Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-20
Lincoln's Opponents are Grants As
sailants.
From the Chicago Journal. !

From the Chicago Journal
We all can recollect how, in 1863,
in the midst of the darkest days OF
the war of the rebellion, the "big ADD
the little Iribunes," the Charles
Summers, the Lyman Trumbuls, the
Anna Dickinsons, and the whole of
that FESTIVE and noisy class of politi-
cal Pharisees, received the applause
Of the copperhesd Democrats thro'-
out the country for "pitching into"
President Lincoln, and turbulently
belaboring his Administration, in the
hope of defeating the nomination of
that good and wise man for re- cleo
ton. We can all recolIect how des-
perately these uneasy spirits tried to
destroy the con fidenoo OF the country
in Mr.. Lincoln, and to turn the popu-
lar feeling against him, his Minister'S,
his Generals and his advisers and
supporters-how severely they criti-
cised the military movements, the
| financial management, and indeed all
the operations of the Government
how they sneered at and attempted
TO depreciate his services, to revile
his policy, aud to bring into public
contempt his devotion to the best
interests of the nation. We can all
recolleot these things, and the appre
hension they inspired in patriotic
hearts that, through the united in
fuence of these clamoriug malcon-
tents, who presumptuously set them
selves up as the oracles and or les
OF popuIor opinion, the denomination
OF Mr.. Lincol would be defeated, and
either less trusty Republican or an
out-and-out copperhead Democrat be
chosen to fill his place. We can
recollect how this feeling of appre-
hension caused many good people to
despond, and some even to despair,
in that trying time. when the very
life and destiny of our national cause
were in EXTREMIST peril, and the
continuance Of Lincoln in the Presi-
dency was felt to be the nations
emily hope. 1t was dastardly con-
spiracy on the part of those profess
ing to be loyal and true par excellence,
to overthrow the devoted, tried and
self-sacrificing leaders of the national
cause, in order TO put in their places
other leaders who would be more
ready to give heed to their shallow
ideas of policy" and be more willing
to acknowledge them as the Sir
Oracles of the time Fortunately,
they failed. Lincoln was renomina-
ted and reelected. aud this very fact
was equal to dozen Union victories
in the field, in it's dispiriting and de-
moraIizing effect upon the armies
aud councils of the "Confeder2cy."
1t was the death-blow to the rebel
lion, and Grant and Sherman, with
their reinspired and re-encouraged
armies, bad only to go forth to bury
its carcass out of sight. The re-elec-
tion of Lincoln by an overwhelming
vote of the loyal people of these
States, was not only an emphatic
indorsement of his Administration,
its military operations and its fRan-
cial and other Government policies,
but was the declaration of q great
and gallant people that they were,
even after four years of war, more
resolutely in earnest than ever before
that the rebellion should be put down
and the integrity of the Union pre-
served. The "forlorn hope" that had
been inspired among the rebel leaders
by the attacks of the "big and little
IribuneS" and their puffed-up politi-
cal gods upon the Administration, in
connection with the seditious and
often traitorous clamors Of the
Northern copperhead press and poll
ticians-the "forlorn hope" that
Lincoln would be defeated-was
effectually dissipated when Lincoln
was renominated and reelected,
Notwithstanding those attacks OF
false friends and clamors of cowardly
foes; and with the dissipation OF that
last desperate rebel hope, fell to the
ground the already undermined and
tottering fabric OF the Southern
Confederacy."
These are facts of history, fresh
in the memory of all. Our object in
reviewing them at this time is to
point moral" for the Republican
party of the country to ponder
up n.
The same bowling breaking, snap
ping crew that assailed and tried to
overthrow Lincoln and his Admins
tration in those trying times of 1863
and "a, is the very same that is now
assailing and attempting to over
throw Grant and bis Administration
the "big and little Tribunes," the
Summers, Trumbulls, and the rest,
who, while ostensibly marching
under the Republican flag, are really
traitors to the Republican cause, and
giving oil possible aid and comfort to
the enemy. Being denied the covet-
ed privilege of ruling, they seek to
ruin. Grant, like Lincoln, refuses
to become mere automaton in their
hands, and, therefore, Grant, like
Lincoln, is the object of their impo-
tent rage. As, in the rebellion
times, their factious attempts at
grave mischief grieved the loyal and
reJolced only the rebels and their
sympathizers, so now their reckless
and persistent assaults, misrepresen-
tatlons and plottings against Grant,
grieve the real friends Of wise and
good government, and make joyful
only the ex-rebels aud their Northern
sympathizers who long for their res.
toration TO power in the Government.
Let the lesson of 1864 not be
forgotten by tie Republican party
in 1872. Let US not forget that the
political enemies of Grant now. were
equally as bitter in their political
opposition to Lincoln's denomination.
Aud, finally, let rs not forget that
these noisy spirits of chronic discon.
tent are really unworthy of serious
attention, the smalIness of thei,
influence among the people having
long since been demonstrated, and
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