Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-09

duu patronage. w OrS0 St1ll. as the FOL.
lowing startling hypothesis indicates
"f ne can carry a Convention by
means of cash now, what is to hinder
his carrying the country by cannon foul
years hence ?'' Sure enough! The
ailiteration is itself sufficiently fright
ful, to say nothing of the terrible ex.
plosion that may follow! Further: ''Ii
the Republican party had not lost the
vigor of its early virtue, ii would throw
the usurper from Its shoulders in scorn.
and sweep his or eatures from its coun.
ellis as so much offal." But here is the
climax: "Ail honor to the hero of Vicks-
burg! All gratitude to the conaueror
of the Confederacy! But to the Exc
eutive Usurper defeat, disgrace, infamy,
that his fate may be an everlasting ad-
monition % PEG '' q,
Now search through all the columns
OF all the Democratic and Rebel journ-
ais, South and North, and no bitterness
OF invective, no wiidneSs of assertion.
no foulness of imputation, no wanton-
ness of, personal traducement toward
President Grant can be found compar-
able to this specimen Of Liberal Repub-
licahism. 1t needs no reply and is its
own best refutatlon. When the Golden
Age shall truly arrive, will such be its
manners or distinguishing veracity ?
To Illustrate the. recklessness with
which such sweeping charges are given
to the winds, I'm the, editorial article
preceding the one from which these are
made is. the following declaration /:
'"Our feeling toward Preident Grant
and bis; partisans Is not at all hostile or
bitter(D. We are of those who respect
him hfghly''(D him of Chronic stupid
ity and political insagacity''; who puts
"his haif-imbecile and half-knayish re-
latIves into Offices which theydisgrace'';
who 1conniyes at corruption and pa
trOnizes thieves; who means to carry
his reelection in the first instance by
"cash,s and the second, if need be, by
cannon; and who, for his prohigate
use OF government patronage, "ought
to be impeached I" So the same double
tongued journal, on another occasion.
after pouring viais of defamation on
President Grants head, in utter rebuke
Of its conduct and fiat Contradiction of
its charges, proceeded to say: ssNo un-
kindly word has soured or enlbittered
these columns toward man whom his.
cOuntrymen have delighted to honor.
We are among the friendliest Of his
foes, among the gentlest of his critics(!).
His faithfulness to the negro entities
him to the gratitude of all Abolitionists
land of the entire colored population OF
the country likewise1. Wedo not be-
lieve that he has ever. tried to put an
unlawful penny into his pocket. More
over, his public policy has been char
acterized by uprightness. however IL
may have failed in ability" But
enough of such incoherency! An, up-
right administration is good. ~ i.,il
Not less disingenuouis and untruthful
is the allegation Of the anti Grant Lib
eralists that his denomination will be
owing to the combined efforts of an
army of officeholders, and not to the
voice of the Republican par
ty itself. 1t will be the act of the pdrty, 4
solidiy combined, intelligently govern
ed, independently moved, and inflex-
IDLY resolved; and to the ratification of
the act BY those who are in office no
discredit' is to be eattached,s but rather
comnefidation. For are these the con-
of popular government
that all, or at least the great
body, of those holding office under it
are men utterly devoid of personal in
tegrity and public trustworthiness; and
that, consequently, they should not be
allowed the common right of citizens
TO act in the election of chief maeis-
5rate? Then they are not only per
oStracised, but upon the peo-
pie rests the disgrace of their appoint
n1ent! The only logical deduction from
This shameful state of things seems to |
be that there should be neither any
)ffiee-hol,iing nor any popular govern
nent at all; for they are inseparable in |
his country, and must stand or fall |
.ogether. l..5-D R!ltIE laE Is3d4Ds.l |
There is no more warrant for this at !
ack upon ficeholders EN- zedsSe under |
Grant than there was for similar i'm
1eaehment under Washington, Adams,
Jefferson, or Lincoln. That among |
hem there are, always have been, and |
always will be base peculators and un-
aithful servants may readily be con-
'eded; but such are. exceptional cases,
lgainst which no foresight can guard, /
because the proof ,naust be in the trial.
That under any administration, upon I
he extension of which their continu-
lnce in Office may depend, they should /
"
lesirous of said extension, is not sur.
,rising; for, other things being eqgal,
t is not in human nature for those who
ire in respectable position to take
tuck in any movement that will insure
heir ejectment therefIom. Those who |
ire out of Office are no better, and, as
general rule, act from no higher mo-
ives. Put them in the same Places,
md they will behave in the same way. |
But, whether in or out of Office, no man /
8 thereby;to be deprivedof bis right to |
lttend any meeting or be a delegate to
my convention, whether in reference
10 state or national elections; nor is he
% be cried down as corrupt self-seeker
when he exercises this political prerog-
tive, in common. with his fellow
citizens. aillf.4sif.p -irf- ,f --,t-,,f.i-e,-tf
President Grants strong point is that
ne is sustained by the mass of the peo-
Die, whose choice those in Office cannot
and may mist heartily sane
ion without any impeachment of their
motives. 4 That choice will be- COM
nandingly5i expressed In q delegated
orm at Philadelphia, in. June, and sue
.essfnlly ratified at the polls in Novem-
)er, all factions and so-called Liberal
levices to. the contrary n0twithstand-
ng whether made at, Cincinnati or
cal -sF Df7f usu a.fI ASS I
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