Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-02-15

! ing the supremacy of the laws in all the
States and Territories; in ilaugurating
an Indian policy, just, humane and
peaceful; and a foreign policy which
provides for the settlement Of interna-
ticnal differences by foreign arbitration
Father than by an appeal to arms; in
honestly collecting the revenues and as
honestly applying them to the payment
of our debts, thus improving the public
credit and reducing the burdens of tax
alton, are sought to be obscured by a
cloud OF calumny, raised by reiterating
general charges against the President,
whose charges are unsupported by a
single specification, or a Scihtilla of evi-
dence. That the Democracy should, in
its desperation, resort to this mode of
personal warfare is not surprising, as it
has nothing to lose. Nor can anything
be better expected from an ambitious
adventurer like Schurz, whose military
pretensiOns- based upon political ser
vices-drew from General Grant ex-
preSsi0ns of contempt which he never
can forgive, and who is possessed with
the idea that the Constitution ought to
. be changed to allow the people to make
him President of the United States.
The course of Sumner and Trumbutl,
who are men of character and reputa-
ton, and who has the principles Of the
Republican party at heart, is not so easi-
ly accounted for; but their attacks upon
the President are in the same spirit, and
are apparently prompted by the same
motives which prompted army officers
in traducing Gen. Grant at the time
when his military successes tirst attract
ed the attention OF the country.
The martinets, who were then drill
ling their forces, marching and counter
marching between Washington and
Richmond, preparing to ''crush the re-
bellion" BY some grand stfagetic COM
bination, too profound ifor the compre-
hension of common mortalS, were in
tensely disgusted with the vulgar sol
dier who upset all their plans, and prick
ed their pretenSi0ns by moving direct
ly upon the enemy's works. and taking
them. So the learned doctrines who
have made politics profession, cannot
endure man, who, while they are pre-
pairing to discourse learnedly and elo-
quently upon great questions of State
policy, goes straight at, and settles them.
1t was certainly very ungenerOaS and
discourteous to Senator Sumner for the
President to settle all disputes with
Great Britain so promptly, so undiplo-
matically, and so contrary to- the prin-
eipleS of international law as laid down
by the great Massachusetts statesman,
leaving his pOnderous Oration OH the
subject in much the same condition as
was Buffers power-ship after the cap
ture of Ft. Fisher, or his Dutch Gap
Canal after the taking of Richmond
The treatment of Mr. TrnInbull was
eNially unhandsome. The profound
lawyer had just begun to talk civil ser
vice reform, and was making elaborate
preparations to convince future genera
tion that something ought to be done;
when the President contrary to every
principle of modern craftsmanship,
Invent and did it" without making
single speech. a
When the Union men of the South
who were being prosecuted, scourged,
driven from their homes, and murder
ed by the Ku-Klux, appealed to the
Government for protection, Mr.. Blaine
said 'let us send a Congressional cJm-
mtttee- to investigate. and report to
Congress next year, when we will dis
cusS the whole matter, and see what we
can do to protect our frfends-if We
then have any to protect.pii President
Grant, Immediately on the adjourn
ment of Congress, sent those terrible
"Federal bayonets" into the insurrec-
tionary districts, and said 'slet us have
peaceo-and there was peace. Its evil
dent that if Gen. Grant is elected for
another term the doctrinaires' t'occupa
TONS gone" He'will deprive them of
their whole stock in trade, by quietly
settling all questions as they arise, be-
fore they can get ready to discuss them.
|. Such InercilesS .puncture of wind
bags cannot be longer endured; he must
be talked down, written down, put
down in some way, say the doctrinaires.
But the people, who have become sur
feited with the Hood of talk and with
politicians who do nothing but talk, are
refreshed with the Presidents brilliant
silence, which are followed by such sub
stantial results, and are. determined to
have Grant, and to have peace for an
ether four years. ~ a H i