The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-18
From the GreeariAe Mountaineer.
Greeley and Grant.

Greeley and Grant.
I PROPOSE. Messrs. Editors, to institute COM
parison between these two candidates for the
Presidency. =,
! Greeley is admitted to be man of truth,
and one who has never deceived his friends or
I foes. Grant was convicted of lying by the
whole of President Johnson's Cabinet 1t is a
matter of record. In his explanation about ac-
cepting the temporary appointment OF Secre-
tary of the War Department. he openly avows
his treachery, base treachery, to his chiefl- !
Such conduct would have dishonored a private
gentleman in any society.
| Greeley has always been a sober man. Grant
was disgraced drunkard before the war, and
had to resign his commission in the army to
keep from being cashiered
Greeley has shown himself by his speeches
and writings to be man of talents and ability.
Grant has never written anything that evinced
| the least ability and he has never been able to
make a speech at all During the war ne dis
played no military genius whatever, and after
sacrificing one hundred and twenty thousand
men, twice General Lees whole force, he con-
quered only by an overwhelming force still lett
under his command.
Greeley is in favor of the constitutional
rights of the States being respected, and will
sacredly guard and respect them. Grant,
throughout his whole administration, has dis
regarded the rights of the Southern States, and
trampled them in the dust
Greeley is civilian and a statesman, and
will appeal to the civil authorities for the en-
forcement of the laws. Grant is a successful
military chieftain, confesses in his inaugural
that he "has no policy" or, in other words, is
no statesman; and he has set all laws at deli
ance for the last four years. and governed the
South by military force ! He has filled the
country with his troops, suspended the writ OF
Habeas Corpus; had innocent men arrested at
the hour of midnight without warrant, and
hurled off to Jail /! All this done in time OF
profound peace, when the civil authorities were
abundantly able to enforce the law
Greeley is admitted by all to be an honest
man, governed by principles, and If elected
President, will appoint none but honest men to
office. Grant has taken bribes under the
name of gifts! of hundreds of thousands of
dollars, and appointed the GIvERs to the high
est Offices in the government! His first Secre-.
tary of the Treasury made him present of
fifty thousand dollars, and was appointed to
office His Secretary of the Navy and Secre-
tary of State did the same thing. Many others
might be named. Lord Bacon, "the wisest,
greatest of men," was disgraced and impeached
for taking gifts whilst Lord Chancellor, though
! in every instance he decided the law correctly.
For this taking of gifts from parties in Court,
England's great poet pronounced him the
basest of mankind! Grant has been surround
ed by official rogues and defaulters from the
time he went into Office. He has protected
them
the ranks of the roguish official carpet. baggers,
| scalawags and traitors i'll South Carolina.
They will flee the State with their ill-gotten
gains, as rats leave burning house. But, If
Grant is reelected, they will go on stealing,
till there is nothing left in the State to steal
His bayonets will protect them, and the negroes
will be told again if they don't vote for them,
they will be thrown back into slavery!
| Greeley was in favor of amnesty at the close
of the war, and wished "the North and South
to shake hands over the grave of slavery"
Grant and his partizans have denied to the
wisest and best men in the Southern States the
right of holding office ever since the war closed,
till it was forced out of them by the nomina-
ton of Greeley.
Greeley was for peace after the surrender of
Lee, and magnanimity on the part OF the con-
ouerors Grant hypocritically cried out "let
us have peace" whilst he was marching his
standing armies over the country, committing
outrages on peaceful citizens, and stirring up
l
All the issues on which Greeley opposed the
South for the last thirty years, are dead and
buried. There is now no antagonism between
him and us. But the issues which separate us
from Grant are living issues, and will continue
to live rs long as he remains in the Presidency.
IF Greeley is elected he will restore the
government to Republican principles and con,
| stitutional rights, and put down corruption and
dishonesty, If Grant is elected, he will con-
tinue his military despotism, and play the ty-
rant on grand scale.
If Greeley is elected, he will live at the seat
of government, and attend to his high and re-
sponsible trusts. But Grant will, if reelected,
take up his abode at some watering. place III
| the summer season. and trot his fast horses, as
he has been doing for some years past, leaving
all the duties of President to be discharged by
subalterns, or be neglected entirely.
done-appoint all of his own and wlfc's kin
dred to fat offices, without regard to their fit
ness or competency. General Washington and
Mr.. Jefferson thought this sort OF nepotism
Infamous and refused to appoint their rcla-
tions. Grant had no such notions OF honor
and propriety about him.
Now, can any true-hearted Southern man,
with intellect above that of an idiot, hesitate
which to choose, unless he is looking to Grant
or the Radical party for office, and disregardss
the true interest of his oppressed and ruined
country? Greeley is an honest man, man of
ability and principle, the friend of the South,
and the friend of the Constitution and the
rights of the States Grant takes brides has
around him corrupt and emboldencd set OF
rogues, scoundrcls and defaulters, whom ne re-
tains in Office, and has sustained by his bayo-
nets the rotten regime now ruling in South
| hog SuIunlorcU
fifteen ' or twenty millions of public moneys,
and increased our taxes fvc-fold! -Four years
of Grants administration has brought all these
evils upon us. Do we not wish change !
Can we survive four years longer under these
If there is any gratitude in the breast of
colored man, and lie has intelligence enough to
know that Greeley has done more for his cman-
cipation and right of suffrage than amy other
L. oh him N nrptpr-