The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-09-28
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH
Delivered by Hon. William d. Kelley,

practices nepotism. He does not attend to
his business He is ignorant, says Charles
Sumner, and may he forgive himself for
1.-THE is the most ignorant and stupid
man that ever sat in the Presidential chair"
Just look at him. Ulysses S. Grant is a
lish scholars go as candidates and are reject
ed by the score because their preliminary
education does not qualify them for admis-
sion. He won his way there. He gradu-
ated. He distinguished himself, and was
sent to his post upon the coast. 1t is said,
and know not wether it be true or false,
that while young lieutenant upon the
Pacific coast, far away from social life,
with few companions, he fell into habits of
inebriety, and that, indulging in them, he
resigned his office in the army under mea-
sure of compulsion. He went to Illinois
and to Missouri. He married. He wrought
for an honest livelihood, and if it be true
that he was drunkard in his youth, he is
a marvel of man. (Great applause For
l knew him as General of your army. l
travelled with him by day and night, and
when there were none but two or three
friends, of whom was one, to observe his
habits. have had access to him from the
time his headquarters were established in
Washington, and from the time he laid
down the generalship of the army to as
sumo the Presidency. His table, his fami-
" apartments and the Executive Chamber,
are places to which I have believed myself
to he ever welcome, and l can say, as they
compelled Senator Trumbull to say by pres
sing the question upon him the other day
in public, SIS not Grant drunkard?''
mo, SIR" says he, 81 have never seen
that in General Grant which leads me to
suppose that he INDUCES to excess in wine
or any other stimulent." (Applause.) He
was quietly pursuing his work in the tan
merry when the chief supporters of Greedy
the Southern Democracy-involved us in
war; Was he at all ambitious of honors?
Did he seek place or profito No! He was
a civilian; but he had been educated to
arms at the expense of the nation, and he
went quietly to Richard Yates, Governor
of Illinois, and rendered his services in any
capacity that the governor could use them.
He did not even ask a commission. He did
not propose to be a captain or a colonel.
'.Let the Governor use me through the
great State of Illinois, of which am cit
izen, as it can best use me- (applause);
and he entered upon clerical duty at desk
in the Governors office, and was plodding
there until refractory regiment drove the
! Colonel to abandon the command. Then
said Mr.. Grant:-Governer Yates, If you'll
give me the regiment will take command
oft. GLOW will you control lt?'' ''Why,"
says he, Il won't ask you for any trans
portation, we will move afoot." Taking
the regiment without transportation he
marched it out of Springfield, and took the
first step towards winning the honors of
the greatest soldier of the age. Great
applause.) In the saddle he was on the
high road to fame, and he literally fought
his way, not only to the command Of the
Army of the West-of the Army of the
Potomac, and the Cumberland, but of the
armies of the United States. (Applause.)
ssHe is aquarreller," said Charles Sumner,
in his scandalous speech entitled "Grant-
ism against Republicanism." Aye, he has
| ouarrelled with every Rebel chieftain zap
plause); he quarrelled at Belmont, at Stone
River, at vicksburg Cheers, where he, at
the end of the quarrel, bagged 10000 gray
backs (applause), and made the 4th of July
again sacred day. He quarrelled right
down through the Wilderness, until Lee,
under the apple tree at Appomattox, said:
"Ulysses, there is no use quarrelling any
more with you; here is my sword" zap
plause. With what Union soldier had he
ouarrelled? Where is the story of SANDER
and backbiting and traducing of his chiefs
by Ulysses s. Grant, while thus ascending
the military ladder? So quiet, so unosten-
tatieus, so slightly ambitious was he that
the public only learned about him and OF
his existance by the report of the victories
he achieved And this is the man who is
branded as euarreler. And when Lee
surrendered his sword and his army did
Grant quarrel any longer? No. He parol-
ed the whole army, and said to lee, ''Let
the boys take their horses home, they will
need them in making crops" (Applause.)
And so little of quarreler personally is
he that when pressed by Andrew johnson
to arrest Lee and other paroled Generals,
Grant answered from the field, Il have
paroed them, and if they are arrested and
nv faith violated, will resign my commits
sion" (Applause.) A quarreler! With
whom except Charles Sumner has Grant
ouarreled, and with whom. who held a
higher place than himself, has Charles
| Sumner ever lived at peace? Laughter
and applause.
| Mr.. Sumner denouncing President Grant
as quarreler is very much like the fellow
who came in Oh the night of the seventh
day, and when the judge said, Gentlemen
of the jury, have you agreed?' replied,
'sSir, there are eleven very stubborn men
here" (Laughter.) Let US look at him
as sift-taker. Grant had beaten all the
generals and armies that had hurled our
generals and our armies back. (Applaues.)
He was not the first to take command.
We had tried Mcclellan and a number of
ilustrious successors, all of whom we hon
or in greater or less degree, and they
had all been hurled back before the enemy.
Grant had beaten that enemy. Grant had
said, "We will fight it out on this line if
| it takes all summer" Grant had said to
the people Of the country, 'Let Sherman's
men march around, and we will crush the
Confederacy, because it is but she'll"
And one day the news came, as it had
come from Nicksburg and Shiloh, and else
where. The shell was crushed. Grant
held the sword of Lee (applause), and there
went up shouts of praise, paans, hallelu-
jahs, praise to the Almighty God, for hav-
ing put an end to the war in which brother
was arrayed against brother, and in which
the resources of yonr country were being
exhausted. Then the people appreciated