New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-10-17
A Lesson for Libellers.

The terrible rebuke administered to the
gang Of malignant deserters from the Repub-
lican party and to their Copperhead CO.
laborers in rascality for their wholesale,
wicked, and unwarrantable abuse OF Gen.
Hartranft, in Pennsylvania, ought to serve
as warning to the eral-Copperhead De-
mocracy of the nation who are pursuing Gen.
Grant with the same relentless venom, and
the same reckless disregard for truth, de-
cency, and common sense.
In giving Gen. Hartranft majority OF
over thirty-five thousand-several thousand
more than any Republican ever before re-
ceived there-the people of that State have
declared in way that even Liberals and
Copperheads-mad, blind, and stupid as
they have shown themselves-cannot fail to
understand, that they will not tolerate such
injustice, and falsehood, and vituperation as
has been heaped upon the brave, and patri-
otto, and distinguished officer who was the
Republican candidate for Governor, during
the whole campaign in Pennsylvania.
When every charge made against him by
the bogus medical diploma vender, Payne,
and Endorsed and put into circulation by the
Philadelphia Press, were proved to be infa-
nous inventions of a man publicly branded by
United States District Swope, as forger,
purjurer, and thief, the people of Penn
sylvania felt that they should be abandoned.
But as apostate Republicans and the Cop
perhead Democracy continued to retail them,
honest men took the matter in their own
hands and resolved to punish the villainous
authors of the libels against Gen. IIartranft,
and to vindicate his character from the vile
aspersions of his vile defamers. And they
nobly avenged his wrongs and indicated
their own good name from the reproach
sought to be cast upon them.
The people of the nation no more than the
people Of Pennsylvania, will tolerate their
mean and cowardly aspersiOn of the charac-
ter of brave, and patriotic, and honest men,
who have rendered gallant and valuable SER
vice to their country, for the qualification of
mere partisan purposes, nor indeed for any
purpose. Gen. Hartranft had distinguished
himself during the rebellion, and had faith
fully and efficiently discharged his duty as
Auditor General of the State, reducing the
State debt in six years from GAL 100000 to
s2S, 900. The Taxpayers Of the State,
and all patriotic citizens therefore promptly
came to his rescue when foully and falsely
assailed by corrupt and knavish dema-
gogues.
General Grant has rendered still greater
services to his country. He has discharged
his official duties as President with equal
fidelity and vigor. His personal character is
just as pure. His habits are as simple. The
American people know this. They know
that by his wonderful military genius he has
saved his country from ruin. They know
that by his honesty, zeal, fidelity, and econ
omy, the revenues of the Government have
been faithfully collected and applied to the
payment of the tremendous debt brought upon
them by the bloody Democratic rebellion he
put down. They know that under his Adj
ministration their taxes are year by year di-
minished and this Democratic war debt yearly
reduced. They know that he is an honest,
true, incorruptible man.
The vengeance visited upon General Hart
ranft's ISLANDERS is moderate compared with
the punishment they will mete out to the
still more malignant, and inscriptions, and
black-hearted crew who have pursued Gen
eral Grant with such relentless ferocity from
the day he entered upon his official duties as
President, or at any rate from the day they
discovered he would prove true to the party
who elected him, and the "Liberal' apos-
tates from the day they could not use him to
promote their own interests. The American
people are as just as they are intelligent.
They have given the libelers of Gen. Hart
ranft forcible proof of it. They will give
the libellers of Gen. Grant a still more forci-
BILE evidence of it on the 9TH of November
next.
1t will be well for them if they take warn
ing from the rebuke they have received in
Pennsylvania, and abandon their infamous
assaults upon the President. If they do not
it will be the worse for them. The longer
they continue their falsehoods and the more
violent their charges, the larger will be his
majority. The recent elections have rem
dered his election as certain as though a ma
jOrity of the electors had already been
chosen in his favor. Mr.. Greeley cannot
have more than six States with the best man.
agement. If they persist in their present
course he may have only one.