New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-23
The Grant Meeting in New York.


A special dispatch to the Chicago Zri-
JMssc is as follows:
NEW York, April Administration cir
cles are not pleased to-day with the impress
sion made by their Grant meeting last
night. 1t was neither as large nor sp0n-
taneous as the Liberal meeting last week.
and the speakers are blamed by unbiased
Republicans for being too bitter toward the
opposition in their ranks, and too slavish III
personal allegiance to Grant, denounclng
all who are not ready to admi. that he must
be reelected or the country plunged into
ruin. Every postofice, customhouse and
revenue official within twenty-five Mines of
New York iabored TO make the meeting i'm
posing, bat failed to exclude some of the
thinking masses. as the fervent APP
plause for Greeley testified. The resolutions
lauded Grant from head to foot with SUI
perlative praise, and not one of the
speakers had n syllable of criticism to
make; neither did any of them venture to
allude to the Presidents nepotsm. Among
all Grants orators, from Beecher down,
this has been q sacred topic The presi-
dent OF the meeting last night did not
have time to read the kilograms wrung
from congressional delegations under the
crack Of the party whip, nor were the
letters read from Roscoe Conkling, G.. w.
Curtis and Schuyler Colfax. These letters
are published to-day, and are singalarly
monotonous in adulation of Grant. 1t has
been discovered that the first twenty
names Of the secretaries of tho meeting
are all clerks in Henry Clews' bank. 1t is
limited that Clewes wants Grant reelected,
in order to double his millions, which was
the motive OF numerous millionaires adorn-
ing the platform last evening.
Postmaster Jones publishes this evening
an apologize card for permitting Grant
frSar ntn 70 In vntnn
stamped in the postotfice boxes. He con
fesses that it is q violation Of law, and
states that it occurred through misappre-
hension of the superintendent in charge,
who distributed the circulars after charging
the postage to Henry CIews.
The Post, this evening. speaks severely of
last nights demonstration for assuming to
be Republican, whereas it represented
nothing but the Grant faction. 1t praises
the respectability of the officers Of the
meeting, but says its action contained liter
ally nothing of value or power. the speeches
being utterly beneath the character of the
assembly. Sickles' speech, it says, was SO
abusive that half the audience Kissed. and
then cheered the men lie was misrepresent-
ing. Wilson's speech was not strong, fail
ing to answer Trumbull; while Morton scat
tered the audience rapidly. The resolutions
were worse than the speeches, being merely
personal.
ne cypress rlGlcuieS the meeting, pre-
tending to represent New York when the
speakers were nearly all imported, and their
politics would not carry solitary ward
from He'll Gate to Castle Garden.
The New York EorM says:
The Grant meeting last evening was per- |
haps nearly as large, but certainly not
larger, than the great meeting OF Liberal |
Republicans last week, but in political sig |
niicance there .can be no comparison be-
tween them. Nobody has ever disputed |
that a majority of the Republican party |
favor the reelection Of Grant Of course. |
then, in great city like this, with the aid !
OF the custcmhouse, postofiice, internal rev
enue office, and other appointees of the |
President, it is easy enough to get I'D a
public meeting, but such meeting shows
nothing not known before. If these place
men and hirelings had been absent the
meeting would have had no life, and been
insignificant as to numbers.
"A New York special to the ST. Louis Re
publican says:
Ben Butler was expected to be at the
Grant meeting here last night, and the even
ing papers minated he was absent because
watching Signals. Fears are expressed lie
will suddenly turn Liberal Republican.