Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-12-13
THE SOUTH AND GRANT.
A Remarkable Letter

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A special Washington telegram to the
Inter-Ocean says that the Charleston
News contains remarkable letter from
Ellison S Keitt, a well-knOwn member
of the famous secession family Of
that name. They were all original
secessionists. Lawrence Keitt, distin-
guished brother of EllisOn's was for
merly in Congress and afterwards Con-
federate general, and killed at the head
of his troops in Virginia. In the letter
referred to, Keitt comes up square
ly for Grant His ticket is Grant and
Bayard-a combination having the merit
of novelty at least. Colonel Keitt says:
1.-THE minds of our people are filled with
doubt and uncertainty. Next year we
will have the Presidential election. We
hear the cry, The South is solid So it
will be proclaimed, Let the North be
sOlid.' No more dire calamity could be-
fall the country than that one section
should be solid against the other where
no principle is involved only to crafty
the hatred and fill the pockets of the I'M
worthy. Of the illustriOus names before
the country, Grant and Bayard are with
out comparison. Grant is the most
renowned citizen America has ever pro-
duced He has had hOnOrs paid him all
over the world that have never been &C
accorded to any one before him. Since
he landed upon the Western shore of his
country his every utterance has not only
been generous and noble, but kind of our
people. He is personally known to every
ruler in the civilized world. He has
visited and studied the institutions of
every country worth knowing. He is the
most eminently qualified for the highest
position in the gift of the people, for he
has had the advantages no other ever
had. He can bring influences to advance
the prosperity of the country that no
other can. Bayard, for purity of life and
love of country, is household word. He
is true man. With generous support
from the intelligence of the South, Grant
and Bayard would give us the most hon
Ored government the world ever saw.
The stalwarts in the North will be sill
enced, and radicaliSm in the South dead.
The sections will be revealed, and peace
restored. All will feel safe."
In reference to the danger of an en-
Dire under Grant. Keitt says: ITO assert
that any man Of this generation can
establish an empire upon the ruins of
this great government OF 100000 of
people, whose hearts are all aglOw with
liberty, is twaddling. 1t is unworthy of
consideration, coming from the man it
does"
Referring to the views of Keitt, the
Charleston News says: ut is just as
we'll to recognize the fact that there are
some people in this State, and who are
neither knaves or fools, whose thoughts
are seriously turning to Grant as the
man for 1880, and if it were included
that the Republicans were going to win
and compel everybody to write nation
with big N the number of these Grant
folks down here would be strongly multi
piled. We print to-day a straightforward
letter about Grant from Colonel Ellison
Keitt, brother of the gallant L. NJ. Keitt,
who used to be considered by the North
the champion fire-eater among Southern
Congressman, and who sealed his devO-
ton to the State with his life's blood.