The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-08

centage of the votes Of the country IN
oupOsition 70 what we believe TO have
been its vital interests. Certain it Is
that time has fully demonstrated the
wisdom of all the great measures OF
the Republican party, and to-day we
find the Democratic party endorsing,
affirming, and pledging itself TO sus-
tain all these great measures saving
and excepting 8 faint objection to its
centraliZing tendencies, and that, too,
under the leadership Of the most dis
tasteful enemy to be found IN the
country all OF which is brought about
by the leaders against the wishes OF the
great mass Of the party. The best and
most potent reason for this great fraud
Is avowed to be "anything TO beat
Grant"
They admit that Democratic doc
tTines and candidates cannot stand be-
fore the country. They confess their
defeat, and their error on the great is
sues Of the past, equality Of race; en-
anticipation; the ballot for all, exemp-
ton Of bOncs from taxation payment
Of the debt in coin. Upon these and
other measures the Democratic party
cOnfesses itself not only beaten but
wrong. Not only old grounds Of diff
ference are given up, but no new
grounds Of difference are found.
The Republican party has been in
power for eleven years, responsible
for all legislation in the greatest and
most trying era of the nation, and
now Its life long enemy, at last gives
up the flight, not daring to join issue
upon but single political question
the Ku Klux laws, and for these their
candidate was q strong advocate, and
has never yet disRpprOved Of them.
For the purpose, IsuppOse, Of Wiping
out the last vestige Of Democracy they
have selected as their candidate a pro-
fessed ultra Republican, formerly an
ultr Whig and KnOW-nOthing, aud for
him they ask the votes Of honest
Democrats. Ifa Democrat were run
ming Democrats could with consis-
tency vote for him, or il democratic
principles were to be voted for they
could with consistency sustain them.
The solution of this paradox then is
the cry, "AnybOdy to beat Grant"
The whole thing is based purely and
entirely on personal grounds, and sup
ported by few respectable Republic
can sore heads, and the whole herd of
Republican Dllnlderers, who are un-
able to find favor with Grant, togeth-
er with that part of the Democracy
totally without principles, backed up
by Tammany, with all its rOttenness
and stencil. The Liberal Republicans
who sustain this movement in nine
cases out of ten do so because their
wishes for themselves or friends as to
Office and patronage have not been
gratiied. They go upon the theory
that "what is good for them Is good
for the country and Uice UersG.
You may 90 over the whole list Of
these malcOntents, Eame any one OF
them, and I am quite sure I can tell
you what tails him."
Then the contest resolves into q per-
sonal controversy, and Grant is put on
trial. We accept the challenge, and l
confidently predict that when 1876
comes round this "anything 70 beat
Grant" party, will not only adopt our
principles but will also adopt our can
didates,
GRANT AS A CIVILIAN.
ttGrant is no statesman-be may be
q good general, but he is ignorant Of
what school boys ought to know" " say
these fDOlly Vardens." He cannot
be illiterate. Whoever read his mill
tary dispatches, his military rules and
regulations for the government of the
different localities South during the
war and his state papers since he has
been President, without taking an
honest pride in his honesty Of purpose
as also in his literary attainments.
Under date of June 4, 1889, while in
school at West Point he wrote to his
father rs follows:
1 find much here that makes me
love my dear native land more than
ever. / am happy in the fact that
this stronghold Of nature is safely in
the hands Of the United States. Do
you know, father, that it is called the
Gibraltar of America?
AsI returned from my walk, re-
freshed by the exercise, inspired by
the grand and varied scenery, and bet
ter prepared for my studies, l passed by
the cemetery of the Academy, where
some of our cherished dead repOse.
Here is the monument erected by our
grateful country TO the brave hero,
KosciuskO, who fell on the field of bat
tie, on American soil, fighting for the
liberties of mankind. You remember,
father, the line that is recorded Of
him:
"And FreedOm shrisked when KOsciusko
fell"
I aEl rendered serious by the inn
pressiOns that crowd upon me here
from West Point. My thoughts are
frequently occupied with the hatred
am made to feel towards traitors to
my country, as look around me on
thememorials that remain Ofthe black
hearted treason of Arnold. / am full
Of a conviction Of scOrn and contempt,
which my young and inexperienced
pen is unable to write in this letter,
toward the conduct OF any man who,
at any time, could strike ut the liher-
ties of such country as ours. II ev-
ery man should be found in our Un-
ion base enough to make the attempt
to do this; II, like Arnold, they should
secretly seek to sell our national in
heritance for the mess of pOttage of
wealth, or power, or sectiOn-West
Point sternly reminds me what you,
my father, would have your son do.
As / stand here in this national fort,
q student at arms under our country's
flag, I know full well how you would
have me act under such an emergen-
CIV. trust my future conduct in such
an hour, would prove worthy the pat
riOtic instructions you have given.
Yours Obediently,
ULYSSES SIDNEY GRANT.
What do you, fellow citizens, think
Of the boy who wrote this letter ?
When did he lose the moral sense so
conspicuous at the age Of twenty
years?
He acted his part bravely and well.
The Mexican war being over, the pay
Of an officer Of his rank was such as
to enable him to live, but being un-
willing TO play the part of a drOne,
he resigned his commission and
sought livelihood as q tanner-the
occupation he had learned with his
father before he went to West Point.
Inc great Sumner taunts him by
reminding the country that ''he tan
ned nloes IN Galena for q few hun
dred dollars per year." But he did
not inform the country through a
E9GelL uEh6p1fCL VI what ne Knew
about anything" he did not herald
to the world that he was wood cbop-
per, but he quietly and modestfy
minded his own business and let 9TH
er peoples business alone. Yet, he
worked with his hands as newer Of
wood, and sold it in the market, and
by honest toll wrought out a living
for himself and family.
GRANT, THE SOLDIER.
From the time the rebellion broke
out, the whole world knows his histo-
~. When Sumpter was Rssailed and
the old flag Of beauty, and now Of glO-
~, fell, he did not wait to be called.
Without commission, command, uni
form, OF shoulder straps, grasping the
stars and stripes, he carried them
through series Of brilliant victories,
such as no mortal before him had
Won.