The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-05-26
FRIDAY. NAY 20. 1876.
The Centennial Funeral.

The Centennial Funeral.
Dbges from the Anrious Seal out
side Politics"
Agreeabiy to a call recently issued
for a conference of d~isinterested pat
riots upon the lamentable and hope
less condition of the human race in
general and the people of the United
States in particular, a large number
of gentlemen now in the employ Of
the government, and having been
presistently overlooked in the distri-
button of honors and in the request
for counsel, assembled at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, in New York, on the
10th day of May A. D. 1876. and
the year Of our national infamy and
political decay tho one hundredth.
The proceedings were opened by q
dirge and a few i%nournful remarks by
those who went to Cincinnati in 1872
and now feel for the late lamented
liberal democratic coalition. Other
speeches were made by those who
would have mourned for the late la
mented had 1t been led by anybody
but the late hateful Horace Greeley.
Finally the proceedings closed by the
adoption ofthe following elegant and
statesman like address:
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL.
ctntsnniai Anniversary Of our National Dis
grace and Sore Grievances.
TO the Corrupt and Misguided People Of the
United States;
We come come to you wearing
weeds emblematic of our b~urdensome
grief1at the perverseness with which
you act, refusing year after year to
take our fr~eely-given advice, and to
give us authority over you, and aban-
doning yourselves into the hands of
those awful Republicans. Our object
in appealing to you now is TO con-
vince you that W. have been sincere
in asking you to trust us, and to urge
upon you the necessity of accepting
our advice and leadership if you
would avoid a repetition of the dis
astrous campaign of 1872. when the
spirit of reform was FIRST over
whelmed at Cincinnati by the defeat
Of Charles Francis Adams and then
ignored by the voters at large, who
refused to recognize the necessity of
our beautiful but still-born iDdepend-
emit party.
Many of us have sometimes voted
the Republican ticket. 1t is true that
when we have found a Democratic
candidate who was not a thief we
have preferred him 10 a Republican,
but still we claim to he better Repub-
licans than the majority of you, our
fellow-citizens In disgrace, and for
these reasons /: We voted for Andrew
johnson /; that is 10 say, although we
did not vote for him for Vice-Presi-
dent, We did vote for him in order to
save him from impeachment. Some
Of us were followers of that sterling
old abolitionist, Horace Greely-after
he was nominated by the Democratic
convention. To be sure, all of US did
not vote for him ; not, however, be-
cause of any conscientious scruples
arising from his love of honesty, but
because personally we hated Greedy
more than we did Grant. The few
of US who sustained the Republican
party at that time hereby express
our regret and pledge ourselves to
excel in hostility toit, always provid-
ed that it does not take our advice, MS
we presume 1t will not.
We wish that you, degraded and
benighted citizens of the United
States, could know as much as we do
and be as good as we are. Then there
would be no need of these expensive
and troublesome conferences, for we
would be at the helm of public affairs
in the Treasury, in the War Depart
ment, in the Senate, with branches
In the post tr~adershirs, and SO OH.
There, indeed, would then be peace
and plenty in all our households; so
far Us we could know anything about
it, and we would be in favor of sus-
tanning u regular party nominal
tions.
People Of the United States: While
others are celebrating or national
centennial and trying to be happy,
we come to you with the "heart bow
ed down with weight of VICE." (Vide
G. s., at Cincinnati in 1877 We see
nothing but corruption, theft, lying,
cheating, and all the lesser evils that
the flesh Of the body polite is heir
to. Will you hear US for our cause, or
shall we be snuffed out ignobly like
tallow dips, by the irrepressible I'm
GER, Of the monstrous republican
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