Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-07

fusion and impatient calls to proceed to business
Several DELEGATES proposed to 90 on at once with
tie nominations, instead Of waiting for the re-
port OF the committee on platform, but the chair
man announced that that committee would be
prepared 10 report in half an hour.
SPEECH by HON. j. p. HENDERSON.
In response to calls, John b. Henderson of
Missouri spoke from his place in his delegation.
1t was difficult to hear him, but he was under.
stood 10 d. cline extended remarks until he should
get his text in the nominations and platform.
The republican party in Missouri is united and
there W i'll come up from the hills and valleys of
that state one universal shout for the nominees
of this convention.
The divisions Of the party there had been I'M
fortunate. but they had been reunited, and re-
publicans and liberals now stand on common
platform. He said that Graft Brown seemed to
think, after his election as governor that he
owed most to the democracy, and he had accord
ingly left us. Let him 20. We wish him every
success, except election on the tail of the lib
eral republican ticket
Mr.. Beckham of Ohio moved to suspend the
rules in order to proceed to ballot for president
of the United States, as The committee ON plat
form was not ready 10 report. The ayes and
noes were nearly equal, and the chairman an
nounced the motion lost.
James K. Lynch (colOr ID, secretary of state of
Mississippi, was called out and took the plat
FORM He said the colOTed race was waiting
anXiOusly TO hear of the denomination of Gen
Grant. There was no occasion to further
eulo9ize the republican party. Its necessity to
the country and mankind was as clear rs that of
the sun.
The democratic party was dead and must be
buried, because a dead body on the surface of
the ground in summer time does more harm
than the living man. (Great applause) Its
cOnagon was threatening the Union soldiers
their widows and orphans, the national or lit
and the public. Under the leadership of Grant
we propose to turn out and dig grave for this
mo, 1por1 flat 3 Ia,
resurrect !. (Appausc.)
The colOred men were bold of the republican
party, and by it they stand. Opposition 10
Grant means opposition to the hiumphs of the
war. Tell me not, because Greeley is identii I
with the cause of liberty, that the colored people
VIII find mage in his name. They know the
name of Grant still more, as he who ca, yed out
their path to freedom with the sword (Cbecrs)
They are bound to Grant by cords that can never
be separated.
He said the colored people of America were
graz itating TO the south, and argued their
indispensibllity to the development of that
section and Mexico and Central America as
we'll.
He repeated that Grants name will be strong
AT the south. Greeley name has no chance there.
The man who had the genius TO command sue
cess in the field, when the popular heart was
weak, is the man for them.
Mr.. Spencer of New York moved to suspend
the rules in order to proceed to the nomination
of candidate for president sonly, delerring the
nomination of vice president until ifter the
platform was adopt 4. Lost.
REMARKS BY GEN. f. F. MOVES
An Ohio delegate called for crippled soldier
| Gen. l.. +. Noyes, who advanced to the platform
| and said that the feeling of the Ohio delegation
was to talk less and act more. He thought they
| ought TO finish their business and go home He
| was afraid they would not be able to 90 home
| tonight, if they waited for the report of the
committee on platform. Therefore he " ished TO
| proceed with the nominations at once and let the
platform come in afterwards. lie promised for the
nominations of this convention a larger major
| ity than Ohio gave Grant four years ago
| tCheers.l There was absolutely no dissatisfac-
| ton in Ohio. (Cheers.)
There had been few liberal republicans as
they were called, but they were nov ashamed of
| themselves, and were stronger friends of Grant
now than they were before. He persisted in the
| OPINION that the convention should at once pro-
| coed to the nomination of a candidate for preSt
| dent. (CrieS of make the motion.'') In con-
| cluson, he NOV to suspend the rules and pro-
coed to nominate president. Carried. (Great
| cheerng)
| GRANT NOMINATED-GREAr ENTHUSIASM
| MIR. Shelby l.. CpilOm, chairman of the Illinois
| delegation, having advanced to the platform
| said: "On behalf of the great republican party
| of Illinois and Of the Union; in the name of
liberty, of loyal.y, Of justice, of law in the in
terest of economy, of good government, of peace
aud of the equal righ,S of ali rcmembe. .ng with
| profound gratitude his glorious achievements on
| the field, and his noble craftsmanship as chief
magistrate OF this great nation, nominate as
| president for second term,
| ULYSSES S. GRANT"
The nomination was hailed with most enthu-
sas.,c demonsi. ationS. The delegates rose to
their feet in n mass and cheered vociferouSly,
| waving their hats and handkerchiefs In the
| height of the enthusiasm drop scene was low
| cred at the back of the stage with picture of
/ Grant hnrcpDNcE hp han gfs YnIr
up "Hail to the chief"
The scene was wonderfully cxhilarating.
