The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12

been eventually able to subject to de-
served punishment the most powerful
Government beyond the ocean for dar-
ing openly to countenance the EFFORTS
made for it's overthrow This double
victory is eminently calculated to dis
courage similar attempts TO disrupt the
Federal Union in future. The absurd
and utterly untenable dogma OF seces-
sion has become at last n sounding
brass and tinkling cymbal.
This is aimed ut Davis recent speech,
wherein he stated that his hope OF
secession in the future lay in the sons OF
the present generation of Southern
mothers. Referring to the present con-
dition of the country, the ex-senator
writes
81 now confidently assert that there
has never been a time in the history OF
this Republic when the great body OF
the American people, North and South,
East and West, were more firmly and
inseparably attached to the free insti-
tutions under which we are living than
at present. shall venture on an addl-
tional assertion, the truth of which L
am sure that q grave and dispassionnte
examination will not fail to impress
upon any sound and well-constituted
mind and that is, that at no former
period of our history, not even during
the administrations of Washington and
Jackson, were the Constitution and laws
of the land more firmly and successfully
maintained and enforced than at the
present moment. Never was more OF
moderation and forbearance put in exer-
else by the Executive Department OF
the Government than we are daily and
hourly witnessing. Never were the
blessings of civil and religious liberty
more fully enjoyed by all classes of our
people"
He estimates the cry of C@sarism at
it's proper value, says it is an old one,
and was used i'll the times of Washing
ton and Jefferson and thus speaks of
Gen. Grant and the "rickety and dis
credited Democratic party"
LET me ask, with all gravity, when
did this much-reviled public servant
seriously transcend the limits of his
official power, either III war or in peace?
When did he fail on any proper occa-
sion to show that he was resolved to keep
the military subordinate to the civil
power? When did he play the part of
tyrant or oppressor toward any man
whatever, either in war or peace? did
not vote for Gen. Grant in the late Presi-
Dental election. L have but a slight
personal acquaintance with him. 1t is,
I think, quite probable that we shall
never know each other much better than
we now do. am as little authorized,
therefore, to speak for him on this sub
!ect as any other man now in Washing
ton city. But L have lived good while,
and L sometimes fatter myself that L
have not lived altogether in vain. /
know something of men and of their
probable motives of action. L have
mingled freely with the public men of
my generation, and have not, perhaps,
been oftener wrong in my estimation of
human character than some others of
whom / could make mention. L have
been stationed for three months past in
Washington city, and have been dill
gent observer of all the signs of the
times, here displayed to view and L
now declare my firm and rooted convic.
ton that there is not q man to be found
upon the soil of America more averse to
Cesarism, as it is called, than the pres
ent much-denounced President of the
United States. l am confident that if he
had thousand lives he would freely risk
them all III defense of our Republican
institutions. L am quite as confident,
too, that no American patriot now living
has more respect for the example and
character of Washington than has this
eminent parsonage. AS to running for
the Presidency third time, | am well
satisfied that he has neither said nor
done aught to justify a suspicion that he
has the least wish to be elected to the
Presidency for an additional term. If
the enemies of reconstruction and the
amendments wish not to-
Gen. Grants heretofore invin-
chile popularity in the Presidential field,
common prudence should teach them to
change their present political attitude.
Let them cease their endeavors to reor-
ganize the rickety and discredited Demo-
cratic party for the next Presidential
contest. Let them openly and frankly
accept the results of the war. Let them
cease that constant pickering about
trif1es, that ill-natured snarling over the
ordinary and necessary exercise of power
on tho part of the Government. Let
them make manly and liberal allow
itllce lOT TebultS WHICH no cOmmlngleQ
wisdom and virtue could possibly have
averted. Let them rise up above the
arts of low decrial and calumny. Let
them evince proper regard for the
honor of their country and the dignity
OF free institutions as represented by
those into whose hands the people them
selves have committed for short time
the symbols of official power Let them
assume position with prompt and man
" frankness which will at once extin-
yuish the suspicious which their own
conduct has engendered that
4 secret alliance is now existing between
lhe open supporters of secession in the
South and the now recognizing North
ern Democracy for the prosecution of
mother joint struggle for the reins of
Federal power. But above all things, let
Jeff Davis be kept at home for year or
wo, SO that he no more play the part of
! clustering Goliath, which he is now
long, to the regret of all patriotic men,
md to the alarm of some of the friends
If the Union.