The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-07-02

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WHAT GRANT HAS LOST.
- 9 lSt. Louis Republican, o..
Whatever may be the result of the
struggle at Chicago, Its effects upon
the reputation of one candidate are no
longer doubtful. Gen. Grant has re-
ceived blow nom which he will
never recover. To tho last hour OF his
life he will feel the irreparable injury,
and his name and fame will suffer
when he is dead. He has deliberately
thrown away an opportunity such rs
does not occur once In a thousand
years, and no quantity or quality OF
repentance can avert the consequence
ofthat act of stupenGlous folly. Absence
aud the rush of events In nation not
given to reflection, had comparatively
relieved him of the unpopularfty ac-
cumulated in eight years of wretched
administration. Foreign honors had,
In the mind of the masses, almost
atoned for the blunders and crimes OF
1S69-1S77 and most people were will
Ing to forgive, If they could not forget,
his sins Of omission aud Of commits
sion, and remember him only rs tho
victorious leader OF tho national armies
In the greatest civil war that history
records. He had only to return home
In the modest manner beiltting pri-
vate citizen, hold himself, al0of from
the demagogues, who had used and
abused him during the presidential
career, promptly announce his deter
mination to respect the rule established
by Washington, obeycd by Jefferson
and jackson, and indorsed by unan-
imols public sentiment-aud even his
bitterest enemies would have been dis
posed to regard him with something
more than compiacency.
But, sslike the base Judean," he
"threw q pearl away richer than all
his tribe" Yielding himself willing
tool to combination OF political atl-
venturcrs, intent only upon obtaining
further opportunity for plunder, he
became q bold bidder for an honor he
did not deserve; an honor which
Washington, Jefferson and Jackson
declined to accept because thcy doomed
1t dangerous to tho perpetuity of FREQ
institutions. In spite of a storm Of
opposition from every sidO /; In spite of
the protests and prayers of the best
men in his own party In spite of the
test which would seriously weaken, II
| not hOpelessly disrupt, that party-he
has persovered in the work of self-dcs-
truction with q doggcd obstinacy
which neither fear nor shame could
sub<lte. In his unworthy cause no llas
seen land sanctioned AN exhibition OF
partisan tyranny in Pennsylvania and
New York before unknown to Amcri-
can politics; and In Illinois, his own
State, tho State which gave him tho
! firs1 start from pauperism to tho rresi-
don ley, he has lent aid and comfort
to 4ho mennest and most outrageous
hcrs soil. And no has crowned tho
win Mo by ffngfng himself like fro
band into u national con ventioD, and
allowing his agents to declare that he
Would "fight 1t out If It took all sum-
n,qr."
T'hrcc terms or thirty terms could
noA compensate Grant for whnt hc has
Iosjt--and lost forever. Had he boon
Wlke with tho wisdom which knows
when and where to check vaulting
present and future genera
tioins would have thrown tho mantle
of Scharity over his fOllies and faults
anstl left him in undisturbed enjoyment
OF the glories won on the tented field.
BAIT he will sink now to tho ignoble
leYel of those mon wfio7ia Nh fitG'1IaslAG. :
ces made great, and who, having no
true greatness In tho'n, dropped tho
substance to grasp tho shadow, and SO
"fell, like Lucifer, never to rise again."
Hereafter tho slow, unmovfng finger
of impertial, inexorablo history will
point to him us an example of high
sacrificed upon tho altar of
incurable cgotism aud insane vanity
and this example will be remembered
when everything else pertaining to
him is forgotten. u.
An Irish nobleman, riding along
road in Ireland, saw a worry fat
boy doing by tho roadside, "Whici,
way Is it to Macroom, my lad?" asked
the nobleman. 'rhat way,' replied
the bow iaziiy moving the too OF OF his