The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-05
MOS BY.
His Speech Mt Salem, Fauquier County, vi
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We Gull the following extracts from Col.
Mosby's speech at Salem, on Saturday, as
reported in the Washington Repadlican of
this morning: l51f'iE g.auHt.sa
On rising to respond Colonel Mosby was
received with applause and three cheers. He
said he had come to discuss the great politi-
cal topic Of the day, to define his position,
and to defend himself from the aspersions
and opinions of partisans. tEa .a
If his counsel had prevailed, all who had
heretofore been fighting the great battle Of
constitutional liberty together would be
united and active, pressing on honorably
for success. But in an unlucky moment
some of the leaders of the Democracy were
seized with an unaccountable panic, and
while thus demoralzed had surrendered to
the enemy; not the main enemy, but a
band of plunderers, bummers, foragers and
dead beats who had assembled at Cincinnati
and STYLED themselves a convention. APP.
plause.l He preferred Grant to Greeley,
[applause,] and he came to proclaim it
boldly and gives his reason for so doing.
What claim had Mr.. Greeley on him or on
the people with whom he lived? Had not
his paper, the Tribune, for the past thirty
years been a perfect Vesuvius. belching
forth and scattering the hellish lava Of hate
and discomfort through the south, tramp
ling under foot its nohleSt and best men,
in fact, doing all that deyilish hate and in
genuity could suggest to crafty his malice
and creed ? and yet he was asked to vote
| for this man for President because the Com
sentative party could not afford to he beat
en-, Ths payty had bean beaten oftentimes
before. There was no dishonor In defeat,
| but The fact was they could not afford to
! be honest. va ys
1t means that honesty is not the best
| policy. IL means that political contests are
| not inaugurated for greht principles, or, in
sfnff ur Hsaa f don want s any ppr n
which do not pay. [Applause.1 For the
they deliberately inscrbe "Spoils !" upon
tory. *fH* - = ~ - '..[
lie next discussed the complexion of the
| Cincinnati convention, which he said was
composed of political lazzaroni, beggars on
horseback, suppliants for spoils, men who
not feed them all Applause and shouts
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Those were the meh. 1t had got so now
that as soon as a radical got out of office or
was kicked out for rascality he assumed
the air of injured innocence, talked sorrow
fully about corruption and nepotism, lap
plause.l and then joined the Liberals. n.r
The battle cry Of the opposition was
s!anybody to beat Grant" That was the
platform, the creed, the prayer Of the
Liberals it was the Alpha and Omega of
their alphabet; but who did they pick up
| as T-5f. ..fs.tH ....,..-E 81. s.f...t ...
i"ANYBoDY TO BEAT GRANT ?" s
Why an old political rake, constitution
nal lifelong growler, q man whose only OBJ
! lection to Grant was that he and all his
audacious schemes had not been properly
considered. Applause
He 1.-THE speaker) had attended the Balti-
more Convention and saw John Hoffman,
the Governor of the great State of New
YorG, rise in his place and present what he
said was petition Of fifteen thousand Ger
mans for The nomination Of Greeley, while
the fact was it was an old petition in re-
gard to the excise law, with new heading
put to it. Those were nice men to talk
about reform. [Applanse,] But this
double nomination was the richest thing OF
oil. The so-called Cincinnati Convention
was o mob---a gang assembled together
without any constituents. They drew up
declaration of principles, nominated Gree
ley and left.
| THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION
| was composed of delegates who represent
cd constituencies, bul unluckily had no
principles, so the two fused-the first fur
nished the principles and the second the
voters, [applausel and called it all they
could do for the Democracy. He called il
selling out, (appausel and selling out toe
to the worst of men. gr#
He supported Grant, as he said before
on his (Grant's) own record !; which is thu
best platform man can have. His friends
of the south must now make their choice.
1t seemed to him the election of Grant
was dead certainty that of Greeley {
remote possibility. In fact, Greeley never
could be- a President unless he went to Ii.
IBERIA, and there his election would be
doubtful. [Applause.l He would sup
port Grant because, with all his faults, no
body ever accused him of deserving frenc
or violating a covenant. Applause and
cheers for Grant
[Applause.l He preferred Grant to Gree
|
fanatic. He supported Grant because 0
his terms to Lee, and surely no conquero
ever bore himself more
MAGNANIMoUsLY TO A VANQUISuEI
than did Grant when he returned his swor'
to Lee and babe him go in peace. The cove
nant made that day has been sacredly kept
For him there was no triumphal procession
chanting poems of victory, to humble hi
conquered foe. He was no Achilles, t
drag the body of his enemy around tn
! walls of the conquered city. Suffice it 70
him to know that his work, in which h
had thrown his whole soul, was accom-
4 plished, and he was willing to drop tn
curtain on the scene. Applause and thre
Z, cheers for Grant,
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF TIL
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