The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-08

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the West to tax charge Of the depart I
ment Of the East, where army after 4
army, the very flower Of the nation, 4
had time and again melted away be-
fore the victorious Lee.
He went to the wilderness Ct Nir-
ginia at a time when that traitorOus
old mother Of statesmen had become
the rendezvous for the armies Of the
rebellion, all under the command Of
its capable and tried cOmmanders,a and
when all rebeldOm was bOasting in
the fastnesses Of the Wilderness and
Blue Ridge, they could defy the world
i'm arms. At the same time the New
York Tribune Was hOwling for peace,
and the Chappaqua farmer was on
his famous peace mission, ana met
Sanders and Jake Thompson, the rebel
incendiaries, at Niagara Falls for the
purpose OF patching up humiliating
compromise.
When he started for Richmond,
/ Gen. Grant took no step backward,
and when we were trembling, and
/ fearful Of another disaster, right well
| do we remember that electrifying dis
patch 81 will fight it out on this
/ line If il takes ali summer" From
that moment every lover OF his cOun-
/ try breathed free, and felt sure that
the tanner Of Galena would sooner or
later finish what there was left Of the
| rebellion. His was a forward march,
until he had set his foot on the shat
! tered fragments OF the greatest pow
eF an invading army ever overthrew.
He solved the problem that had
bafiled all Others, and preserved the
Republic after the world and Horace
Greeley thought it had gone down.
How did he stand then? The ma
tion repOsed upon him and blessed
him. The world gazed at him as the
military wonder Of the age.
GRANT THE PRESIDENT.
The Democrats sought his consent
to nominate him for the Presidency,
with such a platform as he might
choose to dictate. He declined. The
same integrity and moral sense that
we see in his West Point letter to his
father forbid. He knew that in bar
gain of that kind somebody would be
cheated, and he had made it a princi-
ple Of his life, that by his consent no
one should be cheated.
At that time these people who are
now covering him with cOntumelyr
saw him only resplendent with great
ness and with virtues.
He did not become unfit for the
Presidency until three years had rip
ened and enlarged his knowledge
until he had given the country,
affirm, ,One Of the best administrations
we had ever experienced. He did not
become unfit while the patronage
held out, and while unclean fingers
were allowed to handle it.
In his recent letter of acceptance he
saws Experience may guide in
avoiding mistakes inevitable with
novices in all professions and in al
occupations"
He was a novice when the New
York World the ablest Democratic
newspapers in the country, said
"Apply to Gen. Grant what test you
will measure him by the magnitude
of the obstacles he has surrounded
by the value of the positions he has
gained. by the fame Of the antagonist
over which he has triumphed, by the
achievements of his most illustriou:
co-workers, by the sureness with
which he directs his indOmitable en-
ergy 10 the vital point which is tliC
kew of a vast field of operation, or by
that supreme test OfcOnsummate abili'
ty, Il e absolute completeness of hi:
results, and he vindicates his claim
TO stand next after Napoleon anC
Wellington among the great soldiers
of this country, if not on q level with
the latter"
He was not quite a novice wher
Horace Greeley said these things:
"Grant and his policy deserve the
very highest credit.
The people of the United State:
know Gen. Grant-have known al
. about him since DOnelsOn and Vicks.
burg: they do not know his SANDER.
ers, and do not care to knew them.'
"While asserting the right of every
. Republican to his untrammeled choice
of a candidate for next President un
til q nomiI alton is made, l venture
to suggest that Gen. Grant will bt
far better qualified for that mOmen'
tous trust in 1872 than he was in 1868. .
awe are led by him who first taught
our armies to conquer in the West,
and subsequently, in the East also
Richmond would not come to US un.
til we sent Grant after it, and then il
had to come. He has never yet. beer
defeated, and never will be. He viii
be as great and successful on the field
of politics as on that of arms"
Yes; Gen. Grant has failed to graft
fy some eager aspirations, and has
thereby incurred some intense ha,
treds. These do not and will not fail
and his administration will prove al
least equally vital. We shall heal
lamentation after lamentatiOn Ovel
? his failures from those whose wish is
I father to the thought; but the Amer.
lean people let them pass unheeded
Their strong arm bore him triumph
antly through the war and into the
White House, and they still uphold
and sustain him, and they never fail
! ed and never will"
don't think much of Horace Gree
! ley as a witness; put him on thC
. stand for what he is worth, the jury
to Judge of the value of his testimony
He wrote the following last Septem
Der as a part Of the platform of the
. Republican party of New York. Thii
was written long after the slanderi
that are current to-day were hurled
at Gen. Grant:
ain this alarming crisis in CITY anC
State affairs, the Republican party re
fers all good citizens to its record, p
their warrant for giving it their full
est confidence and support in thi,
campaign, now formally opening, o.
the honest men against the thieves.
It abolished slavery.
1t led i'm the suppression Of the re-
belliOn.
It preserved apd enlarged The
Union.
1t promptly reduced the 'enormOu,
forces thus required for peace foot
ing.
Il has reduced the debt over two
hundred and fifty millions of dollar:
in the last three years.
It has simultaneously reduced pub
lie taxation over two hundred anC
fifty millions of dollars per annum.
It has preserved peace on the bOr
der.
It has won a friendly adjustment o
the threatening troubles with Grea
Britain.
} For its conspicuous share iG thi.
benefieent record we indOrse the Ma
tional Republican Administration"
His administration is charged with
being corrupt. Where, I Iwant to know
and in what2
This charge is not worthy of al
answer. The fact is, and all the wOflC
knows it, that every corrupt Officia
has when fOun1 out been caught anC
punished, and now in all this broad
land the whole Liberal crew can nOI
name a single official who can bt
shown to be dishonest or unfaithful
With seventeen searching investiga
tiOns the Administration comes out
unharmed in the opinion Ofall candid
men. When wrongs and irregulari
ties were shown to exist, they have
been corrected, until to-day [ hazard
nothing in saying that we are enjoy
ing the purest civil service We have
bad for many years.
Now how is it with the reformers
Go to New York, where Greeley.
supporters have all the places of pow
er. You find that the Tammany
thieves who are now Greeley's warm.
est supporters, and without whose
support he hasn't the ghost of 8
chance to carry the city, absolutely
stole from the people by tens of mill.
ions, and up to this time, not single
man of them has been punished mol
made to pay back to their plundered
people a single dollar. Their chic
sWindler, the notorious Boss Tweed