Year: 1872

vice at any other port.


These frauds, he said, had been kept a
secret by the Grant party, and brought to
light by such pure patriots as Trumbull.
Summer, &c The speaker, however, forgot
to say that Trumbull had accepted fee
of $4,000, while a member of the Senate.


He produced no proofs to sustain his
charges against Grant, for there is none,
while Trumbull stands convicted before
the world


The speaker with his fuency, no doubt,
made his fiimsy argumeit appear to the
best advantage to some who are determ-
ined to turn their backs on the truth, and
confirmed some that wont hear the truth,
in the opinion that republicans will steal
everything they get their hands upon,
while he that already hods in one hand
lcountry; and in the other hand the wedge
to divide it in twain, 1--WE mean Horace
Greeley, whom the liberals desire to elect
Presidcnt) together with corrupt Tamma-
ny, the ku klux and all the rebel YAM
pires of the South are honest men; but
the great masses of the people will never
see it in that light


The speaker concludes by an appeal TO
Straight Democrats to hurry and learn to
cat crow that he had began early and
now it went easy. There are some things
that some people cannot learn to eat no
matter how earnest the effort Mr.. Dens-
low introduced himself with the follow
ing highly figurative exordium: Had
the tongue of an archangel | could not
compensate for the absence
of the tall sycamo of the Wa
bash, and then drifted from this inspi-
ration in the style of speech peculiar to
himself, in the course which he said ::
Had he known the result he would not
have voted for Mr. Lincoln that the re-
publican party would 90 down in the
eclipse for commencing war that ii
could not CONTROL" "The republican
/ party cannot congratulate itself on the
record ofthe past !" Liberal republicans.
how do you like that ? Are you who
have been truly republicans and
helped fight the battles of your country
going to risk your fortunes with party
whose vOtaries will hold up to ridicule
your acts of patriotism and devotion to
your country and who will continually
tell you TO bury the memory of those
acts If YOU have lost an arm, leg or
an eye, must you forget when, where and
how it was done Is it not something
to congratulate yourselves, to know that
your liberties are preserved to you and
that you helped to do it !? And will ii be
pleasant to you now to live, vote and act
with party that will be continually cit
ing to you, that your act Of devotion to
your country were but the offspring of
radical hate, and your arnless sleeve,
your legleSs pants, bat the consequence OF
misguided zeal to carry on an unholy and
unconstitutional war you have no reason
to complain If you can endure all this
and live happily with them, l will say
that il happiness and misery were
equally accessible you would choose the
latter rather than the former


But the most peculiar tack taken by the
speaker was to assume the office cf scape
goat for Hoarce Greeley. He told his
audience that many Of the bitterest and
most blood thirsty articles appearing in
the n. Y. Tribune we written by him.
self, and then accredited the others to
Chas. E. Dana.


Now democratic friends, if the speaker
would write those bitter things against
you short time ago for pay, and has
been so rapidly converted (or pay, what
reason have you for believing that he
would not betray you for pay


And suppose for pay he has quit dane
ing to the music of the Tn on and has
now taken up the old traitorous yell OF
chraging the administrator party with
having waged an unholy war and system
OF oppression upon the southern whites
to liberate the negro.


But the climax of his speech was in the
statement, there should be nothin in the
way of electing jeff Davis if the people
desired it, and, we regret to write, that
the meeting was conducted with very lit
tie applause, at this declaration there was
considerable applause But this is in ex-
act consonance with the Greeley theory,
for about the time Denslow was odvocat-
ing the cause OF Davis, Greeley was de-
claring this sentiment in Pittsburgh:


If after an honest, unterrified, uncon-
strained vote, if they they prove that the
people of the south say that they want
disunion, will consent to it. ="


Power to destroy this government is
what the south want, elect Davis, and he
will exercise the power; elect Greeley and
will give them what they want


Neither Of the speakers net the expec-
tation of their auditors, and the whole af-
fair here, was considered by the republic
ans as favorable to their oauoa