The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-24
MILLENNIUM.
80. YIN.

form work in and tor the state of New |
York. which made him 50 popular al |
home and arold, that ii. together with |
his prcviousi' known abilities. integrity,
and service. secured for him the unquali-
fled lau,latiors OF the leading Republican
journals of tie country at large, and par
ticularly OF tie New York journals, con-
spicuously among which were the New
York Tribu,,,. and the New ork Times,
the latter indsputably one OF the ablest
and most intensely Republican papers of
the United states. Within the last few
months it he'd and published the follow
ing sentiments IRON its heart of hearts
concerning tie cXcellcncy and exalted
integrity of Mr. Tildcn "Thc voters
ought to ESTEEM ii an honor and pfIvi-
legc to elect Samuel j. Iii0cn; he has
shown himsdt gallant. conscientious,
efficient foe tcc0rruption." (Nov. &. lS7l.)
MIR. Tilden would make Il very good
candidate. iorhc j. Il gentleman, an able
man, and man OF very high character
July u, 1874 lli~ noble work III New
y ork called oru these and similar cncum-
iums, expressed in the hearty language
OF candor and honorable irankncss in all
the leading Republican papers of the
country. And how could they do other
wise il they took cognizancc of his brave,
noble fearless single hcartcdncss IN max
ing war, and successful ana victorious
war too, upon the gordian knots of cor
rupt, thieving life blood sucking rascally
Democrats tina; had eaten into and were
swallowing tho very vitas of the Empire
state vt the Union Oh That Grant
with his boosted virtue ard
iron Will had shown but Just one tenth
the iearlesS courage aud ability, common
honesty and bipartisan integrity, in
bringing the rc,!rgc Of law and justice
upon the Republican thieves, rob-
bers, and Eypocritical harDies. cormo-
rants and buXards, that have caused g
noisome stenh Ia rcek mp for the last
eight wears from the highway and by
ways which lead 10 the GOvcrnmc mt
Treasury. How many companions
would now cmdignly peep for daylight
through the ron crossbars with Mckee
of that sterling Republican gos-
pei paper the Giojt-D,morrat.
But Grants efficiency in civil
matters seems only to consistln sending
annual messages on civil reform hobbies
to an eager money grabbin" congress
WHO have not line to listen to lis TO
them nonsense; but 50 infatuated him
with their energetic activity in money
getting that enthusiastically they Sc
duce the virtuous" but "strong willed"
man to Join them IN little grab thar is
not worth more than S2j, 900 Il year to
him. But his best role j. that of blundcr-
ing into the evidence OF whisky rings,
and tapping it over ia such away that
a whisky thief cannot be convicted under
the law. Had 10 not thus awkwardly
gobbled up the evidence with the
whisky, poor babcock would long ago
been the. genial of poorer Mckee. and
with him been peeping through the lat
tice OF solitary confinement and runina-
ting on the "unkindcst cut Of all" Hay
ing allowed just Indignation to
tn2e our phraseology, We will
now ascend to the less adjectiyeal
regions of substantial diction. and pursue
with orr reader the thread Of our theme
Ii is a remarkable circumstance that
the selection CT a president by the people
falls IN the centennial ycaE OF our na-
tons independence IL is also further
remarkable, that the preservation Of that
independence requires US TO remember
with more tian usual carotuncss the
eminently fracrnal warning OF the
father OF his cointry-that External Wig
Hence is the prize of liberty" 1t is also
still further remarkable. that just at this
juncture there should be as one OF the
nominees tor president, the very man OF
all the men in he whole country, which
the times dernmd, and who passed the
crucial test o incontrovertable proof
And still turthg, yet again 1t is very re-
markable that prior to his nomination,
that he was tlr Enthusiastically and de-
cisively expressed choice of the most
numerous, best the purest, the youngest,
the strongest, md the most intelligent
men of the country, and such a thing has
not happened before to any man since
the days of Warrington. The thieves OF
his own party nave long the most hole
some fear OF him; he has wrung encumi-
ums and.plaudts from all the candid ele-
ments OF his political opponents. I In
deed, thousands upon thousand OF them
are forming into voting battalions fol
him, led on by such men as Gems. Franz
Seigel. Hooker. Palmer, Gov. kOerner.
Gov. Curtis, Charles Francis Adams
and host of others, who like them, have
gone over to Mr.. Iildcn; senators. GOV
errors, generals, savants, scholar, poets,
historians, fathers and founders OF Re
publicanism in every state +; Professor W.
q. sumner, of Yale College, who wrote
the Republican platform of 1874 of his
state two years ago, and the German ele-
ment OF the whole county. aud time
would tail II. to tell The ever increasing
numbcN-. NEEITas.
COL. TONNES DUTY.