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take in the next Presidential election, or rather in

relation to what it chould do in the matter of sup

porting Grant or Greeley. Mr. Griffin stated that

the Executive Committee had, after a long and

protracted discussion, come to the conclusion

to recommend to the General Committee that the

endorsement of Horace Greeley by the Haiti

more Convention should be urged by the Union

as a body; and this for the reason

that Mr. Greeley had ever proved himself

a true friend of the Irish. This announcement wum

received with great demonstrations of approval on

the part of the members. The motion was then

put as to whether the report shonhl be adopted or

not, whereupon Mr. Paul, of the Twentieth ward,

rose and delivered a speech in favor of

Greeley that Jfciily brought down the house.

He claimed that Horace Greeley had

always been the friend of Irishmen

and had never Ailed in and out of season to do all

in his power (or them, both by his voice and pen.

When they were straggling for liberty in 1848 he

championed their cause, and he had even been

found foremost in the ranks of those whole-souled

Americans wbe had lubored and still labor to benefit

the down-trodden Irish in Ireland. In his opin

ion it was no good argument against democratic

support of Mr. Greeley to contend that he had in

the pust been opposed to the democracy. The

old issues were dead and buried, and tho old

lines that had once divided the two great par

ties In the land had disappeared; and Mr.

Greeley stood to-day where every honest,

patriotic, liberal minded democrat could rally

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The New York herald. (1872). New York [N.Y.], 1872-06-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1872-06-01/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1872-06-01.