Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-31

Ulysses s. Grant, and he resisted it with al
most unequaled patriotism. On one hand
were war, triumph, glory, unopposed re-elec-
ton; on the other hand were peace and JUS
tice; but there, too, were the outcries of |
demagogues, the discomfort of unthinking |
thousands, possible defeat at the polls. |
Though he needed but to stay his hand, and |
let the two nations slide into the "bloody |
chasm" toward which they were tending, |
yet he would not be even negatively guilty; |
heiexerted himself to the utmost, and obtain |
ed settlement of the vexed question, hon |
orable TO all parties, and beneficial to Amer |
lea. He has maintained order in the face of |
the greatest difficulties. When we remem- |
Der the terrible massacres of New Orleans |
and Camilla, which marked the rule of An |
drew johnson, we cannot but realize the |
com6ustible nature of Southern society, and |
the difficulty of maintaining order there. In |
spite of those difficulties, In spite of hun
dreds of thousands of armed Ku-Klux, Grant |
has maintained order. He has aided much |
to produce prosperity throughout the ma
ton; for prosperity is but the fruit of which
peace is the seed, Justice Is the nourishment,
order the protection. 1t is needless to re-
count the story of diminished taxes or di-
minished debt; we have but to look around
US to see the nation moving forward with un-
exampled speed.
GRANT THE TRUE RECONCILIATION.
But we are told that reconciliation is the
great object, and that the election of Gener-
al Grant means policy of hate, and the
election of Mr.. Greeley policy of love. 1t
is difficult to see how or why. MIR. Greeley
recommended amnesty; so did General Grant.
General Grant recommended the ku-klux
law; so did Mr.. Greeley. In regard to the
South, their action is the same in the past,
their platform the same in the present, their
policy the same in the future. Why, then,
is the rebel element almost unanimously in
favor of Greeley and opposed to Grant? Be-
cause they hope to make tool of Greeley,
and they know they can't make tool of
Grant. No; the election of General Grant is
not policy of hate, and the election of Mr..
Greeley is not policy of love. Yet there is
difference between them. The election of
General Grant is a policy of strength; the
election of Mr.. Greeley is a policy of weak
ness. The election of General Grant is a pol
icy of order; the election of Mr.. Greeley is a
policy of anarchy. The election of General
Grant is policy of courage: the election of
Mr.. Greeley is policy of cowardice. The
election of General Grant is policy of pru-
dence; the election of Mr.. Greeley is policy
of recklessness. The election of General
Grant is policy of national prosperity; the
election of Mr.. Greeley is policy of nation
al disaster.
GRANT AND HIS sLANDERERs.
Every citizen ought to vote for Ulysses s.
Grant in order to rebuke the unparalleled
terocity with which he has been assailed.
We hear much about dead issues and obso-
lets questions, but there is one living ques-
from ocean to ocean; one question which
warns every heart with interest, and bright
ems every eye with curiosity; one question
which stirs every brain and quivers on every
tongue. And that great, living question of
the hour is: Who can tell the biggest lie
about General Grant The torrent of cal
umny which had been let loose against him
has had no parallel since the days of An
drew Jackson. His opponents have thrown
aside the saber and bayonet of honorable
warfare and armed only with the
poisoned dagger of the assassin. They
have ceased to rally around the standard
of Lee and Beauregard, and are trying to
play the part of Surratt and Wilkes Booth.
GRANT THE VERY OPPOSITE OF A TYRANT.
