American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-11-01
GRANT FOR A THIRD TERM,

Willingness to accept the Presiden-
cy for third tern, and some South
ern politicians, to their shame be it
said, are in favor of this departure
from established usage. His cleo
ton for a third term would be equiv
alent to permanent Occul 'ancy OF
the White House, and IA reign of
terror. especially for the South.
After a careful examination of the
acts which make up his official re-
cord, we have not been able to dis
cover one .{ieed thsss she uld com
mend him to Southern favor on the
contrary, we find lhucb, every thin 9
indeed, to embi,ter the Southern
heal IL gainst him. In no solitary
instance has he exhibited the least
honest, fair>dealine with the South
ern people. Regardless of their
wrongs and Indifferent to their in
terests, he has burdened and op-
pressed them with carpet-bag rule,
and corrupt, INSCRIPTIONS office
holders. Instead of pun suing con
ciliatOry course towards a people
who were i'll his power, and by am.
Eesty and kindness sought to vii,
trim back to their allegiance to the
Federal Government, he pursued
the very policy calculated to keep
up spirit of discoatent, and to
array the masses against him. At
the close of the war the Southern
mind Wis prepared to meet the exi>
gencIes of the times, and obey the
righteous behests of "the powers
that be- Grant knew this, and
knew, also, that the South was
ready to comply with all the terms
OF surrender, and to do all that She
could to uphold the government,
aud restore the country to its former
greatness and grandeur. Bat this
was not his desire. Her cup OF
wrong and misery was not yet full,
and 10 complete her degradation, he
CHARTERED his miserable hireIing sol
diery, and inSolent, thieving negro
militia in our midst, shielding them
in their wrongs, and thus furnish
ing an unbridled license to insult,
plumber and cypress the people.
Not only this, but he invested his
plant tools and corrupt accomplices
with unlimited power to drag from
their peaceful, quiet homes, men in
nocent OF crime. and to incarcerate
them in the gloomy dungeons of a
prison, without the shadow of ex-
cuse, and in open violation of the
laws of the land.
While hundreds of our fellow-b
ings, men, women and children,
were exposed to tile terrible doom
of the tOaaAawk and scalring knife,
and in their dread of fendish
slaughter. sent up wall after wall
for protection and defence, the sol
diers Of the Government, whose
duty it was to protect our frontiers
from the encrOachlnents of the saw
age tribes, were found in South Car
DINA. aud other peaceful States,
dashing along the highways and
by-paths of the country, engaged in
the cOwardly and humiiiatiug bust
ness of carrying terror and dismay
to the hearts of women and chill
dren, and hunting down gray
headed old men, on the miserable
pretext of Ku-Klux completely, and
who were as guiltless of any infrac
ton Of law or morals as were the
ashes Of the dead patriots sleeping
beneath the hallOwed sod thus
trampled and prOfaned by the das /
tard tread of the nations soldicry.
La addition to the inluman wrongs
tasax Ileaped upon the South. he has /
prOstitnted the high functions of the /
government to the basest use,
thrown the shield of Executive
clemency around the zAsral Obliqui-
ties of government officials; per
mitted theft Ito go unpublished by
retaining in office men who have
been adjudged guilty of open defal
cations, thus conniving at crime,
and, according to the law of the
land, making himself Il party to the
dishonOr.
For the accomplishment of his ig-
noble designs, and the more effectu-
ally to cOnsummate his own personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, he selected, as will
ing tools, men destitute of moral
honesty, and appointed to offices OF
trust and emOlument the most unre-
liable and un principlcd of his party
hacks. The good of the country,
and the rights of the people, formed
no part of his programme his
great ambition was to make the
subsidiary to his Indi-