The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-10-17
James A. Garfield.
40. 2.-BY WILLIAM HICK.

The halo of intellectual brilliancy
! which surrounds the Congressman of
the 18th district, shonld not be allowed
80 daze our Judgment of the mans
\ manhood calibre so that we can't see
his want of moral bottom. Let rs
cast aside the attractive surroundings
and reduce him to the common level
of a worker for day wages in some
machine shop. Let us suppose the
election near at hand. and the master
tells his hifeling he must vote for
Grant or he will be disehal ged- Here
is a cross to take up-a time to try a
mans soul-to prove his sincerity, his
principles his patriotism if he be a
natures noble, possessed ofItrue great
ness and purity, with principles as
true as heaven, then like a hero he
will spnrn the degrading threat, take
/ mp, his cross aud willingly suffer the
IpenaItyi which hell has affixed to
4righteonsness.. If he be'a coward, a
Tpoitroon, without soul, save fog; money y lo9Itley
/ OF, other present gain, seeking only.
his ease and selfish ends, then he will
iact out his nature, sell himself to the
deFil and quietly submit TO the rtyralnl5- raj .
ny of the if.Powers that be- Gloss it
over as we may, this is exactly Gnr-.
4 field e unfortunate auaDdary. He Is
i the hired servant Of the nineteenth
congressional district ia He-knewi If he
I ha hax N
/ discharged-such is the immense ma.
] 15joray9to oyercome--snch is theglgreat
i power of his master ferd the IpYesent.
So keen is, his thirst for political pow
Ter and Office, SO poor is he in virtue.
faith, patience /; $50 blind and rampant
i his. ambition, that he could, not affDrdi
TO wait :, he could not, brook delay;
i he preferred doing evil that good might
come !, he chose to sfffwade through
slaughter to,a throne8' by the advoca-.
Icy of wrong to- right. u He prefers
Grant to Greeley, Cameron to Charles
Il Sumner, vice to virtue. as aomeans to
an end. ID Such q man. with all his tal-'
,bents, is without the true vision - What
/ if he had had to retire, like Cincinna-
tus, to the hoeing of his tuFnipsb he
/ should have remembered that g truth
crushed to earth willrise again" iaDe.i
] feat, for, time would only have
iebropght him up more popular than
/ ever. He should have dared to. do
4 right.l ,Rolieyfmongeringi and Ecom<
4 promise may lead to N netofiety I.buti
never to historic fame.rs Summer and
Greeley by choosing viitue and pres-.
emit obloquy, Tisking defeat and pro-
eYoking the Kissing, yelling jeefs sand
sc0rn 0fc0rruptl minions in pow Grand
/ their depravcd followers, will iveini
/ the admirati9nGeof,eKi Kiftuohs millions,
i yet unborn. TO say nothin of such
carrfOn as Grant and Cameron, Hwheni
/ even such men as Daniel Webster and.
Il Rufus Choate, who had eloquence
j without principles can onlysbe handed
down upon the scroll of histofi c9famei
las glittering imitation paste ajeweis;'
i these should serve as warming toialfi
i misapplied intellect; for what work.
ingman ever praises them n What
/ down-trodden and oppressed eyer
i turns to these with breath of igrati2
/. .tqde for benefits received?W Garfield
may live and die just such a worthless
| empty, noisy, tongueysi bubble he
may studiously avoid the acrossi and
i flee every risk of political martyrdom
and self-sacrifice and like them never
4 originate or inaugufate a single ifez
formatory idea in a. whole life. time;i
but in leading sudhia political career
i he will reap onlyIt the censurel1 of pos
Eterity, and the self earned epitaph for
Il his headstone ;il" Here rests the sufle
Il worthy successor of the old ihero,noe
15u f.fsJosHUA ! R.. GlDDINGs.Y loaI sas
i ,i.5" There is a tide im the affairs of
Lmen"-there are chances to become
4 good and sometimes great and good
But Garfield has let this chance, this
!, tide. slip ipast.yd rslove goff ease, or
i lack of Virtne the grand opportunity
has sped away for advancing his
lcountry's emancipation from the sell
fish nav of an INSCRIPTIONS and &C
cidentaHy w successful b general ~ now
President of the United States, who
+ in the first place was Invented and set
4 up blythe sWashburns and is now run
4 by corrupt political rings; wh6, not
A content With cohq1erifig the Southern
States by war and its desolation, have
through am army of leeches. vampires.
\ earpet-baggefs, satellites, scallawag-
gers and negro ignorance, run nine
Southern States, into 218,0O0 600 Of
State indeb ebtedness,s shave reduced. the
N value of real estate In a few years in
the enormous sum . of $500, 900 COO,
i,have excluded the only class 'capabfe
s of governing their States,, by Sdisfr2aLn.-
, chisemeht,o have established the old
tyranny Of which h6dr fathers COM
planned OF George 4fI,2, axatioiI,, with "
out representa- have refused am.
nesty, ana, by robbery, have made it
impossible they should ever redeem
a themselves except by repddiation.2--:
Il And whereas. James Al. Garfield was
a living in the knowledge Of all ithis9-
that on his very election day, the iSth
Eof October, he Knew that 20 600, cfti:-
! Rzens were yet dis sffanefised1 1intfie one
i State of Arkansas, and that It's thieV-
II ing Gevefif6f, Clayton, had been re-
tanned in power by AGrant m IN iopposi-l
4 tion to their own Leg gislature and the
j will OF the peoblen that he might assist
, in Grants fre-electiofi." MOREOVER.
CART eid knew that this cofrtib btioih and
robbery OF the South; with Hundreds
of other bafBafo1sl 'practices,,, frauds,
REGULATIONS, igift-tak king,s1 Bribery, Sell
ing Of Offices - mai Zap Precipitation. OF
I, revenues, ahfitness for office, charged
, and chargeable upon GRANT was all
!, true of Grant. Arid yet, to save his
!, own baconAhisi reelection to Con-
:. gressAhe winks at it, palfates, excuses,
4 evades and rides on the fence ;.says
SOOu iOrd dHu SoOu uefI, anu drops
down. into the low level of a political
4 pettifogger and fifth rate lawyer, de-
: ,nying and 7disgraeing his brains and
n the, great gifts which God and his
parents have given him. :. ! . Having
!. soWn sthe wind he must reap the
= Whirlwind and eat thee fruit Of, his
froSss frrogness Hiasr" Iii .f5y91d " 55f1 1otf
q insw oil .hee brs aois ,reyo moi
1sliht -oh OH 5-iif 1uh qi bnaldzA Oh
,,| ; Uncertainties have elected tthirffs thirteen
C0ngressmen in Ohio, While the Dem
oerats and Liberal Republicans have
but seven members. This is nothing
butia a gross fraud, perpetrated nndel;
, the form of law. It Constitutes ,stfi-
ir;nb. n,Al q, "a u -, - ,lOrfrL