The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-08


Senator Sumner brought against him. cut
il from the n. Y. Sun, and beg that you will
not think am imposing upon you with I'M
due levity when read one or two OF these,
because want you to see Just how greatand
grave an issue the National Liberal Repub-
lean Assistant Democratic party brings.
Laughter. Here is one: Breeder w. Clark,
Supervisor of Internal Rsveue for Southern
Ohio, by his first marriage a brother in law
of the Presidents aunt, and by his second
marriage a brother-in-law of Orvil Il.
Grants mother-in.law's nephew;" and e.,
Special Agent of the Postofiice Department,
husband Of a third cousin of the Presidents
wifes step brother" Here is one ! did not
cut fro u the New York Sun, bu. from a
Western paper. The relation in this case is
of Aaron Delano, whose aunts cousin mar
RED Captain Noah Grant, the great-grand-
father of the President. Great laughter
and applause. Aaron Delano, says the De-
troit Post, is the brother-in-lawof this nepo-
tic postmaster. Thus, you will observe
and | beg you to observe closely-because
the magnitude of this domest, issue depends
exactly upon the cansinguinity-thus you
will observe that the rostmaster's brother
in-law's fathers aunt married the Presi-
dents great grandfather laughter and this
brother-in- law-the man whose fathers aunt
was stepmother to the Presidents grand
father-has a postofiicc worth $3.50 year,
and yet the American people look on with
stolid indifference Great applause Now,
gentlemen, that was one Of the great issues
Mr.. Sumner made in his speech, and ne
could not stand it himself. 1t made him
sick, and he had to 60 to Europe. Laugh
ter.
The other great issue was gift-taking.
do not know whether you have agitated
much on gift taking out here; but that was
| iaan Our no ion n in
Maine. They say he takes gifts. If you
would infer from Mr.. Summers arraignment
and | choose TO go back to the source, be-
cause all the Democratic speeches, as far as
I have observed, have been little less than
rehashes, and very poor rehashes too what
Mr.. Sumner said-you would infer from Mr..
Summers arraignment that neither in this
country nor in Europe was il ever known
before that a man successful in military
affairs was rewarded with any pecuniary re-
compense. Well now, gentlemen, this, so
far from being true, is simply untrue. In
! 1862 Won will remember that Gea. Mcclellan
won the battle of Antetam-a victory at the
time gratefully received by the country. IN
the following winter some personal and po-
! litical friends of Gen. Mcclellan presented
! him with an elegant mansion on Fifth
! avenue, in New York, for which they paid
! S75 900. | have since Observation-Disclosures
DO not know, and it is none of my business
that Gen. McClellen, not wishing TO oc-
cupy the house, sold ii for 100000! But
that is his business, and not mine. But what
I DO know is this: that a year and half
afterwards, when Gen. Mcclellan was the
candidate of the Democratic party for the
| Presidency, there was not q Republican in
the length and breadth of this land who was
mean enough or low enough to refer to the
fact that that house had been given to him
not one. Applause.
Gen. Sherman, VINO deserves well OF his
country, was presented with an elegant man.
sion in st. Louis; with another one in Wash
ington, al d with somewhere from 900 to
| 500, 900 about the same amount, | believe,
in all, that was given to Gen. Grant, hor es
and all together. The two naval h sroes OF
the war-who came out rather at the head
Farragut and Porter-receved as prize
money, each Of then, more than quarter
of million dollars. | never was lawyer
enough TO find out the reason why a naval
officer should be entitled to prize money and
q military officer not; but so it is. But this
know, that if Gen. Grant could be awarde j
prize money in the same rate per cent. for
his conquests that Farragut and Porter got
for theirs, he would be richer man than a
T. Stewart and William B. Aston both to-
gether. His prize was this entire conquest
of the Southern Confedracy in the end.
Well, no, gentlemen, look to Europe. see
some venerable heads in this audience thai
can go far enough back in their memory tC
recall the battles of the Duke of Wellington
Why, when the Duke of Wellington was sen
to the Peninsula to destroy the power Of thu
frst Napoleon in Spain and Portugal, anC
when he accomplished that most memorable
campaign which ended by sending Mar
shall Soult and his hosts of French soldier
over the Pyrenees, the British Parliament IL
a single night presented him with half ;
million dollars in gold coin; and the Prince
} Regent, in transmitting the gift, added an
! other half million in gold coin. More thar
! that, the British Parliament gave him
pension for life of $4,000 year. And tw'
years aiterward they Cancelled the pension
and gave him in lieu thereof solid gift o
two millions in gold, making three million
OF gold coin as mere gift that was present
ed TO the Duke of Wellington, besides hi
salary as Commandments OF the Army
This was before he fought the battle of Water
loo After the battle of Waterloo was fought
when the US was authenticated, the BritiBl
Parliament, without hesitation or delay
, voted him a million and half more. Nor
than tiat, they bought for him and pre-
scented 10 him In perpetuity, aud his son re
. sides there to-day, great, grand and cost.
. country seat for which they paid ST. 400
600. More than that, they made him Mar
shall of the Empire and Commander-inC Chic
of all His Majesty's forces, with all the ap
purtenances and privileges thereunto apper
t tanning. More than that, they made hii
Warden Of the Clinque Ports, with nothin
e to do, and 100000 a year for doing it.
you will take what was given to the Duk
: of Wellington and add it up, and take tn
interest on it for a single year at the lowe!
/ rate known among people and among nation
it will yield more in that single year tina
!. all tina. ever was given to Gen. Grant L
c gtther
/ And I beg you, gentlemen, to observ
D further, that the wars in which the Duke
. Wellington won his victories for which
was thus muniAcently recompensed WEI
S merely wars of ambition they were n,
5 wars involving the perpetuity OF the Englis
crown; they were not wars involving I'll
1 permanency of the English nation nor, il
u deed, 10 any great extent, the prosperity {
s the English people. They were, as repea
j. wars of ambition. ! beg you, further,
It observe that the war in which Gen. Gran
# came out at the head of ga liant and victor
e Gus armies and gallant and victorious of
& GERS was a wa in which the life Of Il
) nation was at stake. And if that war ha
/. gone adversely you and would not be hei
to- night discussing the Lext Presidency
1t the United States. In this war Gen. Graz
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