Year: 1872




Judge E. North Cullom, being introduced
by the president, said, after the usual intro
duction:


This great and spontaneous gathering Of
the people testifes that spirit is abroad
which connects the hearts Of all the masses,
as the nerve Of the telegraphic wire joins
cities to continents. Imagine, if you viii,
such scene as this throughout the length
and breadth Of the land, where 100000 or
1000, ,OO9 Of people are gathered together in
welcome to our standard bearers in spirit
of freedom which will make the tyrant at
Washington tremble in his imaginary
throne. Under the spirit which ami
mates the supporters of Greeley and
Brown the bayonets and Calling
guns and other such machinery
of Office put in operation by General Grant
will become of no more effect than the
phantom artillery spoken of by Milton,
whose fighting and graphing was all a
mere idea, and just as unreal as imagina-
tion can make it. The enthusiasm you
manifest is that of people engaged in
great cause-that of uniting all energies to
save our country from the thraldom in
which it has been placed by the ruler at
Washington. This meeting shows yOu have
come to the conclusion that you have been
divided long enough. In this movement all
our differences and chickering's, all prejudices
and bad feeling, all are done away with,
and, instead of gloomily brooding over our
government and hesitating What shall be
done, we have resolved to act ourselves and
resolved to participate in the construction
of our government.


We are fortunate enough in starting out
with such a sentiment, that speech made
/ here will be equally popular all over the,
country. Formerly, this was not the case.
However popular might be a speech made
here, yet if the same sentiments were car
ried North and spoken in Faneuil Hall the
speaker would be pelted with eggs. Now,
however, the whole country is with you in
this action, and cordially responds to the
same sentiments uttered here tonight. We
want men for the conduct of our official
affairs who will be satisfied only with look
ing into the interests of the people, and who
will be content to recognize the fact that
all power resides in the people and want to
see the people rise in their strength and
say to all who act as Oppressors: Stand
back We want to see Horace Greeley,
nominated in this campaign, placed in the
White House and surrounded by halo of
fame encircling his brow, and, rainbow
like, an iris spanning like a rainbow the
scene of our strife and commOtiOn.


The Judge closed in hOmely allusion
about hopping up the ticket.


DIPPING INTO HISTORY.


Judge Andrew S. Heron said We are
here tonight for the purpose of ratifying
the nominations as the only means by
which we can be rescued from our difficult
ties. When the sun went down on Apo
mattOx it went down ON the ruined hopes
of the Confederacy; and the soldiers felt as
if all the blood had been shed in vain, and
all the struggles we're in vain. Did they
abandon all hope or set their faces to the
future with the design of bun ling up the
country ruined by the war They set tOn
work to make their land anew and to re-
cuperate the broken energies of the people;
and during this our enemy was at first
magnanimOus, hut afterward, when we
set to work in order to organize our gov
ernment we were not allowed by this great
political party to organize our government.


They said that, if allowed to go to work
and organize, the work would be ACCOM-
plished, and that the power would depart
from the great Republican party. They
soon gave evidence that they were deter
mined to hesitate at nothing t9 accomplish
their ends. They commenced series of
legislation apparently to strike the mama
cles from the slave, but with the resl OBJ
iect of striking them from the wrists of the
black and I8aeing them on the hands Of the
white people of the South. Applause.


We nominated on our ticket in 1868 o.
War Democrat. We sacrificed everything
for the preservation of the Democratic par
ty But even forgetting our preiudicss as
we did in placing a federal officer ait the
hoo Of fTal vpf WAS of n


fudge Heron was here interrupted in
his speech by the arrival of the Second and
Third Ward Club, and other organizations,
who fled in, following bands of music and
bearing torches and transpaTencies, the
white hat being the conspicuous emblem
over all. They took up position in the rear
of the platform. where they were addressed
by other speakers, and by this time there
were at least ten thousand people present


We found that our expectations of peace
and harmOnyin in our country were in vain,
for General Grant, carrying out the policy
inaugurated by Congress, placed in power
over us tools of his own. But now there is
ground swell of public opinion which will
force the onward movement that Will result
in success The platform is broad and wide
enough for every Democrat and Liberal to
stand upon. 1t may be said that Greeley
was an abolitionist; that he favored eman-
cipatien. He may have been the bad man
he is said to be-the worst man. So he is the
right man, let us take him now. Applause


General Heron closed in proposing three
cheers for Greeley and Brown. So immense
was the multitude which responded that
the end OF the cheer sounded like an echo!


GLORY HALLELUJAH!


General 7. s. Harris-No one in the world
would expect at this time, and at such
meeting, any thing like argument. When
heard to-day that Greeley had been nOmi-
mated, said glorious, hallelujahl So let
us say on this occasion, hallelujah, gloriOusl
have some experience of the violence of
military rule, since | have worn thirty
two pound ball to each of my legs while
under it. Now, if an Individual is in this
predicament ] don't think he ought to be
very proud as to who is going to loosen
them, so they are struck Off | have had
my preiudices. Years ago, If / had in Mis-
souri caught Gratz Brown, wOulds have
hung him as / would hang q sheep. He
has enfranehised $4,000 Of the people OF
that State. The magnanimity of Greeley's
policy, the great, genial sympathy of his
nature in restoring us to our pristine glory,
in the name of God let us thank him, and
90 for him..


Now if we're to tell you that so many
hundred thousand men were going to march
over your country and subiugate it,
yOu would not believe il. There is nothing
more evident than this feeling Of the Ameri-
can. You can not subjugate his country.
But this is something for You TO take hold.
can show you an equally forcible illustra-
ton as that conveyed by the actual pres
ence Of soldiers Take, for instance, the
postal telegraph system, giving Grant $780,
600 appOintments-a telegraph IN every
hotel and at every eorner-then.the patron
age of the civil service, beside the army
aS75 v,ar- ali oe x-hfpk he eOuFroIa then