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try that prince of parliamentarians-t
leader OF leaders--James @. Blaine
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| Speech In the National Republican Con.
vention at Chicago. June, 1880. Nomi.
mating Ulysses s. Grant for the Presi-
dency. z e 9aa ei
| And when asked what stats he halls from,
Il Our sole reply shall be,
4 = q He b1fls from Appomattox
And the famous Apple Tree.
Oheying instructions / should never
dare to disregard, rise In behalf Of the
state of New York to propose nomina-
tion with which the country and the Re.
publican party can grandly win The
election before US will be the Austerlitz
of American politics. It will decide
whether for years to come the country
will be sRepublican or Cossaek." The
need of the hour is 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 carry not only the
north, but several states of the south, New
York Is for Ulysses s, Grant. He alone
OF living Republicans has carried New
York as a presidential candidate Once
he carried It even according to a Demo
cratic count, and twice he carried it by
the peoples vote, and he Is stronger st now
The Republican party, with its standard
In his hand. Is stronger now than in 1868
or 1872 Never defeated q war or in
peace, his name Is the most fllustrious
ttborne.by any living man; his services at
test his greatness, and his country knows
them by heart His fame was born not
alone of things written and said, but of
the arduous greatness of things done.
and dangers and emergencies will search
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. Standing on the
! highest eminence of human distinction,
and having filed oil lands with his re-
nown, modest, firm, simple and self
poised, he has seen not only the titled but
the poor and lowly in the utmost, ends of
the world, rise and uncover before him.
He has studied the needs and defects Of
many systems of government, and he
comes back better American than ever,
with Q wealth of knowledge and expert
ence added to the hard common sense
which SO conspicuously distinguished him
In all the ferce light that beat upon him
throughout the most eventftn, trying and
perilc us sixteen years Of the nations his.
tory
Never he'd policy to enforce against
the will OF the people. he never betrayed
cause OF q friend, and the people will
never betray or desert him. Vilifed and
reviled, ruthlessly aspersed by number.
less presses, not in other lands, but in his
own, tho assaults upon him have strength.
ened and seasoned his hold upon the pub.
| lie heart. The ammunition Of calumny
has all been exploded; the powder has all
been burned once. its force Is spent, and
Gen. Grants name will glitter as bright
and imperishable star in the diadem OF
the Republic when those who have tried
to tarnish 1t will have moldered in for
| gotten graves and their memories and
| epitaphs have vanished utterly
Never elated by success. never de.
pressed by adyersity. he has ever in peace,
as In war, shown the very genius Of com
mon sense. The terms he prescribed for
Lees surrender foreshadowed the wisest
| principles and prophecies of true recon
struction.
Victor Ia the greatest Of modern wars,
he quickly signalized his aversion to
war ana his love Of peace by an arbitra-
tion of international disputes which
i oeNAAo t11 WlSSSt uiUSt DQalGSEIC
example OF Its kind in the worlds d:plo-
| macy When imitation, at the height OF
| Its popularity and frenzy, had swept both
houses of congress, It was the veto of
Grant which, single and alone, overthraw
expansion and cleared the way for specie
| resumption Tohip immeasurabIy more
than to any other man. Is due the fact
that every paper dollar is as good as gold
With him as cur leader we shall have no
defensive campaign, no apologies or ex-
plsnations to make. The shafts and ar
rows have all been aimed at him and lie
broken and harmless at his feet. Life,
liberty and property will find safeguard
In him. When he said OF the black
man In Florida, Wherever | am they
may come also, he meant that, had he the
power to help it. the poor dwellers In the
cabins of the south should not 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 he meant that lawlessness and
communism, although they should die.
tate laws to q whole city. would every.
where meet a foe In him, and, popular or
unpopular, he will hew to the line of
right, let the chips fly where they may.
His integrity, his common sense, his
courage. and his unequaled experience are
the qualities offered to his country
The only argument against accept
ing them would amaze Solomon. He
thought there could be nothing new
under tho sun. Having tried Grant twice
and found him faithful, we are told NE
must not. even after an interval of years,
trust him again. What. stultifcation
does not such q fallacy inyolveI The
American republic exclude Jefferson Davis
from public trust. Wnyl Because he
was the arch traitor and would be the
destroyer And now the same people
are asked to ostrncize Grant and not
trust him. WhyS Because he was the
arcn preserver OF his country; because,
not only In war, but afterward, twice as q
civic magistrate, he gave his highest,
noblest efforts to the republic Ia such
absurdity an elcctioneering jugglerY or
hypocrisy's masquerade
There Is no field Of human activity.
responsibility or reason In which rational
beings object to Grant because he has
been weighed in the balance and not
found wanting. and because he has had
unequaled experience. making him excep-
tionally competent and ft From the
man who shoes your horse to the man
who pleads your case. the officers who
manage your railway. the doctor into
whofle hands you give your life. or the
minister who seeks to save your soul.
what now do you reject because you have
tried him and by his works have known
hims What makes the presidential office
an exception to all things else In the com
mon sense to be applied TO selecting its
Incumbent Who dares to put fetters on
the free choice and Judgment which Is the
birthright Of the American peoplei ssan
It be said that Grant has susad official