Morris tribune., 1880-06-17

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Instruction. I sh5GId never dare to diaresard,
behalf of the State of New York. to propose
nomination with which the country and the
Republican party can grandly win. The |
election before ua will be she |
Australits of American politics. Il win decide
whether TOR years to come the country ahAll be
Republican or Cossack, The need of the hour
il a candidate who can carry doubtful States,
North and south. and believing that he more
surely than any other can carry New York
against any opponent, and can carry not only
the North, hut several States of the south, |
New York is for Ulysses 3, Grant. He alone |
of living Republicans has carried New York as |
"a Presidential candidate" Once no carried |
il, even according TO the Democratic count, and !
twice he carried it by the peoples votes. and he
il stronger now. The Republican party, with |
its standard in his hands. 10 stronger now than |
in 1858, or 1S72. Never defeated In war or In |
peace his name 10 the most illustrious borne |
by living man. His services attest his great |
ness and the country knows them by heart. |
His fame was born not alone of things written |
and said, but of the arduOuA greatness |
Of things done, and dangers and |
emergencies viii search in vain the future, ~ |
they have searched In vain in the past, for any |
other ON whom the astion leans with snch CON- |
fidence and trust.
distinction, and having filled all lands with |
his renOwn, modest, firm, ample and self |
poised, he has seen not only the titled, bnt the |
poor and the lOwly in the uttermrst endA of |
the earth rise and uncover before him. |
He has studied the needs and defects of |
comes back better American than ever. with |
u wealth of knowledge and experience added to |
the hard common sense which SO conspiouously |
distinguished him in al the fierce light that |
beat upon him throughout the most eventful, |
ttying and perilons aixteen yearslaf the nations
history.
Never having had policy 70 enforce against |
the will of the people, he never betrayed . |
cause or friend, and the people Will never be- !
tray or desert him. Villi6ed and reyiled. ruth
S sss sps''s Other sad. but
his own, assaults upon him have
| strengthened and seasoned his hold ON the pub
| lie heart. The ammunition of calumny has
all been exploded. The powder has all been
| burned once. Its force il spent, and Grants
name will glitter a bright and imperishable
| star in the diadem of the republic, when those
who have tried TO tarnish 1t have moldered in
| forgotten graves, and their memories and
| epitaphs have Vanished utterly. Never elsted
by success, never depressed by adversely, he
has ever, in peace a. in war, shown the very
germs of common sense The terms he pre-
| scribed for Lees surrender foreshadowed the
wisest principle, and prophesies of trne re-
| construction. So A'.-'-~-l- f'- A.,
| Victor in the greatest of modern wars, he
| QUICKLY HSuAAkEeO uUb 1SStekou 20 WAX AIuu1n
love of peace by an Obliteration of information
nj disputes which stands as the wisest and most
majestic example OF its kind in the worlds
diplomacy. Imitation, at the height Of its pop
ularity and frenxy, had swept both houses of
Congress, it was the veto of Grant which single
and alone overthrow expansion and cleared the
| way for specie resumption. To him, immeaHur-
ably more than to any other man, is due the
| fact that every paper dollar is a. good Is gold.
With HIM as our leader we shall have no de-
fensive campaign, no apologies or explanations
| to make. The shafts and arrows have all been
aimed ut him, and they lie broken and harm
lesa ct his feet. Life. liberty and prosperity
will find safeguards in him. When he said
of the blackmen in Florida, wherever I am
they may come Slso," he meant that Had he
power to help it the poor jewellers in the cab
ms of the South should not be driven in terror
from the homes of the bloohounds and the
graves of their murdered dead. When he re-
fused TO receive Dennis Kearny in ColifOrnia,
he meant that lawlessness and communism, al
though ft should dictate less TO whole city
! every where, would meet . foe in him, and that
popular or unpopular. he will hew to the line
of right, let the chips fall where they may.
His integrity, his common sense, his courage
and his unequalled experience, are the quail
ties offered TO his country. The only argu.
nent against accepting them would amaze
Solomon. he thought there could be nothing
new under the sun." Having tried Grant
twice, and having found him faithful, We are
told we must not, even after an interval OF
years, truat him again. What qualification
does not sGch fallacy involvea The American
people exclude Jefferson Davis from public
trust. Why? Because he was the arch traitor,
and would be destroyed, and now the
same people are asked to estracise Grant and
net trust him. Why? Because he was the
arch preserver Of his country; because. mot on
ly in war, but afterwards, twice ~ civil magis-
trate, he gave his highest. noblest efforts to the
public. Is such Absurdity an electioneering
iuggle OF hypocritical masquerade. There is
no article of human activity, responsibility or
reason, in which rational beings object to an
agent who has been weighed in the balance and
unequaled experience, making him exception
ally competent and 1t, from the
man who shoes your horse, to the lawyer who
pleads your case, the officer who manages your
railway or your mill, the doctor into whose
hand you give your life, the minister who seeks
to save your soul, what man do YoR reject be-
cause You have tried him and by his works
have known him?
What makes the Presidential office an excep-
ton to all things else-common sense to be
| applied to selecting ita incumbent? Who
dares to put letters on the free choice and
Judgment which is the birthright of the Ameri-
can people? Can it be said that Grant has
used official place and power to perpetuate his
term? He has no place and official power has not
been. nsed for him without patronage Of
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his house to the coVention. without election
contrlvSnces ICries OF oh, oh, and laughter
W&out effort on his part his name is on his
country's lips and he ia struck ut by the whole
Democrats party because his n0inatiOn will be
the death to Democratic success. He is struck
at by others who find ofense and disqualified
ton IN the very services he has rendered, in the
very experience he has gained. Show me bet
| ter man, name one and am answered. But do
not point as disqualification to the very facts
which makes this man ct beyond all others.
J Let not experience disqualifY or excellence
/ inpeach him. arl
} There il no third term In the case, and the
pretence will die with the political dog days
which gendered it. Nobody Ii really worried
about o third term except those hopelessly
longing for first term and the dupes they
} have made.
We have only to listen above the din and
, look beyond the dust of an hour to behold the
, Republican party advancing 20 victory with
its greatest marahal at its head. tremendous
| eheerings) a.... rfa
: When the State of Ohio was reached, Gen.
: Garfield arose to nominate Sherman, making
! the following speech: r
Mr.. President: / have witnessed the extra
: ordinary success OF this convention with deep
!. !, solicitude. NJ emotion touches my heart
more quickly than sentiment in honor
q Of q great and noble character, but rs
sat on these seats and witnessed those demon.
/ SGfAtIOuA III BSe1nSU 10 INC you WcEO y Uu-
: man ocean in q tempest. have seer
;, the sea Tapped into fury and tossed into spray
= and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullesi
? man, but / remember that it is not the billOws
= but the calm level OF the sea from which al
heights and depths are measured, applause.
When the storm has passed and the hour Of
!, calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight
. bathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer
!. and surveyor takes the level from which b,
g measures all terrestrial heights and depths
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# Gentlemen of the convention, your presen
,e temper may not mark the healthful pulse O
70 our people, When our enthusiasm has passed
# when the emotions of this hour have subsidized
e we shall find that calm level of public opinion
It below the storm from which the thoughts Of
a mighty people have to be measured at, and BY
d which their final action will be determined
(Applause.) Not here In this brilliant circle
h where fifteen thousand nmen and women are
: assembled, is the destiny of the Republican
~ party to be decreed. Not here where l ne
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