Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-27
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achieved. 1t is easier to call him Q
butcher than it is to prove him one. 1t
is also easier to ridicule Grant the boy,
than it is to match Grant the man aud
the successful chief. And because it is
easier to say these things than it is to
do the other, the Copperhead papers are
crammed with poorjokes, pointless wit
ticisms, and vile abuse, all aimed at
General Grant. At the same time we
are told by these apologies for journals
that Colfax is the ADLER and the better
man.. II so, why abuse Grant? Is it
because the Copperhead party desire
none but men of ability to bs named for
placer The fact that the Democracy
have not put an able and an honest man
in nomination for the Presidency in
many years is the full and complete re-
ply to that question. They forgive a
public man all lacks and all crimes save
that greatest of all crimes in their eyes
Integrity, and adherence TO principle.
Many who feel that a deep debt Of graf
itude is due General Grant as the organ
izer of victory, are FESTIVE under this
rafting fusilade Of small arms and FIRE
crackers. Some cannot understand how
it is that journals which six months ago
were speaking of Grant as the first mil
i,ary man of the age, a man of strict
integrity, are now denying to him oil
credit for leading ~ armies to victory
over the most formidable rebellion Of
the age. There is nothing singular
about this change Of tune. Many peo-
pie suppose that Washington escaped
the abuse which has become the princi-
pal stock in trade in modern political
campaigns. Not so. Washington him.
self says, in n of his letters
to a contemporary, that he has been
denounced as everything vile and
uncomely as q public man and
deplores the degeneracy Of the times.
His military record was raked over and
over BY his political enemies, of whom
Thomas Jefferson was chief, and his
services belittled and denied. He was
eren accused Of conniving with Britain
to destroy the liberties of the people,
and was alluded to as o tool by the
British party. These must have been
unpleasant charges even to so ambitious
a man as Washington and in view Of
the fact that he had conducted a seven
years war for independence of Great
Britain to a successful issue, some peo-
pie may even now wonder how any man
dared to defame and traduce him It is
sufficient reply to that to know that no
man, however pure his life and however
signal his merits as a public servant, if
aggressive and positive, can escape the
malice of envious contemporaries. 1t
seems but the other day that the coun-
try rang with plaudits Of General
Grant, the Deliverer of his Country
from the wrath Of treason. When, after
years of destructive and bereaving
war, the news of the surrender Of Lee
to Grant sped over the wires, are we
mistaken in saying that the irresistible
impulse of every true IA and woman
was 10 thank God for victory aud to
bless the victor? We cannot DO mis-
taken in this. 1t was known that the
victory had cost much blood and treas
ure ; but the integrity Of the nation was
then regarded as worth that terrible
price. Does any man believe that the
rebellion could have been put down at
q less sacrifce2 Il il proper for the men
rho gaze their almost encouragement to
the rebels, to complain of the cost Of put
ting dopn the fire in the front and
rear? We think not. They have as
much right to criticise General Grant
as the men whom he paroled on the
Appomattox and no more. 1t is all one
thiug-the rebels in the front and the
Copperheads in the rear. The journals
which maguifed rebel successes and
Union defeats, cannot, to-day, be per-
mitted to discuss the cost Of the wal
without rebuke. These fellows are
knayes Of the basest sort. They demand
to be pro6ted by their W wrong. AZ
ter having plunged the nation into the
gulf Of civil war after having denied
the right of the nation to defend itself
from the assaults of the hosts Of treason;
after having heaped vile abuse and lies
mountain high upon Abraham Lincoln
because he called the nation to
arms to resist the Southern wing of
the Democratic party ; after having
vainly struggled to prevent the Or
g~anization of an army to destroy
public credit I; to resist the draft to
weaken the army by desertions-we de-
ny that the Copperhead party, its lead
ers or its press, has the shadow of
right 10 criticise Grant as q general, or
to charge him with having obtained the
final victory at too great a cost OF life
and treasure. They will continue to
defame General Grant, of course n
neither the u~nrepentant rebels Of the
South or their sycophantic allies in the
North will ever forgive him for compel
ling the surrender of the bastard On
federacy. Neither will the loyal men
of the nation ever forgive the party
which devoted what little influence re-
manned to it to the encouragement OF
rebels in arms. Remember that.
THE Florida Legislature In Decem'
Der, 1866, ordered a census OF the State