Middletown transcript., 1872-08-24

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10 between Greeley and Brown and Grant
and Wilson.
Greeley is well known throughout the
whole country, and in this article We do
hot propose TO speak Of him, or Of his ft-
ness or unii,ness for the high position for
which be il a candidate. We shall con-
iinc ourselves to President Grant, who
now disgraces The high Office, aud who is
candidate for reelection.
When he was elected in 1868, ho was
an avuwcd one term man, and as such,
according 10 the Philadelphia Press, was
placed in power by his party; yet he ha.
used. and il still using, all his patronage
aud power TO secure his election for see
ona tcsm. With sixty or eighty thous-
apJ Office holders a, his back, he has OBJ
tainod the nomination by his party; aud
we believe that he and his friends arc de-
termiuci upon his recollection even il they
lave to resort to fraud aud tho military
For proof Of this conviction VIC have but
to leol; At the results in North Carolina
After his inaugural, President Grants
first ulicial nc, was blundcr, and he has
continued 10 blunier at nearly every step.
; unlil he has reduced this proud country
to isnghing stock for the whole world
H. and his party have destroyed the dearcs,
rights Of the American people. They
have set aside the writ Of habeas corpus
driven ous shipping from the sea inau-
gurated high tariffs burdened US with
taxes; placed us under military rule; a.
b0lshed free elections fostcred moncpo-
lies given away millions of acres of pub.
lie land elected by force and fraud scape-
graccs. Jail aud carpet-baggers to
e!iiee; brought negro suffrage aud negro
supremacy upon the country, and COM
miltcd unconstitutional and outrageous
acts enough TO iill our entire paper in
elr,nicling them.
Some Of the Administration papers have
conceded Tint President Grant has made
iluudefs, but advocate his reelection on
neeHunt of his Lrlllian, f.) military seryi.
ces iu saving The country in its hour Of
peril, for which they claim that the coun-
irp owes him a debt of gratitude As
this seems to be the chief ground upon
which rests Grants elnins for the high
. position for which be is a candidate. il
will be interesting to examine into his
military achievements.
A general who should use up and pu,
h8ss Dc combat one thousand Of his own
regiments in the act Of overcoming and
destroying one regiment Of the enemy
would no, be thought eminent 10 his pro-
fession. That, We trust is proposition
which every man who will vote for Grant
can unite with US in affirming II must
be deemed safe statement Now between
snch generalship, and the generalship
which conauers an equal or superior force,
there are numberlcss gradatious of merit
That. too. VIC hope, nobody will dispute,
being al,o perfectly safe statement.
Now We viii simply lay before our
READERS the figures which will enable every
one. each for himself. TO judge just what
rank between these maxina and minima
prowess. just what merit between these
extremes Of skillful and unskllful gener.
alship, deserves to be arporiioncd to Gen.
Grant
Grant, on assuming command, May /.
1861, had Of effective men besides tho re-
serve, when be crossed the Rapiian. l25, :
900.
Lee, at the samc date, had an effective
fercc Of 81 900.
. Grants rcinfcrcements up to the battle
Of Cold Harbor. june 3. we're 07 900.
Lees reiuforcemcn.s up to tho same
date wers rs 900.
Grants total force. including reinforce.
mcnts. was 222. 900.
Lees total force. including reinforce.
ncnts, was 10000.
Returns TO their reypective Government,
show that when both armies had reached
tho James, juno 10, the number Of Grant,
army that had bseu put Aors de con,Ca
~ III 900.
4 \ y ~ nns date. ths number o.
NJ 80 pho bad bssn pat Aors d. com.
- - 1900.
II 0sStt ~ nors thaa three men f.s ev.
~ thnt ~ Nd -212, 900 70 10000.
|'s Slx IN 49, ltsh u uts ior every
~ ~ = 1900.