Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-06-30
SPACE OCCUPIED.
History Distorted.

Adam Badeau's attack on Geo. III.
Thomas is more than likely to prove
n boomerang. Mr.. Badean is the
bosom friend of General Grant and
for long time has depleted the pub
lie Treasury by drawing his salary as
one of Grants appointees abroad. lie
has used the money he drew as Consul
Mt London, and his abundant leisure,
in formulating what will be known in
history as "The life of General Grant"
Mr.. Badeau is not accepted as either
good military authority or correct
Judge of the movements of our armies
during the war of the Rebellion, from
the fact that his position as a staff of.
ficer of General Grant usually kept
him so secluded from the active oper-
ations of the army as to make his
practical knowledge of its movements
of very little importance. His entire
book is untrustworthy. Every chap
ter is filled with misrepresentation,
and the whole object of this miscalled
history is plainly revealed on every
page. All the great heroes of the
war are belittled in order to enhance
the lustre of the fame of the great
gift taker. A monument is to be
built for General Grant, but the other
captains are to lie in unmarked graves.
When Mr.. Badeau sat down to falsify
history, to distort facts and to make
himself and his book ridiculous, he
possibly was controlled by but one
idea. He is the creation of Grant.
He owes all he is to the distinguished
favor of the slaughterer the Wilder
ness, and in order TO rescue his tidus
Achates from the certain verdict of
the impartial historian, he deliberately
determined to throw the filth of false
hood over the regulations Of all who
were likely to shine in history as the
peers of Grant. With the exception
of General Sheridan, no military
commander is spared. All of the
men whom the people revere as the
preservers Of the Republic are incon-
tinently dumped into Mr.. Badeau's
waste basket, while the crowned God
of his work is extolled to the skies.
General Thomas is the target at
which Badeau fires his choicest bombs.
General Thomas, unlike General
Grant, never lost a battle or sacrificed
n man unnecessarily. General Thomas,
unlike General Grant, never was ac-
cused and proven to be liar. Gen
eral Thomas, unlike General Grant,
enjoyed the respect, the admiration
and confidence of the whole people of
this country. General Thomas, unlike
General Grant, was pure and unspot-
ted in both his public and private re-
lations. The enduring stigma of
"Black Friday" does not stain the
posthumous memory of General Thorn
as. No whiskey frauds no San Do
mingo speculations throw a shadow
across the Parian Marble which forms
the base Of General Thomas monu-
ment. Great men require no praise,
neither do they need defense. The
fame of General Thomas is the herit-
age of the Republic. He needed no
monument. 1t had been already built
in the hearts Of the American people.
General Grant, day by day, proves
that the fulsorne laudations Of Badeau
are undeserved. When General Grant
dies It will require the most elaborate
sepulture to perpetuate his name. The
verdict Of posterity will be that the
dark mantle Of death should have for
ever eclipsed all recollection of the
man who has been conspicuous rs the
great debaucher of political morals in
this great Republic.