The Shasta courier., 1868-09-05
Assault On General Grant

1t cannot be other than humliating to
every respectable American to know that
the soldier who led our armies through
many hard fought battle, and is now the
chosen favorite as the next President of these
United States, has been outrageously assault
ed by gang of the mob Democracy.
While travelling with his family. crowd
of :" Const tutional Democrats those kind
of men who are daily around us in every
village and city in every State. watching
the opportunity to plumber and murder
surrounded the car in which the General
was seated, and grossly insulted his family
and made personal assault upon himself.
We furnish the following account of this
disgraceful affair from the Springfield (lll. J
Journal, of the 10th instant:
The british, devli>h spirit which pos
sesses the so-called Democracy was fully
manifested on the occasion of the passage of
Gen. Grant through Carlinsville the other
eveoing That party. under the auspices
of that prince of low fellows, Bill O'Bren
had been holding political meeting in the
town during the day, and, fillel with bad
whisky, when they heard that Gen. Grant
was upon the train they started for the depot,
several hundred strong, and taking posses
sion of the Platform and surrounding the
Generals car. they set upon him with Il g
most lneartbly yells and screenings, insult
ing him and bis family in the most dastardly
and shameful manner. The fellow o Brien.
whose manners as filthy as he is himse
personally. was loudest and foremost. in
egging on the drunken mob. Gen. Grant
had raised the window of the car for the
purpose of shaking hands with some friends
whom he recognized. when one Of the dirty
hounds, more inpudent than the rest, rushed
to the window, and shouting Hurrah for
Seymour ahd Blair" violently struck Gen.
Grant in the face with his hat. Mr.. McCon.
nell, who was conversing with the general at
the time, resented the indignity by giving
the fellow blow on the side of the smeller
which sent him sprawling, and Lieut.. Mckee
and others at once kicked him off the plat
form. This however, only the more incenscd
the Copperhead mob, and though it was in
tended by the decent citizens of the place
to extend to the General who had success
fully led our armies through the war some
indication of their personal, not to say po-
litical. appreciation of his services, it was
found to be utterly impossible to do so, and
the train passed en- The hyenas, with o.
Brien at their head, who perpetrated the
insult, were highly delighted with their
citizens of Carlinvile without regard TO party
were exceedingly indignant that such a re-
proach should have been cast upon the good
name of their town and we are not aston
ished. 1t is certain that the Democracy
have gained nothing by their bad man.
ners."
1t is not for us to indulge the weakness of
lamentation over this foul indignitv to So
brave man, nor to deal in threats of retail
alton. While the mission of the Union party
is that of pc; ce, it would be well for every
intelligent and respectable citizen to keep his
powder dry. We can only judge men, COM
munities and parties by their acts. Tie
words and acts of the Democratic party of to-
day convict that party as a band of rowdies
and assassins Did not members of that
party assassinate Lincoln and SewaFd? Are
they not organized into Ku Klux Klans of
plunderers and murderers? Have they not
assaulted the Commander in Chief of the
Army? Here are living evidences produced,
that no man save brazen liar dare deny.-
Can such counts be brought against the Re
publican party? No. jeff Davis their
leader, nor none other of their party have
been assassinated. The Republican party
has no organized bands of robbers and muir
derers like the Ku Kux Klans Horatio
Seymour, their leader, travels and moves
about unmolested. Do you see the difference
between the material making up the two
parties? All, citizens let us deal no fur her
in words You know the acts of these men,
They compose the dark and disgraceful pages
Of our history. Voters! ye of wealth and
stapding-ye of humble callings and small
means-bow stand you politically to day I?
Shall the intelligent patriots Of the country
administer our Government, or, by your
votes, will you hand over the control to Sey-
mour, Blair and the assassins? We trust not
Every day but the more fully demonstrate 8
the character of the Democratic party by the
acts of its individual members Had Sey.
mour been so insulted, Union men through
out the land would have been jealous in
bringing each one of the cowardly mob to
justice; but Democratic papers either seek to
apologize for the act or applaud the ruffans
What better evidence than this cowardly
assault upon Grant is needed to convince all
men that the safety of the nation connot be
trusted in Democratic hands.-Sac. Record