Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
"Anything to Beat Grant,"

We invite the attention of eve
ry thoughtful reader, to the follow
ing Washington letter to the Cincin
natl Gazette, from the pen of Gen.
eral H. ". Boyanton:
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 8.
The thoughts of Washington are
turned on Baltimore, and the ap-
preaching surrender of the Demo
cracy to Horace Greeley. The del.
egates who have passed through
from the South had but one re.
sponse to all questions about their
relish for this candidate-"Anything
to beat Grant,
The city is deserted by nearly all
who can visit Baltimore, and those
who remain, in the utter absence of
other news have abundant time for
reflection upon this controlling. mot
to Of the neighboring convention. ..
AS squads after squads of these
delegates arrive and pass on, it is
difficult for any ono who followed
the flag through the South, and who
now looks in these faces, to imagine
the Confederate army on its feet
again, and Baltimore, as in '61,
brought into painful prominence.
The rallying cry is appropriate
but not new. In substance al.
ways, and for long periods, and
many critical hours, in very words,
it rang constantly from rebel battle
line, and fort, and pirate ship
"Anything to beat Grant" '
1t sounded over the South from
Corinth when Beaurcgard was or
ganizing to move on Shiloh, and
brought boys in regiments from
New Orleans, middle aged and gen
uemen in 'broadcloth, and old men
who left their homes and Offices for
a few days, only enlisting forthc bat
tic. The Southwest was drained Off
materially; and the limits of the
cradle and the grave invaded literal
ly to meet the requirements of the
rebel necessity. And the one CON-
mand that covered all preparations
was: Anything and everything to
beat Grant"
Guerrillas swarmed everywhere
in rear of the Union forces, shoot
ing stragleIs, robbing, killing sick
and wounded often, aud violating
every rule of warfare except that
of the outlaw, cheered on constant
ly by citizens, tolerated and aided
by the authorities, and protected by
all. And this whole system, with
all its attendant outrages, was based
upon the sentiment, Anything to
beat Grant" 80
The horrors of Fort Pillow and
its butcheries when summond Up in
n single phrase, read "Anything to
beat Grant" And so of Plymouth,
and SO OF the numbering colored
soldiers elsewhere under that. stand
ard of rebellion, the stars and bars.
The starvation ut Andcrsonville,
the marking out of tho "dead line"
there, and the shooting of those who
crawled across it for cup of pure
water, or of those who steped over
It deliberately to end their miscries
this whole unutterablc story of
woe is fully expressed in this revived
motto of the Democracy, Anything
to beat Grant" -, :.
The same motto controlled at
Salisbury. With plenty of materi-
al for shade anu shelter, the. Union
prisoners were left to burrow in the
| ground like animals; and lest sun,
and rain, and frost, and loathsome
fool should not kill them fast
enough, materials to hasten death
were ground in with the musty corr
Ithey were fed upon. Inside that
Egastly prison pen, honeycombeG
! with burrows, but one terrible rule
was law: Anything 10 beat Grant.
Outside, along those lcngthenins
trenches, where the corpse when re-
cevied were skeletons, the onl,
burial service uttered was ''Any
thing TO beat Grant" And tbi