Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-28

shaped everything to gain Democratic and
| Soutnern favor. ne us va. cnc,l, ana piabnei
and waited, till at 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 spea K
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 kno wing 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 proyoca-
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 to avoid seeming to sanction q
harsh judgment of the author of
these grievances by listening to it.
Yet General Grant, apparently lost
to all sense of honor or deceucy, as
sails General Hancock behind his back,
and with weapons such as might be en-
ployed by spoiled child or an angry
tishwoman. He stoops-if STOPPING with
him is necessary-to low and vulgar
abuse of a brother soldier whose only
Offense is nomination for the Presi-
dency by the Democratic party, and
finds 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 and regula-
tions are based on the usages of respecta-
bic society. He voluntarily displa;-s s.
and with no conceivable motive save
envy and spite-a meanness and malig.
nifty such as we might expect to see in q
common blackguard, but not in an eN-
President of the United States. The
Cincinnati Commercial calls Grant 1.-THE
First Citizen of his country" George
w. was ONCE Cdllcu 'lne FlrSU uentle-
man in Europe''--and we know what
the popular verdict is on George w.
Defense of General Hancock against
such an assault and such an assailant
would be an insult to him. AS for
General Grant, we leave him where he
has placed him self-and lower his
worst enemy could not wish him. If
there is an atom of shame in his compo-
sition, the time will come when he
would gladly give his right arm to re-
call an act which must bring blush
to the cheek of every American jealous
of the National reputation at.home and
abroad. Republicans in the present
campaign have done many disgraceful
deeds, but it was left for the man
whom that party has most highly hon
ored to crown the work of miserable
partisanship-and he Twill in no wise
lose his reward" General Hancock.
from our reports, seems to doubt the
accuracy of the Rev. Fowlers state
ments, but on the other hand. the Gin
cinnati Gdzete vouches for the charac-
ter of Mr.. F.-St. Louis Republican.