Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25

each nearly hundred miles in
length, were flied with uncotlined
soldiers, mudcrcd ".o beat Grant"
:. As ut Andcrsonvillc, and Sails /
bury and the other noted prisons,
so the cowardly and inhuman cry
sounded above the roar Of the rapids |
about belle Isle. There, in full |
sight of the residence of Lee and |
Davis, in full view of the rebel Cabi- |
net and tic rebel Congress, was the
s1pm.l3t,tpnguc of the island, where
'ttloassnt Q 4 the "boys inybluc" sank
Undcr starvation. and cold-staryed
sfto beat Grant"
Those unfortunatcs found by. the
Union army on entering Wilmington,
who were bcrcft of reason through
exposure and want of food, who
could not tell their names, their reg
iments, or their homes, and who
died with the bread too long delayed
in their hands, were victims TO the
one handspring Of rebel action there
--"Anything to beat grant"
In substance it was the one OK
cusing cry for all the minor sins
which flourishcd under the crime of
treason. Anything to destroy the
Union; anything to weaken the I'm
ion forces; anything to eXtcrminatc
Union soldiers or Union men; any
thing TO beat Union Generals; any
thing to crush the Republican party
anything to beat Graut. Each and
all signffios the same. and in their
names every outrage that disgrace
the page of rebel warfare was per
petrated. From tho firing on
Sumter to the final surrender, either
in essence, or in exact language,
the one motto cited TO cover all
forms of atrocity was the watchword
of to-day "Anything to beat Grant"
Violate all rules of civilized war, i'll
treat prisoners , starvc them, disable
them, if need &c murder them.
Anything to beat Grant Plan to
burn Northern cities, plan to poison
them, plan to infect them with con-
tagious diseases. Anything to beat
Grant.
When the war closed the cry did
not. cease. Booth acted upon its
spirit when, with. his accompliccs, he
murdered the President, and at
tempted the lives of Cabinet officers.
With him it was, Anything to beat
the Republican party"
Andrew Johnson followed him,
and by political threachery to restore
what the rebels in arms had lost
And with him the problem of defeat
ing reconstruction was at last q
question of beating Grant.
The Seymour campaign, fought
out upon the principles of the Broad
head letter, was but call for u reh-
ell rally to beat Grant.
Later the Ku-Klux banner has
sported the motto. BY its enforced
authority Northern men have been
driven out of the South, their prop
erty destroyed, and their lives often
taken. Union men have lived in one
long reign of terror. Colored citi-
zens prosecuted beyond the limits
which the old slave code tolerated,
broad as those limits were. BY
whipping. by murders, by burnings,
by terrorisms of all kinds, by every
means which dcvllish ingenuity
could devise this organization Ii; S
worked industriou. ". Each masl =
ed'maurader shouiag to his fellow {:
"Ahythhing to beat Grant"
And now, having by the strong
arm of the Republican party been
forced to Ivy aside their whips, their
arms. and their disguises, they are
coming up with all the others who
mourn over the result of the war, 10
see whether. other plans having
failed, new one can not be devised
at Baltimore to beat Grant.
| So, musing upon the column now
passing through Washington for
| Baltimore, the rallying cry OF the
convention seems altogether appro-
| pirate.
| 1t is true that the motto, rs used
through the war, had little person
al reference to Grant, but always to
the cause, or the principles which he
and the Union leaders represented.
And the old cry, which is ringing
out again so fierccly now, docs not
apply to General Grant as q person.
but to the selected standard bearer
of the Republican party. There are
many who would not have chosen
| him for the position but now that he
holds it must work, and will work
heartily to secure victory, not for
him, but for the Union party hc rep
resents.
In this contest. for many, General
i-Grant as person receives only sec
ondary consideration, but for oil
Republicans Gene al Grant as the
candidate of their party stands rs
the representative of all that was
gained by the war, and tho good
! that has come to the country in the
years which have succeeded it.
AS in the years of the war the
loyal North made answer to the rcb
cl shout: Anything TO beat Grant" !"
by pushing on its columns in neY-
er Ccasing march, sparing no effort
till victory established peace; SO
when the same shout rings over the
land again, there will surely be q
loyal rally to preserve what those
brave columns wrcsted from the old
foe, the same foe on its feet again.
$50 many millions paid off each
month are to Gen. Grants Admins
tration what union victories on hard
4 fought fields were to Mr.. Lincoln's.
The fact stated by the President, that
!, the annual burdens of the debt is
now seventeen millions less than it
was when he was inaugurateG, is O
perfect Vicksburg to his supporters"
IN. Y. Tribune, Dec. 5, 1871!