Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-06-18

SeHJlnp inc name OF eA-IreSluenO NTdlJ,
said:
"And when asked what State he halls from,
our sole reply shall be,
He halls from Appomattox
With its famous appletree."
In obedience to instructions should never
dare to Disregard, expressing also my own firm
conviction, l rise to propose nomination with
which the country and the Republican party
can grandy win. The election before us is to
be the Austerlitz of American politics. 1t will
decide for many years whether the country
shall be Republican or Cossack. The supreme
need OF the hour is not candidate who can
carry Michigan. All Republican candidates
can do that. The need is not of a candidate
popular i'm the Territories, because they have
no vote. The need is of candidate who oln
carry doubtful States. Not the doubtful States
of the North, but doubtful States Of the South
which we have heard, If understand II Alright,
ought to take little or no purt hero, because
the South has nothing to give, but everything
to receive. No, gentlemen, the need that
presses upon the conscience of this Couven-
tion is OF candidate who can carry doubtful
States both North and South. And believing
that he, more surely than any other man, can
carry New York against any opponent and can
carry not only the North but several states of
the South, New York is for Ulysses ;;
Grant. Never defeated-Dever defeated
in peace or in war-his name Is
the most ilustrious borne by living
country nay, the world knows them by
heart His fame was earned not alone in
greatness of things done. And perls and
emergencies will searcn in vain in the future,
as they have searched in vain in the past, for
any other on whom the Nation leans with such
confidence and trust. Never having had
policy to enforce against the will of the peo.
pie, he meyer betrayed cause or u friend, and
the people will never desert or betray him.
Standing on the highest eminence of human dis
tinction, modest, firm, simple, self-poi Sed, hav-
ing filled ali lands with his renown, he has seen
not only the high-bOrn and the titled, but the
poor and the lOwly, in the uttermOst ends of
the earth, rise and uncover before him. He
has studied the needs and the defects of many
systems of government; and he has returned
Il better American than ever, with wealth of
knowledge and experience added TO the hard
common sense which shOne so conspicuously
in all the fierce light that beat upOn him dur
ing sixteen years, the most trying, the most
pOrtentons, the most perious.
yiltied and reviled, truthlessly aspersed by
unnumbered presses, not in other lands, but
in his own, assaults on him have seasoned and
strengthened his hold ON the public heart.
Calumny's ammunition has been exploded;
the powder has all been burned once. Its
force Is spent. And the name OF Grant Will
glitter bright and imperlshabe star i'll the
diadem of the Republic when those who have
tried to tarnish that name have moldered in
forgotten graves, and when their memories
and their epitaphs have vanished utterly.
Never elated by success, never depressed by
adversely, he has ever, in peace as i'll war
shown the very genius of common sense Inc
terms he prescribed for Lees surrender fore
shadOwed the wisest prOphesies and principles
of true reconstruction. Victor in the greatest
I
aversion 10 war and his love of peace by an ar
btration of international disputes, which
stands the wisest, the most majestic example
of its kind in the worlds diplomacy. When
| initiation, Mt the height of its popularity and
| frenzy, 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, TO him, immeasur-
/ ably more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is ms good as gold.
With him uS our leader we shall have no de
/ fensiVe campaign No! We shall have moth
/ ing to explain away. We shall have no apollo
gies to make. The shafts and the arrows have
all been aimed at him, and they lie broken and
harmless at mis- feet Life, liberty and proper
/ ty will find a safeguard in him. When he said
of the cOlored men in Florida, wherever am
they may come alsO"-when he said so, he
meant that had he the power, the poor dwellers
| in the cabins of the South should no longer be
driven in terror from the homes of their child
hood and the graves of their murdered dead.
