Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-10-10

place to night, which was addressed
by Charles Francis Adams, jr., (broth-
er of John Quincy Adams, the straight
out Democratic candidate for Vice
President) 1 send you the main
points of his remarks, which we're
well received.
Mr.. ADAMS ADDRESS.
The great DIR. Samuel johnson, ia |
approaching some matter of discus
sion, once advised his faithful Boswell |
to ''clear his mind of can't This, |
my fellow citizens of Quincy, pro
pose, with your kind indulgence, TO
do for myself on the present occasion.
And IN one respect, at least, the can
vass now going on affords matter for
sincere congratulation. Much of It'll
as there is, there is yet far less dis
creditable electioneering cant about it
than at one time there seemed cause
Ito apprehend A few weeks ago l ac-
lciaentally came across an old volume
of political pamphlets relating to the
election of 1840-theA famous ''log
/ cabin and hard CIDER eampaign of
! .'Tippecanoe and Tyler too"-tlIat
ideal year for the believers in tidal
| waves and '1prairie fires" in which,
Through the grace of God, JOHN Ty
Ter was chosen to preside over the
destihies of this people for tue space
of three yea IS and eleven months! 1t
was singular reading, though some
what melancholy withal, and closed
the volume with, to state it mildly,
small admiration for tidal waves and
prairie fires when viewed throag a
perspective of thirty years. Early in
the present summer another hard cider
dispensation seemed impending over
us in the. shape of a white hat and
wood chopper campaign; and it was
only as the season advanced that it be
came evident that the pro fessionals in
charge of that novelty had dreadfully
underestimated the intelligence of
those masses of whom they thought
so much; and the feeble nutriment
= which sufficed for 1910 was a pro
3 nounced failure in 1872 We may
not, as people, even yet have reached
: the full height of calm political de-
bate, but we are out of our swaddlin z
clothes, and the childish appeals
which once excited an odd enthusias IN
have this year been distinctly pro
dnctive only of laughter and disgust
g., AS you well know, / am not politi-
clan, but it is not unknown to some OF
you that, in my own way, | was con
| cerned in the movement which result
ed in the Cincinnati convention OF
May last, and, having been actively
engaged in that movement from its
frst inception, have been most anx
ious for some suitable public occasion
Z on which l might put on record my
. reasons for refusing to abide by it:
result, and for giving my vote agains
the candidate of that convention, Mr.
: Greeley, and in favor of the opposing
# candidate, Gen. Grant.
= / was not then, nor am I now. a be
: lever in -irredeemable paper cur
rency, and l regarded a nation, al
rich and prosperous as this, ant
'n which, nevertheless, does not pay it.
notes, much as l regard business
man who can pay and don't | was
O. and am, also, firm believer in tht
necessity of an immediate and thorough
reform and puri6cation of our who'll
So civil service system. 1 tletast and de
spise the theory that the offices of III
government are the legitimate boot
of each political victory, and l fel
of and still feel that the recognition 0
such rule is wholly inconsistent wit
a continued political purity. Certai
men met together at Washington an
subsequently in New Yerk-editoTs
, economists, politicians, and men {
business-few in number, being ne
more than fifteen or twenty in all, bu
welding an enormous power throug
the press. We were all of one minc
)n Political managers and aspirants to
office were very civil and profuse
expressions of sympathy with us
j! private, but very shy of us in public
Nearly two years ago l drew up wit
my own hand the original draft resolr
es tion calling a convention of thos
sympathizing in our views to meet I
Cincinnati This was not, howeve
the nominating CONVEX ton of Ma
Is, last-that subsequently grew out Of
So far as President Grant himse
at was concerned, 1 personally enter
tained but one sentiment-that of il
I0r "n tense and bitter disappointment
hat what / still consider his great failuI
3 as a civil administrator. He was n
lti,, Ltd, old General; and as such | felt t.
WdIu uluI uOO dS YOU LSOlN OttG clo GlAO
as as only feel who have passed throus
!, long days and nights of battle agon
looking to one man in firm re ian
. that he carried with him ultimate vi
: Z tory, and in the end have found th
faith justified. And let me further sa
that 1, IN common with vast -mul
tude of others, have had my admir-
ton aud sympathy deeply excited
IL. the grand silence with which the Pre-!
dent has undergone the vile torre
of contradictory calumny which h
so persistentlv been poured for
against him. Gen. Grant can not
once be both the wretched imbec
and the cunning usurper he is so CO.
monty described by the same lips, a
his 1 can assure those now so indiscreet
mg nagy assailing him that they are guilty OF
pay grave error of judgment if they for
y Of ly believe that the men who stood
him while lead was in the air, will
tie. driven from his side by the hurling
- hard words. Whichever party is 81
96 cessful this year the vile scanC
~ known as "carpet bagism' is doome
and the States lately in rebellion {
sure at last of being left to themselv
The only contingency, so far as {
forecast the future, which can endt
ger this much to- be- desired rest
would be the election of Mr. GreeI
That might possibly, by inviting n
rtor l.