The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-12-15
The Presidents Message.

One might as we'll expect to gather grapes
Of thorns, or figs of thistles, as to look for
any broad and statssmanlike views in
Message. or any other State paper, emarat-
ing from the present incumbent Of the White
House. The Message. in the language OF
the New York Sun, Radical paper, sis
poverty stricken document" Stung to des>
peration by his recent humiliating defeat in
the Southern States, Grant sets out in his
Message with the following fagrant perver-
sion Of the truth 1T is to be regretted that
free exercise of the elective franchise has,
by violence and intimidation, been denied to
citizens in exceptional cases in several Of the
States lately in rebellion, and the verdict OF
the people has thereby been reversed" Com
ing from the source it does, this broad and
sweeping declaration is decidedly cool. Who
was it that by 'violence and intimidation"
interfered with the free exercise of the elects
i've franchise at the late election in North
Carolina2 1t was this same q. S. Grant,
when he sent large bodies of U. s. troops
into that State to overawe and terrify the
people in the free exercise of their opinions.
Who committed the same outrage in the city
of New York at the November election2 1t
the election polls in Florida, Alabama, and
other Southern States at the same election
It was U. s. Grant, who now seems so deep
Iy concerned about the purity of the ballot.
Who only few days ago ordered troops
into Georgia, to intimidate the voters of that
State at the coming election and to sustain
his friend Bullock, who is the vilest fraud
that ever disgraced the Executive chair of
any State in the Union2 Where is the evil
dence upon which Grant bases this charge
of violence and intim idstion." on the part
Of the people of the South 2 There is none,
nor can any be produced. So far as Ala
bama is concerned, there is q direct question
Of veracity between Grant and Gen. Craw-
ford, who commanded the troops in that
State at the late election, who knows the
truth whereof he affirms, and who has de-
clared that the election was fair and peacea-
ble- And yet Grant charges an outraged
people with the very offence which he him
self has openly committed.
1t was to be expected that after the signal
failure Of the San Domingo job last summer,
at the hands of Republican Senate. that
corrupt scheme had been consigned to we'll
merited oblivion. But the prize is TOO tempt>
ing to be lightly abandoned. and Grant sur
passes all his former efforts, in his advocacy
of this vennl project. He calls it ''a great
price," just as Seward, his illustrious pred
ecessor in the purchase of real estate, styled
the acquisition of barren, sterile and frozen
San Domingo, the land of mulattoes and
chronic revolutions, seems lovely and oi
good report. Have the people asked him to
acquire it2 Has it ever been made test
question at any general election, as the an
nexation of Texas was in 1874? The treaty
between him and Baez having failed Of a
ratification by the Senate, he is now in favor
of joint resolution of Congress to effect the
same purpose. The Senate committee on
foreign affairs. majority of whose members
are we'll known to be hostile to the scheme
will effectually checkmate Grant in thi.
plundering job and give San Domingo, il
any shape it may assume, its everlasting
quietus.
These are the only two features of the
Message to which we have room this weeh
to refer.