The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-06-15
THETRUTH ABOUT GRANT.
Facts to which the Glamour of Euro
peau Flunkyisn Cannot Blind
Americans.
From the indianapolis Sentinel.j

Americans.
From the indianapolis Sentinel.j
The reception that European snobs
aud fools may extend to Grant is not a
matter about which Americans posses
sed of thimbleful of brains need care
baubee, and it is only when fiunl<y
journalism on this side Of the water at
teInpts to make it appear that the re-
cipient Of aristocratic and royal favor
merits the distinction, and that it gives
the titled fools who bestow it a warmer
place in the regards of Americans, that
the subject is entitled to any consider
alton whatever. The send off-that
Grant received at Philadelphia was in
no sense tribute of respect to him rs
a man, a soldier, or as ex-President.
The affair was deliberately gotten up
by the Don Camerons of Pennsylvania
AS an insult to Hayes. It was intended
to say. "We prefer Grant, the despot,
the sot, the bribe taker, the associate of
thieves and the debauchee of the Gov
ernment, to 4 Presidential fraud who
accepted power from crime-stained
hands and had not the courage to stand
by Grants bayouet policy The ova-
tion to Grant had this significance and
none other.
The papers that were the most bitter
in their hostility to Grant-who charg-
ed him with the design of making
himself dictator, with all the collateral
c0np det0t-are now Overtiowing with
gush about his reception by the snobs
and hunkies of England. All of this is
unfortunate for Grant, however much
he may desire to be regarded as an
"ex-sovereign - for it makes it necess-
ary for reputable journals to go back Il
little in the history of Grant, and show
him up in his true light.
No one is disposed to disparage
Grants military record, though it is
too early to write it. It may grow
dim or brilliant in the light of advanc-
ing years, a matter about which there
may be diversity of opinions but
one thing is. certain-his administra-
ton as President is black with the re-
cord of crimes. 1t was cOnsDicuOusly
an era Of fraud ,peculation, stealing out
right, of rottenness everywhere, and in
everything with which the Govern
ment was directly or remotely connect
ed. 1t was an era of nepotism, of ig-
norance, of imbecility, and of bribe
taking. 1t was an era of utter disre-
gard of constitutions, of law, and of the
rights of the people. It was an era of
military despotisfn, in which crime
in power by bayonets.
1t is quite likely that full knowl-
edge Of these things will give Grant
caste in the aristocratic circles of Eu-
rope, and that the spawns OF rotten dy-
nasties may faWn about a man whose
native instincts, strengthened by close
proximity to slaughter houses and the
insuferable stencil of raw hides, quail
fed him for work which earned the dis
gust and 1oathing of the decent part of
the Radical party, thousands and tens
of thousands of whom abandoned him,
and for which the whole country con-
demned him.
In addition to this, we have the de-
that it was only because his term OF
Office had SO nearly expired that he es-
capped impeachment. 1t were better to
let such men get into obscurity as soon
as possible, or at least cease par,ding
them before the public as objects Of
special regard. This, however, the
New York Tribune, an organ Of fun
kyism, is not disposed to do, and
among other foolish things, in noticing
Grants reception in England, it says
ttThejudgment ofstrangers resembles
somewhat the judgment of posterity
AS he is now regarded in European
countries, so, doubtless, he will stand
in history, when the bitterness and the
littleness of partisan strife have passed
away, and his real services to his coun-
try and his real character are better
understood"
1T matters precious little what the
Judgment of strangers May be, or, for
that matter, what may be the verdict
of posterity. The living present knows
that Grant consorted with thieves; that
he was the defender and supporter OF
conspirators; that he girdled the Lou
isiana Returning Board scounirels with
bayonets, while the perjured crew was
plotting frauds with which to reverse
the will of the American people. The
Atlantic ocean, were its waters soap.
sHds, could not in thousand centl,.
ries wash out the stains from Grants
record. His friends should let him res,
and rust.
BUTLER'S ANSWER TO McyEIGH.
WARRINGTON, June G.-Gen. Butler