Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-06

turns It's back on General Grant after the tri-
umphs he has achieved, il will do wrong. To
defeat that man now and send him back into
the walks of private life, with the condemna-
tion of the American people upon him, would
be ar act of ingratitude not to be fogiven
this side of the great shining throne of
Heaven. Applause. | ask you to go to
any soldier in the United States and ask him
IL in the fearful ordeal of civil war he ever
received an unklnd word from that man.
He is plain, simple, little man, poor as pow
erty could make him, poor in everything but
that quiet, solemn mein that God gave him;
never heated. ever ready for the
worst crisis, he led us on to victory and
brought us back to security and to peace.
He has been President for four years, and
the great American people endorse and Tatify
him, and We see by the sentiment OF this
grand old convention of to-day that the peO-
pie will elect him for four years more. En-
thusiastic applause.l He is not a belles-let-
tres man; not at all; he is man of no very
great accomplishments; neither was the i'm
mortal Lincoln. Heis plain man, scarcely
able to defend himself in common speech;
he is not flippant with the tongue, nor glib
in speech, but deprived of that great comfort
of being able to make a stump speech.
Laughter and applause.l Occasionally, we
have all taken the liberty to make criti-
cisms upon him. We have said If VIC had
been President we would have done so and
so, but the trouble is we were not President.
The politicians have been decidedly severe,
and the papers have dealt with him severely.
We permit these American papers to say
what they please. Some of them are very
ably conducted, many of the articles
are well written, and we obtain TO m
them great deal of information;
but still we have no more idea of
letting them run this country than we had
of Andy johnson. 1t is the be-
lief of the American people that President
Grant sustained the country, and they insist
upon nominating him again. They say about
him that he has appointed too many rela-
tives to office. This is Just as a United
States Senator would do; just as a Governor
would do. This occasionally he did, and
we all pretend to be mad about it. 1t is
very little, a trifling thing. He is the man
who has dealt with your finances, been hon
est in the collection of the taxes; who has
paid the debt so fast that you cannot keep
up with it. There is no Democrat or any
| body who was at Cincinnati who can tell
how fast he has paid it. They say that he
is entitled to no credit for that, because we
have furnished the money. Yes, We fur
nished the money, but he is the man who
collected the money, and accounted for ii,
dollar for dollar.
THE FEDERAL oFFICE-HoLDERs.
Iwish to make one reply to the charges
made by the opponents of General Grant:
You cannot pick up paper today that is
hostile to General Grant and the Republican
party, from the Cooper Institute meeting to
the one containing Governor Browns
|
eral officers branded as robbers, thieves and
hirelings. Now let us be candid about the
matter. You don't expect to carry the cleo
| tion against Grant, and have this Government
indorsed and the laws executed by abusing
/ him and the Federal office holders. You know
perfectly well that this Government cannot
endure day except as it shall be administer
| ed by its constitutiOnally and legally ap-
| pointed agents. Why, then, do you charge,
for the purpose of temporary victory, that
/ ,f ON Of in IA dis
charge of their duties in the service of the
| Government, are robbers, thieves and hire
/ lings? Is this thing craftsmanship or dig
| nity ? Is il the way to talk about your coun-
| try? Now and then man comes into posi-
| tion who is q thief, who will pilfer, just like
a farmer, lawyer, laborer, merchant or minis
| ter ; and now and then you will find man
! in the community who will murder, rob,
| steal, and violate the criminal and moral
| code and, because this occasionally hap
pens so, why do you in this year of 1877 go
| before the American people and proclaim all
| the American officers robbers, thieves and
| hirelings? / pronounce these charges false
| false and unvarranted by the circum-
stances of the case. [Applause.l 1 ask you,
is your Pension Agent here a robber or a
| thief? Is Postmaster Eastman a thief and
| hireling, i ask you to refer back to every
Postmaster and official in your own town.
Can you lay your hand upon your heart and
say il of a single officer in the State of Illi-
honest act to any of these men. And when
every man knows the charge to be untrue in
his own State, you may well believe that
it is untrue in every other State. / say
this is foul, belittling, contemplate.
1t is all right to have the people
watchful of those who have charge of the
Government, as well as of members of Con-
gress, and everybody else; but to denounce
them as thieves, robbers and hirelingsi is con-
temptible, low and vulgar. 1t is not true,
and you know it is not true. The robber of
to-day, according to your creed, is made re-
\ spectable; he finds himself classed among
the most honorable men in the community.
The man who commits crime may march
up to the editor of one of these newspapers
and say, am as good as any officer in the
United States service. Here are Republican
papers and speakers that charge all public
officers with being robbers, thieves and hire
lings. You thus make crime respectable !;
you encourage the commission of the vilest
| crimes known to the laws, because of your
mad hostility to the Republican party. Your
Government cannot live without officers.
| You must have a Government. You must
have Legislature. You must have officers
to execute the complex duties required by
the laws. How, in short, can you expect to
have men to discharge the duties of these
offices, if you still persist in calling them
all robbers, thieves and hirelings, simply be-
cause these officers belong to the United
States Government? 1t is all wrong, and
will never win before the American people.