Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14

| to allude to Them nor to the chapter OF cruelty
| they fill; nor to retry the issue Of the war
Nv purpose is quite different i. is TO show if
| can, what is actually at stake now, who and
what the contending forces are, how much the
result may mean, and which way prudence and
wisdom point.
| GENERAL GRANT LETTER A TEXT FOE MANY
SERMONS.
You have listened to q letter from one to
| whom at least as much as to any other man
the nation owes its preservation, prosperity
and primacy This lie, ter. instinct with COM
mon sense, hits the nail on the head. Is
| - tier generally does hit nails, rebellions and
pretenders on the head. He says
This meeting should awaken the people to
the Importance of keeping control of the gov
1 eminent in the hands of the Republican party
until we can have two national parties, every
tfLember of which can cast his ballot as judg-
ment dictates, without fear OF molestltIon or
ostracism, and have it honestly counted: par
ties not differing in opinion as to whether we
are nation. but as 10 the policy TO secure the
greatest good TO the greatest number of its
citizens. Sincerely believing that the Dem
/ cratic party, as now constituted and controlled
! is not fiji party TO trust with the control of
the general government, | believe it to the best
interests of all sections, South as well a. North
that the Republican party should succeed in
U. s. GRANT.
! Lord Chesterfield said that letter shows
the man il is written to, as well as the man it
ia written by. This letter beers Lord Chester
field out. 1t is written to Gen. Arthur and
it reveals the confidence and esteem IL which
the writer holds lin. Informed by many
years of intimate acquaintance, Gen. Grant
knew and felt, az we know aud feel, that he
was writing not only 20 friend, but to one of
the most genuine, patriotic and honorable of
men. loud applause
HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY is CONSTITUTED
AND C)NTRoLLED.
This letter furnishes text for many SER
mons. "Jhe Democratic party as now con-
I stitated and controlled" How II is constitu-
ted how controlled? There Is a vast number
I of upright patriotic men ini5--a vast number
OF men who gave all and did all they should
have given and done 10 uphold their govern
ment ana their flag in the supreme and dire
hour Of trial. vast number who mpefilled
their lives as other Democrats laid down th cir
lives for Their county. Many Northern Dem
oUr2ts who ca IT all thsir weight and sympa thy
on the nations side. after the war was over re-
turned TO thei- former party associations ::
many others never did 80 return. Were such
Democrats to quite snd Influence a Democratic
congress and a Dem OcratIc edmluistra ton,
their party would not be- 81 constituted and con-
trolled as it is Because such men and their
views and interests viii not and can not con-
troll in the event of Democratic success much
grave peril arises.
As the d smoc-atic party is constituted. not
the men OF the North, not the men who were
for the Union aud the Constitution but the
men OF the South who We're against the Union
and the Constitution. men whose policy and
purposes are still hurtful to the country are
bound and predestned TO control Democratic
administration and Democratic Congress.
Applause La the Senate and in the House
the South has an overwhelming majority of
the Democratic members. and most of them
are men who led in the rebellion. Every rarty
measure in Congress is settled IN party caucus
, nv s. Marty mai JrltV. Tins the no
bers bold obsoiute sway. In possession of the
lawmaliing power, of the purse, and of the
power to confirm or reject treaties and appoint
ments, the South is also to furnish all the votes
to elect the Democratic candidates, save only
the fOTty-seyep votes which mus be ratified, or
counted, or certified, or produced from the
Northern States, particularly not excepting
Oregon. Should the election be close there
is no knowing but the two Democratic houses
may find ground on which to throw out part
or all of any States electors. With much UNI
7 employed leisure on their hands, with the
danger which tle electoral commission of
1877 alone oyerp pissed, for that time staring
the country IN the face, these Democratic
houses have adopted no measure to insure
order and right in ascertaining the result CT
the Presidential election. Should controversy
arise, and the election be thrown into the
house, there, the vote being taken by states.
the South wculd cast nearly all the Democratic
votes, and In the Senate the vote for Yic5
70.
la every event Of Democratic success. the
Southern end OF the Democratic party mu # be
TO the Northern cad the locomotive is to the
tender, as the horse is to the cart This is as
plain as any truth III gravltation arithmetic.
THE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
! Perhaps this point wild seem to you to chal-
lenge some attention. For the population of
the Southern States, must go back to the
census OF 1870. That count of the people was
made by enumerators not selected by Southern
senators and members Of the House as q non
partisa and professional reformers. II was
made by the regular marshals and their depu-
ties, and the compensation was so adjusted as
to induce thorough visitation and, at the same
time, to guard against exaggeIation of num-
bers. No imputatiou of fraud was ever cast
upon the cork. Such thing as plot to fab
ncate q mon5trous increase of population in
one section, in order to baffla the course OF na-
ture and the logic of events in another plot
to change the balance of power and population
IL order to aggrapdiZs one section by estab-
fishing ia se basis OF representation and ap-
portlonment, thus robbing other sections OF
their share in governing the country, in levy
ing taxes, and appropriating n pney, had not
at that time occurred to the conservative foes
OF radicatism. That particular spoke il the
wheel of d5Viltry mad no turned up to the
shifty patrio. of that DAY. Now, such schemes
seem TO wax apace. We read of producing
false heirs to thrones, but to multiply false
heirs without anyone to per5onate them on
scale 50 grand as seems now III process. would
s5upefy the ingenuity OF French novelist, or
anybody else except th0roug going, nom
partisan, conservative disciple Of the Demo
cratic persu lsion, wanting lothing for himself,
but ready 30 do and suffer for white mans
government with reform" and "a change"
EApplause-1
The suggestion now is that the census
takers Of 1870 uader-couuted their neighb0rs
Paid W the kead and by thu mile, not by the
day. it is now alleged they robbed themselves;
they neither travelled or counted, nor charged
fer doing it. They were 50 carpet-bsg gers,
too many Of them, in the South; their States
were Republican, they had their ambitions and
motives for increased political mum oers and
power; there was not the remotest danger of
any direct tax; and yet, with nothing to gain
and everything to lose, they wrouged and
swinded themselves for the sake OF being DIS
honest. This all may be. 1t is the only way
of accounting for the awkward wonders OF
the census now progressing. | cannot be