National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-02

GUS passions Of men, and the columns
of his paper were thrown open TO the
advocacy of the Presidents assassination.
As an evidence of the adherence with
which decent people regarded the afro
cious conduct of the Tribune at that time,
Hdrper'S Weekly, of January 30, 1873, pub
lished a powerful article, written by
EUGENE LAWRENCE, headed General
Grant and his Assailants," giving a his
tory of Louisiana affairs, and stating
truthfully the kindness and forbearance
shown by General Grant in his course to-
ward the Southern people, Following is
an extract from the article:
In response to this lenient treatment, what
return have nc Rcpubiicdp pariy and General Grant
| receiyedH Future ages will hear with shame and
sorrow the reply. His life is openly threatened by
the nssassins Of the South, whom he has strivcn to
shame and subduc. A JOURNAL IN NEW YORK
PLAINLY DEMANDS MS ASSASSINATION He is called
tyrant or dictator, and assaed with all the rbald
terms the White Leagues Of The South or THEtR
NORTHERN ALLIES can devise.
To give additional force to the burning
words of Mr. Lawrence, Thomas Mast
ElDbtltl w nlltluW htlu lIi " ChIbOOIlt III
which he represented that brazen-faced
political mountebank as an Italian bravo,
marching along the street with great
advertising board suspended from his
neck upon which appears the letter pub
lished by Reid in the 7Iibdne of January
8, demanding Grants assassination. Mr..
Nash gives the cartoon the following
title: "ADvERTIsING FOR AN ASSASSIN OF
THE PRESIDENT of the United States"
Following is the assassination letter:
tFrom the New York P,ibtne January o. 1851
BAYoNBTs ASp LEGISLATION.
| To the Editor of the Tribune:
| Sir Now that Kellogg proposes to decide who
shall belong TO the Louisiana Legislature, and is
| backed by the United States army, might not
| PRESIDENT GRANT better decide who shall belong
10 the next Congress, and enforce his decisions by
five or six regiments Of United States troops, com
mandod by that truthful and just man GENERAL
| SHERIDAN and remove all regularly elected mem
| bcrs to make place for the Cascys or Dcns2 Ifhe
! insists oil fighting 1t out on this line SOME ONE
WILL PLAY BRUTUS TO HIS CESAR WITHOUT
FAIL, WHICH, by THE WAY, WOULD BR GREAT
BLESSING TO THE COUNTRY. J. II. II.
New York, January Z, 1875.
Thus did Harper's Weekly, Eugene Law
renee, and Thomas Mast bear witness to
the murderous and ravenous spirit which
possessed the Tribune in 1875.
Was Presidents assassination virtue
during Grants term? Would Guiteau
indeed have been a patriotic Brutus if
he had shot President Grant in the back
with bulldog pistol, as Whitelaw Reid
allowed 81. III. H." to advocate in his
newspaper Would such an act have
been the "great blessing to the country" "
which the Tribune declared? If the
letter had been successful in caus-
ing the assassination of General
Grant the law would have con-
victed and hung Whitelaw Reid as
an accessory to the murder. Can this
damned spot ever be obliterated from the
life of Reid, or from the history of the
satanic newspaper he conducts? Will
public opinion be affected in the least
degree by the malice which now oozes
out through the editorial columns of the
Tribune against the Administration
The article from that sheet, which is
above quoted, answers itself 1t is the
vicious and impatient snarl of quarrel
some person, angry because the object o
his hatred bears himself peaceably. Il
is the first yelp of one of a whole pack o
hounds anxious TO be set loose to pursue
the game. 1t is like the growl of the
ruflian who waylays you and then pre-
tends to justify his premeditated attack
by claiming that you provoked him OF
the spot, There may be in this prema
; ture abuse and willlul and malicious mis-
representation of the Administration {
recognition, by those above Reid, of tho
danger of waiting for the President t
give cause for opposition.