The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-15
Hon. Ben Wade in JeEersog.

lne COnneaut Reporter saws Hon
b. +. Wade addressed a Grant ana
, wilson meeting IN jefferson, on Sal
urday evening last. He made one. oi
those Speeches cl aracteristic 6f him.
, self, which was received with consist
cradle enthusiasm by the audience
! we do not pretend to give q cOmpIete
synopsis, out will Dote the principal
points. he eOmmeuced With tbe
usual apology i'm which he paid high
tribute 10 the Republicans OF ..Oil
? Ashtabula.3 He then started with
the proposition that there never were
bat two great natiOnat political par
ties-in any free country, and from the
very nature of Things, there never
could be. He then traced the history
OF the Republican and Democratic
parties on the questions. of Slavery.
secession and equal rights. He
thought notwithstanding its plat
tormi the Democratic party OF to-day
was the old Democratic party. There
was no evidence that they had repent-
ed IL WAS more probable that the
few thousands of liberals had changed
I Than that three million Democrats
had changed. He did not know why
they arestyled "Idberal RepuhlfedhsS
unless it WAS beeanse they SEere more
liberal 10 TRAITORS peEjuFed 10 H.
Amnesty has been carried as far as
! he wished to see Il. He was not in
favor Of granting amnesty to those
rebels who had been I'M Congress and
taken an oath to support the COnstisi
] tutiOnr and then taken a A.eountsr oath
to support the Confederate eonstitn-I
tiOnS All others have been pardOned. 1
lf Greeley weI-a excited Il would he
Democratic triumph and a Demo
cratic administration. The COPPER
heads bOasted that they had led Gree
ley "by ring i'm the nose,S and
wanted to know &c the Liberals gOuId
. ''stee- him with ring in his tail. -
Democrats would elect him and il
would be but just for them to control
him. That the Liberal Republicans
would stand no more show with
Tweed, Seymour, Forrest and Com
pany, in regard to Offices and Federal
patronage, than "bOt-tailed bull i'm
ny time." We consider this as deeid-
edly the best hit OF the evening con-
sidering that he was speaking in the
Jefferson court house. He then PASS
ed to the record Of Horace Greeley.
He had been friend Of Mr.. Greeley !
fOs great many years Had been .
subscriber to his excellent paper for I
about thirty years, and 1t gave him
no pleasure 10 speak against him.
But his conduct for the past few
months had been the most unaeOunt-
able Of any public man he had ever
known. In fact, he could not ac-
count for it on any principle of hon !
esty whatever. While being tbs lead !
er of his party lie had attempted to |
betray it into the hands OF its enemy,
for the sake Of a Democratic nomina- 4
ton. He compared him with Judas
IseariOt ami Benedict Arnold He
then spoke very highly Of General 4
Grant. His position during the re-
belliOn as chairman Ofthe committee 4
ON the conduct Of the war, gave him
an excellent opportunity to become
acquainted with General Grant. lie I
had spent many nights in Grants /
camp, and he knew him to be an hon
est, unassuming, hard working man. I
There had been the most villainous !
systematic atIemps to break him
down, OF any public man that ever
lived. Geheral charges had been
made against him in such a manner
rs To deceive s-sven the very elect, -
but they were Hfalse AS h-I.p Hei
thought the nation owed Granta debt
Of gratitude it never could pay. He
the San Domingo quarrel
between Senator Sumner and Gen.
Grant, claiming that the removal of
Minister Motley was the cause of
Summers opposition tO annexation.
Sumner would have nothing TO do
with the President or State Depart
ment, except to quarrel with them.
There We're nine treaties inIhis hands
that he would not send 10 the Senate.
For this reason, when the commit
tees were organized for the next
session he was not chosen as Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign /
but was given the Chair
of another committee. Al
he highly esteemed Mr.. Sum
ner In many respects, yet FROM a
personal knUwledge Uf the whole
affair, he knew Mr. Sumter To be iil /
the wrong. During Itis sper-,-lI he
was interrupted by ~ man eX,slaInnIk,
''liut Grant burdens us With IaN,ss-p'
Mr. Wade replied that GrauL faxed
no man, that MS whisky alld tub.i,.-
co were thJOnly article4 taxed by tne
general government, and Congress
was responsible for that That IL the
gentleman had "a horse or an ASS it
might be taxel by tie State bat nOt
by the general gOVfFumentH i He
then spoke for some time on the fi-
showing that while the All
had paid s50g, ,OOO, ,O1O OIL
the public debt and thereby stopped
So, ,OO0,0,O 4 year Of Interest, it had /
reduced the taxes Sl5O, 900, ,0O0 per year.
He had been a close observer Of fine 7
administrations fpr eigh7
teen years, ANA he knew the present. /
% be Tie most honest
and economical one our government
had during that time. HE GiiIsad
with strong appeal u Republicans
not 10 70 intO cVpartneTship with the /
rebels, cOpperheads and Tammany-
ties -
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