Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-10-08


says that "a return to the methods OF
peace and the constitutional limitations
OF powor" is demanded by the exigoDciss
of tho nation-that cxigency being the
election OF this chronic Office seeker Ia
the presidency.
Now, what else has Mr.. Greeley done
A great deal else. In The first place, h,
helped to elect Mr.. Grant. Didn't hs
know that Gen. Grant had received largo
gifts at that time ? What else? Why,
rs soon as Gen. Grant was elected he be-
gan 10 flatter him. am going TO read n
little more at the risk of boring you.
On the 18th of February. 1869, Mr.. Gree
10y wrote these words of Gen. Grant,
after his election and just before his in.
auguration:
Gen. Grant is as thoroughly citizen
to-day. as perfectly civilian in his habits.
as any man in the country. We think OF
no one in public station who represents
more fully the idea of the American
gentleman. Unostentatious, unassuming,
brave; without ambition. for5earing,
resoluts in doing what he deemed to be
tight, but never offensive in asserting
himself. Gen. Grant is man of the
people; one in heart and feeling with
the mon who dig, and plow, and weave"
Now, that was what Grant was in Feb.
ruary, 1869. Has he changed since |
those who didn't 90 that, and have never
been able to believe it since, but Greeley
did. Well, it got along to the 18th OF
February, 1869. and the subject of Santo
Domingo was up, and Dir. Greeley said:
I'VE believe that the people of San
Domingo would be greatly benefited by
the annexation of the little republic to
the United States. We believe they
think SD, or soon will-that annexation 10
their manifest destiny. And We arc
quite willing that our government shall
say, in such fashion as may seem best,
that whenever they shall ovince wish
TO share our future fortunes. we will
gladly receive them
That is Greeley on San Domingo. Ws
will have another expression by and by.
-
were beginning 10 tell about Babcock
and Dent, and the other military men
about the White House. Mr.. Greeley
said:
I'VE have never been IN less danger o.
imperialism than We are now. There
never was time in the history OF our
country when the people exercised r
more direct control of the government,
or the force of public opinion Was moro
generally recognized by our chief exc
cutire officers. There is abundant inf
deity in public trusts, aud corruption o.
private morals; bat these evils are al
bred by long wars and inflated eurrencics.
and time will work reformation. Ihn
present administration has already made
n long advance This was in June. and
Grant had been in Office since March liz
the direction Of public economy, and
economy is the parent OF many virtues.
On the other hand, We were never in so
much danger of drifting into an atristo
cratic form OF government rs under the
rule OF the infamous slave oligarchy OF
which Mr. Fillmore was the iacile instru
ment. The liberties OF our county
never were seriously threatened. except
by the miscallsd Democratic party,
which, unable to find vulnerable spot
in the administration of President Grant,
is now trying to irighten the people by
the silly cry of imperialism Ii Is Of
no use Americans have two much conf
mon sense"
Let US return 10 the methods OF
peace" 1t is good deal like Jimmy
McMaster's way of swearing $50 help
me Cod -one shilling" Read them to-
getbcr and they run together about as
pat a. Jimmy's oath and his demand for
for fees.
Take the platform and the Tribune,
and read them together. One is black
and the other is white; one is figure and
the other is zero; anything that you
choose to express the most lucid con.
trast will not more than paint the An.
togonism between this man and this
platform.
Well, what else mas he done Why
he has done great deal else. am 60.
ing to skip, now, down to time much
more recent. Ga the 9TH day OF May, 1871,
just about a year before he WAS nomin-
ated by the Cincinnati convention rs tho
candidate OF 1.-THE methods OF peace and
the constitutional limitations of power, "
| this gentleman wrote an article rcyew
ing Gen Grants political career. The
thing that provoked him was the critic
isms of the independent journals, ~ they
are called. You all know what inds
pendent journals are.
Sam. Bowles, of the Springfield Re-
publican, Horace White, Of the Chicag o
Tribune, Murat Halstead, Of the Cincin.
natl Commercial. all are independent
journals. They call Watterson, OF the
Louisville Courier Journal, one more {;
that makes n quadrilateral, but he IL
more Democratic than independently ac-
cording TO my notion.
faI In, Mr.