The union Democrat., 1868-08-22
General Grant and M. .Adm,r.r..

terpreted by his own orders. We have not
cared to hold responsible for mis- bold inioui.
ties the strong political element that has
placed ITS fortune in his hands and looks to
success In his victory. Ours not being poli.
ticai paper, 1t is not our province To discuss
this or that policy, or to thrust our interpre
tations of political principles on our sub
scribers. We believe they are as capable of
forming an opinion upon the questions that
ag,taie the public mind as we. They have.
doubtless, considered the question involved
In the elevation of an inferior race TO mower.
and can sift ont the modern maxim "eoual.
ny before the lew just how mach chaff goes
10 tue wheat. In the meanwhile we express.
~ oechne to apply the fan TO it, when each
has one of his own more efficient, and deter
mine the amount OF Justice intended fur nj,
men, by the practical example of General
Grants oppressive orders.
Yet, We must not altogether senarata Grant
from Grants supporters. A leader who i
perfectly reticenr, and expects favor on the
distinct ground that he has no settled prinei
Piles, or policy of government, can only be
interpreted by mis- past ucts, and the spiri,
and profession Of his avowed friends.
We have General Grants order to teach us
first who he is. A critical reading shows
that the Jews are not expelled from his lines
TOR violating trade regulations. The order
does not say that the Jews shall be expelled
from the lines because they have violated the
order. 1t makes no discrimination between
those who did, aud those who did not violate
the regulations, as certainly the order would
nave zone II thrt was the cause. Ii pro
tes>ing Baptist or Methodist errs. we do rot
penltentiary all Methodist or Baptists. Be.
| cause jew Violated law no one would
think OF exterminatipg al Jews.
| No; the order reads that the Jews as n
class-as religiou-Shali be expelled The
otfense Is not n breach of the trade regula.
tons, for General Grcnt's father, as was
developed in a lawsuit at Cincinnati. was
violating these regulations with his sons
permission. If the order had been TO expel
'all violating trade regulations" General
Grant and his father would have both been
included. That was Lot the otiense. 1t was
being Jews that provoked him, and the order
was not directed against Jews violating
lrade regulations" but Jews as a class. u
lt meant their religion, and nothing else
They were to be expelled for holding certain
religions opoinions.
| We call attention to another fact to an.
other iniquity in the case. Ia the example
cited last week of cruelty and torture of the
Jews, by Moaka and Abbots in the middle
ages ; by King John and by Ferdinand and
Isabella, there was on excuse. The religious
bigots believed they were doing the work of
| God. II must have been cruel and mon.
strous God they idealized, unlike ''the meek
anu lowiy Jesus" they profess to worship.
Yet they believed they were doing His work.
Isabella, the Catholic, fierce zealot, but
otherwise noble, certainly thought SO. and
inf nf ha,
General Grant has no such excuse. lie ia
openly aid protessedly Indifferent on religious
| subjects. No one has ever represented him
as caring for bis own soul or the everlasting
welfare Ut others. He was not actuated bv a
religious fanatcism /; it was not the madden.
ed Jury OF blgot. 1t was the cool, deliberate
malice OF one US near an intidel as Christian.
man who opposed Jews mot in the cause
OF Christianity, but OF narrow, intense preju.
lice TO a class.
Let US see, now, who the supporters Of this
iDhdei oppreSsor, of this atheistcal tyrant.
are. For example, the Harrisburg Telegraph,
one of Grants organs at the capital of Penn.
sylvania, says:
The Jews of the Southwest, or such of
them cs were suffers and bummers in the
army under GRAFT. it will be remembered.
behaved shamefully, robbng, debauching and
demorallzing the troops to such degree that
he was compelled to eject them from his
lines"
This is gross slander, to support which
the harrisburg paper has not enc iota uf
proof. We hac as well say the Pennsylva.
mans were notorious bummers and thieves.
and expect belief. 1t is falsehood made for
the occasion. Yet when made, it does not
support the order of Grant. The Tsleqraph
says, ''Or such of them (the Jews) as were
sutlers and bummers," behaved shamefully.
This is q new and altogether different charge.
Gen. Grant did not order all suffers out of
his lines and he did not order anybody out
Ut his lines Tor ''behaying shameiully, rob.
bing, debauching and demoraizing. They
might stay and rob ard debauch at will, Gen.
Grant said nothing against it, hut if they
we're Jews they were sent ou:. The charge
was not of crimes, but being Jews. Ii Grant
had ordered out Jews and Gentiles who had
violated orders. not word would have been
said. This vile SANDER, therefore, q new
fa!sehood, is entirely false, scandalous, and
without foundation. Our readers can see
that the original SANDER of Grant is to be
followed by long line of similar scandal by
his followers.
The mode of argument among these organs
is exempifed further in this item which we
take from the Newberry tIowa) Herald. 1t
says:
''lhe Jews, as class, are distinguished
pre-eminentiy above all other people for their
characteristic dishonesty and thieving pro.
pensities. 1t Is part of their faith to Prey
upon aud rob Christians. After having
violated every military law pertaining to trade
in the Department of Tennessee during the
war, General Grant hanished them from the
department and forbid them ever returning
to it. We say good. The Jews are ali
Democrats anyhow. We never heard of
Jewish soldier during the war on either side.
They did not care an itinerant tinkcr's cuss
how the war terminated. Their object was
to make money out of it. They formed l
mainly the mylaids of vultures that proved
constantly ard mercilessly on the poor. half.
naked, hungry soldiers. For every Republi.
can Jew thar, by the sort reasoning adopted
by the CoHrier and other similar journals. is
induced to vote against Grant, a dozen de.
cent, honest. Christian white men will he in.
duced to vote for him.
The very grossness of this intolerable slan.
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