Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-20
Correspondence,
AND GRANT
To be the Political Antag0R-
lists Of 1850.

To be tine Political AnfagOrR-
lists of 1850.
Subsidiary to the f~iattcring pros
poets of Grants denomination for
the Presidency in 1880, and the self
evident fact Of his existing candida
cy, there is a certain injurious de-
rangement common to a minor class
of Democrats, wholly irrelevant to
the real sentiments of popular opin-
ion, strictly contrary to the genuine
drift of American politics, and abso-
lutely fatal to the successful installa-
ton Of the National party of adop-
ton, and the harmonious interchange
of the helm of State, between the Of
ficers incumbent, and their inevita-
BILE successors-the champions of
liberal government and unsullied
Democracy.
1t is startling to behold the sick
ming and abominable resignation with
which a few croakers and party nui-
sances are disposed to be consoled
in anticipation of the possible result
of the Presidential contest of 1880.
The miserable and contemplate
thought of Grants usurpation of the
rights and liberties of the American
people, is one of the most absurd
manifestations of ignorance and in
consistency on record.
Can il be possible, that we, who
have passed through the ordeal of no
less than thirty years on the field of
battle, struggling for rights and liber-
ty, have engaged in no less than two
hundred pitched battles to maintain
our domestic institutions will submit
to the dictates and despotism of the
wretch who, like Cleon of Athens,
dares thrust himself upon us? After
reigning two terms which were char
acterized by the most stupendous
robberies and outrages upon the peo-
pie, yer practiced by the the execu-
tive of an enlightened Republic.
The rottenness and corruption OF
Grants administration is still fresh
in the minds of the American people.
The odius and offensive virus issuing
from the wombs of the Republic ex-
list to-day a disgusting nausea fol
those who are governed by sense and
decency.
The loathing and contempt with
which he is estimated is as malignant
and unremitting now as it was wher
third-termism was. first spoken of il
1876.
How can a man of consistency
who dares rank with Democracy
shrink like a belabored cur benefi
the fancied prospect of the approach
ing conflict and in obedience to SOM
melancholy hallucination declare ut
ter subservience to the party whicl
brings forward the most detestabl
imposition which has yer inflicted
people since the time OF Ber
kley or Rohespierre? / amamaz
ed to meet q man of n VIII
will persist that Americans wi
snffer tho nausea of q third dose {
Grantism, and hazard the prosperit
of this glorious Republic to the in
moral dictates Of the most insidiou
and peremptory abomination on til
face of this continent.
Even the Republican party recos
nized the offensive stencil which il
sued from Grant and the adulterate
administration in 1876, and const
quently he could not muster a CO.
poral's guard in the Cincinnati col
vention. His inf uence was utterl
Ignored by the party of his adoption
which chose to bri ng forward a clea
man to re move the unclean taste fro
the popular mouth, and effect a me-
mentary restoration of confidence
preparatory to the final establishnel
!, ST an imperisl dynasty. But their d.
ceptive proceedings were manife
and Hayes was detected by a hapt
some popular majority.
The boomers of the Grant NOV
ment are deluding them selves wi,
the idea that the people will subm
to a third term of his misrule an
robbery. They will do nothing
the sort.
They know that Grant is a. genuir
bourbon; learning nothing and TO
getting nothing. They know VIII
0EdiltIslu was HULL iCUO w 400 al
they have TO hopes for an improv
= ment from 1881 to 1885. They ha,
had enough of nepotism, favoriteisn
/ gift grabbing, naval-rings, Indian
rings, whisky-rings, District of Co
umbia rings. Robson, BelknaI
. Babcock. Mcdowell, Mckee, Shel
ard, and the rest of the Internal RI
tinue. The Republican party led b
its worse element will, beyond doub
nominate Grant but the people wi
contest him to the bitter end and I
nally stamp an everlasting quiet,
upon the odius imposition.
There need be no alarm respectlr
the election of Grant. 1t is a simp
imnosSihiljtv- IF the Democrats wi