The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-10-15

should only be employed against men who
are most infamous and wicked, has recent
ly published lengthy and grave homily
on the tendency of the political partisan
press in this country to malign and vilify
opposing political candidates. AS an il
lustration of this tendency, the treatment
of General Grant by the democratic press
cited. The newspaper to which we have
referred says-and in this it but echoes a
general complaint by the jacobin press
that the democracy SANDER Grant, and en-
deavor to detract from his just fame.
In making this charge, the jacobin
newspaper does not tell the truth, The
democratic press makes no charges against
Grant which it cannot sustain by evidence
furnished by jacobiu newspapers. In re-
gard to Grants notoriously Incorporate
habits, the testimony of prominent leaders
aud newspapers in the ruling parry can he
brought forward to sustain the charge that
meant by this statement is not merely to
allege that Grant occasionally does get
drunk, but that he is the slave of whisky,
and is under its influence daily. HIS love
cf whisky, or bis stupidity and Ignorance
of generalship, cost the lives of thousands
of union soldiers at Belmont and Shiloh.
These are facts, and the proof of them has
licans and democrats; and now we are told
that to state them is to "detract from
Grants just fame" Is man of such
habits fit to be president? Does not a
proper regard for the interests of the coun.
try and for its reputation require that the
facts in the case be fairly spread before the
people?
AS to Grants military career, and his
record as politician, in what has he been
misrcpresented? The democratic press
has charged that he never won battle
with equal forces. 1t has charged that
his conduct at Belmont and Shiloh prov ed
either his iucapacity as a general, OF that
he was so intoxicated that he could not
perform his duties. In the last campaign
against Richmond. the democratic press
has charged that Grant made terrible
blunder in choosing the overland route.
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in the march from the Rapidan to the
James than Lee had in his whole army.
1t is charged that Grant only won that
campaign because recruits were sent to
him by tens of Thousands, as fast as his ar
my was decimated by Lee.
This is all true. No man conversant
with the facts of that campaign, and who
respects truth, will deny one of the char
ges above made. AS to Grants superiorl-
ty Of forces, and the terrible manner in
which his army was slaughtered in the
last campaign again,t Richmond, his cruel
and-simple justice will approve the as
sertion-brutal remark concerning the su-
peror length Of his ''cat's tail, is of itself
sufficient proof lie has furnished proof
against himself, and it is now on file in the
war department, touching his habit of
drunkenness. His resignation as an off,
Ger in the army occurred in 1858. For
what reason did he resign What evil
dence can lie furnish that he has since re-
| formed.
When the war closed, he vas n demo-
crat Since then, he has been everything
and all things-from fawnng, supple
clerk of the president, to willing instru-
ment in the hands Of extreme jacoDin
leaders IN congress-that demagoguc of
the worst and lowest type aud least capac-
ty can be to win political advancement.
lie has been by turns a democrat, John
son man, hybrid, aud jacoLiu, and has pro-
fessed all the while to be destitute of DO
litical opinions and aspirations. He he's
been convicted Of meanness, falsehood, and
perfidy, on the testimony of the president
and of every member of the cabinet, Let
us hear no more about "detraction. - CHi.
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