Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-08-21

| utive Com. John w. CLARK, l.. b. Orosss
Charles w. Guernsey, G. W. Wing, 81. s.
Smith.
Mr. Walton in accepting the position OF
President briefly addressed the meeting
He said it was bis good fortune to be a mem
Der of Congress at the time when the Rebel
lion first began; he was personally acquain-
ted with nearly ell the prominent leaders
Of that movement. These same men to-day
are in the main for the election Of Horace
Greeley, to complete by his election what
they failed to accomplish by force of rams.
He reviewed the cause of Horace Greeley
and the Democratic, party proving to every
candid mind that with the present situation
Of political affairs the election Of Horace
Greeley would be a national calamity,
| He predicted the disarrangement of the
national finances impairment of national
credit at home and abroad, the payment OF
pensions to southern soldiers, the assumption
of the rebel debt, the payment to shareholders
for their slaves emancipated by the necessi-
ties of the war, should Greeley be elected.
The work of the Republican party was not
done, but with Grant at the head of the ma
tion for the next four years, he predicted the
same peace and prosperity for all branches of
| industry throughout the whole country,
which we now enjoy. President Walton then
introduced Col. Joyce, who as he stepped
/ forward to address the assembly was greeted
with a storm o. applause. 1t would be i'm
possible in brief notice like this to give an
adequate abstract of his address. 1t was
marked by an almost entire absence of
personality, was ,argumentative, logical and
convincing. He reviewed the life of Gen.
Grant and his career from the time he "a
appointed to West Point till the presen
moment Grant at West Point, in Mexico
as Tanner, as an organizer of the Ohio
militia, as Colonel of an Ohio regiment, at
/ Port Henry, Donelson, Vicksburgh, through
/ the Wilderness TO the surrender of Left
! this man was an accident and educated at
the public expense, it was one of the best
investments the government ever made, and
he had repaid the country many fold for all
it ever did for him. General Grant wes nom
mated for the Presidency by no party, no
section, or clique,-but by every man and
woman throughout the whole country lie
refuted the aspersions and calumnies cas-
upon Grants private character proved that
Grant had never accepted any gifts or pres
ents since he was nominated for the presi-
dency-shOwed the fallacy of calling Grant
lobbyist-and recited the history of the
Santo Domingo affair, as it will appear in
history to be IN effect the carrying out of the
Monroe doctrine. That Senator Sumner in
all his charges against Grant (any one of
which being true, should be sufficient to
impeach him) had failed to bring forward
any proof to substantiate any one of them.
lie gave abstract of the work done by |
the Republican party from its organization |
TO the present time-what it had accom- !
plished and what yet remained for it to do. |
Its work is not yet completed, we must not lose |
all we have striven for and expended our !
blood and treasure to accomplish. The forces
arrayed against US are the same that declared
the war failure and threw stumbling blocks
in the way of the admin istratiOn from the
inception to the close of the rebellion He
examined Horace Greeleys record, his pres
ent political associations, his vacillatng
course, his ideas in regard to State rights and
his views of finance and civil SER
vice, and should he be elected President, the
men whom be must call around him for
political advisers and counsellers. He called i
on all good and true Republicans to come
forward and exert themselves in this crisis
We must not be recreant to our duty nor
wanting in the hour of trial Vermont IN ust
throw herself into the fight now, as a State,
as the old Vermont brigade did as soldiers
in the war TO suppress the rebellion. The
tariff question was squarely met, the colIec-
ton of customs, Grants nepotism, keeping
unfit men in Office, encouraging defaulters
to rob the government were conclusiv ely
shown to be part of the mendacity Of the
present canvass, and the main reliance of the
authors of the present movement. The
platform of the united liberal Republicans
and Democrats was but a synonym for
" anything to beat Grant Col Joyce was
interrupted by the applause of an
enthusiastic audience and at the close of his
address received a vote of thanks for his
eloquent and forcible address We are
reliably informed that the club numbers
about 800 members, and arrangements are
being made for thorough canvass of the
town.