The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-08-15

held this year eyinee still more genera
awakening Of the people more stead
fast determination to rescue the Govern
ment from the hands of the spoilers Gen
eral Grant has been formally nominated
two months and more, aud as yetwe ia,il
to behold particle of the needless en-
tl,usiasm which was expected to drown
all appeals to reason, and to blind the
popular apprehension in respect TO the
cruel and proaigate band Of plunderers
who bestride the country Ike curse.
The calculations upon vsich Grant was
nominated have thus utterly failed
What is this but a proof that the causes
Of discomfort are deep. widespread and
universal they go to the very heart OF
the nation; it is not question Of shows
canvass. hurraha, eatchwords, or clap
/ trap; but question of bread, Of human
liberty, aud constitutional right-ot re-
lief from the tyrant aud the spoilei
whose rule is insupportable--a burden
and an agony under which whole ma
ton cries out for change.
And this word change . Is written Sc
broadly and legibly on the canvass o
the future that he who doubts the result
/ of the comiGg election must be stupid.
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rule brought this land, that men Shouts
desire or permit It's perpetuation? ho'
many persons are happy, how many ar
. comfortable, and how many free unde
5 this sway What relief does itpromis
f to the taxpayer and the laborer? Tie
S promised peace; and yet, while usin
j the word, they tell Us in the very nee
G breath that they have established ru
at the South SO hateful, so unendurabl
50 directly the reverse Of the prineipl
q of popular liberty, that bloody el'
: war may become necessary at any m
It ment to make apparent TO this people d
:, blessings of their rule. Nay, more tin
r demand fresh army, ac1arge milltai
lie force, for the North, in every Consre
al sionaI district.
r This party has now held aimostundi
it puted sway for three long weary yea
tn and just so long has the whole la
rs croaned as in an agony. Never il Il
country before has SO much power be
lis welded by a political party. They ha
II, not merely used all the powers VIII
ri rightfully belong to Congress, but til
by have taken to themselves the power
ed tue President and the Supreme Cou
lat and, lastly, by treating the Cons-itut
he as thing Of naught, they have usurl
ng a large mass Of powers rightfnily beloi
ne ing to the States and the people. "
st. all this vast concentration of power
III their hands, is the country prospero'
in Have they made It happier freer, riel
N or moro peaceful, or the reverse Of
he these?
IN Therefore. seeing all this, the Pee
cir demand change Approaching, a
he this fact Of che popular discomfort. {
y. eress is full Of schemes to battle and c
y s'Sit- ths pQpular Determination. Ihirt
leir leaders - it'TiIl avail not. The IN
q ses of the land are determined o.
OF change of rulers, and these leaders nj,
se' as well attempt to dam up Niagara as
II defeat their viii. Neither fraud, nor
o. nor Congressional chieane or men.
to can stand up against the power Of or
IS numbers, the brawny arms Of the pin
te dered and oppressed millions, and
n force of truth. The reaction Of Is
il. has become a ground-swell, aud those v
,al dash against it viii find themselves sw,
ad away by the great popular current
BY who does not see it must be willfully a
'ir stupidity blind.