The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-07-24
fra med the Constitution Of the Stat G
of Tennessee. He was delegate to

framed the Constitution Of the Sta {
of Tennessee. He was delegate tt
Congress from the Territory of Ten
nessee, and Senator of .. the United
States for several terms, and held a
determined prominence as a man o.
character and decided ability in that
body when it had reached its acme
in parliamentary strength. General
Jackson would have been a prepe,
and popular candidate for that posi-.
rtion if he had never been in military
life. General VIM. Henry Harrison
was like General Jackson in this
respect, that his life, as q soldier,
was merely an incident in his pub.
lie career. He held commission
in the Indian army under Genera
Wayne in The Northwest, an0 after,
ward partici pated in the great Indi.
an and British war Of 1872, ano
proved himself Il careful commander
and generous soldier. VIM. Harrison
was 4 civilian of high character
He was governor of the Northwes.
tern Territory, as Senator in Con.
gress, Minister abroad, and had de.
voted his life to the cultivation OF
the peaceful arts, and wrote the
very finest cmanation of his pen. il
a letter to Simon Bolivar, which
exhibited high powers and generous
cultivation of mind. 1t is safe tc
say that SO stupid person as Gen.
Grant has never had control of the
army of any highly cultivated free
people in any period of the Chris
tian era.
GRANT AS A DEITY.
There is Grant. the myth, wor
shipped by such devotccs as the
classical Donnelly, who1raiscs him
in pcans IS the greatest, bravcst
and wisest intellect of this genera
tion;' but the harr: ony of the wor
ship of this dcvout follower of the
immaculate Ulysses'is is broken by a,
attack upon the worshi per by Mr.
Washburlie, who is tbs prophet an,
speaks fer this Grand Lama, NJ"
Washburn characterizes this supple
ant Donnelly, who prostrates himscl
before this Juggcrnaut, as a ''lnem
ber covered over with crime and in
fanny, whose record is stained will
every fraud (whiskey and othe
frauds a man who ha s fed from
punishment, hanged his ramc, proved
false alike to his fricn ds, his country
his constituents, his politics, hi
religion and his Gcd. SO these
idolators profane the altar by tn,
quarrel over this new deity.
GRANT AND HIS FATHER
Old father Grant, who has writ
ten the early life of his son for Bon
ner, also superintends his nomina
tion at Chicago. When Washburn
secured for Ulysses the appoint
ment Of Colonel of an Illinois regi
ment from Gov. Yates, old Mr.
Grant and his othcr son refused to e
quip Ulysses for the W ar, when gen
erous friend stepped forward and All
vanced three hundred dollars to the
newly made Colonel for the purpos,
of buying his uniform and horse. Il
have this from the gentleman who
advanced the money, so the old gen
tleman was as carefal of keeping his
money from Ulysses when very poor
as he is now when his ..son is wei
provided for by the suffering tax
payer Of the country. The old gen
tleman's loyalty carried him to tho
farthest extreme. when he refused
to pay gentleman for real estate
bought III Kentucky--though lie ha,
plenty of money--upon 1 he grount
that the gentleman of whom b.
bought was "disloyal.'' The very
tension of his loyalty relaxed, wher
he took permits of his son to buy
cotton, and sold the permits ane
let them out in partnership, and hi:
prudence was scarcely equal to his
loyalty when he suffered his ayarict
to carry his case into court, to b,
denounced by Judge Bellamy Store1
for carrying on this infamous traffic
with the enemies of his country.
GRANT AS A DRUNKARp.
| willnot charge Grant with drunk
enness, as Greeley, Tilton and Phil
lips have done, nor will | repeat the
charges against him of being SO drunl
in the Presidential tour at Cleveland
that he had to be shipped to Detroit
| leave this to the care of the polit
ical temperance organizations, wh'
pass Maine liquor laws and vote 70,
drunkards; the churches, who de
nounce crime and patronize crimi-
nails. No true Democrat will assai
the individual; it is the public MAI
with whom we have to do and t.
deal.
The Republican Party Da.
suoIreOtyDeI DV "A kslslt.