The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-15
POLITICAL.

More soldiers are IequlIeu " ihain
tain Grants peace policy than were I'M
der arms during the Mexican war.
Beast Butler has not attempted to re-
lieve himself of the load of infamy
heaped upon him by Senator Fowler
Seymour and craftsmanship; Grant
and butchery.
The country is full of long haired
"dead beats who profess to be organ
izing Grant clubs. Why don't some of
them go to California and organize In.
dian war cluhsF
General Grant recently paid . visit to
Kentucky, was in several counties, and
made one or two speeches. Wherever
he was seen the Democracy made ex-
traordinary large gains. Can't the De-
mocracy manage TO get General Grant
to travel around the country and show
himself'
Only one member Of the original Cab
inet of Lincoln is now in accord with
Radicalism, and that one is Simon Cam
eron, who was turned out of office by
the Martyr.
"The revolution sweeps on, but it is
not yet accomplished, and will not be
until General Grant is carried through
that mockery of an election, aud Install
ed into the Office of President. He
will then be Imperator and sway an
Empire, but because of his own ignor-
auce, necessarily by pimps and para
sites. Congress, like the Senate of Rome,
will become but an effigy: the real cen
tire of power will be Cesar, lmperator;
and when he is incompetent, but has
Seianus for his favorite, Scjanus will
rule in fact"
Said General Graut-"l have no poll
cy of my own"
Said General JackSon-"That man
deserves to be slave who wOuld vote
for q mum candidate when his liberties
are at stake"
U. S. Grant is the man who, in cold
blood, demanded of the War Depart
ment that no exchange of prisoners
should be made, when thousands of the
bravest and best of our brothers and
H. friends were suffering and dying in
Southern prisons.
The philosopher Greeley recently per
petrated the following misty joke in
his daily issue:
The difference between Grant and
Blair is the difference between "mum'
man and "rum" man.
Without going into the pulling
question, naturally suggested by the
above, (which is which," we beg to
commend to Mr.. Greeley the following
paragraph from a recent number of his
paper:
Probably General Grant can afford to
be deaf-and-dumb candidate, but this
country cannot afford to elect deaf and
dumb President.
The grave question 'IIave we Bour-
bon among u.s." and that other moment
GUS one, "Will saltpetre explode" at
one time excited intense interest in the
community; but both sink into insig
nifcance in comparison with tho i'm
portant interrogatery now agitating
the public mind, "What is n carget-bag-
ger ~ The Louisville Journal is to be
credited for the discovery that he is
not an elephant, for, says that high au
thority, "the elephant, though only a
beast, is more respectable than carpet
Dagger, for he takes his trunk with
him." The question, therefore, is still
open.
The race between Seymour aud Grant
is contest of Brains against Buttons
Craftsmanship against Epauletts-Civil
Liberty against Military Despotism-
Peace against Anarchy White Mans
Government against Black Mans
Government-the Constitution, Laws
and Courts of Justice against Military
Edicts and Military Commissions ''or-
ganizsd to convict"-EconOmy and Re-
trenchment against Extravaganza and
Prohigacy--Honesty against Corruption
Unconstitutional Liberty against Consti-
tutional Usurpation-Peace and Good
Will to Men against Hate, Malice and
Revenge-the Rights of Labor against
the Privileges of Capital.
In one of Chief Justice Chase's letters
he says: "Four years moro of the rule
of such men as are now dominating
Congress will leave US little of morality |