The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-12-03
Oar President.

Now that Gen. Grant has been elected
by Republican votes clearly, upon dis
tinctive Republican platform, after having
been opposed by all the power and vigor
OF the Democratic party, fairly and unfair
ly brought into the election, we protest
against the shifting, patronizing air with
which he is now approached by the Dem
ocratic leaders, and the unasked for advice
which they tender to him for the purpose,
as they would have us believe, of assisting
him to have an acceptable administration.
1t is even proposed that an era of good
feeling be created by letting the Demo
cratic electors throw their votes for him.
in the Electoral College, and give him
unanimous election. This would all be
very well, excepting the consideration
which would be claimed by the Democracy,
and that, every one knows, would be a
good, generous share of public patronage.
This would afford to them the best era of
good feeling which could possibly be i'm
agined.
The tone of the Democratic people to-
wards Gen. Grant has wonderfully changed
since the election. During the campaign.
he was attacked with all the yirulence of
party malignity, and ridiculed as deficient
in military genius and possessing no quail
ifcations for the Presidential chair. Now.
the papers are filed with fattery and eu-
logies of the General, advising him in the
most condescending manner to pursue
policy toward the South, and
promising him the support of the Demo
cratic party if he will be little conserva-
tive and will make Congress repeal the
portion Of the reconstruction acts.
They would like to blot out of existence
the great fact that the American people,
by a majority of about three hundred
thousand, have just declared emphatically
in favor of the achole p,faciple of the re-
acts, without the least amend |
nent
But this is an old trick of the Democ- |
acy. Half loaf with them is always
,ery acceptable when the whole is out OF |
each. They always act uqvn the princi-
1le that ''every man has his price, and |
when they are defeated in popular cleo !
ion, and their candidates are repudiated,
hey begin to 'plow with our heifer" to
Al l. l.
# these involved in defeat.
Alas for the frailty of humanity, they
laYo i.cf hecn without their conquests in
his field They hav" found the oice Off
ers are not alone in corrupti.hility. There
we're John Tyler, Millard Filmoi.a. and
Andrew Johnson, who illustrated III their
'olitical experience that men selected to
ii irresponsible positions are rarely fitted
o occupy superior stations Not much
Ias required or expected of them in their
olitieal stations, and they have not disap-
ointed the expectations of their friends.
We are satisfied, however, that their
dvances and fattering proffers will pre-
cnt no temptations to our President. If
e was ever to fall, it would have been
7hen he was in Johnson's Cabinet, while
nder the insidious influence of Seward
nd the other members of the Cabinet. in
heir many councils to cntrap him. He
TODD all that, and came out unscathed
nd we can rest assured that his good
ommon sense and natural insight into
uman nature will protect him from all
milar traps. A. A. BARKER
The Jeff. Davis case will come up