Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-06-09
coNkLING'S GREAT EFFORT.

His speech Nominating Grant At Chicago
In 1850.
And when asked what state he halls from
Our sole reply shall be,
He halls from Appomattox
And the famous apple tree,
Obeying 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. 1t will decide
whether for years to come the country
will be Republican or Cossack." The
need of the hour is u 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 can
didate. Once he carried it even accord
ing to Democratic count. and twice he
carried it by the peoples vote, and he is
stronger now. The Republican party,
with its standard in his hand. is stronger
now than in 1868 or 1872. Never de-
feated in war or in peace. his name IL
the most illustrious borne BY any living
man: his services attest his greatness,
and the country knows them by heart
His fame was born not A,1ne Of things
written and said, but Of the arluons
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 na-
ton leans with such confidence and trust
Standing on the highest eninence Of hu-
man distinction, and having filled all
lands with his renown-inodest, firm,
simple and self poised-he has seen not
only the titled but the poor and the 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 hack better
American than ever, with a wealth ot
knowledge and experience added to the
hard common sense which SO conspicu-
ously distinguished him in all the fierce
light that beat upon him throughout the
most eventful, trying and perilous six
teen wears Of the nations history.
Never having had a policy to enforce
against the will Of the people" he never
betrayed cause or friend. and the
people will never betray Or desert him.
Niliiiel aud revilcd. truthlessly aspersed
by nurlherless presses, not in other
lands, but III his own. the assaults upon
him have strengthened and seasoned his
hold upon the pnhlic heart. The ammu
milton Of calnmny has ALI been exploded;
the powder has all been burned once.
its fore" is spent, and General Grants
name will glitter as a bright and i'm
perishable star in the dialem Of the re-
public when those who have tried to
tarnish it will have moliered in forgot
ten graves and their memories and cpl
taphs have vanished utterly.
Never elated by success, never de-
pressed by adversely. tie has ever in
peace, as in war, shown the very genius
Of common sense. The terms he pre-
scribed for Lee surrender foreshadowtd
the wisest principles and prophecies Of
true reconstruction.
Victor in the greatest OF modern wars,
he quickly signalized bis aversion to war
and his love Of peace by an arbitration
Of international disputes which stands
as the wisest and most majestic example
Of its kind in the worlds diplomacy.
When imitation. at the height Of its ropu-
larity and frenzy. had swr pt both houses
Of congress, it was the .eto Of Grant
which, single and alone, overthrow ex-
pansion and cleared the way for specie
resumption. To him, immeasurably
more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is as good
as gold.
With him as our leader we shall have
no defensive campaign. no apologies or
explanations to make. The shafts and
arrows 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 he driven
b terror from the homes of their child
hood and the graves Of their murdered
dead. When he refused TO receive Denis
kearucy he meant that lawlessness and
communism, although II should dictate
laws 10 whole city, wonld everywhere
meet foe in him, and, popular or IN
popular. 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 accepting
them would amaze solomon. He thought
there could Be nothing new under the
sun. Having tried Grant twice and
found him faithful we are told we must
not, even after an interval of years.
trust him again.
What qualification does not such q
fallacy involve. The American people
exclude Jefferson Davis from public
trust. Why: Because he was the arch
traitor and would be destroyer. And
now the same people are asked to ostra-
cize Grant and not trust him. Why?
Because he was the arch preserver of his
country; because, not only in war, but
afterward, tw<ce as a civic magistrate,
he gave his highest, noblest efforts to
the republic Is such absurdity an
electioneering jugglery or hypocrisy's
masquerade?
There is no field of human activity, re-
sponsibility 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 ex-
ceptionally competent and fit. From
the man who shoes your horse to the
lawyer who pleads your case, the officers
who manage your railway, the doctor
into whose hands you give your life, or
the minister who seeks to save your
souls, what now do you reject because
you have tried him and by his works
| have known him? What makes the pres
| idential Office an exception to all things
| else in the common 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 people:
Can it be said that Grant has used Of
| fetal power to perpetuate his plan? He
| has no place No official power has
been used for him. Without patronage
or power, without telegraph wires run
| ming from his house to the convention,
without electioneering contrivances,
without effort on his part, his name is
on his country's lips, and he is struck at
by the whole Democratic party because
his nomination will be the deathblow to
Democratic success. He is struck at by
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