Year: 1867

who deserved impeachment and never are people
ready TO bestow IL. lApplause Still this not the
great issue q today Impeachment or not, he Is
crippled God, IN His wise providence obliged him TO
cripple himself. greater danger, however, laid be-
yond. The greatest act done this continent
would DC the election Of l56a The nation heaved with
the agony of excitement The commercial classes nchs
win the desire 70 open the old channels but when
onos tne PRESIDENTIAL election ended the republican
party wouu Yield TO the pressure Of great interests and
settle these questions on some basis or other


nis VIEWS OF GENERAL GRAFT AS NEXT pREsIDEsr


once lot the ia Of 1858 be passed and you might q
well try 70 keep back Niagara as keep back the nsson
nom the settlement OF The question. Whoever takes
sns nem q state me Presidential election Of 1898 de-


u ne Is democrat se will lose twothirds Of the results
OF the var II he compromising republican we lose
stevens We gain ninety -nine per cent (Applausa
Now the nation drifts on hssdlessly on as an accered
name on every lip Speak Of him, and YOU ask ran
whai are his General Grants ideas He hasn't any viii


b the answer. What are his principles He hasn't
any; but he Is safe because he is in somebody's
hands With these agonies OF nations in our de-
Termination We have no right 70 trust the helm
his body II Grant has not any ideas he Pri
dent or nation struggling for ideas But II you follow
g Ia aSd q s w..
the answer will be- because We don't the democrats
w A. this hour, when IL s not democracy or republi-
canism but loyalty and treason that divide the nation
in tins hour when is not party but war when is
democrat but railor-the republican party proposes
are aru OF" u eavns because Se


Welcome and accept the leadership OF treason. Il
Is a. IL, In the high tariff days somebody
asked why dominate Henry Clay for tho Presidency
and the answer should be- because II do free
traders will This is the talk OF the streets But the
Tor him The man who stayed away from New Orleans
In order that his absence might allow President John
son TO oathe the streets Of that city in human blood
sence might enable the President to tread Unionism
onder foot that man is not neutral The great soldier
who would allow an ignorant Cabinet TO hide behind his
populsrty rs not neutral. What is GrantY He 10 the
corner stone Of police. He Is the right hand Of
Unioas wherever oss Paid 70 make
the streets OF New Orleans safe for me the
streets Of your city here. he does this, he is SOL.
dies II he does not do H. he is sodier unless that
you think he does not wish to do IL which ad-
mits When 4. J. Durant, formerly OF New Orleans a
was loyalty took his ~ wife and children and Brought
them North saying he could not trust them himself
IN that city because he was Unionist, he wrote
jackson stood in his place to-day, at the head Of the
American army, charged with keeping peace at the
SOUTH and suppose the President approached him and
said to him General Jackson you charged with
keeping blood from flowing on the pavements of New
Orleans want to shed it, you are charged with keep
party and want to mar your soldiers record to carry
out my design, do you not think that Jacksons
would be more emphatic than politef Supposing the
Duke OF Wellington had quelled rebellion in Ireland,
and on his return to London he heard that soldier in
Dublin had cheered because the Queen assassnaeu
do you think he would go 70 the highlands TO lay the
corner stone OF monumen. to Prince Albertp No. He
Wouu ne IN Dublin IN II there
enough he would them that there would be moth


ing but cheers for Queen from sunrise to sunset
For the Duko was soldier and would not allow any
to his soldiers record for personal purposes
When John Tyler betrayed not nation but party and
Daniel Webster his Secretary of state he assembled
his friends ard said: Can not be permitted for six
weeks to uphold cabinet that abhor. to settle
the northeastern boundary, and his friends said eyes,


with protest Of public expedency for little WHILE for


special pontthat ordinary political question.
But now, when the nation is hanging Niagara
great soldier hides the Cabinet behind him. why,"a
may say, III General Grant had insisted on doing
hts duty he he Presidency would at have ordered
mustered him out Suppose he had, and the came


TO Chicago and 10 New York that General Grant had de-
cided TO do his duty and President johnson had


fact known, Andrew Johnson would have friends
enough to be visible the surface Of public affairs.
!Applausel Il be true Is General Grants friends
and the President would not allow him, he
had but to STATE 30, and Congress would
General Grant telegraph to-day that he wanted to make


life safe in Texas and the President will let him. aud
Ben Wade would be President In thirty days. And II
what General Grants friends said be hold him
sponsbie to-day Andrew johnson Is President OF
the United States know that this TO appear
harsh criticism. would blight leaf Of Virginia
going into the past am looking to the future. We
have filled hall million OF patriot graves We are
surrounded Snr by .,, Widows ana orphans and tht
tion to sixty. thousand homes. We have
mortgage in the right hand for this generation
right in the name OF greatness and In the Of here
worship. and needless magnanmity do anything to
horrible battle again. Oh, fathers Oh, mothers
see TO IL that you judge mcrcess Judgment that you
exercise piiiless crlticsm but trust not the helm Of
putaby safe the side Of the declaration Of in depend
ence. (Appausc) If you do not God forgive you for
disloyalty 10 the dead and to the future.