American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-07
The Reign Of Peace, or Bayonet
Rule.


South. Boutwell,, Grants Secreta
ry of the Treasury, who was sem
over into North Carolina during the
late election there to lecture the
rosin-heels upon their duty, sound
ded the keynote of the campaign
by saying he objected to /" claspine
hands across the bloody chasm,
and especially should there be NJ
peace between the white man and
the negro for at least four more
years. Boutwell, knows that the
only hope to carry the election fol
Grant, in the South, is to keep alive
the antagOnism between the races
and to contin ne to keep up the Ku
KIux business in this section fol
assoOn as these things cease "Ouhel
los occupation is gone"
The Radicals are determined that
the hatreds and animOsties Of ante
bellum and war times shall not be
buried, but that they shall be KEPT
alive if it can be done by incessant
blowing the Goals, and "still harp
ing on my daughter Hence they
continue to ring the changes upon
Mr.. Greeley's record. They parade
Mr.. Greeley's abolition doctrines
and his utilization with such fanat-
les as Giddings, Garrison, Phillips,
ct id omne genus. This, of course,
is done to set the Southern white
people against him. But, presto
change! They also prove with equal
clearness that Mr.. Greeley has Sc
cretly co-operated with the slave
power throughout his public career;
that he was a secessionist of the
Calhoun Yancey school; that he
was violently opposed to the war
for the preservation of the Union,
and that he was the steady OppO
nent of the reconstruction measures,
including the fraudulent amend
ments to the Constitution. This is
for the ignorant Northern and West
ern men, who do not know better,
and also for the Southern negroes,
who are supposed to be anxious to
keep alive the dead issues of the
bloody past.
The anti-Grant party, North and
South. insist upon the folly and alb
surdity of introducing past political
records and antecedents into the
the present canvass. Gen. Grant
was a Democrat before, during,
and since the war. He was oppOs-
ed to both negro emancipation and
REIMBURSEMENT, and did not aban
don that position until after his
nomination for the presidency in
1861, and whilst the war was in
progress he gave utterance to this
sentiment:
~ am a Democrat I hare not
gone into this fight to free miggers;
and if I thought such ao0uld be the re-
suit, I aeould strip of my uniform
and go home"
This is what Grant said as late as
1864:
az am a Democrat, and ,chen I
am persuaded that the acar IS being
Gagged to prosecute the designs Of the
bOlitiOnists, 1 pledge my honor as a
soldier. that I aciU carry my saoord to
the other side, and cast my lot aoith
the Southern people,"
But does this follow that he ought
not mow to be supported by the
Radical party, and ought to be sup
ported by Democrats By no
means-simply because he has been
during his Presidency, fully in ac-
cord and fellowship with the Radi-
cal party.
For northern consumption, also,
another line of argument and an
other system of tactics, not alto.
gether novel, but none the less
disreputable, has been adopted by
the followers of Grant. Setting
aside the Cincinnati platform, they
have constructed one of their own.
and placed Mr.. Greeley upon it.
He is to pay the Confederate debt,
pension the "rebel" soldiers. in
demnify southern shareholders to
the full amount of the value of their
slaves, and, if the worst comes to
the worst, the negroes are to be
first DISTINGUISHED, and then return
ed in sbackles to their former 6wn-
ers! These charges against the
philanthropic wood chopper of
Chappaqua are not so absurd but
there are some persons who will
believe them. A lie or calumny
well stuck to and often repeated,
will reach the ears of the too credu-
Gus faithful" who will "hear and
believe"
The Southern people care abso-
utely nothing about the ante Lellum
of Greeley or, Grant.
They have vastly more toAo with
he present and the future. Mr..