The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-29

ing good" but simply those who
seek personal aggrandisement and !
notoriety rather than the salvation
of souls, etc. But to our theme, beg !
ging pardon for this monetary di-
gression.
The Doctors text on this occasion |
was We'll done thou, COOL and !
faithful servant, entaz thou into the
joy "f thy Lord" This may have
been appropriate enough, still there is
3. sort Of lingering feeling In our
,u,nd that the text was il!-choscn.
According to the parable from whl:h
i. WAS taken, the person to whom the
words were addressed had long been
faithful to the trust imposed upon
him Sy his Lord, not SO with General
Grant, as he had only 4 few days be-
fore been brought into the covenant
with God through baptism, and it
was rather far>fetched to call him q
"wisc and faithful servant" when he
he had just received his talent from
the hands of his Lord, and :here is
no telling what use he would have
put it to, had not death cut short his
christian career.
But. we pass on-Our great eu>
logist is pleased 10 say SO many ex-
ceptionable things that we can spare
but few lines to each. What must
our readers think Of such "stuf" As
the following? "The majesty Of his
civil administration ~ Did any one
ever hear Of anything so revolving to
truth and decencye This is all. to
use q current slang expression, "too
him." especially so, as the whole
world have made up their minds that
Grants greatness was ex clusively
as soldier and that tina least said
about his civil or presidential career.
| the better it Hili be for his fame, or
| in other words that it would have
been far better for his future great
ness, for him to have died before the
ualoly alliances Of his White House
Experience coupled his name with
infamy.
The world knows too we'll how
American citizens were trea ted
abroad during his Mal-admiuistration
OF affairs to swallow such Hstuff'' as
this. We have not time to search
up these cases but we'll we re-
member one or two which may be
found by ex amining the files OF the
New York World and which at
the time Of She occurrence we're de-
aounced by the whole Democratic
Press.
| Again, "Greatest among warriors,
foremost among statesmen, noblest
among patriots! We here make
no comment. Mt. Vernon answers
MI. McGregor in thunder tones ;
likewise, tie last resting places Of
al! our simple and "yreat ones gone,''
and the noble records they left be
! hind them on earth
Again: "Oihers have conquered
by til. superiority Of material force
but lie, by the superiority OF mind
over Mid"
We like original thinkers but the
originality OF the foregoing over>
powers Us vheu we consider that ii
Is the very reverse OF the truth OF
the caae-its very ansipode, and one
10 almost forced to believe that the
reverend gentleman is speaking iron
ically.
! Again: 'To>day you are flle0
With the glory Of hi, military tri
umphs. You are recalling Belmont
aud Henry. and Donelson, and Shi
loh," etc. = We think
the learned Doctor could we'll hav,
have dispensed with Shiloh, as only
an accident or series Of accident.
prevented the aforementioned hattie
field from proving q Waterloo tt
General Grant. notably among then
tho minie-bAll that cut short the liz,
Of his noble opponent Albert Sydne,
Johnston, the ill-heaith Of Genera
Beauregard who ordered a retrea
at the moment OF victory f,r th'
Confedernte.. aud the timely arriva
Of the fresh forces OF General Bue
who had just reached the scene il
time 10 save the day for the Uniol
side.
i Again This holy evangcl to th
Nation was Let US have peace
What an insnlt TO the intelligence O
the American DeOpla Coul1 thi