The Portland daily press., 1872-08-23

| desire that the Republican party shall be
tried by these tests The Republican party
sprang into life from the necessity of the de-
veopement of true principles. Other parties
have existed, but they have not had the ee-
ments of progress; they have been rejected and
disbanded The party that is established upon
vital principles will not have performed its mis-
sion as long as there are new fields to explore
or questions of progress to be developed. The
Republican party is the great bulwark of pro-
gress and the equality of man. If the govern
ment of your fathers is still to exist it is to this
party that you must look. 1t has crushed out
the demon of slavery, lifted the negro to man
hood and given him the reward of his labor
In nation like ours, gathered from the vitality
of every nation, it is fit that it it shall be the
leader and champion of progress.
l have shown you what ! conceive to be the
underlying and vital principles upon which our
government is founded. What party is organ
lied against these principles, and how differed.
The Cincinnati Convention professed to be Re
publican, but was controlled by the leaders of
the Democratic party, who had agreed before
hand to endorse its declarations and support
its candidates. The interest of the leaders was
SO apparent that he who runs can read. They
| say, eve need assistance to reach vantage
ground where we can intrench ourselves and
| prepare for another advance to a central point
| of power The Convention assumed the garb
of the Democratic power to lead the people
astray. 1t was a Southern conspiracy to gain
| power. They demand three things: First, uni
versal amnesty, by which tile southern leaders
can again get Office and power; second, local
self-govemment without executive interference;
not State rights, because they are clearly de-
fined by the Constitution. The people grated
on the organic law three amendments, and gave
Congress the power to enforce their provisions
by appropriate legislation. What was the eff
feet? The cry of Capitalization and imperial
| ism; and this new conspiracy means to inter
| fere with and reverse this authority. This
| false cry instituted as soon as the reconstruc-
| ton of the South was begun, was exposed as
meaning recovery of Southern power. Mr.
| Greeley, in his letter, declares for peace. We
want peace, security and order; but do not
mean to submit to the power of local disorder
and intimidation. Local self-government
without executive interference" means nullifi-
cation Another demand of the Cincinnati
platform is the practical yielding up of the
veto power by the President 1t demands that
taxation, the revenue and the tariff, shall be
decided by Congress without the Intervention
| of the President. This would be a violation of
the Constitution, which declares that bill
when passed shall be submitted to the President
for his approval or rejection and if he disa-
| prove of it he shall have the veto power. Mr..
Greeley says that for the sake of the nomina-
ton and election, am willing to be a puppet
in the White House and shirk my constitution
al duty when the party requires me to do it. If
this is to be his policy on one question how can
he be trusted with many? What was the
idea of the men who SO cunningly covered up
these principles in their platform, for all the
others are contained in the Republican plat
form? 1t was merely to hide the point of the
arrow.
Why was Horace Greeley nominated? The
Southern leaders have been long time out of
power. They desire universal amnesty" that
they may recover Office and by running Gree
ley, even if not successful in electing him, they
would divide the negro vote and seize the reins
of local government at home, and if they could
commit the Democratic party to the policy of
self-government without executive interfer-
ence they could secure their coveted vantage
ground. They also hoped to secure additional
Representatives in Congress. After these do
ings are accomplished they intend to get con-
troll of the government, and Horace Greeley is
witness, as in the June Sd, 1871 Memphis letter
he said, 'they propose to renew the fight and
they expect to regain, as Democrats, the power
they had lost through the war" Under the
great name of Democracy these men attempted
to cover up their deeds of ignominy and in
| fanny.
In the same letter the present Democratic at
tempt to control the next Presidency was most
prophetically pictured. The speakers regret
full allusion to Greeleys great downfall was
listened to with breathless silence and greeted
with great applause. He is now willing to ac-
cept the nomination from the very men whom
he has so terribly denounced, not only as to
principles, but personally, in words that live,
for they were burning words, against even
trusting them or giving them power.
Many of Greeley's trite sayings about the
Democracy was read, causing great sensation
and applause.
| The Southern Democracy's triumph means
the downfall of the government, and for a man
| like Greeley to fall down into abject submission
| in order to satisfy his ambition is sad, sor-
rowful fact. Whom can you trust? The Re-
publican party. Its principles are just, its
leaders are men who are inspired with lofty
purpose. They are not men whose light tends
to dazzle but to delude, and hickers but to ex-
pire Gen. Grants name was here greeted
with tremendous cheers and applause. His
glorious war record at Vicksburg, Shiloh,
| Wilderness, and the final strangling of the re-
bellion was graphically referred to amidst
| bursts of applause
Gen. Grant believes in action rather than
profession. His life is given to devotion to
| principle as the answer to criticism. Great re-
| suits speak of great powers. When a man has
been for ten years the pivot around which
events centre, that man must possess some of
the attributes of greatness. The characteristics
| of his mind, the principles of his character, the
method and order of his administration, these
and other qualities show the soldier, statesman
and leader. Future history will only do him
| Justice No nober hero will ever be enshrinep
on the pinnacle of fame than the American
soldier. This apostophe was classically beauti-
full and eloquent.
|
| betrayal of our chosen leaders within the ranks
! of the countrys noblest defenders. But the
fact remains that loyal people, educated by
the severe conflicts in defence of the great prin-
ciples of liberty and justice, will never prove
false TO their lofty principles the record of
the past ten years most gloriously declare. To
the noble life and record of Abraham Lin
coin the speaker paid beautiful tribute, pro-
ducing renewed applause. Be true my friends
in the future as in the past to the principles
for which that man lived and died, and count
his enemies your enemies and ere another moon
shall wane let us hear at the capital the joyful
cry which shall be the shout of battle and the
cheer of victory.
FIRE.-The alarm of fire about noon yester-
day came from an unoccupied two story house
on Greeneaf street, near Madison, owned by
Messrs B. F. Noble & Co. Part of the gable
end was burned out. The fire was the work of
an incendiary fire having been set in the stair
way leading to the attic and in closet on the
second floor. In the last place it had made but
little progress when it was discovered. Insured
for $1,000 in the agency of Joseph e. Webster.