Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-06-16
TIE PLATFORM OF GRANT AND
COLFAXs

C0LFAXf
The real platforms of Grant and Colfax
are to be looked for elsewhere than iu the
set of double faced resolutions passed by the
Chicago Convention. Here is a plank in re-,
latiou to the newspaper press which was laid
down By Grant:
s.HsAbauARrEns AsnfEs o. So
"IpAsHINeroS, Feb. II. 1856.
'sYou will please send to these Headquarters. IA
soon as practicable, and from time tin.e there
alter, such copies of newspapers published in your
department as contain sentiments of disloyalt and
hostility 90 the Government any of lite branches
.erance Of sueh sentiment. The persistent publ.
cation of artoes calculated TO keep up hostility
OF feeling between the people of different sections
of the country, cannot BE tolerated. Thesiu(orIna
tion 10 allied for with view to their suppression,
which will be done from these headquarters.
BY osdoF Of Lieut.. Gen. Grant.
''Assistant.Ad jutant General
The above infamous order was issued long
after the war had ended 1t shows readi.
mesa on the part Of General Gran. TO put the
most absolute and deapotic restraint upon the
freedom of the press. Hostility to the
Government or any of its branches" was re-
garded By him as a crime, and he deliberate
ly proposed to suppress all newspapers iudulg-
ing in criticism. We are sure there is no
intelligent American citizen who will not
agree that man capable Of issuing such an
order is entirely unfit to exercise the duties
Of President of the United States. He would
allow nothing to be published which might
not agree With the mandates of his ''loysl
highness," and the boosted freedom of the
press would no longer exist. ss.sf
But there is another order Of General Grant
which shows how he administered justice
when he was in command during the war:
nHEApnuAn1Ens. s3p AMY CoaPs,
DEPARTMENT or THE SEEgssEE,
oxFoRp, Mics December II, 1852 J
General Order No IL. "a.
The jews, ciass, violating every regulation
oitrate established by the Treasury Department..
also department orders, hereby expelled from
the department within twenty four hourB from
the receipt of this order by post Commanders.
They will that Il this class of people are fur
nizhed with passes, and required to leaves and any
one rcturning after such notification will be ar.
rested and held in Confinement until opport uEt-
ty occurs of sending them out prisoners. uniess
furnished with permits from these headquarters.
no passes will be given this Psopie to visit head
quarters for the purpose of making personal ppl
BY order of Major General Grant.
JOHN A. RAwLtNd, A. A. G.
Official: ]. Lovcil Captain and a. A. G.
The Jews, as class" will have to look
out if General Grant should be elected, or he
might order them out Of the country with the
same sweeping harshness that marks the above
despotio order.
But Mr. Schuyler Colfaz has platform of
his own quite as distinctive and charming as
tina, of General Grant. In 1854 he took the
following oaths at South Bend, Indiana.
"FIhsT DEoREE" as a kEt W. aoTsISo.
"fn the presence of Almighty God and these wit,
nesses do soiemnly promise and swear that will
not vote, give my influence, any rny
Office in the gift Of the people, unless he be 4eT
lean born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling
America nor II he Be a Roman Catholic"
''aEccSD DECREE"
I'm Tho presence of Almighty God and these VT.
nesses do selemnly and sincerely swear, ii II may
be leg aliy done, 1 WILL when elected appointed
to any official station conferring me the power
to do SO, remove Gtfoeigners 1iies Roma Cath
oiies from Office place, and that will in cdss
appoint such to any c6fcc or PGcsin my gift"
Mr.. Colfax has undertaken to aatter the
foreign. element siuce his nomination for Vice
President, but the oaths he took in the Know.
Nothing lodge are the best evidence Of his
real position.
Such are some of the nntecedents--and
only some-of tho Radical candidates, Grant
and Colfax.