Issues of the Day (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Conkling, Roscoe) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Issues of the Day They had no polar star, except hatred of Grant and his supporters. These lusty patriots, who modestly assumed the name of "Reformers," would not have an ordinary Presidential canvass for the fair discussion of political questions; such a proceeding would have been too tame and insipid for them. Their stomachs craved stronger, more game-flavored meat; hard names must be called; vengeance must be satisfied; the President must be politically court-martialed or dragged before a national assize to be tried as a malefactor. In the Senate the Democrats proper kept silent or talked about business; I give them credit for wasting but little time; but half the last session, eight months in length, was worn out and wasted by slanderous electioneering harangues aimed at the Administration and its friends by men badly in need of being reformed themselves. These self-righteous and noisy oracles pitched the key in which the anti-Grant chorus was to be sung, and hence comes the absence of political questions and the presence of personal and scandalous issues. The public journals and newspaper correspondence from Washington controlled by these "Liberals" - liberal in nothing so much as in defaming honest men and praising and helping themselves - took hue from the heart-burnings,distempers, and ambitions which set them on. "Anything to beat Giant" was the motto, and it gratified their heat and spite to assail the President personally, and to heap malignant charges upon him; thus his character, his integrity, his standing as a man have been put in issue, and the people are compelled to pass upon his guilt or innocence. The case has been so put that the question is not merely whether Grant shall be President, but whether Grant shall be pronounced by the nation a fool, a knave, an impostor, an enemy of his country. Had issues been taken upon public measures; had public questions been raised, whether new questions or those which have divided parties heretofore, a popular verdict would have been a verdict only between parties and policies and principles. Such a verdict would have rested upon public grounds, personal and disparaging to no one. In that case General Grant could not complain. If the political views he represents are not those of a majority there is no injustice and no reflection upon any one in so saying and so voting. But when the President is arraigned for ignorance, dishonesty, and vice, and for nothing else, the case is different. What is the arraignment? What political position held by the Republican party or its candidates does the "any-thing-to-beat-Grant" coalition deny? Will any one tell me? Read the manifesto put forth at Cincinnati, which Mr. Greeley did over in improved words, as he thought, in his letter of acceptance. Read the address lately published by. Mr. Greeley and his committee, soliciting the votes of the people of this State. These papers, in so far as they refer to the Administration, are a gross personal libel upon the President, and they are nothing more. The Cincinnati Platform Analyzed. The tariff resolution at Cincinnati is a mere juggle - a shallow evasion, by which no one of common intelligence has a tight to be cheated. The resolution about Congress and "centralism," if they mean anything, refer to the exercise of powers by Congress every one of which Mr. Greeley approved and demanded in his usual violent and unmeasured language. The amnesty resolution is spent, because a general amnesty bill was passed weeks ago. Every rebel votes, and every rebel may hold office now, except Jefferson Dayis and less than two hundred others, who still spurn forgiveness. Where, then, is the political issue the people are to pass upon? It cannot be "civil service reform," unless dishone
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