Year: 1872

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1t is the Democratic convention which


will make the election of Horace Greeley


and B. Gratz Brown sure; but are the peO.
pie to be guided by the politicians 1t is


time that the people thought and did foI


themselves. [Great applause.l But take


1t for granted that the Baltimore cOnyen-
tion viii meet, make no nominations or in
\ dOrse the Cincinnati nominations. The
| people want reform, and where are they to
| procure it! We can not find it in the
| Republican party; we can not find it


in the Democratic party, and consequently
/ we must ind IL in the Liberal Republican
! party. This is the party we expect to re-
| deem our country, and we can not expect


it from the party at Washington. Now,
| then, suppose we refuse to make this coali-
| ton, what will be accomplished Nothing.
| Now, while we have the opportunity to
! cOaclese with those honest men who are
disgusted with the corruption that exists
in the Radical Republican party, and are
exceedingly strong in numbers, why
should we not accept it, and nave a


pure government? This can be accom-


plished by the coalition. And why shall


they refuse to accept the nominations made


in the Cincinnati convention. They are


honest, true men. They will put men in


power who are honest, and who will work


Tor the interest of their country. Then will


the habeas corpus bill be repealed. No sol


diers will be sent to control the people and


their votes. There will be no Ku-Klux


where no Ku-Klux exist. In Mr. Greeley


we have man who is in favor of universal


amnesty. 1t was he who, in 1868, said: 'EThe


war having passed, its objects accomplished,


he was willing to let US CO." Where was


there a war Democrat that would have


dared to have made such a statement


Where is there war Democrat with such


character! Here was Republican willing


to extend the right hand of fellowship, and


grant universal amnesty to all. 1t was he
who, at time when it required a great
deal of courage and boldness, went and


bailed the President Of the Confederate


States, Jefferson Davis. He is a man of
conscience. Shurz is another honest man,
and has worked for the interests of the
people for the last twenty years.


He is, indeed, hOnest-hOnest in
this. He abandoned the party he did
not believe to be true He is also magnani-
nous, and willing to bury the past and
shake hands. They promise to return to
us local self-gOvernment; to return to the
government of civilian; TO return to us
everything possible that we were deprived
of by the results of the war. They will
not return to US the institution of slavery,
which happily has been abolished. The
right to secede is also denied, but universal
amnesty covers all these things, and the
Southern people will once more regain the
rights which a despOtic military rule has
deprived them of.


The speaker closed amid rapturous ap.
plause.


THE HU8IoR IN THE QUESTION.


General Harris being introduced, said it
was so long since he had the political har-
ness upon him that he scarcely knew how
to set out. The light is breaking at last,
and he was happy to say that at last such
a good natured old gentleman as Horace
Greeley had been nominated. Belonging
to Missouri. matrimOnially connected with
Louisiana, he had been in the late civil war,
and had left it behind, and had never gone
back to look for what was left behind. He
made magnificent allusiOn to the bravery
and gallantry of the Third Louisiana regi-
ment. He was happy to see that there was
so many present; that the crowd could not
be estimated by the hundreds nor the thou
sands, but by the acre. A hope of regeneF-
alton is now breaking. To be a Democrat
ran in the blood; was descended
from father to son. No one could
be anything but Democrat. The Demo-
Gratis had administered the government
faithfully for half a century. and there is
no doubt, were it not for the fact that the
party was now so hungry, they would ad-
minister the government yet according to





were dead and salted down. TMerrimentl
Those who were alive-the old fogies-
were like the trees in the prairies, standing
straight and erect, but alone. 1t was their
platform that nominations should be made
in Baltimore, and that the old line policy
should prevail over all other things. They
may set that trap for somebody else besides
me. He related a happy incident where
son was sent to find his father, and returned


T,c, ,c1-
In that case the matron said: You 90 and
take the old man up, and when you get the
eels, go and set him again."


Everything is changed now from old
times, and great corporations come for
ward and represent the great body polite.
Formerly man won by his self-reliance
and his integrity now be gains by being in
trOduced as director of some railroad or of
some other of numerous corporations which
have neither souls to be saved or pOsteriOrs
to be kicked.


We have now another element than the
sentiments in existence before the war to
contend with-it is the pocket nerve.
Though we have derived much intelligence
from our ancestors, yet it was not to be ap-
piled. 1t was former incident in his ex-
perience where it had been said that the
government next the wisdom of God was
in Russia simply because the Gar was the
central power, and he ran the whole
machine himself. If he wanted to make
noble out of peasant he raised him MAX
ing a peasant out of a nObleman, he de-
graded him but, the next thing to the
wisdom of God was the cunning
of the devil, and this was shown
in the American government as the
cunning of the devil was found greatest in
the largest council, for you know when the
devil was cast out of heaven he called a
council, of which his cunning got the better.
It is Just about time for the great mass of
the American people to think for them
selves. 1t is not what anybody shall tell !
you, but take your own advice. You are
free, white and twenty-One. Laughter and |
applause. The speaker drew a parallel |
between General Grant and honest Horace, |
the one man with the iron will, whose ad- |
was conducted in GOODNESS and |
the other a man holding gen |
eral amnesty in his hand his heart up in |
the third story window, and who says "HOw /
are yOuW, No severe soldering; he is a |
plain pot t-belhed civilian-G laughter "a man /
thoroughly honest To approach Grant one /
has to get himself up in an aristOcratic /
fashion and pass through Gordon of sol
1iers. When Horace gets there you can go /
n, shake him by the hand and say Chow
ire yOuW A spout of the humani-
5arian milk of human kindness con-
leets him with all human nature outside
The platform of the party at Cincinnati
lad taken out all the principles of the |
Democratic party. Like the man who lis
ened to Yankee Doodle with variations,
md asked for the plain old Doodle without
hem, the Democratic party had submitted
enough to the variations, and now wanted
he plain thing. Not whether it comes
rom Baltimore or Cincinnati, so it is well.
lie eOnjured the people to swallow all old
lnimOsities Of every description and origin,
md strike out in a new nath: to turn their |