Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-06-19
From the New York Day Book.l
THE CAMPAIGN SONG OF THE
BUMMER PARTY-HISTORY OF
IT'S LEADER.

We win reel to the polls, weil-fuddled
"The soldier. the sailor, the hummer -
We will toddle along, a crowd black and
Led on by a stolid, glum RUNNER.
Gen. U. S. Grant was born out
West, forty-eight years ago. His
iather was an honest old tanner, and
missed 1t when he did not keep his
son in the same honest line of wealth.
producing. U. S. some how got into
West Point, and some how got
through. Subsequently he managed
to get subordinate place in the army
of the United States, but as the army
was disgusted with his habits, the
army dropped him, and he returned
to; and disgraced, the tanning trade
for while, and then turned mer-
chant. Not making his salt, he turned
farmer, not making his salt there, he
turned teamster; whether he made
more than half the salt he needed,
while teaming, history telleth not;
but he evidently swallowed enough of
that saline property to keep him quite
thirsty for so long period, that when
the war broke out he applied To d
leading Southern General for cap
taincy, his constant thirst, and the
result of it, was the cause Of his be-
ing rejected.
The next appearance of U. s. (these
initials do not stand for Casually
Sober,") was in the Northern army;
and after sundry shakings up of the
dry bones of the martial heroes" +"
we find him, May 4, 1861, on top; and
at the head of 125,000 men, on the
Rapidan, trying to beat Lee, who had
$4,000. Returns to the respective gov
ernments showed that when Grant
and Lee reached the James River,
June 10, Grant had lost III 900, while
Lee had lost 19,000-the former hav-
ing been reinforced to an extent
which brought his army up to 222, 900,
while the latter had swollen his mum
bers to the total of only 10000. In
every battle fought with Lee, Grant
had virtually been beaten, losing three
men to Lees one; and finally our hero
planted himself before the walls OF
Richmond, and starved out the Con
federate General out of his strong
hold. The war was ended, hot by
any victory of the great military ge-
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twenty millions of people, backed by
the whole, civilized world, against
eight millions whose resources were
entirely cut off, and upon whose
struggles, all Christendoin shut its
eyes, and closed its ears.
Gem, u: S. Grant, the tacitur1
chief of the hummer party, is doomed
to an ignominus defeat. Bulldog
pertinacity" may do very well in war
but it is mental element ofno value
in peace; and 1t composes the suni tc
tai of the ability of q nominee for the
Presidency of the United States, the
verdict ofthepeoplewill be uaanimou:
against its acceptance. The place
which true statesmanship alone car
fill, this military nonentity, with but
a single record, two year success
through unlimited resources, and {
terrible reckless and inhuman applica
ton of those resOurces-that place
this military nonenity will never oc
cupy. To use d line or so of thei
own doggrel;
1.-THE sailor, the soldier. and hummer
i Will use up the whole blessed summer,
And, though every tenth man turnetl
drummer,
They will never elect their pet RUNNER