Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-29

constructing on the sure and eternal
foundations of faith, liberty, justice and
equality. Would it make reconciliation
in Rutland if every employer should say
you shall not work unless you vote as
do? Disband the Ku Klux and let the
white men of the South allow every ne
gro to vote as he wills. The conscience
and faith of the North is pledged to
guarantee every black man of the South
justice and his perfect equality and pro-
lection under the law. Secure this and
there will be perfect reconciliation and
no ''bloody chasm" to shake hands over.
We must be just or we can never have
peace. We want hearty acquiesence
in the new order of things.
1t is the same old fight that has been
fought over so many times. 1t was the
issue between the Fedcralists and Repub-
lican or Democracy Of the North It is
the struggle of aspiration against repres-
sion Whenever or wherever man
strives to better himself, the party,
which aids him, is fighting for God and
humanity. The strife at the South, to-
day, is of these men to retain their pow
er and the black man to better himself
1t is the strife of the large plantations
against the small farms. A strife to
prevent education to the poor Ny as
pirations and sympathies are, and al
ways will be, with the party who is
trying to lift itself up. Our hatred has
never been against the South or men of
the South. When our men came, living,
starved skeletons, from AndersOnville
and other prison pens of the South, their
hatred was not against the South, but
against that which made such a thing
possible, the accused system of slavery
We want future not of plantations, but
of farms; of schools and churches. A
future when manhood shall be protected,
not by laws alone, but by the respect
due to manhood. Then shall the
''b!oody chasm" be filled up, and we be
one people indeed.
I have no words of reproach against
the candidates of the opposition. I honor
Horace Greeley, when l remember the
time his Tri5une sounded forth the
clarion cry Of freedom. l honor B.
Graft Brown, when I recall the days
when he led the forlorn hope of Enamel
pationists, in Missouri But there is
something more than men. Shall they
who, two short years ago, organized Ku
KIuX Klans be entrusted with the gov
eminent? Or shall they who saved it,
still control it?
shall not, tonight, defend the ap-
pointmcnt Of relatives to office by Gen.
Grant. If he had been politician he
/ probably would not have done it. But
/ is it not a small matter after all ? Only
ttco Of his blood relations are in of
fee. One, his father, appointed post
master by President Johnson, whom Gen.
Grant did not see fit to turn out. ME
other, his cousin, who was appointed to
/ a foreign mission on the unanimous rec
/ ommcndati0n of the Iowa delegation in
Congress. He never appointed rcla-
/ tive to office to the detriment of the re-
publican party or the country. He
whipped the liberal republicans in Mis-
sissippi, when his brothcr-in-law was
their candidate for governor, and will
whip them in November. He smashed
bis brother-in-law, in the gold spccula-
tons. on Black Friday.
I aim not gong to discuss the San Do
mingo question. Gen. Grant believed its
annexation would benefit them and ben
eft us. He had a right to that opinion
He had a right, also, to try and convince
the people that this was the true policy
His message on that subject ranks among
the best of state papers. Never did he
stand stronger, purer, or drawer, than
when lie wrote that message: MY du-
! ty being done. yours begins, and gladly
hand over the whole matter to the Amer
lean people, and of their representatives
in Congress assembled. The facts will
now BE- spread before the country and
decision rendered by that tribunal whose
/ convictions so seldom err, and against
whose will have no policy to enforce
If it was thought right to present Gen
Mcclellan 100000 for his services in
the rebellion, what sum would be suita-
bic present for Gen Grant, for his ser
vices? Gems. Sherman, Sheridan, and
others all received present, and even my
chiyalric friend, Fitzpatrick, was re-
warded with the mission to Chill But
Gen. Grant never received q present, to
the value of cent since he was presi-
dent. \ subscription Yves started to buy
for him the cottage he now occupies at
Long Branch. It came to the knowl-
edge Of Gen. Grant, and at his own re-
quest, it was given up. He said
"That which I could take as a general,
[ cannot take as q president"
He then discussed in a humorous
vein the charge that Gen. Grant was
quarrelsome, abiding to his quarrels at
Vicksburgh with Lee, etc, and refuted
the charge that he was, in any respect,
quarrelsome. But, he said, when Gen.
Grant quarrels, he generally whips, and
he will whip the democrats in Novem-
Der, Their candidate, and his newspa-
per, have made two true prophecies: GAS
goes North Carolina so goes the Union,
Gen. Grant never has been beat, and
never will be"
What president before Ulysses S. Grant
ever dare take the bible, as his rule,
by which to govern the Indians, break
up the Indian rings, and place their af
fairs in the hands Of commissioners an
pointed by the christian churches.
Had he been the quarelsome man or
ambitious despot, he has been represent