New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-06-23

democratic count, and twice ne
carried it by the peoples votes, and
he is stronger now. The Republic
an party with It's standard ii his,
hands, Is stronger now thanh 1868,
or 1879. Never defeated in war or
in peace his name is the mo st illus.
trious borne BY living man. His
services attest his greatness, and the
country knows them by heart. His
fame was born not alone of things
written and said, but of the ardu.
Gus greatness Of things done, and
dangers and emergencies will search
in vain the future, as they have
searched in vain in the past, for any
other on whom the nation leans
with such confidence and trust.
Standing on the highest eminence
Of human distinction, and having
filled all lands with his renown, mo.
dest, firm, simple and self.poised, he
has seen not only the titled, but the
poor and the lowly in the uttermost
ends of the earth rise and uncover
before him. He has studied The
needs and defects of many systems
Of government, and he comes back
better American than ever, with
wealth of knowledge and expert.
ence added to the hard common
sense which so conspicuously distin-
guished HIM in all the fierce light
that beat upon him throughout the
most eventful, trying and perilous
sixteen years OF the nation history.
Never having had policy to en-.
force against the will Of the people,
he never betrayed acause or a friend,
and the people will never betray or
desert him. Villifed and reviled,
ruthlessly aspersed by numberless
presses, not in other lands, but in
his own, assaults upon him have
strengthened and seasoned his hold
on the public heart. The ammuni-
ton of calumny has all been ex-
ploded. The powder has all been
burned once. It's force spent, and
Grants name will glitter as bright
and imperishable star in the diadem
of the republic, when these who
have tried to tarnish it have moul.
dered in forgotten graves, and their
memories and epitaphs have vanish.
ed utterly. Never elated by sue
cess, never depressed by adversely,
he has ever in peace as in war,
shown the very germs of common
sense. The terms he prescribed for
Lees surrender foreshadowed the
wisest principles and prophesies of
reconstruction.
! Victor in the greatest of modern
wars, he quickly signalized his aver.
sion to war and his love for peace by
an obliteration of international dis.
putes which stands as the wissst and
most majestic example ofits kind in
the worlds diplomacy. Imitation,
at the height of it's popularity and
frenzy, had swept both houses of
Congress, it was the vetoe of Grant
which single and alone overthrow
expansion and cleared the way for
specie resumption. To him
UNNECESSARILY more than to any 9th.
er man, is due the fact that every
paper dollor is as good as gold.
With him as our leader we shall
have no defensive campaign, no
apologies or explanations to make.
The shafts and arrows have all been
aimed at him, and they lie broken
and harmless at his feet. Life, IL.
berty, and prosperity will find safe
guards in him. When he said of
the :blackmen of Florida 'where.
ever I am they may come also" he
meant that. Had he the power to
help 1t the poor dwellers in the ca.
bins of the South should not be dri.
ven in terror from the homes of the
bloodhounds and graves Of their
murdered dead. When he refused to
receive Dennis Kerney in California
he meant that lawlessness and com.
munism, although it should dictate
less to a whole city everywhe e,
would meet foe in him, and that
popular or unpopular, he will hew
to the line Of right, let the chips fall
where they may.
His integrity, his common sense,
his courage and his unequal expert
ence, are the qualities offered to his
country. The only argument
against accepting them would amaze
Solomon. He thought that there could
be nothing new under the sun. -
Havin g tried Grant twice, and hav.
ing found him faithful, we are told
we must not, even after an interval
of years, trust him again. What
qualification does not such a falacy
involve! The American people ex.
clude' Jefferson Davis from public
trust. Why? Because he was the
arch traitor, and would.be destroy.
er, and now the same people are
asked to ostracise Grant and not
trust him. Why? Because he was the
arch preserver OF his own coun try
because not only in war, but after
wards twice as civil magistrate, hi
gave his highest noblest effort tc
the public. Is such absurdity an
electioneering juggle of hypocritica
masquerade. There is no article o.
human activity, responsibility or
reason, in which rational beings OBJ
ject to an agent who has beer
weighed in the balance and not fount
wanting, and because he has une'
qualed experience, making him ex
I ceptionally competent and fit, from
the man who shoes your horse, to the
lawyer who pleads your case, the of
ficer who manages your railway o.
your mill, the doctor into whose
hand you give your life, the minis
ter who seeks to save your soul