Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-14

70 alluds to them, nor to the chapter Of cruelty
hey fill: nor to retry the issue Of the war
Nv purpase Is quite different. 1t is to show, If
I can. what is actually at stake now, who and
what the contending forces are, how much the
result may mean, and which way prudence and
wisdom point.
GENERAL GRANT s LITTER TkxT FOR MANY
SERMONS.
You have listened to letter from one TO
whom at least as much as to any other MAJ
the nation owes its preservation, prosperity
and primacy. This letter, instinct with COM
mon sense, hits the nail on the head
writer generally does hit nails, rebelliors and
pFesenders on the head. He says:
This meeting should awaken the peone to
the importance of keeping control of theAsoy-
Q nment in the hands of The Republican Wrty
until we can have two national parties, every
member Of which can east his ballot as luts-
ment dictates. without fear OF molestatlonRr
ostracsm, and have it honestly counted; par
ties not differing in opinion "a TO whether we
are nation. but as 70 the policy TO secure the
greatest good to the greatest nnmhev OF It's
citizens. Sincerely believing that the Dem
cratic party, as now constituted and controlled,
is not a ft party TO trast with the control OF
the general government, believe II TO the best
interests OF all sections, South as well as North,
that the Republican party should succeed in
U. S. GRANT.
Lord Chesterfield said that letter shows
the man it is written to- as well as the man 1t
il written by. This letter bears Lord Chester
field out It Is written TO Gen. Arthur, and
il reveals the confidence and esteem ia which
the writer holds him. Informed by many
years of intimate acquaintance, Gen. Grant
knew and felt as We know and feel, that he
was writing not only to friend, but to one OF
the most genuine, patriotic and honorable of
men. loud applause.l
HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY rs CONSTITUTED
AND CONTROLLED.
This letter furnishes text for many ser
mons. 1.-THE Democratic party as now con-
stituted and controlled" How il is constitu-
ted, how controlled? There is a vast number
OF upright, patriotic men init-a vast number
of men who gave all and did all they should
have given and done 10 uphold their govern
ment and their flag in the supreme and dire
hour OF trial vast number who imperilled
their lives, as other Democrats laid down their
lives for their country. Many Northern Dem
ocrats who cast all their weight and sympathy
on the nations vide, after the war was over re-
turned to their former party associations
many others never did &c return. Were such
Democrats TO guide and influence Democratic
congress and q Democratic administration
trolled " as it is. Because such men and their
views and interests will not and can not con-
troll in the event of Democratic sueceEs, much
grave peril arises.
As the Democratic party is Constituted, not
the men of the North, not the men Who were
for the Union and the Constitution, but the
men OF the South who were against the Union
and the Constitution, men whose policy and
purposes are still hurtful to the country, are
bound aud predestned TO control Democratic
admi 3istrati IN and q Democratic Congress-
TApplause.1 In the Senate and in the House
the South mss an over Shelming majority OF
the Democratic members. and most OF them
Is,l ~ ol,afIsy
measure in Congress is settled in party G lucus
by party mai rity; thus the Southern men,
oers hold absolute sway. In possession of the
law-making power, Of the purse, and Of the
power to confirm or reject treaties and appoint
nents, the Soath is also to furnish all the votes
TO elect the Democratic candidates, save only
the forty-seven votes which must be rafied or
counted, or certified, or produced from the
Northern States, particularly no. excepting
Oregon. Should the election be close, there
is no knowing but the two Democratic houses
may find ground on which to throw out part
or all Of any States electors. With much I'M
employed leisure on their hands, with the
dagger which the electoral commission Of
1877 alone overpassed, for that time, staring
the country in the face, these Democratic
houses have adopted no measure to insure
order and right i'll ascertainirg the result Of
the Presidential election Should controversy
arise, srd the election he thrown into the
house. there, the vote being taken by states,
tha South would cast nearly all the Democratic
voter, and in the Senate the vote for Wee
President would come from the same source
In every event of Demo ratio success the
Southern end of the Democratic party must be
to the Northern end az the locomotive s to the
tender, as the horss is to the cart. This is as
p'aIa as any truth in gravitation or arithmetic.
THE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Pes haps this point will seem to you to chal-
lenge some attention. For the population Of
the Southern States. we must go back to the
census OF 1870. That count of the people was
made by enumerators not selected by Southern
senators and members of the House as "non-
p Irtlsaus" and professional reformers II was
made by the regular marshals and their depu-
ties, and the compensation was SO adjusted az
10 induce thorough visitation and, at the same
time, to guard against exaggeIation OF num-
bers. No imputation of fraud was ever cast
upon the "ork. Such thing as plot to fab
rlcate monstrous increase Of population in
one section, III order to baffl9 the course of ma
ture and the logic OF events n another plot
to change the balance of power and popul ation
IN order to aggrandizs one section by estab-
fishing IA Sc basis OF representation and APP
thus robbing other sections Of
their share in governing the country in levy
ing taxes, and appropriating money, had not
a that time occurred to the conservative foes
Va taalSdA5ul Ina, phTJlCu al spoke IN Lnb
wheel OF devlltry had no. turned up to the
shifty patriot Of that day. Now, such schemes
: 'em to wax apsce. We read of producing
1alse heirs to thrones, but to multiply false
heirs without anyone to personate them on
scale 50 grand as seems now in process, would
s:upefy the ingenuity Of a French novelist, or
anybody else except a thoroug going, nom
partisan, conservative disciple of the Demo-
cratic persuasion, wanting aothing for himself,
out ready to do and suffer for white mans
government with "reform" and "a CHANGE
lap lause.l
The suggestion now is that the census-
takers Vt 1870 under-counted their neighbors.
Paid by the kead and by the mile, not by the
day, 1t is now alleged they robbed themselves;
they neither Travelled or counted, nor charged
fer doing it. They were "carpet- baggers,.
too many OF them, in the South their States
were Republican, they had their ambitions and
motives for increased political numbers and
power; there was not the renotest danger Of
any direct tax; and yet, with nothing to gain
and everything to lose, they wronged and
swindled theEls elves for the sake OF being dis
honest. This sll may be. 1t is the only way
OF accounting for the awkward wonders of
the census now progressing. | cannot be
called ingenious, because it is plainly the only
possible explanation, and it nmps badly.
Ecumenicsl councils nay sit on these recent
fabulous census revelations, but men viii stiil
wonder how 49 per cent. was added TO the
population of a State in ten yea &, during
which she received exactly 1877 foreign immi-
grants-a fact ests hLshed without the aid of
any census. Such an increase OF population
anywhere would crop ont in unnumberea direc-
tons. Production, consumption, buildings,
titled acreage, railway traffic, postal returns,
i0migration would tell the story of such