Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-30
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scure the national remembrance
his great and glorious service {
the country, But the people {
the United States know very we
that the worst mistake ofhis admir-
istration is white as snow compare
| with the def DIS Of that nest Of trail
ors and rebels, the last Democrat
National Administration. Will
the Democratic papers sneer at tb
Cabinet, whose personal characte
and efficient official service the.
can not question, the people hay
not forgotten the last Democratic
| Cabinet in which jeremiah )
Black, who declared that the Iniol
could not lawfully be maintained
by arms, was Secretary Of State
and Howell Cobb, one Of the chiefs
was Secretary of the Treasury
plotting TO destroy the nationa
credit; and Jacob Thompson wa'
Secretary of the Interior, and Isaac
Toucey, who sent the nationa
ships out of reach, was Secretary
of the Navy, and John B Floyd
who tried to transfer the nationa
arms to rebels before the war be
gan, who fed as q rebel Genera
from Fort Donelson, and who diet
execrated by every honorable
American, was Secretary of War
The precious society Of patrio.'
was the last Cabinet which The
Democratic party furnished to the
country, and its head was james
Buchanan, whose supporters now
gibe at Gen Grant! James Blu
chanan was the faithful instrument
of the slave masters, and when
they raised their hands to destroy
the Union and the government
the great Democratic statesman
under the advice Of jeremiah
Black, whimpered that they had
no right to do 50, but tiat the coun,
try had no right to help itself
These were the men whom the
Democratic party and papers
which now abu,e Gen Grant
called to power when they last car.
ried national election. And the
party is not changed. AS it was
the organization by which slavery
worked its will then, so it is that
by which the Ku- Klux would
work its will now AS it elected
Vance to the Senate from North
Carolina, and Blair from Missouri,
when he said that he would undo
reconstruction by the army, so it
would send Jefferson Davis from
Mississippi and Robert Toombs
from Georgia, eonld it but have u
little more encouragement.
The Democratic hatred of Gen.
Grant is the Ku-Klux hatred Of
loyal men in the Southern States.
He is the perpetual monument OF
the crushed rebellion. His pres
ence in the White House is the con
stant assertion ofsnpremacy ofthe
Republican principles of liberty,
union aud law. The same spirit
which Kissed at Lincoln as
gorilla and despot, and at the
Union soldiers as hirelings, de-
nounced Grant in the field as a
and scolds at him low as
a fool.
But he was not dismayed by
Democratic rage when it took the
form Of fire, and he is not likely
to be dlsheartened by it now that
it is troth. But when the abuse is
loudest it is well to reflect what
party it is that utters II, and how
It's men and its services to theI
country compare with Gen. Grant
md what he has done, 1t is nat
lral that those who thought Robert
Z. Lee a Christian hero and gen
leman should think Gen. Grant a
that those who sneer at
Iongstreet as unfaithtul to this
iause because, when conquered,
10 honestly surrendered, should re-
use to honor Gen. Thomas; and
hat those who excused the honors
t Andersonville should make
gbt Of the Ku Klux- Kan, This
J all natural, but is it to such q
brit that the government Of the
the country can be safely in
usted ?