Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-08
IL Popular RecoE0si0u.

The present political move
meHt is not SO much a partisan
coalition as 4 Popular Revolution.
1t is the uprising of all indignant
people against a weak, shameless
and corrupt ruler. 1t is the voice
of the masses against a man
whose chosen associates are men
whom few OF our best citizens
would invite to their tables.
Grant has bilieted his personal
relatives and favor1tes upon the
country by appointing them to
offices for which they are motor
iously unfit He has used the
vast patronage OF the govern
ment as though it were one of the
perquisites of his position, with
out regard 10 the public service
or welfare. pledging every appoin-
tee to labor for his re-eleclion.
He has accepted presents from
all sorts of persons, and rewarded
the givers 10y official honors. He
has filed the southern States with
his creatures, and enforced their
ext0rIions, with the military pow
or until one-third of the Union
stands to-day on the verge of ruin
and anarchy. He has bullied
Congress into the support Of his
pet measures, winked at corrup
ton and fraud, retained infamous
officers long after their unfitness
was demonstrated, surrounded
himself by a staff of military tools
in violation of the Constituti er,
lowered the standard of our pub
lie services abroad, compromised
the national houor in his dealings
with England, insulted honorable
and patriotic public servants who
have opposed his wild or wiltul
schemes, and finally divided the
Republican party by insisting up
on his own denomination. and US
ing all the power and patronage
of the Government to secure it.
Nothing he has ever said or done
gives the impression that he
knows or cares anything about
either the letter or the spirit of
tho Constitution, the genius of
our institutions, the great princi
piles on which the welfare of the
Republic rests, or the policy of a
sound, consistent administration
of public affairs. His govern
mentis a complete failure in every
respect, and its failure would
have been disastrous but that the
country has been at peace. 1t is
such a President, whose unfitness
for the Chief Magistracy of the
nation is striking and notorious,
whose reelection we oppose on
every ground of national policy
aud honor.
Now it is not every man who
understands the moral meaning
of the great upheavals of the mas
ses among whom he olives aud
moves and has his being" Nor is
it every participant in the Liberal
Reform movement who crmpre-
hends it's full or chief purpose
the logic of its own argument.
It means honesty IN the gov
ernment-
1t means civil service reform
1t means the civil law exalted
| over the military.
1t means an emphatic protest
against nepotism.
1t means State Rights against
federal interference.
1t means the subordination OF
the military power during peace.
1t means that the President
shall not portion out his Offices
among his brothers-in-law and
cousins and uncles and wife's re.
lations.
1t means the re-uniting of the
sundered North and South, the
cessation of past hatreds, the 90
livion of old revcnges, the clasp
ing of once hostile hands in The
spirit of unity and the bond Of
peace"
It means the grating of the rec
rose and the white on one and
the same stem.
1t means the healing of the
wounds of the rebellion-the re-
storation of fraternity and broth
.r1u LipIpaoS hotuoon Mopt,ou