Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-16

pers or nat -onal expense, we're placed
at the disposal of the most vindictive
enemies of the Administration, not
withstanding weeks and months were
consumed in the examination OF all the
witnesses they chose to call, the result
was to show that the Government was
untarnished with fraud or corruption.
.- s AMNESTY.
AZ. Because the blatant amnesty cry
of the Democrats is stopped byGrant1s
early Recommendation of it, and It's
adoption by a Republican Congress.
The vindictive and scandalous .misre-
presentation upon this subject by the
nefarious coalitionopposed to Grant is
completely answered by Grants own
words in his message sent to Congress
in December, 1870. t'More than six
years having elapsed" he says, ff'since
the last hostile gun was fred between
the armies then arrayed against each
other, one for the preservation, the
other for the destruction of the Union,
it may well be considered whether it is
not now time that the disabilities i'm
posed by the fourteenth amendment
/ SI1Oultt OS IClloNCd. liz SOOo oIl W
argue the question at length, to the
shame of the factions disorganizers who
are guilty of such gross falshood, re-
specting his views. r5 vaz.sE
43. Because President Grant, while
! brave, conquering, and where necessity
required it, infexible in war and in
peace, has been so magnanimous as to
provoke criticism, and has shown kind
ness to Southern rebels that ought to
crimson the cheeks of those who repre-
| sent him as relentless and unforgiving
When Lee surrendered his sword, Grant
said "Tell your boys they can take
their horses home with them to help
them make their crops. . When it was
contemplated under Johnson to try
Lee and his fellow officers for treason,
Grant said /: General Lee and his Of
ticers and troops, who have been duly
paroIed, cannot be arrested and tried
for treason. | Iprotest againt their ar
rest
a.. Because the very men who repre-
sent Grant as opposed to amnesty show
the hollowness of their pretensions
when they support for tho Presidency
a man who, on the LIST of May, 1861,
said: "When the rebellious traitors
are scattered like leaves before an angry
wind, 1t must not be to return to peace
fatt and contented homes. They must
find poverty 0t their tresides and see
/ oraUotaon IN the anxious eyes Of moth
e1s and the rags of. chiiore1a.o
THE 18TH, 18th AND 10TH AMENDMENTS.
45. Because the Republican party
alone can maintain those constitutional
amendments, which provide against
the payment of the public debt con.
tracted by the rebel states in their ct
forts to destroy the Union, or to pay
the former masters for their emanc1-
pated slaves, which amendments all the
Greeley1tes of the south, and many of
them at the north, declare to be un-
constitutional, and that they should be
nullifed
46. Because the Republican party is
wholly entitled to the transcendent re-
nown of having conceived and estab-
lished the 18th, l4th, and 18th amend
ments, the great charters of personal
liberty, the elective franchise-the
right of self government-each and all
of them encountering the most enven-
omed, the fiercest and most indicative
opposition in the power of the Demo-
cNtS, led H"GH atH.. - g. ,.-...-
IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE.
At. Because impartial suffrage, origi-
mated and, after many an embittered
contest, established by the Republican
party, has been protected and main,
tanned by this Administration, and will
surely be impaired, obstructed and
prevented unless Grant is re elected
4S. Because President Grant, from
the commencement of the rcbellian,
has been a decided and most earnest
friend of suffrage for the colored man,
and in his inaugural of March 4th,
1869, he expressed himself thus en-
phatically concerning the 18th amend
ment: 1.-The question of suffrage is
one which is likely to agitate the pub
lie so long as a portion of the citizens
of the nation are excluded from
its privileges in any State IT.
seems to me desirable that the
question should be settled now, and
entertain the hope and express the de-
sire that it may be by the ratification
of the 18th article of amendment to the 4
Constitution. Not contented with
these timely and effective words, he
addressed message to- Congress on
the ratification of the amendment, and
made it a medium of counsel and en-
couragement to the eniranchised race,
and of appeal to the nation in their be-