The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-05-04
SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE.


Andrew johnson, while President, enacted
scene which Radical papers denominateo
" swinging around the CIRCLE" and the speeches
be made while going through the performance
were commented on in anything but compll'
mentary manner. The result OF Andy's trip
was anything but satisfactory to himself or 10
his friends. General Grant accompanied him
throughout his peregrinations, and yet he seems
to have derived no lessons of political wisdom
from such experience.
The performance which resulted so disas-
trously to Mr. johnson is being re-enacted by
his successor, with this variation in the pro-
gramme; that instead Of making fool OF him.
self by delivering his own speeches, he is being
made fool of by some one else speaking tor
him. The telegraph informs us that during
his trip west. while en- route for st. Louis, Mr.
Grant held a reception at Indianapolis and ac-
tualy succeeded in addressing public meet
ing in speech of two or three minutes dura-
ton, being followed, as matter of course, by
one Vi MS ucuCuIuSu, oShueoi @Ao'sS"f So -
speech occupying about two hours.
Mr.. Morton asserted that he believed the
Act recently passed by Congress to inaugurate
military despotism in the South was consti
tutional, and then INDUCED, in his usual brazen-
faced manner, in TRADE OF abuse OF the
Southern people, and wild vaccinations of the
intentions and designs of the Democratic party.
He even went so far as to state that the sue
cess of Democracy would result in the re-en-
slavement of the negro race, and the actual
secession of the Southern States. Such reck-
less assertions will find few believers in any
portion of the country, outside of the most
ultra Radicals and bigoted fanatics.
Grants "let US have peace" has changed
into let us have war. The Ku-Klux bugbear
afforded the Radicals in Congress an excuse
for the passage of the most infamous measure
which has ever disgraced the statute books of
the country; measure which will result in
placing the South under martial law and prob
ably secure Grants denomination, and, if neces-
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ton will be rejected in the electoral college.
Grant is playing n desperate game, and will
resort to any measure, fair or foul, TO accom-
plish his designs Such plant tools as Morton,
Conklng, Harlan, Butler and Chandler have
proven themselves TO be, will scruple at moth
ng however infamous it may be, if by so doing
they can secure another lease of power for the
.yooden-h headed ex-hiie-scraper of GalCna.
The corrupt element, the slum of the Repub.
ican party, including the bread and butter
brigade, will fight the next Presidential cam
oaign, in the Radical nominating Convention,
inder the banner of Grant; while Schurz,
Sumner, Trumbull, Wilson and others, who
AVE been the leaders of the Republican party
n the better days of the Republic, and who |
lead the honest, fair-minded and respectable |
dement, of that party, will refuse to be die
ated to and governed by the mercenary and /
Inscriptions villain who accidentally occupies,
ut successfully disgraces the position OF Chief
Magistrate OF the American people.
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