The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-11-05
GRANT AND THE couNrRY's WOUNDS.

It is fact we'll worthy of remark that those
who favor Grant for third term never refer
to bis administrations for reasons and arsu-
ments to vindicate their course. Such
reference would be fatal to all the claims
they set up, for it is almost universally con-
coded that, as president, General Grant was
conspicuous failure. No one doubts
General Grants distinction as a soldier. But
for all his fidelity in war, he has been more
richly rewarded than Washington. Hence
the gratitude of the country has been ex-
pressed in the most substantial form posi-
BILE, and to an extent tia. should satisfy
General Grants ambition. 1t is not
now necessary to the welfare
of the country that great
soldier should be president. The Union
has been saved. The country has one con-
stitution, one flag and one destiny, and no
one from the pine forests OF Maine to the
Rio Grande is uttering word in favor of
disunion. Everybo1 wants peace. pros
perity, union. fraternity and good Will to
prevail, except those Republican conspir-
ators who are managing the third term
boom. They forever crying
war, and on all possible occasions
wave the "bloody shirt" The New York
! Commercial Advertiser wants Grant, ebe.
cause he is man in whom the people can
place their implicit faith" and "who can
bind up the nations wounds" The New
York Herald, in commenting upon such
nonsense, says:
What wounds? startled public will de-
mand. Where ara these wounds which need
such surgery? Who is hurt? What hurt him
| Why has nobody heard about these wounds
before. Here we have been living in peace
| and quiet for a long time; the war carue to a
close in lS65-nore than Ia years ago; green
backs are at par; gold is a drug in the market,
and poor Secretary Sherman has to stuff II
into peoples pockets; the labor troubles have
ceased: there IS a general revival of industry
the country Is prosperous and contented
| even the stock market is booming. And sud-
denly this jour nalistic Cincinnatus, our Sec
ond sighted contemporary, lays down his
Horace or his Froude, aud bsgius to tell us
about wounds to be healed. is it Rip Van
! Wrinkle who speaks? we ask, as he ruos his
eyes and cuffs a clear smoke from his Havana.
This is not Rome, o Nestor OF the evening
| press; this is the United States of America
! This Is not the age of Caesar; this is the dull
matter of fact, spinning, ploughing, telegraph
| Ing, TRADING nineteenth lou may &C
to town by rail; you may send your instruc
| tions by telegraph; steam and electricity are
your cheap servants; peace and plenty smile
around you, and Jersey justice siecnly warns
off intruders from your delightful premises
And your talk Is still of wounds to be healed
| and you demand ru er "who can bud NJ
the Nations wounds no other man can" a:
though surgery were the chief function OF {
| president.
1t will not do There are wounds. Return
to town, good contemporary; lay down YOU
| Froude and look the country in the face
There is no longer any question OF binding NJ
wounds The old sores have long ago hea!es
over; the dressings have been removed; to-
country is whole, and shotguns only exist IL
The negotiations of o certain peculiar breed o
Republican statesmen.
1t would be we'll for the people TO give
such matters as "Sounds' and "war,
'srebels'' and stresson," destruction of tn
GOVERNMENT" etc., which Republicans ar
continually harping upon, due and timel!
consideration. General Grant, IL he Is tn
great and pure man his boom advocate
declare him to be, will stop the thir'
term nonsense, and be content with til
honors he has already received.