The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-21
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speeches, written ana ucliVercu uuiinS ''ii'
campaign, suffice TO disproyc any such
theory. A pet method adopted to deceive
is one lately used by John Sherman. 1t is
neither new nor true. Nobody ever paid
any attention to it, and it was relocated to
fill up the corner of patent inside or sand
wched between the certificates of Mrs
Nervous and Mr.. Hypo to their wonderful
cure by DR.. Humbug's Cureall in the mil
lion almanacs annually issued by the learned
doctor.
When the official head Of the Treasury
Department asserts that Gen. Washington's
administration stole eight dollars on each
thousand collected, and by way of contrast
implies the superiority Of Gen. Grants, IN
asmuch as the losses in his administration
amounted to only thirty-four cents on the
thousand dollars, that head of the Treasury
Department, even if it be the immaculate
brother of the General commanding the
army of the United States, simply states
what he knows full well, officially and per-
sonally, to be falsehood. Sherman stulti-
fies himself by making, at first or second
hand, any such assertion. At this present
moment we can not 90 into the details
and the proofof the folly and the malice of
any such assertion, and simply appeal to
the history of the times, to bear out our as
serton. that for all the crimes that can de-
grade government, bribery, corruption,
iobbery, nepotism and usurped power,
Grants administration outdid any repre-
sentative government, ancient or modern.
The arthmetcal sophsm to which we
wish to draw particular attention is that
which counts the relative strength of Dem
ocrats and Republicans in the army during
the war by giving table showing the vote
cast by the army in 1864 for President BY
this table Mcclellan had in round numbers
$4,000 and Lincoln $4,000. The same
proportion throughout the whole army il
assumed to be correct, and hence about 2;
per cent of the army was Democratic anC
II per cent Republican.
Now suppose we apply the same methot
of reasoning to the stay at-homes, we vii
see that it does not rebound to the credit o
the Radical calculators. For instance, tn
number of votes cast in Ohio gave Lincoln
majority of nearly 100000. If the rul
holds good, as it must when applied t.
both classes, then those Unions hriekers
whose patriotic impulses led them to sta,
at home, were principally of the Radica
= party, But this common sense method o
!. reasoning is what Radicals never learned
|, or at least never practice. The fact is tina
= the rank and file of the army were chef
B. Democrats. They either did not vote q
all in the election, or they voted under tn
powerful inducements many times amount
ing to threats OF their superior officers
y. The very small per centage of army vote
.e cast, is proof that the army did not vote
New York, Pennsylvania or OHIO ha
q nearly or quite as many votes IN the arm
lie as there we're votes cast in that election b
- the entire army. BY following the logi
~ ~ of Radicalism We would count all the vote
r. not cast as Democratic This would b
-. still further borne out by the decrease
= Republican votes in the years immediatel
following, when the soldiers returned hon
and voted without compulsion.
n, That extraordinary modes were rcsortt
Ie' to to give an army Endorsement to the the
Administration, the public prints of Il
time and the recollections Of old soldie
Of alike attest 1t is on record that in /
Ohio regiment Democratic propogandis
were not only threatened, but actually p
,es in confinement. The whole vote count
y for Mcclellan would have been multiple
several times by the Army OF the Potion
tic alone, had those votes been fairly counte
are The Mcclellan strength in the army "
amongst the veterans like the Sixth corr
whose members were distinguished for
at the qualities which characterized I
.o. patriotic soldier.
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But enough has been written to she
our readers the rottenness Of the planks
l xx,h, oh De- - Al.