Year: 1872

country will never free itself without q
struggle at arms. A voice: "Wo will
have young Grant married to Victoria if
he is elected for four years more"l


l am here, fellow citizens, while ming.
ling my congratulations with yours, as the
humble representative of laage body of
people of this state, who are determined to
place themselves fairly and squairly and
frankly and honestly upon the Cincinnati
and Baltimore platform, and to raise the
standard of Horace Greeley and b. Gratz
Brown upon every hilltop and valley in
the State Of Missouri. [Great applause. ]
Like Gen Blair, l say to you that we are
fighting now and contcuding for that re-
Cancellation begun in the State two years
ago, which shall spread its broad wings
over the country from the mouth of the
Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico-that
reconciliation and brothcrly love and good
feeling among the people Of this country
that We enjoyed years ago. / join hands
with Gen. Blair (althoush differing with
him widely in years gone by), in congrat-
ulating the country that the day has come
when the men who fought each other as
brave and true men upon the battle field
can join hands upon common platform
and stand shoulder to shoulder in this con-
test for Greeley and Brown. [Cheers
And in behalf of the enfranchised element
of the State of Missouri, in behalf of her
brave soldiers who followed the fortunes of
the Southern flag until it went down in
sorrow and in honor at Appomattox, l
pledge you tonight the hearts earnest and
cordial support Of every true voter in the
State of Missouri Three cheers.1 l
stand here tonight contcndiug for this,
because We know what it is to have them
prescribed, we know what it is to have
them disfranchised, and we know that our
Southern brethcren are standing with out.
stretched arms, begging US in Gods name
to make one more effort for the freedom
of thi. country from military despotism.
[Applause.]


l have differed with Horace Greeley all
my life. He started out, when l was a
boy, an Aboli,ionist. was not an Aboli-
tionist but he and stand, tonight upon
a common platform, and that platform is
the platform of abolition. am. tonight,
like Horace Greeley, an Abolitionist l
am, like him, in favor of the abolition of
the white races Of the South as he was in
favor of the black race of the south So
far as the great principle of African slave
ry is concerned against which he con-
tended for so many years, we submitted
that issue to court where God was the
judge and armed battalions were the jury
and the issue was decided against us. We
accepted in good faith the verdict of that
jury, and from it there is no appeal on this
earth. I am for Horace Greeley. Like
the old North Caro- linz parson was about
his hymn book. He had used the hymn
book for many years, and some bad boy,
just before the services one morning,
pasted in the leaves of it that old verse


cold Grimes is dead, that good old man,
We ne'cr shall see him more


The old gentleman opened his book and
read this hymn. Surprised, he took his
specs and laid his book down; wiped his
specs and read it again. Said he, " Breth-
reu, have been singing from this hymn
book for forty years, and l never knowed
that that was hymn before" Laugh
teri And says he, "I am not going
back on the old bood now, and l ask you
to raise the tuuc, and we'll sing it through
this time if it kills u.s." Laughter
Now we have been singing Democratic
hymns in Missouri for forty years, and We
never head before that Horace Greeley
was Democrat. [Laugh.cr.] But the
Baltimore Convention put him in our
hymn books, and We intend to sing him
through the campaign if it kills us. [Great
laughter.]


But say some Of our Radical friends,
"you are going back on your record,
All, no, my friends, we are not going
back upon our record as you are upon
yours. remember, in 1861, when in the
city of Hannible, where I then lived, the
list of the subscribers to the New York
Tribune was hung up in the post Office as
test Of loyalty to this Government; and
whenever raan was found who was will.
ing to subscribe for the Tribune, his 10y
atty was settled beyond all question. Aud
old Gen. Moore, now of Lewis county, but
then in our section of the State, when he
got hold of one of those incorrigible rebels
that he thought he could not cure in any
other way in the world, after swearing him
to support the constitution Of the United
States and of the State of Missouri, ad-
ministered to him a further oath that he
would subscribe for the Tribune and read
it regularly. [Great laughter and ap-
plause.]


And now those Radicals who looked
upon the Tribune and Horace Greeley as
tho grsat apostle of Republicanism in the
Unitcd States, who swore by it, these men,
like Gen. Iley's chaplain, are too cowardly
to stand by it today. Gen. Hey, you
know, when Gen. Sheridan waa pressing
him on the front, and the day was going
against him. rode down the road where the
battle was the hottest and thickest A
voice, "from Winchester" Yes. from
Wischcs,er; covered with dust and the
smoke of battle, he met the chaplain lying