Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-23
Train on Grant.

d Train on Grants j tI"-
We should Judge that George Francis
Train was not for Gen. Grant, by the.
following, which ne has uttered on the
subject. He said in Boston;
The moment a man goes into Tram
ing for the White House, as Grant has
been since Shiloh, he courts criticism.
The officebolders are now after him
like the pilot fish after Il shark. Grant
at the head of the army was safe, but
Grant for President is the most gigantic
sell ever put off OH an intelligent people.
Whenever meet him, l have the lnc!i-
nation to say, "Gcneral, have only got
five minutes time, tell MS all you know"
The dress circle may be fooled with tins
head. shaking business, under the pro-
verb that .syouug people should be seen
and not heard" but the pit remembers
the other pr0verb, ''that gravity is a
mysterious carriage of the body to cover
up the defects of the mind" me man
who was a generation planning site
walk from his pigeon-house at Gaiena to
the railway depot, will never DE FresiJ
dent of the United States, Bennett
only praises him to kill him, as he did
Mcclellan, and when he became Secre-
.tary of War to help johnson slide Stan
ton over his back into the ditch, the
cork was ont of the bottle; and out came
the politicians aiming at the White
House. Judge SanchO Panza, Mt BARGE
Iona, sagely remarked that the higher
the witness climbs, the more he shows
his-statesmansliP. Grants name Is
! famous on account of his wonderful fa-
cility for macadamizing the road FROM
Washin gton to Richmond with skulls OF
| American citizens; and for his daily dis
matches SO Stanton, "Send down twenty
thousand more men to start another
graveyardr' Socially, like the Gener
al, but cannot vote for Washburn!
! Pat picked out the owl-being some
!. thing of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS selecting
a parrot, on account of the size of his
head ssWill he talk" said Pat. Like
book. Put him in n dark room, and
feed him OH meat Some weeks after
the bird fancer met the Irishnan
"Does he talk, Pat?'' ''The divil u bit
of il; brit remembering his large eyes
and intelligent shake of the head) ht
keeps up IL divil of thinking" In 6
word, we Father Mathew men, Coco
Templars and sons of Temperance, car
never vote for Gen. Grant because We
have resolved to elect Il cold water MAJ
for the next President. m,ss et..., d
Mr.. Train recited the following cpl
gram, which, lie said, would expose tn.
0relbpSD Vi OuA A1C odlNt Nv
dedicated it to the solid and stoIid mel
OF Cooper institute and Fanueil Hall.
The Cops were caught in '65 the RAIDS in 'bs,
BY using Mcclellan and General Grant for Pres
1 Dental bait Old Peg.
In Coope.'s sea of Continental dams,
Political blacks and military Slams r
. Brobdigcagian wealth and Lil!ivuiian brains,
Ulysses is IaunchtdLy few great names,
Floa ing into notice on the wars red waves,
p. oud of his million new made graves, .a..t
A hundred journals record his every nod,
, a huudted Leaguers cheer him AZ God!
In freeing the blacks have we enSlaved the white
And lost forever our manhood's rights? ~
a. Our Ameficrn Eagle surely cuts up rough.
Or saeeze when Washbutn ttles the stuff
, Is our national independence entirely dead,
TO hurrah when Ulysses shakes his head?
, In knowledge. The wisdom of owl;
T In politics. neither fish, nor fie II, nor fowl.
: Ipeniell calls hi,r the great American riddle,
| While the party use him as Jeremy Didde.
Good at race, says Chase, or at q horse :rade,
Lei him stand in the balance. he hasn't Ben w ad
, When you NEE the General wherever you go,
Say, Only five minutes, tell us all you know"
HuriaI! for our volunteers. we cannot state less,
Our greatest general is cur General Greatness.
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