The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-17

people of this country arose in their might
and at the polls rebuked everything that
savo-ed of Grant SIN by reversing the
Republican majority in the House. Grant
and his satellites were evidently intent on
subordinating every feature Of civil govern
ment to tbat Of the military, and would have
subverted our form of Government had not
the people, almost with one accord, called a
| halt to Grants revolutionary methods-yet
in the face of this appalling record Bayard,
salisbury, Pendleton and others allowed
! this UNCUT Gus bill to pass the Senate with
out the slightest protest. o, tempOraH O,
moreSU
The blackest stain on the pages OF Amer
ican history is where Grants Secretary of
War ordered Gen. de Trobriand to surround
the Louisiana Legislature by the military
under his command and to forcibly eject a
sufficient number of Democrats so that the
Republicans might organize the Legislature
and elect Kellogg, the thief and political
| highwayman, to the United States Senate;
and when Sheridan telegraphed his greetings
to Kellogg in these shameful words: ave
all (that is Grants Cabinet) "agree with
you" Grant also wired supplementary
"Amen, ''and this is the man the Democrats
in the Senate voted to pension for life.
1t will also he remembered that Secretary
Bristow was summarly dismissed from
Grants Cabinet becanse he traced the
whiskey frauds to the very portals of the
White House-and it will also be rcmem-
bered that Joyce and Mcdonald the chief
conspirators of the wliskey ring were
Grants boon companions; and it was stated
| by the very men who voted for the pension
in the Senate on last Tuesday that if Justice
was meted out to Grant, that Joyce and
Mcdonald would not be by themselves
behind the bars. What a mockery of jus
tce-what travesty of decency to talk OF
this country owing Grant anything?
Grant deposed Charles Sumner from bis
chairmanship on foreign relations because
Sumner would not be party to his blind
partizan and unrighteous schemes.
When President Grants pet Secretary
had been indicted by the House ofRepresen-
tatives for misdemeanors and mal-feasance
in office and was compelled to offer his
accepted the resignation with regret," and
this is the President whose memory the
Senate wishes to perpetuate.
Four years ago when General Grant was
hobnobbing with the Southerners for theiI
support in the near-at-hand Chicago Con.
vention he made speech at Atlanta, Ca,
where he used the following language viz
"My friends you fill my heart to overilowina
by the magnitude of your hospitalities, anC
as gaze upon tile ''blue and the gray
cannot tell for the life of me which are the
more earnest and enthusiastic for the sup
port of our common country those "whC
wear the blne," or those "who wear thu
gray" just six weeks after this date il
the State of New York at political gather
ing he used this extraordinary language viz
= "The Southerners are as blatant rebels a
: they were during the war and they houlC
be compelled to wear sack-cloth and ashe
! for the coming quarter of "A century," US
Q Grant unqualfiedly lied either in his Geor
i gia or in his New York speech and in eithe
i case he is not entitled to any annuities from
the American people. .+-..
j, If Ex-President GRAFT is to be pensioned
q why not pension Ex-President Hayes VIII
, was far more conservative than Grant, an
a better President in every respect.
e The people of this country must be SUI
i expected so socn to have forgotten the ''bi
q torical black Friday and the connect'o on {
a Grants administration with that unsavor
"a event, and it is but reasonable to state th;
to those who believe in retrbutve justice
II will appear that Grant has not yet financial
is atoned for the great wrongs which wei
"a done in his name and to which he must ha,
1t been privy.
A few lachrymose newspapers are dray
IN ing upon their tear duets in commiseratir
a Grants misfortunes but said journals ha'
not one word of sympathy for the hundred
as and hundreds who ohave been beggared by Il
MS villainous schemes of the Grant and Wa
IN Combination, and the end is not yet.
m We beg of the House of Representatig,
le to make haste slowly in pensioning the ''he
IS of Black Friday" The House can afford
of wait until scathing official Investigate,
of shall determine what part of the ten millio
er (s10, GOO, 10000 of dollars that the Gra
re Ward Co., have stolen, has found its w
nd into Grants private exohequer.
Visiting Brethren.
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