The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-06-13
OUR TICKET.

found the ticket that in November
next will sweep the land with the
popular vote. June 9th the work
was done that caused the Dolly
Vardens to quake, and curse the I'M
lucky star that led them off after
false gods. U. s. GRANT and HEN.
RY WILSON, both men of the people;
both men who have tasted the dregs
of poverty; men who earned their
bread by the sweat of their brow ;
men who served their time, learned
their trades and for livelihood fol-
lowed them. They are not from
among the lowly for to labor is not
low, but the sweets and the sweats OF
the laboring man was theirs until
their genius was recognized and
called them to other fields to serve
the public in more responsible posi-
tons. The nominations are met at
every point, on every hand with the
greatest enthusiasm, and sweep the
country from Maine to Oregon, from
the Lakes to the Gulf, being met
with hearty amens and godspeeds.
GRANT and WILSON shall be the raj
lying cry that unites the East and
West, the North and South, and
carries the grand old Republican
banner. unstained by corruption, un-
polluted by crime, onward to an
other glorious, triumphant result.
Victory shall perch upon the party
banner of Republicanism as it did of
yore on the banner OF our Republic
when upheld by Grant on the field,
and Wilson as Chairman of the Mil
itary Committee. How the heart OF
President Grant must have throbbed
with pride when the people of the
greatest nation upon Gods footstool
saw fit for a second time to tender
him nomination, unsought, unasked,
and without opposition. Others
have received second nomination,
but who like this matchless chief ev-
er received both without opposition;
this too in the face of a persecution as
unwarranted as it was unjust, caused
wholly and only by his faithful dis
charge of duty and determined re-
fusal to be made the tool ofcliques or
rings. Sumner, Schurz and Trum-
bull, with myriads of lesser lights,
in and out of the party have hurled
the shafts of jealousy and envy at
his head, yet here we have the voice
of the people, not from one State, not
from half dozen, but from every
State in the Union, actuated by the
most patriotic motives, unanimously
rendering him the greatest office in
their gift. 1t is truly mighty tri-
umph. To recount the history of
Grant would be repetition, for the
history of the United States for the
last decade is also the history of U.
S. Grant, and is familiar to every
school-boy in the land.
Hon. HENRY WILSON is scarcely
less known to the reading man, for
while Grant made his history on the
field and in the White House, Mr..
Wilson has been making his in Con-
gress, of a different kind but none
the less dear to America. HENRY
WILSON was born at Pennington, N.
H., Feb. l6, 1912, ofparents extreme
ly poor. At ten years of age he was
bound to farmer for the balance of
his minority-eleven years. Think
of that, youths of 1872; for eleven
years bound boy, and during that
time he only received twelve months
schooling; but he read after night,
every book he could buy or borrow.
When of age he took his bundle and
walked to Natick, Mass, where he
apprenticed himself to a shoe
maker, and after serving his time,
worked at his trade two years, care
fully saving all his earnings, and ex-
pended it in schooling himself. The
person with whom he deposited his
earnings broke up, and he again
went to work at his trade. In 1910
he entered politics actively, was
sent three times to the Massachu-
sets House, and four times to
the State Senate. His anti-slavery
sentiments were soon made known
and he opposed the extension of the
accursed institution upon. every &C.
caRion, and was soon regarded by
both parties as one of the most zeal
Gus opponents of Slavery in that Alb
clifton State. He edited the Bos-
ton Daily Republican for two years,
'4s and 40. In 1852 he was the Free
Soil candidate for Congress in the
9Th District, which usually gave
nearly 5000 majority against the
free.soilers, and came within SO
votes of election. In 1853 he was
defeated as free-soil candidate for
Governor. In 1855 he was elected
to the u. S. Senate to succeed Ed
ward Everett, and few days after
taking his seat, hurled down the
gauntlet to the "chavalric" South
rons by advocating the repeal of the
obnoxious fugitive slave law, and
the abolition of slavery in the Dis.
trict of Columbia. He continued to
work for the right on all occasions /;
refused a challenge sent him by
"Bully Brooks" who had caned his
colleague Sumner, giving as a reason
that it was against the laws of the
land, was a relic of barbarism and
should be discountenanced, but gave
the bully to understand that if he ever
attempted the same game on him that
be had on Sumner land that Rous-
seau afterwards did on GrinnelD that
he would exemplify his ideas of self
defence. which covered the broadcast