Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-09-05

ton occurred is now so Overwhelmingly
proved that even his traducers have nearly
ceased to press the SANDER; and, besides,
the law authorizing this sale confined the
matter so exclusively to the judgment, di-
rection and control of the Secretary of War
as to make the President no more response
bic for the act than is the President of this
meeting.
They say he made war on San Domingo,
and endangered the liberties of 10000 ne
groes! But 1t was war where no gun or
pistol, or bow and arrow, or sword or knife,
was ever used or heard of, and where the
only military act was that, out somewhere
In the ocean, one sky-rocket went up one
night, and, so far az is known, never came
down. They have made hideous the very
land with prearranged concert of noises
about "nepotism." Led by the gong of Mr..
Sumner and the kettle-drum of Mr.. Schurz,
and followed by the penny-whistles of Trum-
bull and Upton, they have vexed the ears of
the nation with the diabolical din until the
people thought their public offices were
teeming in thousands with Grants and Dents.
But beholdi When their noises ceased, SO
that we could hear what has happened, you
ind out that, out of the tens of thousands
of political places at the Presidents disposal,
just nine are held by relations of his family,
counting down to department clerks, and to
the husband of cousins in the third degree.
And of these nine the President really select
ed just two. Two in number-a Constable
OF Jne DlsJTlcI OIL OOlunDla, ana InlrQ-ClaSS
diplomat down at Gautamala in rank, just
match, in dignity, with this chorus of the
gongs.
They describe him as surrounded by mill
tary "rings," when the truth is that the
Presidents first act was to dispense with
the military guard by which the Presidents
house was patroled when he came in and
the only ring which he keeps is two of Sher-
mans staff, kept as his private secretaries,
at not one farthing of cost to the Govern
ment and just as General Taylor kept Col
Bliss, and as Jefferson kept Captain Lewis
Clark-both officers in the army.
These are the accusations-the very best
in indignity they can scrape up. To say of
them all that they are either mere common
slanderers, or, else so poor and frivolous as
to scarcely excite our contempt, is, affirm,
what will be written of them when cold,
just, relentless history shall make up the
records of its heroes and the deeds of the
ingrates who malign them.
Fellow citizens, l know the President. By
my knowledge of the man and his life, by
my admiration of truth, by my detestation
OF the deep wrong involved in these offenses
against truth, against public morals and
taste, and against the demands of gratitude
toward nations benefactor, l repel these
wrongs. And, repelling them, affirm, what
mankind will record when the bad passions
of this hour are past-frst, that the deeds of
General Grant are the grandest events of the
nineteenth century.
l declare next, that the results of these
events are, in their values, the most mo-
mentous found in the history of free govern
ment.
l declare, next, included in these results of
Grants life is the existence of the Union of
these States, and the rescue of republican
liberty upon this planet.
| declare, next, and in response to those
who accuse him of infidelity to the black
race that one single sentence of that in
augural which, to the shout of fifty thousand
people, l heard him utter from the east
porch of the capitol, and which is in these
words: Il entertain the hope and express
the desire that it (the right of the colored
man to vote) may be settled by the ratifica-
tion of the 18th article of amendment to the
Constitution" did more for the colored man
than all the acts in the lives of all his traduc-
ers put together.
! 1 declare, next, that to them who accuse
him of undue ambition, self-importance, or
| spirit of the despot, that 1 never saw either
in life or in history of eminent captains or
magistrates one in whom the graces OF
modesty, magnanimity, Difference for and
consultation of the opinions of those entitled
to advise, and readiness to correct mistakes,
when discovered, are so combined and con-
spicuous as in the character of the President.
Already this is decided by all Just men in
other lands, and by the impartial and dis
eliminating, even of his enemies at home of
which Alexander 81. Stephens is sample.