Gen. Leslie Combs Shells The Grant Camp

Tho rutiiionhnii meeting on Saturday night, ulthough un impromptu, was still a grand nü'iiir. Judgo Graves called the moeting to or dor and nominated for chairman General Leslie Combs, who took the stand amid great cueeriug. As man y of the orowd were still outaide, the General c tlled out, " All who itre wearr and heavy laden oonie in, and yon shall be fed on sound dootrine ; and tbuso who aro athirst como in, and we'll givo you something to drink; and all of jou uome in, anyhow." This scriptural iuvituüon had the desirod effeot, aud tho house was soon full. The General then saiil : Gentlemen and Fellow-Citizens - Por the past ton years l have not been in a politicul meeting, nor havo I tnken an uotive part iu any political movement. It is truo that ever sir.co tho vt.r ooinmenced 1 have had my opinión of things, and have sometiines ejcprossed it. I have not been dcad, but 1 am now dead agninst Santo Domingo and Seward's iiorth l'olo, and 1 wish e ach oao of Ihem was at tho place ho covets - Grant at Santo Domingo and Seward at the North Pole. I have always been a T'nioii man and havo diffcr-'l iroin many of my neighbors, but I have great respect for uny man who takos his lite in his hond and goeB forth to battle tor his opinions. A man who won't fight for his principies has no business )ivii:g. I respect bollest men, right or wrong ; bui I don't respect thievos or plunderen. The Cinoinuati Conventiou didn't lovo thieves tiny bettcT than I did, and it nominated au honest man - a man whoru I have known ior thiity yoar to be hotiest. I mean Hor aco Grwley. Enthusiaatic eheering.) lie has got a white hat ond white eyebrows md a white heud, but he hüs got the bigrgost brain aud the biggest huurt in the United Htutes. He is a man of will, a:id thos'.' who think that he will bo governed by diques whon ho gets into tho White House wiil find themselves mightily mistaken, for he has as muoh will as General Juokson or Henry Clay. lle's going to do right, too. His letter of aeceptanee plumps froiu law, and it is as good a i'i.iLiorjii as auybody ought to want, for it shows that he is willing to loave everything tu the people and do just what wiU benefit the whole ooontry. I nevor was a Domucrat ; I am not a Deinocrat no w ; out t do say that the Democratio party at Baïtiuiorc hus iia.úzlíI its.ilf. (Clieera.) It hn laid asido all its oíd encumbrantes and taken a fresh sturt to save the country : to turn out the thieve.s aiid robbers who aro auekintr uur life-blood ; to kick the scoundrels out of the oifices aud put honest ineu in thein. It has made uo conceosious and sacrificed no principies, but it a:iys: " Old White Hat, we'll go for jou; vo know you are an honeat man, and if you dou't boloug to our purty we'll voto for you anyhow, and by tho eternal - as old Jaokson usert to say - we'll ftleot you '." I am proud of sueh a party. (Great enthusiusm.) Xhere was nevor sucha tlüiig done in the worid bel'ore, and it has wakod up the euds of the earth. Wby, 1 got a letter the uther day froia Texas, aud even a London periodical has published tbu first letu r which ï wrote on the subj i. Greeley v.-s ;v poor boy, a typenutter, and is the modem Dr. B'ranklin. The differenoe bet ween hitn and Grant is that Greeley is a stateginan ; he knows men, and has reail books, too. Grant'í frienda loast that he is great without having read books, and he never did rcad :v book unless it wns about buil pups and horscs. Greeley is n kind man, for I kr.ow him, and he is a sober man He is neither a reformed nor an uureformed drunkard, lor he never Wiiá drunk in his life. He is an honest man, too, and wouldn't sell out anybody. Whon I introduced Gnuitto the people hero during the war at the Phoenix Hotel ho stood just like n wooden man, and didn't know how to say a word. I said the bust I could for hira. I said : Fellow-citizcns, this is General Grant, whu is not a talking but a fighting man. Aud when I went out to introducé him 1 left my car pet-bag, with rive day-shirts and a nightshirt in it, in tlie purlor, and wheu I came iaok some of his frieuds had stolen it. After he was made Becretary of War I told him he ouglit to give me my earpet-bag again, but IVe never got it yet. I reckon he nueded it to equip some of his frieuds for a oampaign in the Southern States. I am an Old Line AVhig, but I voted for McClellaa and I voted for Beymour against these damned scoundrols, and 1 would vote now for Hendricks, or for Truoibull, or any honest man agair.st a thief. Wo are all, black and white, callp.ú. on to night to ratify tho nomiuation of honest men for office, and wo ought to hoiat flíigs with "no stealing" insoribod on them. The black people will nearly all voto for Grant, for they are bound by oath, like Masons. They would bo glad to do right, for they are a kind-hearted people - not like the Indians, who would stab you in the dark and scalp you after you are doad. They would lüio to do right, I say, but thoy aro worn to vote for Grant, and Cügh Clay might just as well talk to the mountains or the barren hills, for all the good hc does. This is a great upheaval of the people, such as 1 never saw in my life before. I have known Graeley, as I told you bofore, for thirty years, and lie bas always been a ltepublican. He is no lees a Itepubliean now, and the Democratio party is no lesa a Democratie party -es he said tho other day - in VOting for him. Tha Democrats and Liberal Kepublicans and old Horace, and all other hoaest men, have unitod to save the country, and they will save it. (Cheers ) I'm going to help thora ; my old rille has not been shot olf for many a day ; but it is loaded yet ; the ilint íb in - there's none of these percussion locks about me - and I can shoot o&'-hund. (Cheors.) I was on tho Eiver Raiein tho other day; hadn't been there for fifty-nino years, and found that I was the only boy among those old fcllows who wore títere. I saw thero a colonel of sharpshooters who was with Grant at Shiloh. I told him, " Colonel, I don't want to talk politics, but I'd just like to know how you are on Grant.' "'Why," said he, ' l'in dead against Grant ; I'iu disgusted, damnably disgusted with him." Tho colouel swore a littlc, you see - I never do (luughter) - but I don't blanie anybody for swearing at a man who has such surroundings aB Grant has. I got a lettor the other day trom Texas. Some of you niay have read it. It was from a Eepublioan there, and he was disgtMted with Grant's surroundings, too, and said it didu't matter in Texas whethor Demócrata votpd for Greeloy or not, for there woro enough Republioans thero to beat Grant. But the Democrats are goiug to vote for Greeley, for they are like a flock of sheep, wbero one goos they all go ; and we, you and I and all of us, must go with them. I am talking to the old Union men ; Ivo got no right to teil Demócrata what they must do, but I can talk to the Old Lino Whigs; and I ask them now, in the name of seuse, can they go ior Grimt, a renegado Deinocrat, who used to eat a littlo nigger for breakfast, a big one for diunor, and clean up the scraps for i-u;peri' (Laughter and chaira.) Gentlemen, I am in this fight, and am going to go tlirough with it ; but I have said enough to-night, and I thauk you for y our kind attention.