The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-11-06

the law as it is. The Administration
has the power to appoint official bull.
dozers, but so long as the public purse Is
in Democratic control not one dollar wt(
erer be appropriated to pay Mem.-
Washington Post.
Grants Assault Upon Hancock.
The Cincinnati Gazette, m appropriate
vehicle for such stuff, publishes a long
account of an alleged interview between
a person calling himself ''Rcv. G. II.
Fowler and General Grant, at the resi-.
dence of the latter in Galena. One or
two specimens will be sufficient for our
present purpose:
General Grant said. Il have known Han.
cock for forty years. He is n weak, vain man.
lie is the most selfish man know. He could
never endure to have anyone else receive any
credit. Though he received all the mention
from his superiors he deserved, and often
more, he was always displeased that he was
not praised more, and that anyone else was
mentioned ut all lie is the most selfish man
know. He was avery good corps commander.
He was ambitious. and had courage and Il fine
presence; but he is vain. selfish, weak and
easily tiattered. He cannot bear to bear any.
one else praised, but can take any amount Of
fiattery.'
I'm 1864 when Mcclellan was nominated,
Hancock received one vote, and that greatly
excited and changed him. He was so delighted
that he smiled all over. You could no; even
sit lehnd him without seeing him smile. He
smiled all over. 1t crazed him. Before that
we got on well. After that he would hardly
speak to me: After he received that
shaped everything to gain Democratic and
Southern favor. He has watched, and planned
and waited. till ut last he has received the
democratic nomination"
Assuming that the clerical reporter
has done his work faithfully, and that
we have here Grants own words, or the
substance of them. it is difficult to speak
of him as he deserves. We think, how
ever, that this revelation of his charac-
ter will be surprise to those who have
heretofore respected and admired the
man without moving anything of his
inner nature; and we are very much
mistaken if the mud flung at Hancock
does not return and stick to Grant until
DEATH and afterwards. 1t is such an
assault as no gentleman would make
upon another, under such .circum.
stances, no matter what the provoca-
ton; and in this case there is not the
slightest provocation. -
!: So far as the public is aware, General
Hancock has up to the present time
uttered no unkind or disrepectful word
concerning General Grant. Even in his
private letters, which the campaign has
brought into print, he has said nothing
which the sharpest criticism can con.
denim. On more than one occasion,
when certain personal grievances were
alluded to, he has declined to discuss
the subject, and turned the CONVERSE
ton 10 avoid seeming to sanction .
harsh Judgment of the author of
these grievances by listening to it.
Yet General Grant, apparently lost
to all sense of honor or decency, as.
! sails General Hancock behind his back,
and with weapons such as might be EN-.
ployed by spoiled child or an angry
fishwoman. He stoops If STOPPING with
him is necessary low. and vulgar
abuse Of a brother soldier whose only
otlense is q nomination for the Presi-
6ency by the Democratic party, and
finds a clergyman contemplate enough
to peddle this abuse to the newspapers.
He does, deliberately and with malice
aforethought, what would expel him
from any club whose rules aud ,regula.
tions are based on the usagcs of respecta~
bic society. He voluntarily displays
and with no conceivable motive save
envy and spitc-a meanness and malig.
nifty such as we might expect to see in q
common blackguard, but not in an ex.
President Of the United States. The
Cincinnati Commercial calls Grant 1.-THE
First Citizen Of his country" George
Nv. was once called "the First Gentle
man in Europe" we know what
the popular verdict is on George ~.
Defense of General Hancock against
such an assault and such an assailant
would be an insult to him. AS fol
General Grant, we leave him where he
has placed himself-and lower hi
worst enemy could not wish him. Il
there is an atom of shame in his compo
sition, the time will come when hi
would gladly give his right arm to re
call an act which must bring blusl
to the cheek Of every American jealou!
of the National reputation at home ant
abroad. Republicans in the presen
campaign have done many disgracefu
deeds, but it was left for the ma,
whom that party has most highly hon
ored to crown the work of miserable
partisanship-and he Twill in no wis
lose his reward" General Hancock
from our reports, seems to doubt tn
accuracy of the Rev. Fowlers state
ments, but on the other hand, the Gin
cinnati Gazette vouches for the charac
ter of MIR. F.-St. Louis Republican. y
Since the publication of Genera
Hancock sletter demolishing the South
ern. Claims illusion. and since the ex
plosion of the "business men s. scare
the Republican managers have had
rood deal Of trouble to find somethin
10 "holler" on. Isn't it almost tim
. Ior them to take Hayes advice and ia
back on the old Wing party?-Ci'sci'
nut EnQu;rtr.