Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-09-14


say of the Democrats, the very
scum" of politics.
Nearly every man whose name ap.
peared " an either disappointed Office
seeker, man with grievance. or a
/ man with bad character.
There is an effrOntery bordering OIL
sublime in professional cOrruptions,
the worst and most notorious, start
ing up to berate honest people. From
such efirOntery came convention,
which from beginning to end, was
managed to cheat and defraud the re.
spectacle men who were drawn into
it and the public generally. That the
nomination was bartered and below
ell through we ere assured by the best
who were present; and now the Demo
cratic party has aied by its own hand,
and gone for eternal punishment to
Horace Greeley.
Why Should Democrats Vote For Gree
ley?
Upon that ground will patriotic
| Democrats prefer Greeley to Grant,
They must prefer Greeley because
they disapprove Grant personally, or
else because they disapproye SOME
political doctrine he represents.
Arr Democrats for repudiating the
debit Are they for agitating or an
uuling the thirteenth, fourteenth, and
fifteenth amendments OF the COnstitn-
ton Would they reestablish slavery I
Would they pay the rebel war debt,
or pensions tU rebel soldiers, or rebel
war claims! Would they initiate the
currency again and flood the country
with paper money! Are Democrats
against reducing taxes and expenses
Are Democrats opposed to peace with
nations and stable government at
hOmef These questions are not asked
to impugn the position of any man,
but tor the opposite reason.
General Grant being tried and true
in all these things, why should any
Union man. or Conservative man, or
business man, or patriot, vote against
him, ii his competitor was safe and
tit man for President! Plainly there
can be no reason, unless Grant is I'M
worthy of confidence OF respect, and
deserves to be found guilty of the
crimes and vices alleged against him.
To Judge the question we must rx-
anime his history and lay bare his
life. 1.-THE tree is known by its frilit."
the carpenter by his chips, the man b,
his deeds.
Grants Edhcatioa.
| Grant can not be illiterate, or. as a
Greeley orator told All audience the
other day, "ignorant OF what school
boys knew"
He was educated at West Point,
and whoever graduates in that exact
ing school must have an education
such as few Americans receive. MrIp
tai culture is not all we lind III Grant
NJ West Point. His letters written
then stamp him with character enough
by itself TO refute the worn and soiled
scandal which now 0fends the uOstrils
OF the nation.
From West Point he went to act
a subordinate part in the Mexican
war. He acted it bravely, mOdestiy,
and well. The Mexican war being
over, his pay in the regular arny
would have gone on. and he might
have in peace aid idleness at the
pnblic cost, but, unwilling to be "a
drOne, he became u tanner.
The Tanner Of Galena.'- What He
Tanned.
Mr.. Sumner -withers him by re.
Winding w that he tanned hides at
Galena for few hundred dollars u
year, He did not masquerade as "A
wood. chopper; he did not figure in
pictOrials as farmer; he did not GO
round telling" what he knew about"
anything that be didn't understand
himself; he minded his own business,
and Ter other peoples 5usineas alone;
but he worked with his hands as a
newer of wood, W ich he sold in the
market, and wrought ont a living for
his family and himself
| Frea the breaking out of the re-
belliOu, his career is q "thrice told
tale'-thc world knows it 10y, heart.
When the flag sank at Sunpter, he
did not wait to be called. Without
commission, command, uniform or
shoulder-straps, he started for the
field, and grasping the Stars and
Stripes, and carried them through a
blaze of victories such as no mortal
before him had won.
While Senators who now hawk al
han were lolling for IA fourth term on
cushions, and eviscerating rncycl"pe-
bias, books ut quotations, and classi
cal dictionaries, the tanner of Galena
swept rsbrilio1 finn the valley of the
Mississippi, and the father eli waters
went upyexrd to the sea.
Lincoln and Stanton, who repOsed
unme;,Sured confidence in him, called
him at once from the victorious fields
OF the West to the department Of the
iOtomac, and Golgotha, where army