Year: 1872

his determination to stay on that line if
ittook all summer that won the victory.
He has preserved us to be the admira'
ton of all nations Of the earth. We
crushed the Ku-Klux and saved the
negro. But it is said Grant had one
term and ought to retire. But that was
not the doctrine of the American people
when they reelected Washington and
Lincoln, and they will re.elect Grant
accordingly. All attempts to blacken
his character have failed. He has
come out clear from all aspersions.
Grant is doing well. He is crushing
out the rebellion. We want his leader
ship a little longer until a full and
final triumph is secured.


Senator Morton was then called for.
He took q seat on the front of the
platform and spoke as follows:


He said he saw unmistakable evi-
dence of victory in November. This
enthusiasm is not manufactured; 1t
comes from the heart of this audience,
who represent the great mass of the
people-the Republican party-which
has in charge the good of its country.
The Republican party is not the wor-
shipper OF men; it holds fast by princi-
pies rather than men; it holds fast by
pioneers of principle only so long as
they hold fast to the truth. Some men
who claim to have been the fathers OF
the Republican party, claim the right
to kill the party. We deny pa
ternity. If we admitted the pa.
ternity, we would deny the right to kill.
Whenever Republican has failed to
get into office or has been turned out OF
office, he begins to denounce the party.


Laughter 1t is the duty Of the Re-
publican party to protect our finances.
By gradually reducing the public bur-
den we shall place the credit of this
nation on a higher basis than it ever
occupied before. We shall do it by
keeping all our promises and gradually
reducing debt. We have nothing new
to offer on that subject. The platform
Of the Republican party has been found
ed in its history for the last ten years on
the policy of the present Administration.


Applause. But the work is not done.
1t is for the Republican party to estab
lish the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments 80 that they shall be
recognized beyond all peradventure to
establish freely and fully the lights Of
the colored race. Work will not
be done until the protection of the law
is extended to the people of every race.
II there shall not be firm hand at the
head of the Government the KuoKlux
spirit will awaken with terrible power
at the November election. He held
that where any State fails to secure for
her citizens protection, it is the solemn
duty Of the National Government to
extend that protection. The Ku-Klux
law had done more good in shorter
time than any law ever enacted. 1t has
protected thousands from murder, out
rage and exile, and those members Of
Congress who demand the repeal of the
law do not oppose it because it has done
wrong, but because they are unwilling
that there should be any in
strumentality that will prevent them
from controlling in the elections.
We desire only fair means in elections.
He believed that the best interests OF
the country were to be bound up in the
Republican party for years to come. 1t
is the means by which the country was
preserved in the past and must be pre-
served in the future. When you have
broken the party down what assurance
have You that you will get another as
good. Remember that the Republican
party is greater than any one man. 1t
is greater than all its leaders combined
1t is said that General Grant has CON-
mitted errors. | do not deny it; but
they are trivial. Some who oppose him
have committed far greater errors.
ANY man who thinks he controls the
Republican party commits a great
blunder. When men make this mistake
they are passed by, and are soon for
gotten. If the greatest men in the Re.
publican party, from personal ambition,
shall seek 10 destroy the party, he will
sink out Of sight, as the pebble when
dropped into the lake Stand by the
principles of the party tomorrow, you
will nominate General Grant. APP
plause. He endeavors to carry out
the policy of the party and the wishes
of the people, rather than that Of any
individual. General Grants admins.
tration has been q great triumph and
the people intend to entrust the govern
ment to him for another term. APP
plause.1 When he shall cease to carry
out the principles of the party he will
pass away like other mistaken men.


Applause. :,


DR.. Loring, OF Massachusetts, moved
that the Committee on Permanent Or
ganization be requested to report at
once. Carried.


A delegate from South Carolina said
that as Gerrett Smith had been heard,
he thought that equal magnanimity
should be shown to the South, and
asked that Governor Orr, OF South
Carolina, be heard.


Governor Orr spoke as follows: /
felt q solicitude, which induced me to
attend this Convention, growing out Of
the assaults on the President The
evidence is that the voice Of the Con-
vention will be to nominate unaui-
mously General Grant as President. |
know that he has been maligned and
traduced; but has he been more SO than
was Washington Has any man re-
ceived more fierce denunciation
than did General Washington He
survived them. The next hero, Jack.
son, before the expiration OF his fret
four years was maligned all over the
land, but was carried second time
into the Presidential Chair, and as in
this case also it is said he has failed in
every respect as President. When, where
or on what field did he fail =? One great
reason why l think the people should


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