The union Democrat., 1868-12-19
SONORA. TUOLUMNE COUNTY. DECEMBER 1e 1865
Trying to steal Grant

The work of appropriating General Grant
stiii goes on with Toe different factions OF the
Muhgrei party, and some calling themselves
democrats aie not without faitu that he is
going to cheat tue Republicans" and turn
out Conservative. Tue blisstuI fellows of
tois latter type base their expectations upon
tue Idea THAI Grant actually has politIcal
Opinions ot his own, and thar he will assert
Those opinlons IN the face ot the party which
has elected HIM. They are bad Judges of ha-
man nature, and especially bad Judges OF
ueneral Grant. la the first place, be has
no intelligent political opinions of any de-
scription. lie never had any. When the
Democratic party ,cds the Democratic party
he Was Democrat that is, he assented to the
positions Ut the parry, aud moved along with
them Without understanding or caring what
they were. lie Is now with tne Mongrel party
he has Willingly and zeaiousiv acted as the
military tool ut It's daSpotism. So far as he
Is capable OF eonvictlon, he has adopted it's
passions aud aims. He has publicly commit
ted himself 70 have NO policy which is not
dictated by the party eieetlrg him. After
the experience the leaders vi that party have
had, II is hot to he imagined that they would
trust another Presidential nominee without
definite pledges. But the hop, full aud con-
scientiouS "Democrats" reason that "he de-
ceived President johnson, aud he NAV, there
fore. deceive the Radicals.n We will not
pause here to admire the high sentiments of
honor which rest IN the bosoms OF those who
eau ind consolation In such an expectation !:
out We may, In passing, remark that, accord
lng to their own estimate of Grants honor.
he is u very sandy foundation to build upon
Ii Is not even the 'honor among theves.n
But, claiming Grant by Democrats shows
a fearful pitch Ut decentralization, not to saw of
depravlty. Ii Is at least proof that those who
are gullty OF 1t are without fixed principles.
"A political party, in their view, is only an
organizations to get power and emolument no
matter by what means. If it is not grand
swindilng machine, it is the next thing 60 it,
THIS Is the greatest cause Of the Democratic
defeat In Connecticut, Pennsylvauia, Ohio
and Indiana. The majority of the people of
these States are opposed to all the leading
measures OF the Mongrel party. But the
CHASTITY principles of the party were all more
or less hid under cloud of ''loyalty" which
tue Democratic party itself helped raise.
And, as 1t this we're not folly enough, the
some lncomprehensibe dolts are now trying
to convince themselves aud the Democratic
masses that the Mongrel standard bearer is a
Democrat. Will the good Lord help these
folks to little sense, or little honor? Ii
they believe Grant to be Democrat. thew
are foolish, AID if they do not believe him to
be one, while they affirm, that he is, they are
something worse than foolish. And. as TO
which OF the Mongre: factions has him. does
Lot much concern the Democratic party for
whichever way he goes, gives only the choice
vi negroes. lt Is a choice in which the Dem
ocratic party cannot figure without destruc-
ton to Itself. There is no faction of Mongrelism
which Is not on the opposite side of the toliti-
cal universe from Democracy. The so-called
Democrats who are trying to appropriate
Grant are simply plotting to steal an ele-
phant They will have to drop him even
with more haste than they did johnson,
who has teen of no use to the Democratic
party. except to demoralze and deceive it.
But Grant is not going to play the role of
johnson. lie will hug the line of Mongre-
ism, and be as willing tool of all its leading
abominations as it's most devoted disciple can
reasonably desire. But, until he is fairly in
the Mcngrel harness, the Democratic party
we perceive, must lay around loose like the
drunkard's milk upon the dresser, just to ac-
commodate few leaders in the pleasing
experiment of trying to steal Grant. Who
was that philosopher who discovered that
"the fools are not all dead YETI" Now is a
good time for the Democratic party to build
monument to his memory.-Day-Book.