New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-22


custom,h house appointments in New YorI
than Mr.. Dana. Laughter.l
"The personal qualities of Ulysses 6.
Grant, like his historical achievements, ar,
such as to attract and justify the confidenc,
ct the loyal people of the whole country
His modesty, his disinterestedness, hi,
magnanimity, his bravery, and his patri
otism may well be held up as models 70,
emulation. His fidelity to duty, and hi.
flrmness in trial and in danger, prove that
the Republic will be in safe hands while
his mastery common sense and unerring
Judgment in selecting the right men foi
important trusts, afford the best reasons
for our belief that his administration will
be no less remarkable for the wisdom of its
measures than for the elevation Of its mo.
tivas."
hill PRAIsING GREELEY
But to return to Mr.. Hill, who must think
the people Of this country only Rip Var
Wrinkles, oblivious to facts, current event,
of the day, and the active history of the
times, beg to call your attention to what
he tells tie Democrats of Georgia, who must
have been asleep longer than Washington
lrving's Rip could have been, when he
saws:
-" He Horace Greeley has never been
what is called a partisan, and an independ-
ent thinker, | think, has the greatest hon.
esty."
Well! we'll The last part of this sentence
must have been to qualify the first part, or
to let it down easy! Laughter
1t is possible, however, that the De.
mocracy of this State may swallow the
assertion that H. G. "has never been
PARTISAN" but venture to say it will
take very large draughts of something a
great deal stronger than water to get it down
most threats, whether Democratic or Re.
publican. prolonged laughter And me
thinks when Horace reads that at Chappa
qua he too will not only be somewhat sur.
prised, but smile an unusual smile laugh
ter. If 81. G., as the editor of the Tribune
for upwards of twenty years past, has not
been a partisan editor, what in heavens
name has he been? GCries of "Philoso
pher, Farmer" &c. What will the old
editors of the Charleston Mercury, Rich.
mond Enquirer, Journal Of Commerce, and
the New York World, be called? Such q
statement as that might be made by the in
mate of an insane asylum, but to be made
by Democratic orator to Democratic au-
dience, as Paddy would say, "would make
a dacent horse taught" [Laughter.l
And, while l am referring to Mr.. Hills
remarkable speech, more remarkable, beg
leave to say, for what it omits to say than
what it does say, let me call attention to his
assertion that the Cincinnati
Convention had the effect to compel the
Administration promptly to pass the dis
abilities bill or amnesty bill. And, further,
that coalition Of the Democracy and Lib
eral Greeley Republicans had prompted
the passage of the election or bayonet bill,
as he terms it, in the House also, to defeat
the bill authorizing the suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus in certain cases, &c.
In view of the fact that Mr.. Greeley has
advocated these two last bills, as l have
before shown, and that General Grant has
always personally been opposed to them,
always advocating amnesty and the removal
Of disabilities, &c, and that the Liberal or
Greeley Republicans, as Mr.. Hill would
have us believe, defeated these measures in
the House, where not a corporal's guard of
Greeley Republicans can be found, aud l
believe not one can be named an the House
Of Representatives as a Greeley man in pref.
erence to Grant. l also state that believe
it fact that not one single Republican but
Grant Republicans and Democrats voted on
either of these bills.
THE AMNESTY BILL PASSED BY REPUBLICANS.
And as to the amnesty bill especially, it
was passed by the resolution and determine
ton previously agreed upon) by the Repub
licans in caucus long before the Cincinnati
Convention had assembled. Mr.. Grseley's
influence in that direction was as barren an6
Intellectual to accomplish the final result of
that vote as it would have been, nay, as it
was, to stop the war before it was fought
out. Loud cheers. Not only that, but
Mr.. Hill certainly must know General Grant
has been in favor of amnesty from Apo
mattox down to the day and moment he
and cheerfully signed the bill
making it the law of the land. And to at
tempt to give the credit and honor of that
great deed to Horace Greeley or his influ.
ence is but mockery ofjustice, an endorse
ment of his most outrageous, yea, abomina.
BILE, worse than heathenish, sentiment, utter.
ed in the extract.
GREELEY YlNDICTIvENESS AND HEARrLESS.
NESS EXHIBITED.
That the soldiers of the confederate
armies, on the return to their friends,
whether paroled or not--the rank and
file of the rebellion must find only por-
crty at their fire, sides and witness but
priodtions Of their anxious 9ires and rags
and Starvation of their children! No man
North or South, in any country or age, black
or white, federal or rebel, bond or free, ever
made such declaration, or could have ut.
tered such language, but he who would sell
body and soul to be President, and for
g anything to beat Grant," eat up all the
words he had ever spoken in his life. ICON.
tinued and loud applause; cries of we won't
vote for him.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION RE-
VIEWED.
But must pass on, ard now let me ad.
vert to some of the works of General Grants