American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-24
The Confidence Game.

ton, why is it that only five U. $.
including Wilson, the can
didate for the Vice Presidency, have
as vet entered The lists for him Nor
ton, Logan, Carpenter, and Conk-
ling and Wilson are all the Sena-
tors that have spoken for him as yet.
Such little fellows rs Nye of Neva-
da, Pomeroy of Kansas, and Ser
geant of California, are rather silent
Just now-and he who is likened i'll
the Radical army unto " Harry OF
Navarro, the gentleman who now
resides in sweet COahoma, Why is
il that his voice is not heard ringing
out for Ulysses? Why is that
Banks, the shrewdest of all New
England politicians, and Grow OF
Pennsylvania, and a host of other
small fry in the Republican ranks,
who range themselves always on
the winning side are against Grant !
Why is it that Hancock i'll this State
and Brady and Robt. AlcOrn and
Sam. Young and MOrphis are for
Greeley, if Grant is so sure OF re
election The signs of the times
are that old White Coat is running
like a scared dog, and that Ulysses
is in a bad way. Grant is the poor
est hand to manage campaign that
ever was heard of. On all hands it
is admitted that theSouthern States
hold the balance of power, and that
it was policy to divide the white
voters of the South. The negroes
being sure for Grant. his friends if
they had had an ounce of sense,
would have appealed to the South
in this wise: "Grant only obeyed
the laws passed by Trumbull and
urged by Greeley, he was your friend
after the war, he tried to have good
terms given you, he saved Lee, when
Andrew johnson wonld have hung
him, he will be your friend, stand
by him he only asks you to acqul-
esce in the results of the war, he
does not ask you to eat dirt" In
stead of that, Boutwell,. ass as he is.
goes to North Carolina and tells
Confederate soldiers that they must
of ever having been such,
and get down on their hands and
knees into the bloody chasm, and let
the carpet-baggers and negroes kick
them right hard, and there climb
up into office. on their backs, be-
fore forgiveness can be extended
them. The cant of a crop-eared,
hound, wearing his mas
ter's collar, as did Gurth the swine
herd, that of his master Cedvic, the
Then comes Moxa Morton,
a brave, bold, bad man, loathsome
in body, fou! in mind, who after he
has finished a bitter speech, not sat
istied, cries out three cheers for this
sentiment Never shall one who
wore the grey, as a rebel. be the
equal before the law and before the
to those who wore the blue
and saved the Union - Whereat
immense applause resulted. How
do Grant Democrats like these SEN
Liments ! Grant permits his mouth
pieces thus to insult the manhood
Of the South, and then expects
Southern soldiers to vote for him
Had Grant written his own sentl-
ments and those sentiments had
been such, as a Confederate soldier,
looking to the future but not ash am
ed of the past, could have APPROX
Ell he might have led off some no.
BILE hearted generous fellows who
him, as soldiers will sold
iers, proved and tried. Now he will
be met with scorn, by all just and
generous Confederate souls-whose
to forget and forgive
has been met by BoutwelPs cant
and Morton's filthy abuse.
Men of the South, and Of Missis-
sippi, contrast if you please the
speeches of Shurz and Trumbull,
and the sage of Cheppaqua, lately
at Portland, Maine, with
those of the Aminidab Sleek Bout
we'll. or the Falstaf1ian Morton, and
then say under which you will
fight
E1Ex-President johnson, in b is