Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-11-09

ReIoIcinE Over the Victory-Lettsr from
Postmaster General Croswell-spoochra Of
Hon. Gee. W. Sands and Others,
OIarko's hall, on Penusylvania avenue, bo-
tween FouI. and.a-half and Sixth streets, was
densely packed last night by the members and
friends Of the Maryland Republioan Association,
who assembled to hold q oOnRratulatory meeting
over the recent Republican successin that state.
Bapthtap Band was IN attendance, and 81 in.
tsrVals during tho evening dlsooursod enllven.
The aSsocIAilon was called to order by n. T.
brian, president, VINO stated that they had great
cause for iolllncatlon; they had carried their
Congressional districts In the state Of Maryland,
and believed within another year they could
The following letter was then read from tho
| Postmaster General by Mr.. II. q. Davis, score.
tAry!
wAsHNdroN, ~, o., Nov. I, Ma.
GENTLEMEN: I exceedingly regret that my
public oflclal duties arc Of such character that
| cannot accept Of your Invitation to attend the
meeting Of your association tomorrow night
Please tender my congratulations TO the mem.
| bers Of the association on the emphatic indorse,
| ment by tho people Of tho county, Of tho prln.
clples and measures OF the Republican party.
| The victory achieved on Tuesday last was more
| complete than was generally anticipated, and
tho only regret we can have, as Marylanders, 10,
| that our State, so nearly redeemed from the
Democracy, dit not take hor position In tho Re.
| publican column OtStates casting their electoral
| votes for President Grant.
JNo. A. ]. UREswELL,
kilograms were real from uon. Adam Z.
King and Lloyd Lowndes, IT,, reErettinS their
Hon Geo. W. Sands was then Introlucsd,
and said that he exceedingly regretted that tho
I6oT rot Of the pas! two months had d.SSSShsG
| Wes happy to DO with them and toll them that
the battle in the old Flnh district had been \
E0oS TI5Sy and N S TII ms yaS
Abraham Lincoln. In 1888 he was for U. 5.
| Grant and In 1874 they made glorious hEht for
hts re'elcction, and y was subject Of congratu'
tional capital was not hostile land, but new Re
| publican ground.
he could not count the nRiorItIes that bad
been rolled up ; no had stood before the bulletin
hoard and wondered Il be was not in q dream,
The great victory could not DO accounted for but
In one way, and that was because tho Bopubli
| can party had dug down and found the rOok Of
eternal truth, and on this basis could this great
| success be calculated. They were not vain oVei
II, but they could we'll say, !" Thanks be to God
i who giveth US the Victory" There was non,
/ but found something In tho party that appealed
/ to them and stirred the impulses Of their nature
Tho colored man, because i east the shaeklel
i from oil his feet, The white man, because u
relieved him Of fearful odlum that was one,
| a disgrace TO our country.
In the lawsof to-day was n national bank sys
| ten, an Internal revenue measure, whIch wore
| old Whlg measures, and n they eKatntned the
| stntute-bookB they would hnd the old Whlg doc
trine the stability OF our laws. There was mo-
z eng, womanl OF man mat did not nave ~
perity Of the Republican party. lie never know
bis duty clear until impregnaled with the truth
Of The RsPIoliSSn party. He had ,omstin q
| won't ~ an oloctor TO Annapolis during the war
TO the convention from which camo the yerdlc
that Maryland was FREQ state, he thought b
could hear the shackles fall from 20 900 men,
Then he know what Gods mission for hin
was. From that time forward he had Tough
under the standard Of the Republican party