Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-26
THE EGGING or GRANT.

subject than they have over the fact
that the citizens of Northern State
actually threw eggs at General Grant
and bespattered his shirt bosom with
them. Would il not have been choice
morsel for them to roll under their
tongues If the circumstance had oc-
Cured in Southern State? How
graphically they would have portrayed
! every de,aiht0aneeted with the shame
ful proceeding, and how they would
have quietly rejoiccd over the affair.
But 1t would not do, of course, to say
anything about it, beingas it occurred
in the loyal State of Illinois, the land
Of Logan, Of lngersoll and of Lincoln,
and the land of the man who was
pelted with the eggs. That General
Grant should travel all over the world
and never receive an insult until he
arrived within the confines Of his own
State, was too much for the stalwarts,
and they said 'sb, 'sb, don't say word
about i, for if we do il will disgrace
us forever, and we will never hear the
last Of it. The truth OF the matter is
as follows When General Grant and
party arrived at Galesburg, the home
OF Stalwart Bob Ingersoll, they found
large crowd gathered at the depot
to receive him. Bonfrcs were burning,
bands were playing and there was a
great rejoicing all around. General
Grant appeared upon the platform,
bowed his acknowledgements and then
Mrs. Grant came out in response 10
numerous calls. Then they retired
and the crowd became clamorous to
see the hero Of Appomattox again.
He appeared again on the platform,
and just as be began to say something
an egg whizzed through the air and
hit him "pat' on the side of his head
1t was broken, Of course, ana flew all
over the Generals shirt Three or
four more flew through the air sec
ond afterthe first one had accomplished
its mission, hitting different persons,
but not touching General Grant. The
great crowd became at once indignant
and the offending persons escaped in
the confusion. The Mayor offered
$500 reward forthe men and the Gales
burg people say they feel the disgrace
greatly.
Now, would not this have been a
great and glorious item for the stal.
warts il had happened in Mississippi,
Georgia, or in any one Of the Southern
States composing the solid South
The Yazoo affair would have been
considered mere circumstance by the
side Of it, and the changes would have
been rung on every phase of it until
the people would have been sicker OF
it than they are of "Pinafore" or the
Sweet bye and bye"
Have the people forgotten what q
ridiculous stir the Republican rress
made about the reception Hayes re.
ceiyed at Hannibal There only a
few drunken roughs hissed him, but it
was heralded to the world as crying
outrage snd shame, and poor Demo.
cratic Missouri was soundly abused
because few roughs were not quito
as polite to His Fraudulency as they
should have been. The whole South
was berated on account OF the "great
outrage" and the stalwart press took
up the cry from the pineries Of Maine
to the flowery fields of Florida, and
from the "culchawcd' city of Boston
to the Golden Gate.
The browning sight, as it were, of
the church steeples OF Galena, the
home OF the modern Ulysses, and it
would by no means do to denounce it
as another "rebel outrage"
How long will the people per.
nit Republican newspapers to deceive
them about the politics of the South
and the state Of society there Is it
not patent to every intelligent reader
of the newspapers that they distort
the facts concerning every unfortunate
occurrence in the South TO subserve
their own base political purposes while
they become the apologists of the
North Whenever diabolical out
rage is committed in that section if
they can not lend it their endorsement
they never attempt to hold the entire
people responsible for the act like they
do when it takes place south of Mason
and Dixon's line.
Truth is lost sight of that the bloody
shirt may wave in triumph, and law.
abiding people are basely misrepre-
sented and slandered for the basest
and most ignoble purposes. The egg.
ing Of Gen'l Grant was an outrageous
shame, and tho perpetrators OF the
foul act should be punished to the
farthest extent of the law, but because
1t happened in an extremely "loyal"
State we are not going to adopt the
tactics OF tho stalwart press, and en-.
deavor to cast u stigma upon the en-.
tirc people of Illinois and the North |
because a few irresponsible rufiians saw
fit to throw eggs at distinguished
citizen. Out upon such contemplate
practices. If the Republican press
desires to continue in such unjust and
uncalle1 for animadversions let them
do so, but we hope the Democratic
Journals VIII not prostitute their call
ing by pattcrning after them.--H. Joe
(Mo.) Gazette.
A SINGULAR PRopnEsY FuLrlLLED.-
Recent events have been fulfilled with
curious exactness singular prophesy
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