Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-30
The President.


The ferocious abuse of Gen. Grant
by the Democrotic press is an illus
tration of the real feeling of that
party. 1t can not forgive his victory
over the rebellion. 1t hopes by o
fog of slander to obscure the national
remembrance of his great and glori-
Gus service to the country. But the
people of the United States know
very we'll that the worst mistake oil
his administration is white as snow
compared with the deeds of that nest
of traitors and rebels. the last Demo
cratic National Administration.
While the Democratic papers sneer
at the Cabinet, whose personal char
acter and efficient official service they
can not question, the people have not
forgotten the last Democratic Cabinet,
in which Jeremiah S. Black, who de
clared that the Union could not law
fully be maintained by arms, was
Secretary of State; and Howell
Cobb, one of the chief rebel chiefs,
was Secretary of the Treasury, plot
ting to destroy the national credit
and Jacob Thompson was Secretary
of the Interior; and Isac Toucey, who
sent the national ships out OF reach,
was Secretary of the Navy; and John
B. Floyd, who tried to transfer the
national arms to rebels before the
war began, who fed as rebel Gener-
al from Fort Donelson, and who died
execrated by every honorable Ameri
can, was Secretary of War.
The precious society of patriots
was the last Cabinet which the Demo-
cratic party furnished to the country,
and its head was James Buchanan,
whose supporters, now gibe at Gen.
Grant! James Buchanan was the
faithful instrument of the slave mas
ters, and when they raised their hands
to destroy the Union and the govern
ment, that great Democratic states
man, under the advice of jeremiah
Black, whimpering that they had no
right to do so, but that the country
had no right to help itself! These
were the men whom the Democrat
party and papers, which now abuse
Gen. Grant, called to power when
they last carried a 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 Caro-
Ina, and Blair from Missouri, when
he said that he would undo recon
struction by the army, so it would
send Jefferson Davis from Mississip
pi and Robert Toombs from Georgia,
could it but have a little more en-
couragement.
The Democratic hatred of General
Grant is the Ku- Klux hatred of loyal
men in the Southern States. He is
the perpetual monument of the crush
ed rebellion. His presence in the
White House is the constant asser
ton of supremacy of the Republican
principles of liberty, union and law.
The same spirit which hissed at Lin
coin as gorilla and a despot. and at
the Union soldieis as hirelings, de-
nounced Grant in the field as butch
er and scolds at him now as a fool
But he was not dismayed by Demo
cratic rage when it took the form of
fire, and he is not likely to be dis
heartened by il now that it is iroth.
Bet when abuse is loudest it is well
to reflect what party it is that utters
it, and how its men and its services to
the country compare with Gen. Grant
and what he has done. 1t is natural
that those who thought Robert f.
Lee Christian hero and gentleman
should think Gen. Grant a butcher /;
that those who sneer at Longstreet
as unfaithful to his cause because,
when conquered, he honestly surrend-
cred, should refuse to honor Geu.
Thomas; and that those who excused
the horrors of Andersonville should
make light of the Ku Klux Klan.
This is all natural, but is it to such q
spirit that the government of the
country can be safely intrusted
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