The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05

destruction of Grants Administration. be.
lieving that hereafter his own State of Mis-
souri, would be Democratic and that he
would ''take time by the forelock' and be
one of the first to thrust the knife into the
vitals of the party that has heretofore sus
tanned him. Believing he could transfer the
German vote of this country into a solid
body to whoever might be nominated at Gin
cinnati, inducing at the same time Mr.. sum
ner, OF Massachusetts, a man of great abil
1ty and learning, but a proud, ambitious
man, to enter into this conspiracy, with a
view, of turning over the colored votes
the Cincinnati Convention. I''They can't
do it'll He has published his
letter to the colored people directing them
how they should cast their votes in The com
ing contest, but for the effect it has had
upon them he might as well have issued a
bull against the comet. g That's so,'' and
loud applause. The colored people are now
notifying him, by resolutions and otherwise,
that they are not for sale or transfer. They
know who their friends are, and thev pro-
pose to stand by them. Applause Wheth-
er the Germans will give the same notice to
Mr.. Schurz, as have the colored people to
Mr.. Sumner, remains to be seen. Senator
Schurz is man of great ambition, a revolu-
ZIONIST by nature, with a great desire 10 be
the controlling power in this Government,
believing that he can, by transferring the
German vote, if successful, be the leader in
the next Administration, and thereby be
and unmakes them at will. But l think his
chagrin and modification will come when
the voting is done ; for / believe the Ger
man-Amerlcan citizens are honest, patriotic,
independent and well meaning generally !;
well educated-a thoughtful and rejecting
people-that they will not let themselves be
transferred by any man, however much pride
they may have in him on account of his abil-
1ty, but will prove themselves as faithful to
the Government and Republican principles
future n he ST nd
and long continued applause.
Governor Koerner, of this State, also joins
in this crusade against the Republican party,
who have made and sustained him in this
country. He is now growing old, but still
full of ambition, and properly so, too, for
all men have a right to an honest ambition
But he feels that he has not been appreciat-
ed by the Republican party, inasmuch as
two years ago he was a candidate for the
United States Senate, and received ten votes
out of about 80 Republicans in caucus. He
felt greatly chagrined and mortified at this
result, and among other things, because |,
who was nominated, happened to be born
lcheerS for Logan" in Illinois, and in the
southern portion of the State, where he, and
other men like himself, were inclined to look
upon the citizens not worthy of high po-
sitions, believing only that the intelligence
in Illinois was a commodity brought here
and not produced on our own soil Since
then he became sore, and was willing to Join
in this crusade against the Republican party
for its destruction, and in the howlingS of
corruption against Grants Administration
that he might thereby become the leader of
the Democratic party and in partial de-
gree satiate his great ambition. Judee
Trumbull and Governor Palmer, being actu-
ated by the same selfish ambition, believed
too, that they could control this country or
this State, inasmuch as they come brin ging
with them all the intelligence, in their judg-
ment, that belong to the people, and finding
that they no longer had the hold upon the
Republican party that they had heretofore,
concluded that they would transfer them
selves to other pastures for political food.
Palmer, finding that he could not be made
Governor by the Republican party, and
having pique at Grant and Sheridan
on account of the difference in ref
to Chicago by the troops, and Trumbull, be-
lieving that his day had come in the Repub-
hcan party, he, too, sought its destruction,
and did transfer all his influence to the
that had sustained him for so many years,
thinking, perhaps, to lead the Democra tic
party as they have heretofore tried to lead
the Republican party, they holding the high
places, and the Democrats doing the voting.
Laughter and applause.
You Democrats, here tonight, have no
part in this thing, except to play the mere
part of voters, to give these men position
that they could not obtain from their own
friends. You are sold for a small price
very small-and it only remains to be seen
whether you propose willingly to make the
transfer.
No, my fellow citizens, there is
no honesty in this warfare against the Adj
mln1StratlOn. Many men of ambition, who
desired to control completely President
Grant, found him made of too stern stuff to
be influenced or moved as a man of wax
They found him man of iron will, honest
and devoted to the principles of his party
and the prosperity of his country. They
find in him second jackson, and are at
tempting to repeat on him the same thing
that was attempted on jackson during his
Administration. [Applause.l When jack
son, like Grant, was slandered, abused and
attempted to be destroyed politically, as
well as in his private character, by ambi-
tious men, the people rose up in their might
and siren 9Th and reelected him President,
at the same time strewing the dead bodies
of his ambitious slanderers along the by
ways and highways from the Gulf to the
Lakes; and from that day to this these men
remain politically dead. So will it be with
the maligners and traducers of General
Grant. The people will indicate him, and
utterly crush out those who have planned
his destruction. Loud applause and
cheers
My fellow-citizens in continue ton of this
thing, and in order to show that this was a
conspiracy, and that L am not making state
ments having no foundation in fact, l will
give you the history of accusations made by
Senator Sumner and Senator SchurZ against
the Administration, charging it with cor
ruptly selling arms to the French during the
Franco-Prussian war. Senator Sumner in
troduced the resolutions making these
charges. A committee was organized for
the purpose of making the investigation,
Senator SchurZ constituted himself public
prosecutor, and appeared before the commit
tee, and examined witnesses during the en-
tire session, which lasted thirty-one days.
After he had examined all the witnesses that
he could find, lie said to the committee that
he was through. The committee examined
the evidence and made their report. That
report shows that arms were not sold to the
French Government, but were sold lawfully
and properly by merchants who had right
to sell them, either to the French or the
Prussians. A minority report was made by
Mr.. Stevenson, of Kentucky, who differed
from the majority of the committee as to the
construction of international law, the ma
jority contending that the Government would
have the right to sell to either of the bellig-
eIents, although they DIDN'T do so; Mr.. Ste
venson claiming that they hadn't the right.
But, in his minority report, he fully
and completely exonerated the Govern
ment and all its officers from any corruption
or completely with the French in any
way whatever. On the vote being taken on
Mr.. Summers resolutions, he himself voted
to lay them on the table, which was done.
Notwithstanding all this, Mr.. Schurz, think
in this country against their own Govern
ment, persists in the charge of corruption
against the Government in the sale of arms
to the French. Now, of my German fellow
citizens present, let me ask how it is that
you can be prejudiced against your own
country, and believe that President Grant
was an enemy of your Fatherland during
this late war, when Mr.. Washburne, the
American Minister at Paris, under instruc-
fioOs from he of tho TTnited States