The Van Buren press., 1868-08-21
Sick of Radicalism.
The following is from "Our Country,
Middletown, Connecticut:


They are coming out for Seymour,
Five hundred thousand more.
Everywhere changes are going on from
the Radical to the Democratic ranks.
Among the latest Of those who have re-
nounced Grant and taken ground on the
true Union side, is Major Gen. w. T,
Ward, Of Kentucky, who was gallant
Union soldier in the recent civil war, He
comes out for Seymour and Blair Gen.
Ward is known everywhere as gallant
soldier. He served honorably in the
Mexican war; has represented the 4th
Kentucky districtin Congress, and distin-
guished himself in the late war as one OF
the bravest and most efficient generals in
the Federal army, .sr.R saata II gu. ly
The Clinton County GIL. Independent,
formerly a Radical organ, has abandoned
that party and advocates the true repub-
lican principles of Democracy. The ed
itor of The independent has been a Re
publican ever since the organization Of
that party, but he says he " can't stand it
any longer A recent number Of his
paper had the following sharp but true
paragraph:
NEARLY all the decent men who ever be-
longed to the Republican or Radical party
have left, and many more VIII leave 1t Us soon
as they learn the truth. Chief justice Ciiase,
Senators Trumbull, Crime, Ross, tessenden,
Cowan. Doolttle, Dixon, and even the Presi-
dent of the United States have left the party
since il fell into the hands of spch dirty
thieves as Beast Butler, Dirty Work Logan,
and original fanatics and abolitionists like
Stevens and Sumner"
And the Church Union, progress
i've" religious journal, which is certainly
not Democratic, thus abandons Grant to
his ungodly associates:
"General Grant is not fit man for Chris
tian to support. Here now is this
speechess sphynX enveloped in cloud of to-
bacco smobe--silcnt. stubborn man of the
world. Suppose he takes it into his head to
convert his four years grant of power into q
life-lcase or any other whim? He has the
army at his command and every evil influence
in the land will support him. We do not say
this will be, but is it proper for Christian men
to give over the executive power OF this ma
tion into such hands"
The Providence (R l. Journal, stiff
Radical paper, has the folloming peril
nent paragraph:
"Senator Doolittle, Andrew Johnson, Edgar
Cowan, G.. "A. Browning, William ii. Seward
Gideon Wells, Frank Blair, William III. Evarts,
Montgomery Blair, and Chief Justice Chase.
were among the most trusted and radical lead
ers of the Republican party, in the beginning
of 1861. More in sorrow than in anger we
have to concedc that these men are now act
ing against the party which honored and
trusted them"
A Western German paper, the organ
of the Turner's Society, likewise deserts
the Radical party, for sufficiently strong
reasons, two of which are here added;
"3. We will not vote for Grant, because the
Chicago platform is not forward, but ret
rorade step We will here only call attention
TO the plank when declares that negro suffrage
must be carried out in the South but not IN
the North. BY this scurrilous pusillanimity II
is sought 10 inveiglo conservative votes, but
this dclusion will soon be dispelled. Whoever
Is opposed to negro suffrage in the North Will
wish to see the South exempt from the same
blessing.
~ We will not vote for Grant because, by
the result of the recent impeachment trial. the
powers of the President have been enlarged
that to place them in the hands of soldier,
in case of a revolution or foreign war may
prove the destruction Of the RepubUc Silent
ambitious Grant Is best adapted 10 carry out
reasonable designs, more SO than n Democrat
ic President from the civil ranks. Democrats
cannot make matters worse than they now
are. Let them exert themselves TO this end
it will bring the publie sooner to Its sober
sense