The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30

ls of the murderings of colored soIdie
y elsewhere under that standard of 7
bellion, the stars and bars.
9 The starvation at Andersonville, IL
n marking out of the "dead inen- ther,
|, and the shooting of those who crawle
, |, across it for a cup of pure water, or {
j those who stepped over it deliberatel
Z to end their miseries-this whole ur
, utterable story of woe is fully expresses
in this revived motto of the .Qouaot
, racy, Anything to beat Grant
The same motto controlled at Sails
bury With plenty of material for shad,
and shelter, the Union prisoners wer'
left to burrow IN the ground like ami
mails and lest sun. and rain, and frost
and loathsome food should not kill them
fast enough, materials were ground in
with the musty corn they were fed up
on. Inside that ghastly prison pen
honeycombed with burrows, but one
terrible rule was law: Anything To
beat Grant, Outside, along these
Heightened trenches, where the corpses
when received were skeletons, the only
ctt ihA cCA viCO ubtCECu WIND
to beat Grant" And this service, and
this alone, was said over trench after
trench till eighteen, each nearly hun
dred yards in length, were filed with
uncoffined soldiers, murdered Z" TO beat
Grant,
As at Andersonville, and Salisbury,
and the other noted prisons, SO the cow
ardly and inhum cry sounded above
the roar of the rapids about Belle Isle.
There, in full sight OF the residences of
Lee and Davis, IN full view of the reb.
ell Cabinet and the rebel Congress, was
the low, fat tongue of the island, where
thousands of the "boys in blue'' sank
under starvation and cold-starved "to
beat Grant"
Those unfortunates found by the
Union armyon entering Wilmington, who
were bereft of reason through exposure
and want of food, who could not tell
their names, their regiments, or their
homes, and who died with the bread too
long delayed in their hands, were yic-
Tins to the one handspring of rebel &C
tion there" Anything to beat Grant"
In substance it was the one excusing
SiJ ioi dii tIC Slu6 Which, uUdl-
ished under the crime of treason. Any.
thing to destroy the Union; anything
to weaken the Union forces anything
TO exterminate Union soldiers or Union
men anything to beat Union Generals
anything to crush the Republican par
ty anything to beat Grant. Each and
all signified the same, and in their
names every outrage that disgraced the
page of rebel warfare was perpetrated
From the firing on Sumter to the final
surrender, either in essence, or in exact
language, the one motto, cited to cover
all forms ofatrociry, was the watchword
of to-day" Anything to beat Grant"
Violate all rules of civilized war, i'll
treat prisoners, starve them, disable
them, if need be murder them. Any
thing to beat Grant. Plan to Burn
Northern cities, plan to poison them,
plan to infect them with contagious
diseases. Anything to beat Grant.
When the war closed the cry did not
cease. Bootf- acted upon its spirit
when, with this accemplices, he muir
dered the President, and attempted
the lives of the Cabinet officers. With
him t was Anything to beat the Re
publican party" f
AndrewiJohnson followed him, and
tried by political treachery to restore
what the rebels III arms had lost. And
with him the problem of defeating re-
construction was at last r question of
beating Grant. .rs -.
The Seymour campaign, fought out
upon the principles of the BrOadhead
letter, was but call for a rebel rally to
beat Grant. - ',Hf~
Later the -Klux banner has sport
ed the motto. By Is enforced author
ity Northern men have been driven
out of the South, their property de-
stroyed, and their lives often taken.
Union men have lived IN one long
reign of terror. Colcred citizens have
been prosecuted beyond the limits
which the old slave. code tolerated,
broad as those li,aits were. By whip
ping, by murders, by burnings, by ter
rorisms of all kinds, by every means
which d vi1isn ingenuity could devise,
this organization has worked indus
triously Each masked maraudeY shout.
ing to his fellow: " Anything to beat
Grant"
1t is true that the motto, as used
through the war, had but little person
al reference to Grant, btt always to the
cause, or the principles (which he and
the other Union leaders representa-.
And the old cry which is ringing out
again 80 fercely now, does not apply to
Gen. Grant as a person, but to the select
ed standard bearer of the Republican
party. There are many who would not
have chosen him for the position, but
now that he holds it must work, and
wilLwork heartily to secure victory, not
for him, but for The Union party which
he represents.
In this contest for many, Gen, Grant
as parson receives only secondary con-
siderstion, but for all Republicans Gen.
Grant as the candidate of their party
stands as the representative of all that
was gained by the war, aae the good
that has come to the country in the
years which have succeeded it.
As IN the years of thewar the loyal
North made answer to the rebel shout,
Anything to beat Grant," by pushing
on its columns in a never ceasing
march, sparing no effort till victory es.
taolisned peace so, when the same
shout rings over the land again, there
will surely be loyal rally to preserve
what those brave columns wrested from
the old foe on its feet again.