Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-08
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all cases where u man Is nominated OF
even likely to be nominated for any
prominent national position, the Presi-
dency for instance, to rake up all his
antecedcnts, from his earliest child
hood, YES, and even his pedigree far
back of that. His enemies will eagerly
gobbls up every little item they can
CLEAN relative to deficiency Of education,
and il they find that he used to nip slate
pencils and marbles, ut school, or hook
watermelons or apples once'iu a while
from u neighbours garden or orchard, it
is as good a thing as they will ask for
in making him out to be naturally n
low-lived miserable robber, and villain
Of the deepest dye; q man who would
not scruple to steal saw-mills by the
score, or swallow the boldest kind Of
government.robbiug contracts without
the least conjunction. On the other
hand, his dear relatives and friends, all
voluntarily unto in lauding up hisgood
qualities and notable instances of pre-
cocity, natural smartness, and rectitnde
while young, aud trumpet forth loudly
the deeds Of valor and sterling integrity
and wisdom which distinguish his ripper
years.
Washington was more favored than
any Of his successors, in that being tue
" Father of his Country" as we'll as
/" first in war, FIRST in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen," he had
few enemies who dared or cared to write
or say aught but good regarding him.
Therefore it is, that tho nice little deeds
and good actions of Mr.. W~ashington's
little boy George have become historical,
to the utter exclusion OF the idea that
he could even think for a moment Of
anything naughty. His dear relatives
and friends kindly waited until after he
was elected President, before they told
all the pretty little stories on him that
read so nice in the school books. We
haye all read them, often. George was
an intensely upright, incorruptibE
truthful and honest boy. He owned a
littie hatchet, and would not, could not
tell a lie. He never visited brcweriss
or a with newspaper reporters. The
only printer he ever was personally ia
miliar with was Ben Franklin. Ben was
nearly lightning, but as We said before,
George owned q little Ratchet and was
iucorruptible.
General U. S. Grant has not even got
the nomination yet for the Presidency,
but just see what a terrible fuss is
already being made about him. All the
rebels of the South, as we'll as those
who would have been rebels but dared
not, are naturally his enemies. He was
too rough on them during the war, for
them to forgive him very readily or
speedily. "Brick P~omeroy" abuses
him like n p~ickpocket. He says Grant
is a Methodist by trade, a tyrant by in
%stinct, a druukard by nature, a convict
ed liar and q foul Puritan, whom II
would be an outrage on decency to elect
President. This, however, is only n
mild specimen Of the expressed opinion
Of many Of his enemies. Nothing less
could be, expected of them. Grant,
however, has q father, a fond, dear old
father, whose patcrnal heart warns up
and melts g~ushingly forth in streams Of
doting pride over the present glories
and fame of his son Ulysses, aud most
garrulously the ~loquacious old parent
delights in telling everybody all about
what an extraordinary boy his Ulysses
was. How far ahead Of all other chill
dren of his age he always was in real
natural smartness, goodness and all
that sort o. thing. How he gloats over
each anecdote concerning him that he
can recall to mind, about what a preco-
cious baby he was how he got his eyes
open sooner than other babies usually
do, walked sooner, talked sooner and
more sen,ibly how he rode horses that
no other boys Of his age could or dared
ride, and with n monkey on his shout
ders holding on to his hair at that. In
short, the old man evidently thinks
there never was and never will be such
another boy or man rs his son Ulysses,
and be is publishing all his little stories
aud anecdotes about him in the news
papers. Grants chances for the Presi-
dency are better by far than those Of
any candidate that a be brought in
competition with him, and if he can only
survive his fond fathers GEOGRAPHY"
/ of him ho ia all ripht