New-York tribune., 1872-08-30
SPEECH BY DIR. LORING.

President of the Massachusetts Grant COnVeh-
ton, He made long speech in defense of
the Administration, and did not attempt to
defend the Administration at all, unless an
indscriminate gOrificatiOn of it can be so
considered AS DR.. Loring came at the
eleventh hour into the political organization
which he Iauds so highly, he speaks, of
course. with something Of the enthusiasm of
n convert but as we can remember him max
ing equally good speeches in defense of the
buchanan Administration, we have the great
announcement of knowing that pretty soon,
when the Liberal Party has become the dis
penser of offices, we may have DR.. George Is.
Loring making the most beautiful speeches in
our behalf. When that time comes, If
he only sounds the same exquisite fantaslas
in our honor, we trust that we shall
not be unduly elated. IT'S the way
of q good-natured and enthusiastic man.
lie would make just as pretty q speech
upon one side as upon the other; and IL at
Worcester, on Tuesday, he had wished to
show the Republican party to be fraud, and
Dr. Grant nuisance, he would not have been
at loss for single adjective. That there
ever was party in all respects 80 perfect as
the Doctor paints the Republican party OF
Massachusetts to be, is somewhat doubtful.
1t is hardly all-wise, allgOod, as its eulogist
declares it to be; for charming as it is, it is
still human. Most that DR.. Loring says OF 1t
is what every advocate is accustomed to say
of his party, substantially, if not in the ex-
duisite language of DR.. LOring. He calls 1t
" an arrayn He calls it L" a host" He speaks
of "its steady march, in close column, to re-
"peated victories.p There is a long lot OF
these fine phrases in the report of this ora
tion: and if fine words could butter pars-
neps. the Grant men Of Massachusetts would
not be obliged to eat those vegetables un-
buttered. When DR.. Loring has once as
sumed that his party can do no wrong, but
only right, and that continually, the rest is
easy. The shining fluX of words flows on un-
| iInpeded-a rolling river of rhetoric |!
There is something indeed charming in the
way in which Dr. LOring attributes every good
thing which has happened to the influence OF
his party. For rain and for sunshine, for the
fertility of the soil aud for the energy OF
man which develops it, for all our cotton, our
wheat, and our tobacco, for the treasures
Welded by our mines, for all the profits OF
our manufactures and our fisheries, we are
indebted, it appears, to the goodness and
greatness of the present President OF the
United States DIR. LOring it is true, some
times seems to have had a shrewd suspicion
that he was talking nonsense; and he now
and then throws in few words OF common
sense to relieve the absurdity OF his c0nclu-
sions at is,r he says in a passing moment
| of moderation, e" the successful industry OF an
"honest and thriving people which lies at the
" foundation of our financial success" % 1t
is is it? Why, we thought it was Grantlsm
We'll. so. it seems, thought DR.. Lorng for he
Immediately added: "An industry which has
&" been fostered and protected by wise and
" sagacious Administration In fact, 1t seems
TO be the opinion of Dr. Loring that during
the last four years nothing whatever of an
adverse character has occurred, while for all
our prosperity we are indebted, not 10 KIND
Providence in part and in part to our own
exertions, but simply and only to Dr. Grant
Now the plain answer to this is, that wher-
ever the policy of the Administration has had
any direct influence upon the prosperity ana
the production of the country, 1t has been
merely damaging. About nothing Is DR.. Lorlng
more enthusiastic than the kind and paternal
way in which the Grant Government has
poured wine and oil into the wounds of the
South, the plain truth being that to-day the
| South is in worse condition than 1t was four
years ago. DR.. Loring makes agriculture his
business when he is not attending to politics,
and is usually considered one of the cleyerest
of DIR fancy farmers. What does he think of
the state of agriculture in South Carolina, In
Alabama. in Arkansas, in louisiana 1t is all
| Ill TO t,1lr Of thn
which have not been meddled with-what does
DR.. Loring think of that of the States which
have been medded with, and managed by men
who are now the strenuous supporters OF VIII
son and Grant, What does he think OF the
decline in land values, of the diminishing area
of cultivation, of the frightful increase of tax
alton. and of the lessening production, all IN
those States which, not having been allowed
to manage for themselves, have been
managed by his all-wise Administration
How does it happen that the blOod-sucking
adventurers, the sharp-set ghOuls who have
taken possession of the treasures of certain
States are all Grant men to the very center
of their rotten cores What would DR.. Loring
think of State Administration which should
run down the value of his fields, and of his
cows. and of all that is his in four years. full
twenty-five per cent, while it more than
quadrupled his taxesl Would he be the same
prosperous gentleman to-day if his State Gov
ernment had been no better than that of South
| Carolina He is a pretty good farmer, but
we do not think that he would be much i'll
pocket if he undertook, under such delight
fully paternal auspices to live by farming.
Something we might and may yet say of
DIR. Lorings ideas of reconciliation; but for