American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-08
POLITICAL POINTS.

Grant is grave, but he is likely
to have a gay time before the game is
played out.-G Cincinnati Enquirer.
Last Friday eight men were
hanged. At this rate what will become
of the boosted Republican majority
atlanta Constitution.
1t is little early for the South
ern outrage mill to begin grinding, but
the prospects of famine this summer
have given the business a sudden i'm
petus. Between now and November
the number of inventions of which the
Patent Office takes no cognizance will
begin to swell. brooklyn Eagle.
The title " Duke of America is
a burlesque title applied to Grant by q
buriesque King. So far it is very ap-
propriate, for Grant is burlcsque
statesman, a burlesque orator, and
above all, burlesque nobleman. But
why did he accept it? Must we again
ask the oft-repeated question, ' did you
ever know Grant to refuse anythingP"
Boston Statesman.
1t is really very amusing to read
all the talk about Democratic aspirants
for the Presidential nomination; and
yet it is all well enough. A certain
amount of talk is required-it is indis-
pensable. The Democratic party is
simply required to organize thoroughly
to get rid of factions and solidify.
This done, and victory is certain.-I's-
diana State Sentinel
If the Kansas Republican Plat
form is right and Southern traitors are
endeaVOrino to overturn the Govern
ment it seems to us that Strong Man
is needed to hold this imperiled Nation
with big NJ up by the tail. Why
then should the Kansas Republicans
favor the nomination of Mr.. Blaine,
who sups with rebel brigadiers and falls
upon their necks and calls them his
brothers? We pause for reply.-Er-
change.
Before the exodus investigating
committee the other day DR.. T. NJ.
Struggled. of Topeka, Kan, testified
that the Kansas Freedmen's Relief As
sociation was managed and controlled
from the very start by Republican
officcholders and politicians, and Gov
ernor st. John was the leading spirit at
its inception. St. Johns interest in it
was owing to the fact that if white i'm
migration to the State, which was
largely anti-Republican, was not
checked or neutralized by negro immi-
grants, his chances for reelection would
be very slim.
The Elaine papers in the West
have been placed in a funny dilemma.
They have suddenly discovered that If
the Okolona Southern States articles,
which they have been reproducing by
the yard, truthfully represent Southern
sentiment, the logical conclusion is that
Grant ought to be nominated and not
Blaine, who goes to supper-parties and
falls upon the necks of Southern Briga-
diers, calling them his darlings and his
daisies. This accounts for that COM
parative letting-up on the S0utserH
States and LIE Mars Sentinel, which is at
present the most conspicuous feature
of Western Republican journalism.
N. Y. World.
There is not much danger that
an inscrutable Providence will again
affiict and curse the country with a Re-
publican President. but if such a calam-
ity is to befall it. the Lord will be
merciful if it should come under Grant
rather than Blaine or Sherman, both OF
whom are miscreants of unquestioned
infamy, whose combined honesty, If it
were fire, would not 1lffice to light q
cigarette. 1t is said oI Grant that he
repents of his former mistakes, but
reither Blaine or Sherman would re-
pent of their rascali:ies, If, as they de-
serve. they were lashed to Delaware
whipping post and undergoing the PEN
alties which the law provides in such
cascs.-Isdidndpolts Sentinel.