The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-11-03

The United States Collector at Sa-
wanna has proved himself an inefable
ass. His deputies ,hoisted the flag at
half mast, owing to Gen. Lees death,
and he ordered it up to full mast, and
telegraphed to Washington for in
structions. We regret to say that Sec
retary Boutwell, sustained him. If
public officials think anything is gain
ed by this course, they are much mis-
taken. The man is dead, and though
we condemned him living, only ghOuls
will display animosity in the grave.
We copy the above from the, ST. Paul
Dispa teh, Radical paper conducted
by Ii. r. w. Hall, late local editor of
the Portage County Democrat, and II.
P. Hall, his brother. Itisinihappy con-
trast witt. the coarse and yindictiVe
assaults that are heaped upon the dead
chieftain. That Gen. Lee was a Chris
tian soldier, ripe scholar and q gen
tleman of purity of character and hon
esty of motive is attested by all who
knew him, and impartial history will
do him ample justice. That he COM
mitted a great error in following the
fortunes of his State in the late war
may be true, but it lily becomes those
who canonize Wendell Phillips, Lloyd
Garrison, the murderer John Brown
and their followers, who de-
voted the greater portion of their
lived in efforts to destroy the Union,
to hurl their anathemas at any one fer
the commission OF single mistake.
1t don't look well for the Journals of
party that numbers among its bright
est ornaments such men as Ben. Wade,
Horace Greely and hundreds of Others
of the same kind, who at, and before
the breaking out of the late war, OPEN
ly advocated the right of a State to Sc
cede, to denounce man as o traitor
and attempt to cover his name with
obloquy. for having followed their
teachings and advice by following the
fortunes ofhis State. 1t is in exceed
ing bad taste for the organs of q party
which bestows Offices OF tn" highest
honor and profit in its gift upon the
great leaders of the rebellion, like
Longstreet, Akerman, Brown and
others, merely because they lend them
selves to the the work of subverting
the government of the founders of the
Republic and building upon it ruins a
centralized .despotism,tt to- howl their
denunciations around the grave of
| the dead chieftain who honestly ac-
cepted the issue of the war and yainly
hoped for the maintenance of the Con-
stitution and Government bequeath-
ed US by the p ttriots OF theRevolu-
iton. ..s..5 -, .i,;.,,- ~. f,..5....,
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THR New York Post, Radical, don't
believe that Secretary Cox resigned
for spersonal and private reasons, p p
1t says:tag s.. -gta.tg.. 4zse.i i.5..:I
There is not a word of truth in
driven out of the Cabinet by the in-
trigues . of parcel of "nieni inside
politics" who could not misuse his
department for their. own purposes
while he was at its head, and to whose
solicitations President Grant weakly
suecumbed. It is. not pleasant for
those who have long been friends of
the President, and who wonld be but
too glad to support him, to know that
in this matter his course has been to-
tally indefensibIe and that tits not
for the good of the country, but for
the advantage. of a set of corrupt and
corrupting political schemersi that
General Grant has suffered General
Cox to be driven from his side. isi,i u;