens fapplause. whit,
as well as black applause. to restore Ioca
self-9overnment and To arrest the further
Capitalization of Federal power. ZAP.
plause.
: They then said: This thing has gone fan
enough. if not already too far The time
has come when all honest and patriotic re-
| publicans must say "halti'' and reassert the
vital doctrine OF republican government
; that, under the Constitution. the powers oi
! the Federal Government are defined and
limited Applause, and cries of ''Good =
Good and that the people of the States
have the right 10 govern themselves in their
own domestic affairs. upon the basis of the
equality OF all the states before the hi igheT
law, before the Constitution. and the equal
| ity OF all men before the law applause. OF
universal loyalty, amnesty, suffrage and
peace. Taking no steps backward. taking
no right and no franchise which had been
secured to the blacks, pledging themselves
to support them all in their full vigor. they
at the same time demanded. in the name of
peace, in the name of libertp. in the name
of republican government itself that free
dom and equal rights should be restored to
the white people. [Great applause.
They organized nearly forty Thousand
strong. and called upon B. GratZ Brown raD-
plausel TO lead the movement. They placed
| him in nomination for Governor and then
| what followed? Eighty thousand Demo-
| cratic Republicans, [cheers looking upon
| the success OF that movement as above any
| party triumph, cheers resolved to sustain
| it with their whole strength. Love OF couu-
try, loYerof republican liberty, love ofequal
rig hts of all men. inspired that union and
taught men to act together who had been
! politically opposed to each other all their
| lives upon other questions aud in other
| times. ana without violating either honor,
| logic, conscience or consistency on either
| side. This patriotic union was based upon
| higher grounds than ordinarily control po-
| itical action. LGreat applause. Even those
| who had fought against each other in battle
| clasped hands over the bloody chaSm ire
| newed applause and side by side like bro
| theirs, with hearts beating i'm unison, beat
| ing strong, with the same high purpose
| they helped to bear its Nag to glorious vic
| tory.
That, gentleman, is Liberal Republican,
| ism enthusiasm and that Is Democratic
| Repu ublicanism. Great enthusiasm The
victory which came from that union was
the end of prescription, test oaths, of pain
and of strife and of all dislovaItV. In Il
word, the real end of the civil war came
with that victory, and did not come until
then in Missouri. Intense applausel 1t
free men to seventy thousand men who had
been bound and fettercd. Missouri is now
free State in this Union, with all her rights,
dignity and equality under the Constitution
and not one murmur of disloyaltV is any
where heard. By that union Federal dicta-
ton in Missouri in their local elections was |
overthrown, and by that union strife and |
hate have given place to peace and to good !
will. By that union liberty, with equal |
rights for all, have given TO the State un-
bounded prosperity, and to her people a ioy |
almost unSpeakable. SO great was their ioy !
and so complete their success, the Liberal /
Republicans of that State were not content
without making an effort to extend the
same union OF Liberal and Democratic Re
publicanS, and with it the same blessing of
liberty, peace and fraternity to ali the other
States. Rounds OF applause
Accordingly, in State Convention. on the
24th March last they resolved to invite the
Liberal Republicans in all the States to meet |
them in mass convention at Cincinnati Oh
the first day of May. That invitation was
accepted. There was, indeed, a great re-
spouse. They came by thousands in sucb
vast numbers that delegate Convention of
representatives of all the States was formed
both from principle and from necessity. to
give form to its proceedings. Many of the
ablest men OF the country, lately leaders in
the Republican party, were there. and took
part in its deliberations. They were as
sured large numbers of Liberal Republicans
IN every State. and from all portions of the
country, stood behind them. ready to Sus-
tain them, and they were morally certain
that If the millions whom we this day rep
resent cheers would only come to their
support, the mum ber of Liberal Republicans
would reach half million or more. ICheers I
That Convention presented a platform /
and presented candidates to the countrv-
Tor President, Horace Greeley Hong and |
cheering, and for Vice President /
b. GratZ Brown, fmere enthusiasm Z and
that Convention. for the promotion and l
success OF the principles declared in that
platform there enunciated, and the support "
0f the candidates nominated by that Con
vention, have invited and cordially well .
,Omed the cooperation of all patriotic citi- !
sens, without regard tc previous political !
tfhllation. These principles were so clearly y
md reStated in the letter of acceptance of /!
Mr.. Greeley, more cheering, and they are Il
70 ell known to you all, that L will not {
estate them. For weeks that p. p.atform and h
hose candidates have been before the coun- u
ry; u
nate Gen. Grant hsseS and to indorse and G
continue the principles, practices and policy. "
i his administration has done its work u
Kisses. AS between the Liberal Republi-
ans and the followers of the Grant admin
Stratlon the issue is now clearly made uD
IS Grant or Greeley, immense enthusiasm 81
nd cries of Greeley 'Greeley."] While ia
hese events were passing the Democratic a.
whom we represent, held their /
onventions in all the States. The Liberal ca
republican movement, the example of til
IisSouri, the Cincinnati Convention. IFS | re
latform and its candidates. with their let Ell
7rs OF acceptance, We're all before tn Sc ef
onVentions, which were very largely at st
ended by their ablest men, and the para fin
lount questions before all these conventions
ere, "Shall we accept this invitation to Co -,
perate with the Liberal Republicans - IN IN
ireat applause. Shall we adopt their ~
latform? Loud cries of ''Yes! yes ?" and " "
'me cries of Never" Shall we nominate 1I 4
he same candidates yes yes.'' and shall n,' de'
e elect them! y es yes yes and loud Ga
leering;l or shall we refuse TO Cooperate ipt pe
n ~ nomitate other candidates, T"No! m VI
,! Greeley! Greeley,''] and strive to elect e1 "a
lem over both tickets already in the field? vi vi
ehtiemen, these are the questions which nt> t>
1u are to decide now and here. That YOU - -
Ill decide them wisely 1 cannot doubt nor iii'
N any one who looks over this BODY of
en- reprt senting, as they do, three mil
'hS OF cltlzens, and who feels, as every one
re must feel, the high and patriotic pur-
'se which inspires you. Gentlemen, what ne
cans this great and rising movement sn,
men we everywhere see? What means CIR
Is proposed union of three millions of ho
7mocratIc Republicans. with a million ii | nj,
ay be, OF Liberal Republicans deI
" nat means this union upon a common of
atform, and this proposed union upon the orc
NE cahuluaLes--a union so sudden, so 4
impact, SO earnest, as to surprise It's friends :.
q confound Its enemies, applause which nile
ONES as the wind comes.'' which. TO bor- mil
W a figure, oyerwhelms the ordinary ma
I,, lLeiIs Vi puOllc opinion as the great res
rms always run counter to the surface tbe
rrents. What means ali this? There are chi
l no ,.ilSs' fehtIehieh; IL does not mean. ally
nehS no "oaiu0hlhenl OF what IS true, for
lat Is just, OF what is good in human for
vernment- Applause. 1t means no snll
ion of the dead upon dead issues. but tha
ion OF the living upon the living issues of Mo-
: ,,'o PtesSnt; nv tAPpIanse- to |
6 was no union for the spols of office eve
plause,l but it means union of men are
III the same faith, upon the great and par be
present lOnr-1 ID