Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-12
A Ringing Speech.

Hon. W. A. Wheeler, upon taking
the chair as presiding officer of the New
York Republican State Convention, at
Utica, paid the following eloquent trib
ute to Gen. Grant:
You remember from what quarter re-
lief first came, and whose military
proves at Donelson gave the first sub
stantial check to the swelling and adj
vancing tide of the rebellion. This is
not the place to sketch the details of
the interim, but whose blood does not
even now course more rapidly through
his veins as he recalls the wild, tumul-
tuous joy, the rapturous gladness, which
filed every loyal heart on that April
morning when the glad tidings were
brave rebel army of Northern Vir-
ginia which had so long and so def
antly borne the fortunes of the insur-
rectionary Confedercy upon its bayo-
nets had at last gone down under the
irresistible strokes of him who, through
the wilderness and many bloody,
hard-fought field, had patiently pursued
it with unrelenting purpose and tenac-
ity, until at last, at Appamattox, the
gigantic rebellion lay PROSTATE at his
feet? Under his guidance the god of
battles had delivered us from the ex-
igencies of war, and we came out of
its furnance heat with unimpaired ma
tionality and the redemption Of the
race whose perpetual enslavement had
been the officially proclaimed purpose
| of the new government which the rebel
lion was wsged to establish. Did ever
other war yield such rich fruition
Well sang the liberty-loving Whittier
"Did we dare,
In our agony of prayer,
Ask for moro than he has done?
When was ever his right hand,
Over any time or land,
Stretched as now, beneath the sun?
| How they pale,
Ancient myth and song and tale,
In this wonder of our days,
When the cruel rod of war
| Blossoms white with righteous law,
And the wrath of man is praise"
How the land rang with the plaudits O.
the great captain who had proved it,
deliverer, and how every patriotic hear
went out in gratitude. to him for hi:
priceless services Each of the grea
political parties at the North sought his
acceptance of support for the highes
of all earthly honors, the Presidency O
the great Republic. The Democrat,
party would fain have hidden its igno
minious abatement of the rebellion il
the shadow of his great deeds, read,
then as now, under whatever GU Sc O.
pretense, to steal back into the place
of power and trust from which it haC
been hurled by an outraged and indig
nant people. But the brave man wh(
had thwarted the traitors in their at
tempt to overthrow the Government
and who had foiled the renegade John
son in his efforts to rob the country o
the just results of the war, spurned al
poffers of the Democratic party, ant
adhered to that which had stayed III
his hands in saving the country from
disintegration and ruin
The Republican party elevated Gen
Grant to the Presidency, and now point
with just pride to the results of his Ad
minist ation as illustrated by his I'm
faltering fidelity to his principles, tn,
wise and discreet use of unusual power
conferred upon him by Congress, tn
{ steady and safe reduction of the deb
and taxation, the removal of intricat
, foreign complications, the growing re
| spect for our country abroad. wise
benefcent, and humane Indian policy
/ and the advancement of the nation i
) every element of wealth, growth, an
| power. With undated confidence i
! his exalted love of country, stern intee
$ rity, self-reliance, and increased abilit
e to administer the affairs of Government
e the Republican party, through its chose
= representatives., has, by reclamation
;. again made him its standard-bearer.
t Gen. Grant encounters in the pendin
u canvass the opposition and intensife
s hate of his old enemies of the battl,
e field and the ballot box, who, beate
T and Inundated st every point for til
last twelve years, have, in their despe
alton, made hollow, hypocritica
$ huckstering alliance with stragglir
malcontents, have donned the garb an
It stolen the countersign of that part
and are now seeking to pass its picket
e to capture by fraud what they failed
n capture by force. They will meet the
e Appomattox IN November next, ar
n trail their hybrid banner to the gre
l. chieftain who their own leader has sa
it "has never been defeated and nev
s, can be-"