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

At the banquet given Gen. Grant, at
the Mansion House, last night, the CT IN
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 a
clear voice and being listened to with
rapt attention. He referred to himself rs
a fellow citizen of Dublin, and intimated,
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 trou-
blesome candidate. Then, passing to Sc
rious matters, the General said:
ave have heard some words spoken
about our country-my country-before
I was naturalizcd in another. Laugh
ter. We have very great country, a
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, and
when they are made to feel poverty, then
the whole world must feel it," APP
plause.
"Yol have had here great prosperity
because of our great extravaganza and
our great mislortunes. We had war
which drew into it almost every man who
could bear arms, and my friend who
smoke so eloquently to you few mo-
ments ago lost leg in it. You did not
observe that, perhaps, he has wooden
one in place of it. When that great
conflict was going on we were spending
one thousand million dollars u year more
than we were producing, and Europe got
every dollar of it. 1t made for you a
false prosperity. You were getting our
bonds and our promises to pay. You
were cashing them yourselves. That
made great prosperity and made pro-
ducers beyond the real necessities OF the
world ut peace. But we finally got
through that great conflict, and with an
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.
tinued to spend three or four hundred
millions of-money per year more than
we were producing.
1--WE paid it back to you for your labor
and manufactures, and it made you ap-
parently and really prosperous. We, on
the other hand, were getting really 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. hope it is nearly over. Hear !
hear! Our prosperity is commencing,
and as we become prosperous you will
too, (applause,) because we become in
creased consumers of your products as
we'll as our own. 1 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 subject
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. APP
plause. The other was Lord Beacons-
field, the most far seeing man, the one
who seems to me to see rs far into the
future as any man l know, [apnlause,
and he says the same rs President
Hayes"