The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-23
Gen. Grant in Dublin.

~ lHe uaDVuct gwen GCn. Grant, at
the Mansion House, last night, the com
pany rose and gave the Irish welcome
when the Generals name was proposed.
The ex-President made in response the
longest speech in his life, speaking in 81
clear voice and being listened to with
rapt attention. He referred to himself as
II fellow citizen of Dublin, and ntimatcd,
amid much laughter and cheering, that
he might return To Dublin one day and
run against Darlington for Mayor and
Butt for Parliament. He warned those
gentlemen that he was generally II trou-
blesome candidate. Then, passing to Sc
rious matters, the General said
I'VE have "r"rd some words spoken
about our country..my country-beiore
| was naturalizcd in another. Laugh
ter. We have very great country, Il
prosperous country, with room for great
many people. We have been suffering
for some years from very great oppres-
sion. The world has felt it. Hear,
hear There is no question about the
fact that when you have forty-fve mil
lions of consumers such as we are, aud
when they are made to feel poverty, then
the whole world must feel it," APP
plause.
"You have had here great prosperity
because of our great extravaganza and
our great mislortunes We had Il war
Thici. drew into it almost avery nan wh,,
could bear arms, and my friend who
spoke so eloquen.ly to you few mo-
ments ago lost leg in it. You did not
observe that. perhaps, he has a wooden
Que in place of it. When that great
conflict was going on we were spending
i II
than we were producing, and Europe got
every dollar of it. 1t made for you u
false prosperity. You were getting or
bonds and our promises to pay. You
we're cashing them yourselves. That
made great prosperity and made pro-
ducers beyond the renl necessities OF the
world ut peace. But we finally got
through that great conflict, and with nm
inflated currency which was far. below
the specie you Use here, it made our peo-
pie still more extravagant. Our specu-
lations were going ON and we still con-
millions of-noney per year more than
we were producing.
we paid it back to you for your labor
and manufactures, and it made you ap-
parently and really prosperous. We, on
."o c'ne' MANN, "eIe SetlluS IeailJ poor ,
but being honest, however, we came to
the day of solid, honest payment. We
came down to the necessity OF selling
more than We bought. Now we have
turned the Corner. We have had our
days of depression; yours is just coming
on. l hope it is nearly over. Hear
hear Our prosperity is commencing,
ana us we become prosperous you will
too, (aEf.huse,) because we become in
creased consumers of your products as
we'll ms our own. think it safe to say
that the United States, with few years
more such prosperity, will consume as
much more as they did. Two distin-
guished men have alluded to this subicc,
-one WAS the President of the United
States, and he said that the prosperity OF
the United States would be felt to the
bounds of the civilized world. [Ap-
plause. The other was Lord Bcacons-
field, the most iar-seeing man, the one
who seems to me to see IA far into the
future AS any man l know, Iapplause,
and he says the same rs President
Hayes"