The services he has rendered do not entitle
him to office, but they do entitleshim to i'm
munity from the mass of falsehood and mis-
representation which has been flung against
him. The most ardent enthusiasm can
hardly overrate those services. In those fear
full days when Liberty and Union trembled
in the balance with anarchy and slavery,
then the sword of Grant, as beneficent as
that of Brennus was malevolent, was cast
into the scale and turned it in favor of the
right. His hand lighted the first torch of
national triumph at Donelson, tore out the
keystone of rebellion at Vicksburgh, planted
| the laurels of victory on the crest of Mission
Ridge, and finally swept the banks of the
| AppomattoX with the bosom of conquest.
| For such services, ,equsled in value to America
| Only ny luOSC OI washington anu LiNCOlD,
and unequaled in splendor even by theirs,
he is rewarded by calumny of the most afro
| cious character. We are told that he is
| tyrant. A tyrant When a million bay
onets obeyed his command; when hundred
| thousand sabers would have flashed from
| their scabbards at his bidding, he was the
most faithful, obedient, uncomplaining SUBJ
| ordinate that Abraham Lincoln had. Now,
when his most available military force is the
Marine Band which plays in front of the
| uva q re fnld that ha ho la
pot. A tyrantl He has never done a single
act which Congress insisted should not be
| done; he has never failed to do aught which
| Congress said should be done. A tyrant !
| Only few months ago we saw him thrust
aside, without a moments hesitation, the
| opportunity of securing new lease of
| power, and submit rather to defamation and
insult. If Ulysses s. Grant is tyrant, then
| Washington and Jefferson and jackson and
Lincoln were despots of the most ferocious
| character.
| GRANTS INFLEXIBLE INTEGRITY.
They say he is corrupt; but when vast dis
tricts of the South obeyed his almost un-
limited power; when millions of conquered
Confederates were ruled by his sword; when
schemes for plundering the rebels and plum
dering the government stained the reputa-
ton of more than one Union General, no
blot rested on the fame of Ulysses s. Grant.
Still they say he is corrupt, and point to
gifts received from grateful people three
years before he was President as being
bribes paid for offices conferred three years
afterward on four or five of the donors, out
of three or four hundred. Let them add
that the whole Senate of the United States,
knowing all these facts, instantly confirmed
the appointments. If there was bribery,
then Charles Sumner was an accomplice in
it. If there was bribery, then Lyman Trum-
bull aided it. If there was bribery, then
Carl SchurZ assisted it; nay, every Senator
present on that occasion, Democratic or Re
publican, was an accomplice in the crime.
Yet the chief stock in trade of many Lib
eral orator and writer is to try to deceive the
people, and fasten the charge of bribery Oh
Grant. Nay, the official address of the
'Libera1r National and State Committees
join in the slander. Every generous or hon
orable mind in America must revolt at such
contemplate conduct.
GRANTS GREATEST FAULT.
By way of variety from these venomoui
accusations, they say that he likes fas
horse. This is undoubtedly true; his horsel
were always so fast that the enemies of hi!
country could never keep out of his reach
And then they bring forward the charg,
t which seems to fill their souls with the mos
perfect ecstacy, viz, that some one ouc'
gave General Grant some bullpupsi Thi
awful accusation is flung from the pens o
r journalists and dropped from the lips o
3 grave Congressman with frequency whicl
shows their lack of other ammunition
Even the great Tribune, the personal organ
S of Mr.. Greeley, is not ashamed to associate
: General Grants name with bull pups on it
: intellectual pages. Probably the story
false, but let it stand as true. The bul
4 pups are said to have been given to the Gen
eral several years ago; they must be bul
e dogs by this time, and they are showing thei
n teeth all over the country in q way whic
: will make the slanderers wish they had neve
d engaged in taurine-canine investigations.
u GRANTS MANLY SERENITY.
: Enough of these unworthy themes. Gen
: eral Grant has been subjected to the severes
J tests, and no taint of corruption, no mark Q
y unlawful ambition, has been found upo
VI him. Let the American people rise in thei
might and smite his traducers till even thei
brazen cheeks grow white with fear an
J. then red with shame. The President ma
e not speak. Public opinion requires tn
:, Chief Magistrate to keep aloof from thes
g wordy contests, and his own modesty Ell
IL forces the prohibition From first to last
5 has never said one word in reply to all tn
5. Kisses of malice, all the rawlings of hate. II