, 1880-07-11

H.
aaDninents and outward appearance Of grea
organizer leader, and chieftain of armies and O
| asAtesmau The EXTREMIST. .superlatiye in thi
direcdon so fnr has been attempted by old Rue
nehn' who writes under the assumed name q
fchso for the Cincinnati Tolksfrcu,1d. In ons
VI us remarkable cxpcctQrauons in TINT plous
! ana most respectable shectof al1 tho mud-siiug.
ing democratic fraternity, We rcad verbatim
punctuation and scriatlm, as follows: 'IE
whose head and heart is not our Union OF
e1ntes the highest emblem Of perfection? Is IL
not ~ Inc heart Of tho SehMrnhorst IL IF Amer
leu! 10 him Hancock bears Il striking rcsem-
piance! Scharnhorst WAS II statesman, although
u n1lltnry captain, aud thus It will be with our
helectcu c1nuidAte for the Presidency Of the Re
Relo1c The great and pntriorjc organizer OF
the Prussian Revolution, tho talented military
writer and author, the experienced diplomut,
statesman, and Chief OF SlntT, Sc.srnhorst,-to
place him in the Sumo line and category with
Hancock. and of him to speak rs resembling the
simple corps commander and soldier in tne
Union army tU q hair and dOt,-such HI cytrAv-
agnhcy should only be committed l,yn YAnkte
phraseologEt, blinded by nutiye prlde,-by one Of
those WIN p1ace Grant alongside 0f or over Won
Moltke. But out Of Gernlan mouths and pens
such exaggerntions at the expense of one Of their
own national heroes sounds Ridiculous nuG
almost unintelligible-'
The Colorado Dcutschcs journal Denyer) puts
an end to a1l nonsensical gibberish On the part
to the descent of Mr.. Garfield, as follows:
Whether GArtlcld's name was formerly Cur
field, whether his father, grandfather, great
grandfather saw first the light Of day in Hesse-
Darmstadt, or in Paris, or in London, or in Cal:
cutta, is Of no consequence to the Germans.
They recognize in him IL nlan who Is not SO nar-
row-mtnded and ungencrous as to judge citi-
zen according to the tract of land OIL Which he
happened to be born, Us stock Yankees gener-
HftV Whn+ +Hn
assist In the election Of strushtfor-
ward, liberal, open, and broad-gaugcd MIN
for the Presidency Of the United States, and IL
by accident that man has German blood cours-
inK IN his veins, SO much the better. But the
latter alone would never he sufficient to intlu-
ence the Gcrnuu- American Republicans in the
exercise Of their right Of suffrage We need
III an Of liberal education for the Presidency; a
man who knows something, ard who at the same
only can and will accomplish facts aud results
~ statcsMansh1p und politics. We need 4 man
who is generous, enough to recognize merit,
wherever and whenever he finds it, and who
does not care for place OF birth; who honors
anu cares for German customs and habits us
much as he does for those Of the Irish and the
Yankees. In one word, NC need Il man without
native prejud1ces, with sound common sense, and
Liberal Views and IDEAS. We Germans. at lenst
tho Ereutcst and most Intelligent part or them,
have found in Air. Garfield this very MIN, who
already t,n many occasions has demonstrated in
his public cnrcer tnut he holds in high esteem
OcI1uAu ways lHUll8, u0U customs, anu 'lGf LalS
reason we arc attached to him aud will support
his election. 1t Is, therefore, entirely SUPER
fuons to demonstrate his German descent III Or
der to make him more beloved than he is al
ready. That what he is us citizen Of the United
States the Germans know, und that is for them
entirely sufficient. When the German Gustav
Hoase Josspa fo in Ss tSs tss sts
Of Texas, died, it was the Republican
Garfield who made speech in Congress
Eifo strong and fcrycnt Democrat ln this
speech he acknowledged the merits Of the man,
and paid high tribute 70 the character Of tie
piece Of eloquence and rhetoric, and if the ad-
mirers Of Hancock. the nristocr,tIc West
Pointer, can produce similar speech their idol
has made, rs '1nastcr!ike and deep In thought
We Will be too giud to hear Of it,"
The Chicago Freie Presse says edttorially:
: While Gen. Hancock was Military Governor Of
Louisiana and Texas ho decured in his Order
80. 0'that military power must be subordinate
o civil authority. 1t would be well to quote in
his connection tho words Of Gen. Grant.
With which he opposed the removal of Gen.
sheridan. By President johnson, from the same
position. On the 17th of August, 1867. Gen. Grant
srote TO President Johnson as follows: 1t is
the determined will Of the people
hat Gen. Sheridan shnll not be removed from
lis present command. This is Republic in
Ehich the will of the people is the law Of the |
and. request, therefore, that their will may
e heard. Gen. Sheridan has complied With his !
iri duties With fidelity and ji,pteliisence His
be people as IN attempt to defeat the operation
t the laws of Congress. The l1nrccoustruc.cd
ruph IN e of ar w eok W5 h Ss M
landed thnt the laws of Congress which declared
ivil authority and the Constitutions In South
roperiy reconstructed shpnld be upheld and |
xecutcd in Louisiana and Texas, it wis Han
ocks aim. acting as johnson's tool to revive
frff fFTt sfktff
nd to place it above the ltws Of the United
tatcs. This is what Hancock meant BY his
cc!aration that the military must be SUBJ
rd1nntc to civil power and authority, because
1ere was no civil authority in existence at. that
tne, neither i'll Louisiana nor in Tcxns This |
xpIalns also the great enthnsinsn Of the Dem
}, and since that time he has been tue !
reference Ct tho South for the Presidency Of
10 United StAtes,-f1i5 War record to the coll I
.ary notvithstand ing !
Caspar Butz is poet, and lives in Chicago.
[einrich binders is another poet, and lives in
'ctroft; he is also the editor Of the -dbendpost |
nd Rep) Of thar city, and in his paper he |
riticises a calnpagn-song Of which our homo
oct is the author, in the following manner:
Butt has written an English ditty after the
attern Of tho old war-song I'VE are coming,
ather Abrnhanl, etc, and hns given 1t to the
orld under the captivating title, james Abra-
ILL Garfield, the Ohio Driver Boy While we
-A| |
use, the Latin proverb 'Temporu mutdnt,tr, ct
Is ,nutamur IN Ills came to our mind. Yes
'e times have changed, aud SO has Caspar
utz! The first line Of his cnmpnsyn
'ng, III .Thank God. .nnorher ,::abfa,
'ars unmstak,.ble proof Of the fact tint u
lange has come over the spirit. OF Casp;.r's
eanIs. But after>we reId the gloriticatiOn in |
9 same song Of the Tanner Boy aud Silent
an tGrant}, then wc were convinced thnt Cas-
r was himself no H7ore,-Cuspar, on whose
heeks would glow the fiery red, and whose
llses would thrDb quickest whenever the word !
berty' was mentioned within his hearing.
hut a commentary furnishes this P,can to tie
iilippic, which escaped the lips Of tile poet J
spar IN 1851 at Cleveland against the rctlec-
otest aud bitter articles which ap-
,arcd in BUTTS Monthly Publications
Atnst tho 'Rail-spitter OF Illinois, und to the
athemu which in 1872 Cnspur hurled In Gin
1nati ut tho head Of the Soldier Of fortune
Q coutenlptible Ulysses! Verify, In party pol {
CO singular fruit ripens to mAturityi''
The Io,oa Trfbuene, of Burlington, H., says s
itorially: 'Hancock is soldier. and good
e. But he is nothing else. In this word lies
strength and his weakness. We need for the :