Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-25
For the HERALD.l
What L Know about H. GRAFT
Brown.
RY Slick.

Brown.
BY Slick.
CHAPTER l.
B. GratZ Brown is not of pjlebian
birth He is scion from one of the
most wealthy aristocratic and influential
families of that truly loyal State, Ken
lucky. lie is a regular F. F. X. He
can boast of having as good blood in
his veins as runs in the Blairs, BrecAen-
ridges, Hamptons and Prestons, for he
is relative of these truly loyal families.
Although he boasts of 1000 acres of
land under cultivation, a palatial resi-
dence in st. Louis and other real estate.
yet he is not above speaking to poor
white people even after having received
the nomination of vice-President, any
more than he was just before he became
governor. He is a good manager and
sharp financier. He gave evidence of
| these valuable traits in his character
when a school boy. He would bite and
spit upon the apples that he took to school
so the boys would not beg them away
from him. By this adroit management
he not only saved his apples, but avoid
ed giving offence by saying no. Gratz
never liked to give offence.
He removed from Kentucky to st.
Louis where he went into a printing
office as associate editor, and remained
for several years. He had high sense
of true Kentucky honor, and showed it
before he had been in st. Louis LONG by
challenging a man to fight duel. The
man accepted, chose pistols, went to
sandy island in the Mississippi and shot
Gratz in the knee, which still gives him
a little limp and a great dread of fire.
arms.
Through the kindness of GRATIS rela-
tiOns and personal friends he went to
Congress to fill out an uneXpired term.
Because he was not a radical temperance
man, but pursued the liberal policy of
taking a glass as often as he pleased, the
opposition talked about him and he was
not elected to 90 again. When the war
broke out GratZ was on hand, got COM
mission as colonel and had there been
good opportunity he would have doubt
less distinguished himself in battle, for
it was understood that he was terrible
Union man and would give the traitors
a so,tRd thrashing If he got chance
1t is probable the rebels heard of the
s0und thrashing that was in store for
them. (Or heard some other SOund) for,
like Davy CrOcket's coon, they all "came
down." and when the war was over they
were conquered and loved him. There
is scarcely an eX-rebel in the State OF
Missouri that will not vote for GratZ for
vice-President, unless it be that they
cannot stand that radical Greeley
They, however, remember how fortune
has favored them in times past by the
removal of those tyranical men, Harri-
son. TAYLOR and Lincoln, and how
adroitely the political tables were turned
by the elevation of Tyler, Fillmore and
Johnson to the Presidency. They will.
therefore, vote for Greeley. but not as
those who vote without a well grounded
hope.
B. Gratz is pacifcatOr, and cannot
bear the thought of having men enter
tain hostile feelings towards each other.
He manifested this excellent trait in his
character by taking his regiment home
to st. Louis Just before the battle at
Nelson's Creek. If Lyon had pursued
the same pacific policy how much blood
shed and ill-feeling would have been
averted! Even Lyons life would have
been spared if he had adopted such a
cautious, pacific and cOnciliatOry policy.
Gratz Is self-sacrificing, and does not
let his own personal opinions interfere
with the great duties he owes to his
country and his fellow men. In all his
public speeches and public acts, he has
''labOrcd continually to secure amnesty
for his fellow citizens" But his own
personal opinions were expressed in a
letter written in 1868 to Mr.. J. r. Win
Chell of Hannibal Mo-, in which he
says: Il am one of those who have
from the beginning believed that the
loyal and dislOyal can never live in Mis-
souri, together, and that the latter must
be forced to depart"
Gratz 1.-THE candidate always mani
Tested great interest in ''the liberty and
dignity of the nation" 1t was his far
seeing eve that discovered, eight years
ago, when the question of Lincoln's re-
nomination was before the people, that
Lincoln was not the right man for the
place, and with purely philanthropic
motives he originated the call and was
the grand mover at the Cleveland Con-
vcntion in 1864 to nominate a man in
opposition to the tyrant. Lincoln Gratz
then, as now, insisted that 1.-THE one
term principle ought to be inflexibly
adhered to in the (then) approaching
election, and also maintained that ''thc
time was come for all Independent men,
Jealous of their liberties and of the ma
Z; 80, nd
unite, to resist the swelling invasion of
an open shameless and unrestrained pat
ronage which threatens to engulf, nnder
its destructive wave, the rights of the
people, the liberty and the dignity of I
the nation" What sagacious foresight,
statcsmanlike ability and pure patriotism
are evinced in the FOREGOING. His pro-
phetic and nicely discriminating mind
then discovered. as it now discovers in |
President Grant, 1.-THE swelling invasion
of the open, shameless and unrestricted !
of Lincoln's administration,
and he begged the people, then, as now, /
ssto confer together and unite" that /
their liberty and national greatness might /
be perpetual.
Gratz, as might be suspected from /
reading the foregoing extracts, has the /
happy faculty of clothing his thoughts /
in beautiful language His last message
to the Legislature of Missouri was a
model in this respect 1t would be inn
possible to insert this wonderful State |
paper entire, for it is not one of those /
brief and unadOrned messages like /
Grants, but it was long, and filled with .
glowing and appropriate words, speci-
mems of which will be given. His views /
on the political questions of the day are /
about as follows, as enunciated in that /
of rhetoric and statesman /
ship:
THE passive policy, which. myriad
State, viii become tremendous political /
solidarity, eliminating the gives of office, /
and like volcanic range of the Ozark, /
whose hyrOglyphics of upheaval science /
has in no wise disciphered, will correct the
mnretricionS concnrrences of alternately |