The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1871-10-06


And enemies NAY rail.
He thinks at last the world to show.
.TLcre's TO such word rs fail"
The soldier on the battlefield,
When tlirsiing 10 be free,
And throw aside Il tyrant's Chain,
Says "On for liberty,
Our households and our native land
We must, We. will prevail;
Then foot TO foot. and hand TO hand
There's no such word as fail y
Reasons why the lieplbllcans Can
Not Nominate Grant-.-Grant's
Charactcricss AIyisers---.SimOM
Cameron, the Corvupt;Onist---O.
l.. MortUn, the Defer Of Dccen-
cy, and shameless inipuGcncc.
Ex-Congressjnan Julian's Indiana
,,atlical contains the following:
As TO General Grant, it will not 10 TO
nominate him for ii number of good
reasons. Of Which the following may be
specified: 4 large division Of the Re-
publican party hold 10 The old WLig
dogma OF one Presidential term. ard
believe il utterly corlur..lig 10 have Il
President employing all his pow cr> dur-
Ing his frs, tSrM OF oflicc in securing u
second. They believe thc Presidential
Office. thus abused, become unii, for tic
same hands for q second term.
Ncry many Republicans are opposed.
upun principle. To eleciing nililar.
clictiain- To ihis high oiiicc. They see
,nits,,l, in militssy. life and trainingtc
luntii Il inan. aud nothing nj al 10 cualif.
l.im. for civil administration.
MnliituGcs Of Republicans arc out
ragged by Grants shameful official favc!-
ism for lis own kindred. which have
been publicly defended and even laldcd
by Senator Morton, who paraded his
sycophaney in his late Louis
VILE speech.
Not less offensive TO honorable in-
stincts las been bis open acceptance Of
rich presents from men Of wealth, who
have been paid back in lucrative and
honorable positions. Nothing could gol
farther TO dcbauch our politics utterly
than such an example from Tie chief of
The nation.
His lawlcss and unconstitutional acts
in the san Domingo affair. and i,is Or
ganizcd conspiracy to degrade Charles
sumner, and put Simon Cameron in his
official place, i very far from the least
Of the reasons formot reEominating him.
if success is desired 10 which might he,
added his exploits in the late "Gatiing-
gun Convention in Louisiana.
And, finally. ifa man IL 70 be known
by the company he keeps Grant would
have 10 be condemned under this rule,
If 10 other objection could be urged.
His intimate friends, companiohs, and
advisers are such men as PUncrOy.
whose conscicIice has long since ceased
to perform lis Office, and whose public
life las been a calamity TO KANSAS
Simon Cameron. whose political career
has illustrated every phase Of audarity.
kbaycry. and corruption, and whose
National reputation in these particulars
is pcrfccily established and uncballcng-
ed, and q. II. Morton. whose private
character has been n coniiniicd defiance
Of deccncy. while in public life he has
been on nearly all sides of every qucs-
tion from The beginning of his career 10
this time mounting tie yrecnbnck the
DRY few years since, and dismouiislie
il the moment hc thought il would not
pay: swinging around the circle with
Andy Johnson in 1865. and swinging
back again when lie found the swing
went the wrong way: tenOuncimg
Charles Sumner md the Radicals III his
famous Rici.mond speech, and the next
year eating his own words and impu-
IDENTITY taking the highest scat IN The
Radical synagogue, while cviMcing IN
his whole public career total lack OF
any honest Institution or any heartfelt
sympathy for The truth as a thing 10 be
priced aud maintained for its own sake.
These men ARE enough 10 damn a better
man than Giant and u thoroughly true
iman, fit TO Lc President OF the United
states would not select tlcm az his most
intimate confidential friends aud advis-
crs, and surrender 10 them the chief
control Of public affairs, committed TO
him under soicmpitics Of anoatl.
These objections 10 Gen. Grant. tosay
nothing of others, will defeat his election.
il nominated. They would have far
less weight ifparties, instead Of tending
TO sisihtcgration. were, conpacily or
ganizcd, on living and clearly defined
issues: aud they migll, be entirely over
baMc IN the lJivsciscc ofa great NaiioE-
\ al danger. sunsmoning tho patriotism oI
tthe country 10 jts rcseue. No sucl, dan !
ger IL now manifested. We arc vol
ldcaling with The past. Ey-gollcs hay,
had their dAy. and we arc NOW called u,
~" act intlc living rrctcr,.T ~ Nlrt.'