The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-20
A Ringing Speech.

lion. 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:
Ysu remember from what quarter re.
lief first came, and whose military
prowess at Donelson gave the first sub.
stantial check to the swelling and ad.
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
flashed through the land that the
brave rebel army OF Northern Vir-
ginia which had SO long and so def
antlv 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 O 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
feetY 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 waged TO establish. Did ever
other war yield such rich fruition?
Well sang the iberty-loving Whittier:
"Did we dare,
In our agony Of prayer,
Ask for more than he has donef
When was ever his right hand,
Over any time or land,
Stretched as now, beneath the sum-
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 lsnd rang with the plaudits of
the great captain who had proved its
deliverer, and how every patriotic heart
went out in gratitude to him for his
priceless services Each OF the great
political parties at the North sought his
acceptance of support for the highest
of all earthly honors, the Presidency Of
the great Republic. The Democratic
party would fain have hidden its igno-
minious abatement of the rebellion in
the shadow Of his great deeds, ready
then as now, under whatever gu Sc or
pretense, to steal back into the places
of power and trust from which it had
been hurled by an outraged and indig-
nant people. But the brave man who
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 OF
the just results of the war, spurned all
pofiers of the Democratic party, and
adhered to that which had stayed up
his hands in saving the country from
disintegration and ruin.
The Republican party elevated Gen.
Grant to the Presidency, and now points
with just pride to the results of his Ad
ministI alton as illustrated by his un'
faltering fidelity to his principles, the
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 intricate
foreign complications, the growing re
spect for our country abroad. wise
beneficent, and humane Indian policy
and the advancement Of the nation il
every element of wealth, growth, ant
power. With unabated confidence il
his exalted love of country, stern integ
rity, self.reliance, and increased abilit,
to administer the affairs of Government
the Republican party, through it, ohosel
representatives, has, by acclamation
again made him its standard bearer.
II Gen. Grant encounters in the pendin
canvass the opposition and intensi6e'
, hate of his old enemies of the battle
! field and the ballotbox, who, beatel
and humiliated at every point for tn
last twelve years, have, in their despe,
alton, made hollow, hypocritica
huckstering alliance with stragglin
malcontents, have donned the garb An
3 stolen the countersign of that party
, and are now seeking to pass its picket
> TO capture by fraud what they failed /
, capture by force. They will meet the
Appomattox in November next, an
I trail their hybrid banner to the gre,
!. chieitain who their own leader has sal
r "has never been defeated and new,
q can be-"