When he refused to receive Denis kearney in
California, he meant that Communism, law
leSsneSs and disorder, although IL might stalk
high-headed and dictate law to n whole city,
should find foe in him. He meant that, pop
ular or unpopular, he would hew to the line of
right, let the chips fly where they may
HIS integrity, his common sense, MS cour-
age, his unequalcd experience, are the quail
ties offered to his country. The only argu'
ment, the only on that the wit of man or the
stress of politics has devised is one which
would h I'VE dumb 'ounded solomon, because ht
thought there was nothing new under the sun
Having tried Grant twice and found hlr
faithful, we are told that we must not, even
after an interval of years, trust him again
My countrymen! My cOuntryncn! what stultl
tication does not such Il fallacy involve. he
American people exclude Jefferson HaIl'
from public trust. Whyy Why Because h'
was the ar, h-traitor aud wouid-be destroyer
and now th2 lme people are asked to ostracist
Grant, ana not TO trust him. Whyf why,
repeatE Because ne was lhe arch P ,esepnoi
of his country, and because not only IN war
hut twice us Civil Magistrate, he gave hi;
highest, nobest efforts TO the RepuDlicr II
this an elect Onering juggle, or is II hyproc
I e sOlpUiugf There %
man activity, responsibility, or reason II
which rational beings object TO an ngelt ne
cause he has been weighed in the balance anI
not found wanting. There is no department
of human reason in which sane mel
reject an agent becaue he has ma
competent ana it. From the mai
who shoes your horse TO the lawyer who triei
your cause the officer who manages your rail
way or your mill, the doctor into whose hand
you give your life, or the minister who seek
to save your soul, what man do you reJec
because, by his works, you ave KNOW
him, and found him faithful AMI ntg VIVA
makes the Presidential Oilce nm exception 4
all things else in the common sense 10 be ap
piled Ia selecting its nCumbentf VINO uaie
who dares to put fetters ON that free Choio
and judgment which is the birthrtght OF IN
American people! Can il be said that Gran
| has used Official power and place 10 perpetuau
his tcrmg lie has no place; Olhciu power M
not been used for him. Without patronag
> and without emissaries, without committees
without bureaus, without telegraph wire
running from his house To this Convention q
/ running from his house anywhere else, win
out effort on his part, his name is ON MS coul
, try's lips. and he is struck at by the Who'll
Democratic party because his nomination
the death-bOw of Democratic success. lie
struck at by others who hnd an onense an
| disqualification in the very services ne ma
rendered, aud the very experience tnat ne ma
! gained. SHOW me a better man Nam
name a better man, and am answered Bu
don't point as disqualification 10 the yer
p experience which makes tins man tit beyon
2 "A There thlTu-tHrIn
aud the pretense will die with the politics
| dOg-daYs that geniercd IL. one week aiier tn
s Democratic Convention we Will near the last q
Q this rubbish about third term. Nobody
4 nobody now is really dspquieted about
0 third term except those hopelesSly longing ia
h a first term. Ii is the men wao long for mrs
= term. Without effort or intrigue on his phl
/ he is the candidate-yes, tue candtdate-whos
Il fridends have never Threatened to bolt unl"s
r this Convention did as they said. II Is hepul
o lioan who never wavers. lie and his friend
I stand by the creed and the candidates OF ia
v Republican party. They hold this rlghttt
/ rule of the majority as the very essence q
?, their faith, and they mean TO uphold IN,
S faith against not only the common enemy, bu
c against the cnarlatans, luyhnwkers, traml
4 aud guerrlllas-the men who deplOy betwee
II the lines, and forage now ON one side, an
e then ON the othe- This Conven ion is mast,
d OF "A supreme opportunity. 1t can name n
/, next President. IL can make sure Of MS ele
d tion. IL can make sure not only OF his Gle
= ton, but ot his certain ana peaceful lhaugur
n ton. IL can break that power whlch dom
d mates and mildews the south. IL can owe
@ throw an organization whose very eNisten.
1. Is a standing protest against progress.
a The purpose OF the Democratic party
) spols. Its very hope Of existence IS a sol
" south Its success is a menace TO order an
Is progress. | say this Convention can owe
n throw that power Ii can dissolve and emnl
o oipate a solid South. II oln speed the Nalio
I, IN a career of grandeur eclipsing all pa
/, achievements. Gentlemen, we have only
e listen above the din and look beyond the du
OF an hour TO behold the Republican party a
1t vanoing with it's ensigns resplendent with
L. Qnh
# victory with its greatest Marshal ut its hea
al lApplause.l