New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-29
THE Ew NATIONAL ERA.

"Why, hill, the fellow has made the cir
cumstances. l tell you that it is no luck?
The man that can spring right up from
| poverty and obscurity, and do what he has
done, is no mere creature of circumstances.
Circumstances don't run so much In one
way"
- am Democrat, but if General Grant
| is sach great man as you say he is, am a
| Grant man from this out" [Cheers.J
"Well, if you want despotism, vote for
him but if you want Republican form of
him. | know that he is q great man, and, by
Cd, in saying so, simply tell the truth. i
Prolonged cheering.
With all these testimonials, this know
ledge of our standard bearers, let US, from
this time forth, be up and doing. Aye, from
now until November's triumph, which surely
awaits us, move on the columns March
on, March on
General Grant and Henry Wilson are hon
est, tried and, true, and under the proud
banner, our red, white, and blue, we will 60
on conqaering and to conquer. The very ele-
ments all conspire to this, and the shouts of
freemen proclaim it everywhere. Yes, with
HENRY WILSON, the friend of labor, the
friend Of man, the friend Of right against
might erery,chere, even when might seemed
to make right-the selfmad statesman and
scholar, whose record and fame is as broad
as the land is wide-indefatigable, unfiinch-
ing to duty-judicious, discreet, good, and
true in every tried position, as Vice Presi-
dent, with General Grant as President, the
country will have the assurance doubly sure,
that their Administration will be honored,
useful, respected, and the integrity of the
country be maintained against every foe. In
the Senate, on the stump, on the bench,
(shoemakers if you please y no man stands
higher, purer, more honored. And he is
strictly representative man-East, North,
South, and West-having enlarged public
views and no narrow sectional, contracted, or
partisan prejudices or animosities to avenge.
His heart, too, is ever opened to sympathy
and a worlds charity, while his mind is as
clear and unclouded as his own New England
mountain air is pure and healthful. In
whatever position placed, he has always been
found faithful, untiring, genial-and he will
be emphatically, one other right man in the
right place. [Cries, that's SOL He compre-
bends the wants and necessities of the labor
ing classes and interests Of the South, as we'll
as of the North as perhaps few Northern
men do and our people here, all of you,
always know where to find Henry Wilson.
He is no weather cock, nor traducer, nor
falsifer of his own record, but will be, as an
auxiliary, counselor, and second to the
President, without superior in all the land.
Prolonged applause
CONCLUSION.
And now with such men as candidates for
the high offices of President and Vice Presi
dent, with such principles, ability, and hon
ors clinging to and clustering round them,
and such platform as that of the Philadel
phia Republican National Convention to
stand upon, there can be but one response
in November next, and that will be "see
the conquering heroes-Grant and Wilson
come" [Applause.] That they will be
triumphantly elected the ides Of November
will show, and with such a majority as never
before was given to President and Vice
President of the United States. [Cheers.
And then will all our country be freer,
better, stronger than ever before. And we
shall see prosperity, advancement, devel-
opnent in arts, in sciences, in knowledge, in
legislation, in agriculture, in mechanics, in
internal navigation and commerce, in edu.
cation, in morals in material wealth, and in
all that contributes to make great and free
nation flourish and prosper as at no time in
the past With such hope, inspiration,
promise, rightful expectation of the future
before us
Our country! who would not love it?
Who. not uphold it. bravely. cen with tears
And blood, and lfe's last ebbing flood?
Aye, no foe shall crush thee, no loud roar
of battle
Bend thee nor break thee while freemen
live!
Yea, thy sons and daughters too will fall
In heaps around their affairs and their fires,
Beside the green graves OF their sires,
But not our country fall
God bless and keep our native land?
Long and continuous cheers.l