GEN. s. L. wooDFoRD's SPEECH.
Gen. S. h. Woodford of New York advanced
to the plato. III second the nomination. He
spoke of Senator Sumner aspersions on Gen.
Grant, referring particular to Summers quo
tatlOn of creta : Stan 1n's words, 81 know
Gen. Grant better than any other person in the
country can know HIM. 1t was my duty to
study him, and did so night and day when [
saw him, and when did not see him; and need
tell you now, what know, he can not govern
this. 'ount.J? Let the history, he said, of those
perlous days reply that the great war ceretary
indie knew Grant through and through; that
until the hour when Grant assumed personal
command in Virginia Stanton had been com
PEELED to discharge not only his ministerial du-
ties as cret. 7, but TO wa III and to guide the
action of commande"s in the field; and from
that hour he and Lincoln alike trusted, leaned
upon, counseled and COnfded upon Grant and
fight the rebellion in his own resolute and sure
way
Let history record that when our gallant
Sherman seemed, in the Judgment OF the war
secretary, to have erred in the terms proposed
Tor JohnstOns surrender, that Stanton knew
Grant so well that he sent him all untried in
diplomacy and craftsmanship to arrange the
surrender and prevent possible legal cOmplica-
tons and political MISUNDERSTANDING. Let his
tory also record that this plain soldier, of whose
autt cratic, cgotIstic and imperial win, the same
senator made such auent mention, was so
little disposed assert himself, was so generous
TO the feelings of his treat eutenant, that hav-
ing conferred til Sherman and udicat i the
purpose of the aOVe .lnent and so prevented
further possible mistake, he left Sherman to
complete the negotiation in his own name and
by his own means.
challenge the records of the war and the |
memoi .eS OF his old soldiers TO find one single |
instance where Grant ever sought to appropri. |
ate ono single laurel that his comrades had |
gained, or failed - co.. .iize and reward com
rade's melt or worth. But to return Stanton |
indeed knew Grant through and through. He |
knew that when for an hour Andrew johnson |
may have meditat the use of force against the |
will OF the people in congress assembled he did |
not dare to wi 'sper bis dream to the govern
ment, but sought TO find Others who might do |
his bidding 10 the honor of the men, and true |
men, who stood that day in the highest rank, |
johnson offered commissions in vain. Ave, |
Stanton knew Grant well. He knew that when |
by assignment to the war department ad in |
term Grant filled for the time that high civic |
trust, the only barr Ter between the passions of |
the president and the imminent renewal of civil |
strife was this patient, silent, loyal man, whose
voice in peace as in war was forever on the side
of constitutional law, unity aud peace.
Aye, he knew him well; so well that duling |
that long struggle when Stanton stood and |
fought out the bitter fight between presidential
usurpatiOn aud congressional authority, he
leaned on Grant constantly and completely, and
this Caesar, whose red hand is to stop our liberty
was true at every time and in every place. as /
true to the people and to law as is the needle 10
the pole Aye, Stanton knew him well; so well
that when he mad been placed in nomination for
the presidency. Stanton plead for his election,
Endorsed his fitness and laborcd for his success |
These very walls still ring with the echo of that
great speech, one Of tho last uttcrances of the
great statesman in his own Pennsylvania From
the grave where he was killed from oycr.work |
in the cabinet, as much a martyr to the war as
though he had wasted in the hospital or died
upon the field, his cold lips speak this day as
in life they spoke from this very platform.
From the grave the dead Stanton re6ukes the |
living senator, and hear his earnest aud solemn |
approval of Ulysses s. Grant rs a soldier, man |
and patriot. (Cheers) New York indorses
Grants nomination, and asks Gods blessing on |