The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-12
EXIT GRANT.

great party IN TINS country tnat eve
was contaminated with the leprosy o
Grantism has purged itself of thai
plague, and repudiated the man who
without having sense enough to know
it, or to appreciate the consequences o
it, was standing menace to the peace
f and happiness and prosperity of this
country.
Ksop, or some other wise philos-
opher of the ancients, related once an
anecdote about the frogs who grew
) dissatisfied with the boys and ponds
of their native jungles, and prayed to
Jupiter for King-for King Log
to be sent down to them, who would
furnish temple where they might sit
in deliberation, and who would preside
over their Conventions. Jupiter heard
the prayer, and sent a huge cypress
log for their King, and located it on
the margin of beautiful lake. 1t
may be that we have not employed
here the precise language of DIR. Esop,
who related the anecdote, but we are
quite sure that we have got his idea.
Unfortunately, however, for the frogs,
along came a party of fishermen i'll
search of bait for catfish, and seeing
this Convention of frogs absorbed in
affairs of State, found no difficulty in
spreading their net, and sweeping the
last one of them into it, and after
wards using them simply as decoys
for the supplemented and unprejudic-
ed mud-cats, a tribe distinguished then
and now more by the breadth of mouth
than the size of brain.
The lesson which the philosopher
sought to enforce by the fate of the
frogs in this case, was that people
who clamored for thing ought to re-
fleet beforehand what it was they
clamored for
AS strange as it may appear, large
section of the people Of the United
States are restless because they can't
make King Log out of Grant. They
clamor for Grant like the frogs did for
King Log, utterly ignoring the fact
that there is not, and never has been,
Il single, solitary, isolated instinct in
the character of that impenetrable
man, calculated to fit him to preside
over great and growing people A
child of fortune, Il creature of accident,
a mere factotum of destiny-the man
who has been deluged with the grand
est opportunities ever given to prom
inent man, and who yet has failed
signally and disgracefully failed-tO
improve one of them. The man who
held for eight years the destiny of
great country in his hands, and had |
the adulatiOn of all the sycophantic,
the prayers of all the religious, the
ready cooperation of all the patriotic,
and the hopes Of all sexes and condi-
tions-whOse more than imperial will
was everywhere respected and obeyed
yet, was able to come out of that
eventful period of eight years with not
a single act that his friends can point
to with pride, or even with satisfac-
ton.
History will set Grant down as the
most stupendous failure of the CEN
tury-a great, laundering and disas-
trous fraud in war-a disgraceful and
apostacy in peace.
He will drop out Of sight now with
the heavy thud of canon ball, and
never be heard of again.
Men will be surprised that they W IRE
ever misled into the belief that there
was anything in him.
He will at last be measured by the
standard of his real worth, and under
that measurement will shrivel into {
supreme insignificance.
He will be universally esteemed as Il
SeritabIe King Log.
The potentates of the world whom he {
las been visiting for the last three '
Iears, with the imbecile hope of keep !
ng his name in the cablegrams, and q
before the American people, looking I
% this nomination, will find out now
hat they have been wasting their '
miles and wine upon an American t
log, who represents nothing but the |
normOus stupidity Of the country.
The alert pimp-, and lick-spittles v
nd time-servers, who watched with f
he Open-mouthed eagerness of U
PANELS his landing at San Fran t
iSco, and exhausted Their little brains J
nd purses to get up Il stupet dous a
walton for him, (all for moral effect on b
he Chicago Convention,) may now Ii
eek their no es and hide their heads g
a disappointment aud shame. The 8
reject has miscarried. u
The man himself who was weak .,
nough to believe that the toadits and q
unkies and hucksters of this country z
'ere able to control it, and that he o
Duld be a Napoleon if he chose, after n
living up his secocd Presidential ST
srm with manifest reluctance, then 81
lacing himself in training for the a,
ext Convention, shaping all his ac- al
ons with this view, traversing the m
lobe and spending all the money he p
adj gotten by salary, gift or other a,
Use O1t Of the Presidency, to keep m
anne alive which the imbecility of b.
haraeter and the helplessness of in ~
elect had consigned to Oblivion, re- q,
lrned home with the honors Of the W
IOrId upon his person, falsely obtain
d rs distinguished American Gen VI
raj and President. and nrocceded To ny ~