Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-12-13

show for an Irish boom, he went to
the North of Ireland, where Irish
men are Tories and Orangemen,
and there he did a little better.
At Berlin, too, he found himself
at home-B Berlin, the headquarters
of military monarchy. Here he
kob-nobbed with Bismarck and dis
cussed the best ways of putting
down disaffection (the communistic
riots in Pittsburgh were then going
on), and the General went beyond
even Bismarck in his enthusiasm
for the bayonet as the remedy for
all discontents.
And what shall we say of Japan
and China? In those semi-barba-
rous countries men have no concep-
ton of the executive officer of
nation except as a great monarch.
He went there in a U. S. naval
vessel and was treated as royal
parsonage, and therein all is told.
OF course when he landed in San
Francisco, all that the Republican
party managers could do to give
eclat to the occasion was done; for
here it was understood that the
whole thing was party boom, and
was repeated at Chicago, as is chron-
icled in five columns of the Courier
Journal. But here an event occurred
which calls for separate attention.
He met with a reporter from the
Courier-Journal, and was duly in
terviewed; and the reporter asked
him whether he was not touched
with the kind expressions that had
been uttered towards him in the
South. Here was an opportunity to
gush, and he gushed, but with a
very careful reserve. He said that
he was touched, and that it was
very kind, or something to that
effect, and this was all the founda-
ton that the unfortunate reporter
could get to build a Southern boom
upon. The truth is that Grant
knew we'll that there were stalwart
Radicals there as well as that re-
porter, and he had to be very careful
in what direction he gushed and
how much. And this week the
boom is to reach. Louisville 1--WE are
writing before the event comes Off,
and all the gay dOings there, will
they not be recorded in even more
than five columns of the G. J.?
Certainly they will; a double sheet
is promised us, in which doubtless
Chicago will be distanced in the
way of gush, and salaams and kotoO
will be perpetrated to eclipse all
that was done in China or Japan.
And now who and what is the
man about whom all this preten-
tious snobbery is gotten up?
He is not a great soldier. Several
officers in both the Federal and
Confederate armies were his superb
ors in science and military judg-
ment. His one idea in command
ing armies was brute force-force
frequently wasted for want of judg-
ment in directing it. His campaign
of the Wilderness squandered fifty
thousand lives absolutely without
placing him step nearer Rich
mond (his objective point than
when he commenced it; and he is
paraded as the conquerOr of the
South simply in virtue of the acct
dent of being in command of the
Federal armies at the time when
the exhausted resources of the Con-
federacy collapsed from inanition.
He is not a great statesman. Alas,
his name will be associated in his
tory with the period of the deepest
degradation to which our political
system has ever attained. He will
/ be remembered as the President
who looked upon his sublime office
with the one sordid thought, how
| much money it might be made tC
| yield for himself and his personal
! friends, who surrounded himself
with men who made it the one bus
mess of their lives to plumber army
and navy, the Custom House, the
Indians, for their private emolu'
ment. His name will be handed
down to posterity as that of the
brutal tyrant who had no concep
ton of means for healing a dis
tracted nations troubles except
artillery and the bayonet; who
drove out elected Legislatures and
installed their nOn-elected substi'
tutes at the point of the bayonet
who sailed his gunboats up the
Hudson and East river that he
might direct their artillery on the
cross streets of New York, and sc
overawe a popular election in the
interest of his party; who again
concentrated artillery on Washing
ton City to install fraudulent Pres
ident in the chair that rightfully
belonged to another man; Pres
ident of fraud and violence and
corruption man stupid, ignorant,
scottish and cold-hearted, the term
ination of whose Presidency was
looked upon as a relief by a whole
afflicted community, except the
peculators who had prOfited by its
dishonesty.
And all this we are called upon tC
forget because he has dined with
the Prince Of Wales and confabu'
lated with Bismarck because San
Francisco and Chicago have got uI
shows for him, and, alas! Louisville
has Frustrated herself in the mud
before him for the sake of the
money that will be spent in hel
streets by visitants to the great
show.
This is what we know of the
Grant boom.
The Bond Question.
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