Year: 1872

The following letter from ex-Sena
tor Wade was addressed to the com
mittee of arrangements of the Grant
and Wilson ratification meeting, but
it was received too late to be read;


WASHINGTON, June "a, 1872.


1Fm. 4. Cook, Esq, and gentlemen o


the Committee of arrangements:
] very much regret that shall be
obliged to ,eave the city before your
ratification meeting takes place, and
therefore must decline your kind and
complimentary invitation.


1t would have afforded me great
plasure to have been present to testi'
fv in person to the true and intelli-
gent Republicans of Washington my
unwavering devotion to the principles
of the Republican party, and to de
clare how heartily approve the ac.
| ton of their great convention al
Philadelphia. We do not expect the
Democratic party, or the mere selfish
disappointed hangers-On OF the Re.
publican party to approve the action
of that convention. 1t is a. natural for
that party TO hate General Grant as
it is for all true Republicans to honor
and admire him; and why should not
that party hate him above all men
yea and fear him, too! Did not the
Republican party, under his leader
ship in the field, meet, overthrow, and
utterly destroy that party organiza-
rtion with the only principle 1t ever
habitat is, to lord it over and
trample down the weak and oppress-
ed, and to extend the curse of human
slavery over the entire continent, and
thus to erect an odious oEgarchy on
the ruins of our free and glorious re-
public?


No wonder they hate the man and
the party through whom their nefari-
Gus hopes were crushed. The civil
administration of General Grant has
been as successful and beneficial as
his military career was efficient and
decisive. When was the country
more prosperous than now? Look
at the reduction of the taxes and the
public debt at the same time, and
then tell me, grumbler, of what YOU
have to complain. Where is the man
since Washington who has rendered
greater or better service to the repub-
lie than Gen. Grant? Name him if
he il to bc found, and / will help to
make him President. But if no such
man is to be found, then | am for
Grant against the world.


As to the second man ON the ticket,
Henry Wilson, he is well known to US
all He is an old soldier in the cause
of Republicanism. He served it
faithfully and efficiently from its or
ganization. He is the very incarna-
ton of the genius of America. In
no other soil under heaven could such
a plant take root and flourish. Born
and nurtured in poverty, obscurity
and destitution, experiencing in his
own person all the bardships and pri-
vations incident to such condition,
he knows well how to sympathize
with the laboring portion of the peO-
pie, and to his eternal honor be it said
that in the days of his prosperity he
has never for a moment forgotten his
associates in poverty or ceased TO Ia
Dor for their elevation and prosperity.


When we reflect upon what the Re
publican party has accomplished since
its organization, we may well be
proud No other body of men with
in the range of history has done so
much To advance the welfare of man.
kind, to establish the great principles
OF Justice, liberty and equality Yet
their mission is by no means accom-
plished. There are many govern
mental questions 10 be settled, and
no other 50 competent to the task
To doubt the success of such party,
when pitted against the broken CO.
horts of the old slave party, is an in
suit to the intelligence and virtue of
the American people.


When great political party has
become so depraved that they feel
there is no hope of reform, suicide
may, perhaps, in such case be yir-
tue, and such seems to be the eondi-
ton of the Democratic party at this
time


BY adopting Mr.. Greeley as their
standard-bearer they deliberately adj
NIT Gf they are honesty that the
poorest, weakest, most vaeillating and
Republican is an improve
ment on anything to be found in their
own party. But let us stand by our
own noble candidates as faithfully as
they have stood by the principles of
Republicanism, and our triumph is
certain. b. +. WADE.