The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-03-19


ngTnB New York Day Book is still
working with all its might for the
nomination of Gen. Grant. Here is
its last;
TmE AcRoBAT CANDIDATE FOR THE PRRsI-
DENcY.-The stuff purportlng TO be written about
Grants boyhood by his father is evidently sheer
invention, or If II Is not, Grant was as great
rascal and cheat as n baby as ne Is now as q man.
For instance, the BOBBY is said to have won
wager by the following deception HE bet half
q dozen marbles with q victim by name of Mar
shall that he would jump twenty-five feet at q
single leap The bet was taken, and the incipl-
ent tobacco pouch and whlsky-barrel won It, bv
jumping from n perpendicular bluff twenty-five
feet high landing on bed Of soft mud, into
which he sunk up to his middle, where he stuck
fast until pulled out by his father. How pro-
phetc this Of the moral leaps this Juvenile cheat
and liar was 10 take into the depths Of mud and
slime unlathomable2 The trick by which he
cheated Marshall out Of his half dozen marbles
was nothing but lOre-runner of the deception
which he las Just pmcticed upon the President
to cheat him out Of the control Of one of his own
Secretaries. And this last leap into these nasty
depths OF Mongrel filth aud negro equality Is the
HllinE CONCLUSION OF u lIlt WHICH UtGWU Ill Lut
display of such moral turpitudc. But there Is
this dillerenoe--he could DO pulled out Of the
mud into which his boyhO0d took such delight
In lenplng, but what hand can extrlcate him from
the bOttOmless mlre in which he Is now sinking?
But these silly lies about Grants boyhOod
have a far deeper significance than appear upon
the face of them They look simply like foolish
harmlass Hes disgusting enough TO every person
who Is not fool, but they eynce a consciousness
Of popular deprayiy In the INSCRIPTIONS pub
fishers who put forth such demOralzing trash
Al any former period of our history such lying
p ictures of vicious boyhood would have been
received with unspcakable disgust by everybody,
but now they are put forth as the supposed most
available tricks to place man In the Presidential
chair Another OF the stories which the parent
Grant relates Of his brutal boy Is, that "ho once
rode mule In a circus, with monkey standing
on his shoulders hanging on to hls hair, and, It
Is added, there was not trcmor In his nerves.
OF course not. The mule, the monkey and the
boy, were so near OF a piece. that there was no
occasion for any tremor Of nerves. Now all these
anecdotes whether true or false, simply show
the boy to have been little brute. All was
evidence of the dawnlng Of tho lowest attributes
without single ray Of that mental light which
promises sagaclty and nobility Of character. At
any former period Of our history tho man who
should have published such stuff as 4 means of
a mule-mOnkey hero 10 the Presidency, |
would bave been hooted out Of all respectable |
society. There was time when paper con-
talnlng such ahomnable trash could not have
found admittance int0a thousand families in the |
whole United States. IL would have been deemed |
nm insult TO the respectfully and dignity OF the
American people 10 have named such kindred |
Of monkeys and mules In connexion |
with the Chief Magstracy OF the United States. |
If people are 10 be judged by the character of
their cand idates for high offices, what ls To be
The verdict Of history upon the American charac-
Tor OF the present generation? II brings the
glow of shame upon the check Of the respectable
man 10 think OF IL.