New-York tribune., 1872-09-13
SPEECH OF HIRAM P. CROZIER.


FELLOW CITIZENS: On occasions IKE TINS,
specific gravity the momentum OF great numbers Is TIC
main speech. Sometimes an army Is so oyerpowering In
hunters, and planted in position Il at victory Is
achieved without firing gun Tie Greeley and Brown
army planted Cnight that victory in October ana
November is certain. dozen speeches Erc to bc
made from this stand tonight and mine shall
be short The text shall be National Reconcilia-
ton" Grant said, four years ago. " Let us
have peace" We have quasi war; War on santo Do
mngo Cor which, Ihe E0clng Post said two years ago.
' that the President deserved impeachment" War OF
the Indian tribes frontier settlements, and even the
troops OF tho Government. War upon the people OF
eight great equal States Of this Government, seven full
years after the Civil War has ceased We call them in
the. Union. We troat them as II they were
out Of the Union. and threatening another
Rebellion Their social industry is crippled
Their credit il prostrated. Taxation opprcsses
them while the arm Of labor by which subsistence is
earned and taxes paid and all the wheels of the Gov
ernmen moved is paralyzod II IS a sorrowful fact that
I'm only three cut Of the eleven States nyoye1 IN the
Rebellion is there the fragment Of civil government
verify Of the name and those States are Missouri Ten
nessee, and Virginia, where the proscrptiye policy OF
the Republican party has been swept away! In eight
great States the nondescrp carpctbagger the creature
OF the Republican party, Is the dominant and ruling
power.
Theft by the millions, that shames the Tweed-Tam-
many thieves. Niagara shames mountain CASCADE,
covers he entire trail OF the caperbagger, from North
Carolina to Texas When the people Of the entire South
ask 10 De received and treated as If IN the Unon are we
going 70 prOlOng Administration four moro years that
treats them alien enemicsl No. Emphaucaly no:
The Grant Republicans are the party on destruction ahd
dsuniou. They, tonight. Ob5ruct the Old equal union
these States. They have Grantisn personal govern
ment and spoils the brain. mistake spOils are II
their pockets by the mihols.
TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY FALLEN FROM GRACE.
Finally, they have war aud secession in their own
party. Sumner has seeded. Banks has seeded. Cur
tin OF Pennsylvania has seeded Mcclure has seeded
Carl schurz and Gratz Brown have seeded Trumbull
has seeded. Greeley has ecceded Where is one old
fashioned leader Of that once grand party OF moral IDEAS
but ghat has secededl Whyl Because the party has
compound OF pretensions' called Grantism has cor
rupcd the whole party. DO you tell me large numbers
of capitalists adhere 10 1t They can afford TO adhere
They on top. The people are aV the poJo DO you
tell large numbers Of moral men adhere 10 II waves
rush the shore after the storm, and the winds nave
ceased.
Do you tell me Ncw-England adheSes! New England
was half century Matching the virus Of dSunion and
extreme Raeicalisn and Will be another haf century
enough for ful-grOwn man. much less Tor state OF
community of States Every great minded statesman OF
New-Eng gand-Webster, Coy. Andrew, and now Sumner
and Bauks-haYe TO secedc from NewEDgand 10 become
attached .to humanity. We want national
government large enough for all the essential
rights OF manKind-as large as tho Deca5a-
Cincinnati PLATFORM that second Declaration Of Inde-
pcndence, which in my Judgment, u 70 be the subsa
tal platform OF political fllth for the next hundred
years because, while II embodes the rights OF man, ~
holds the States and the nation by the constitutional
limitations Of power. Greeley and BrownI Fellow
citizens: Place Greeley and Brown upon that platform
by twOhirds vote OF the Electoral College, and you
viii inaugurate q new political departure. You VIII
reconcile the nation and harmonic the fearful an
aeOBisms OF the North ITSELF you VIII save the ntOh
lOm the GRANTEES, aud save the GRANTEES from tAeDl-
selves.