The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-09-17
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drew lottery prize Of hfty thousand dol
lars, and afterwards lived in "splendid"
style until he killed himself drinking.
The Grant family have never been distin-
gulshed in any of these ways.
am often amused at obituary notices Of
little great men, in which it is told how
rich they we're, but not how they acquired
their wealth; how many offices they held,
but not how they filled them. A man
may have been a very good man, and yet
have filled great many offices; but is not
the presumption rather the other way
The man who has held Office much has, in
most cases, sought it much, and was, most
likely, a political sponge and pauper. The
Grants never held Office much. This we
might aptly infer from the character Of the
General himself
Men do not gather grapes of thOrns and
figs Of thistles. We have the history of
the Grant family, in this country, for two
hundred and twenty-seyen years. They
have been just such a people as might
have been expected to produce just such a
man as Ulysses 8. Grant-an industrious,
selt-reliant, retiring, quiet, sensible, truth
ful, upright people; people whose indus
try secured. them competency, which
raised them above patronage and depen-
dence; whose honesty and hberality pre-
vented them, in most cases, from acquir-
ing great fortunes. and whose mOdesty and
good sense kept most of them out of the
crooked and corrupting paths Of ambition,
leading them to prefer the "cOol, seques-
tered vale of life, 1" where, for generations,
they have
Kept the uOiselsss tenor Of their way."
Just that kind and class of people from
which Providence furnishes to a nation,
when need is, a Tell or a Winkelried, a.
La Pucelle or Cromwell, Marion or a
Jackson, Henry, Franklin or Lin
coin.
Such has been the Grant family. Such
was the Washington family. The one
produced a man who made your country
the other one who sGUed it. Both are ex-
cellent specimens and dne exemplidcations
of the American citizen, gentleman, sol
dier. Your fathers almost adored the one.
Will you, their children, fail TO appreciate
and duly to honor the other?
Such, gentlemen, as. have described
him, is Ulysses S. Grant, a man of good,
solid sense, and useful and thorough ac-
qnirements a man of plain and direct, but
shrewd and far-seeing mind; a quiet and
taciturn man, but one who speaks, when
called upon TO speak, directly to the point,
in clear, forcible and fitting, though not in
ornate, or even very elegant language; a
modest and retiring man, who never
thrusts himself upon the public attention,
but one who, being called upon to act, acts
with prOmptitude and vigor, "asking no
fsvors and shrinking from no responsible
ites;" man of activity and energy, with
out bluster or parade of ffrmness, without
Obsunacy; of self-reliance, without vanity
or presumptuOusnPss a man of quick
perceptions, rapid reasoning powers, sound
judgment and prompt decision; man
who owes nothing to favoritism, but who,
"by dint of merit" has "achieved great
ness" and who, Notwithstanding the emil
nence to which he has risen, has not be-
come dizzy-brained, but is the same sim
ple-mannered, level-headed man he was
before, and who walks the tOppling heights
of fame with the same firm step, undazzled
eve, calm, clear, steady mind and modest
bearing, for which he was noted in the
humble and obscure lowlands of life.
Possessing the qualities have enUmer-
ated, Grant, if elected, can not be other
than safe President.
i Prudent and moderate himself, in every
thing, he will give You an economical ad-
ministratiOn. Having a competency, and
being content Herewith, avarice will new
er tempt him to make any compromise
with the eorruptionists who have been so
long plundering the people, but with a
whip of cords he will scOurge them from
the offices of the Government, overthrow
ing the tables of the mOney-changers and
the hribers. Owing his nomination and
his election to the people alone, and not to
party leaders and party strategy, he will
1aV V-a dc t, 4
punish" ," and will, therefore, administer
the Government for the country at large,
and not in the interests of political par
ty. For the same reason, his appoint
ments to Office will be directed and con-
trolled by that good sense and shrewd in
sight into character which have enabled
him heretofore, in every instance, to select
the right man for the given place. A
thoughtful and self-rehant man, desti-
tute of vanity, and possessing the very
highest order of courage, physical and
moral, fatteTy will not seduce, nor threats
intimidate him, and he will administer
the government in accordance with what
may be his own judgment of what is-right
and proper in each particular case, and
not as clique of party leaders and hanP-
ers-on about Washington may require him
to do.
The first citizen of the Republic, great
without, and independent of Office, known
and admired throughout the world, his ad-
will command the worlds re-
spect, and assure the national honor, and
the recognition of our national rights
everywhere. But it is more particularly
in respect of our prospective domestic
troubles that Grant will he the safest Pres
ident we could possibly have, for domestic
troubles you have, and greatly augmented
ones you will have. An attempt is threat
ened to be made to overthrow, by violence
and bIoOdshed, the reconstructed govern
ments of the lately rebelliOus States, and
to dIsfranchise the black men of those
States. If such an attempt is to be made
if the war is to be fought over again, it
will be well to have, at the head Of the
Government, the first military man of the
nation. When the dark hour of trial does
come, if come it must. the loyal people of
the land, be their number great or small,
will gather around their President Grant
with no less alacrity and zeal. and with far
more hope than, in the gloomy days of the
late war, they gathered at the call of the
beloved President Lincoln. If the battle
for equal rights and equal liberties is to be
fought over again, no one is so worthy and
so fitting to bear the banner of the loyal
and the free, and command their forces,
as this man of the people, this sem of pow
erty and toll, this scOrner of wealth, this
cOntemner of Fictitious distinctions and
dignities, this plain, honest, sensible,
modest, economical, prude Mt, Industrious
citizen, this thorough gt ntleman, this most
illustriOus and successful General of the
age and world, Ulysses s. Grant.
Gentlemen, let US go TO work and elect
him.
Secretary McCulloch has declared
for Seymour. He does not like the
financial feature ofthe platfoam very
well, but he can't reconcile himself to
the reconstruction policy of Republi
cans. General Dix and Mr.. Wits,
Minister of Austria, on the other
hand, are for Grant, as is Senator
Fowler. of Tennessee