The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-08-01

Hancock, and like him. lie rs man Ot |
sound ability, and will wear well and |
though, as you know, | never iancied West |
Point much, must bear it this important |
testimony; Throughout the war, on both |
sides mot one of the regular brand was known |
to steal. II was not always SO With the ANA |
tcur experts Of the volunteer service. There
are two illustrative contrasts that NOV pass
across my mind: The first, volunteer
psalm-singing speculator, whom ! need not
mention; the other, that grand old Confcdc-
rate hero, John Il. Magrudcr, whom rccol-
cct as once painted, Ivy chance correspond
ent of the London 2imeS riding at the head
of his legions over the towering sward of
Texas, looking like ono Of the paladins of
old. and, as | will add, with millions of
money-had he been so minded-spiingin
to his hand from the clover at his horses
hoots.
well remember how he STAYED Mcclellan,
and 40 ,O00of the flower OF our Northern youth
under that leader, for nearly a month at
Yorktown, with but 5000 men, leaving he
hind him in the abandoned walls not wagon,
not n side of bacon, nor q man. Right we'll
also do ] bear in mind, when he found lis
retreat discovered and disputed by those in
stinotive soldiers, Hooker, llointzleman, and
Kearney, he had stomach to give battle to
the three on the road at Williamsburg, and
to pass through the tolls that ervlioned him,
lily the fire OF his sword, with the glory of n
new Moreau. What has Grant done that
| was better than thatl Indeed, Magrudcr
was grand old soldier, but he died without
means enough to bury him-a funeral that
became q hero who knew how to make war,
but did not know how to make money. Now,
| Grant was q different kind of hero-a soldier,
| doubtless, but not so much of one as his
blind worshippers would have us think-a
silent crafty, money making man, with al
ways an empire to windward, and keenlv
comprehending that the first step of the
| founder of a dynasty is to make himself and
family rich, aye to the uttermost generation.
Our friend Ulysses began his climb to power
| logically, by taking presents, absorbing
strength in stocks and houses and every form
of property, and by distributing fortunes to
his relatives, from the Corbns to the Dents,
his last and most clever rd1p in that way
| being the recent side stroke of two or three
millions in California for tile family fund, in
the way of marriage through the cockey and
aspiring young Prince Fred, Indeed from
| the day of the accession of Ulysses to what
| is practically the throne of the United States,
(with its more than regal patronage,) he has
never, so far as my observation goes, refused
a rich mans invitation TO dinner nor sat at n
poor mans table. II it were my desire to
| WOuIh nlIu l WbulN TtltT w SuluHtu'No
boards which he has carelessly allowed him
self to patronize that wbrH Hot eiitifely wor-
thy even of his own humble start in life.
Presently when he RECEIVERS from the stu
petaction of the recent staggering blow at
Chicago, he will slowly uncoil and stretch
out again for profit. But to return to the
Presidential question. was always of the
opinion, after what had happened in 1876,
that Tilden was the logical and proper can
didate for Cincinnati, and still believe he
would have been clected-frst, because the
people throughout the land We're yearning
for change. We have seen that mysterious
public sense lately work in England. But
beyond the impulses of this slow and steady
revolution against the Republican party, and
transcending the force of all other causes put
together, came in the nick of time the auda
cious attempt of n set of political highway
men at Chicago to plant their knees upon the
public breast and throttle il of its voice, il
order that they might establish a permanent
government for their political master anc
themselves. They were mad with spoil ant
drunk with arrogance and power. and die
f not know to what great extent they wer'
. unmasking themselves till it was too late
Was ever such sight Their leader, will
his private wire, most blind and mad of all
E had waded into his fate from primary de
, |
/ only if unanimously pressed upon him, and
after six-day fight, died with his jaw upoi
!; the bit at 306.
That was the moment at which the cOun
try took fire, or to use our American phrase
. "got mad" AT the same moment II rani
t seized the braves who had been forbiddin
u honest men to speak. The siege of libert
was raised by the lifting of Garled's ban
! ner. The desperadoes endeavored to max
a the best of their discontinue; but they ha
. gone too far. The people had now take
the bit, and the insults these Repubica
dictatols had put upon their respected reT
rcsenatives in the Convention burned ever
i honest cheek in the land. From that me
" ment the election of any democratic cand
= date who might be named at Cincinnati wa
certain But the best man was chosen, an
= | rejoice in his selection do not predi,
- anything, but believe Gen Hancock will L
- invited to the White House, in large part b
= the very same patriotic men who sent homes
= Abraham Lincoln there for two terms.
i shall take great pleasure in casting my vol
for him as a man without stain and equal
:, the Presidential station. For that purpos
u | will be found at the polls in New York
=. the election in next November.
!" GEORGE WILKES.