Louisiana capitolian., 1880-05-29
Q. 8. GRANT AGAIN.


ally nominated Grant by instructing
its delegates to support him at Chi
cago for re c-election to a third term,
us President of these United States.
Twenty years ago, 1860, mighty
struggle took place at the polls to dc.
eide whether the National Govern
mcnt had the right to interfere with
the institutions existing by virtue of
the Constitution, in some of the SOY
cyeign States Of the Union,
The verdict, owing to divisions
among the opponents Of the Rcpnbli-
can party, was rendered in favor of
Abraham Lincoln, whose election
upon the known intcntions0 OF his par
tisans, was the signal for an appeal
to arms. It became a war of the
Northern section, composed Of free
States, against the Southern section
composed of slave States. 1t was no
longer q contest for party supremacy
for the government ofthc Union under
this or that idea.
As it might have been expected, u
long and bloody war ragged for four
long years, and the side possessed of
the "hcayicst battalions and most MT
mcrous artillery finally overcamc
the weaker.
Succeeding to the supreme command
when the Confederate Army Corps
had been dccimated till there remain
cd but q brigade under their bullet
riddled standards, Ulysses Grant, the
cllicftain whose only skill was stoi-
"cal disregard for the loss of life, hurled
the numbcrlesS battaiiOns which the
North furnished him in an endless
stream, upon the remnants of that
army which had, as long as it could
muster proportion of one against
three Or four, won upon his prcdcc"s-
sors, victories worthy of being named
beside Maringo, Wagram and Austcr-
litz.
1t had reached that point when the
North was furnishing the human flesh
which Grant sent to the slaughter, ut
the cost of fifteen hundred dollars for
each soul who descended to that bourne
from whence ~ traveller returns.
Neither for gold nor love, could the
exhausted South fill the yawri ing gaps
in the ranksef her ragged veterans.
And the castastrophc came while
the lucky Ulysses was in command.
The North went wild over the cud of
the terrible conflict.
Blind to his incapacity as states
man the accidental victor was cleva-
ted to the Presidency for two success
cessive terms.
We will not recall the sad history
OF his administration. The tears of
the women and the anguish of the
men Of the South are too fresh to ne
ccssitatc a more eloquent evidence of
its crueltics and its failures.
Eighteen hundred and eighty has
come, and tle incapable and soulless
man, flushed with his incomprchcnsi-
bic good fortunes, is the aspirant for
the third term which Washington's
patriotism pronounced y vital danger
to the Republic that had been pur-
chased with the blood of the heroes
of the American revolution.
The accession of Grantto the Prcsi-
dcncy, means more than an intcrfcr-
rnce with the rights of sovereign
States: it is the downfall of the Re-
public of our Fathers and the dicta-
lorship which builds 4 Throne.
viii not the lovers of free govern
ncnt and individual liberty arise in
heir ight under the banner of the
Democratic party, and cry aloud TO
he Rcvolutonists; You have gone
hus far; no farther shall you go,'
We believe that the American pco-
Die who fought and saved the Union.
md those who lost the fight to pre-
.cnt the cncroachmcnts of u central (
ling power, will rally not in sections I
his time, in battle array, one against
he other, but in compact masses,
ailing some from Maine and Others /
rom Texas, to rout the conspirators I
gainst their priceless liberties.
Let the internal broils and divisions {
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