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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Men who allow prejudice, 4:)assion, resentment, or 
 enthusiasm to lead them from a calm and deliberate 
 consideration of the interests, -welfare, prosperity and 
 independence of the great body of the people, en- 
 gaged in the humble but useful occupations of life, 
 will always be the dupes and slaves of the dema- 
 gogues; who excite their feelings, and make profit 
 for themselves, out of the folly and ignorance of 
 such persons as ma}' be induced to vote against an 
 opposing party, because they hate it. 
 
 If the American people are such children that 
 the}' cannot bear to face disagreeable facts, nor to 
 listen to unpleasant truths ; but prefer to hear the 
 boastful flatteries of cozening knaves, who excite 
 their admiration of military exploits, and the gran- 
 deur of a powerful and magnificent centralized gov 
 ernment, with authorit}^ to crush all who have the 
 courage to expose the crafty villany of the political 
 parasites who enrich themselves, and corrupt their 
 minions at the expense of the public treasury ; what 
 
better will they be than the poor subjects of the 
 grand military monarchies of Europe? 
 
 This little work is designed for men wlio have in- 
 dependence of mind sufficient to resist the wiles and 
 cunningly devised sophistries of the horde of poli- 
 tical hucksters, who have managed our public affairs 
 for some years past. Our appeal is to those who 
 have enough intelligence and mental vigor to do 
 their own thinking; and to form opinions without 
 the aid of mercenary journals ; and the venal ser- 
 vants of party " rings." 
 
 A dispassionate view of the state of affairs in this 
 country at the present time will be instructive. The 
 organic law of our Republic, which was the bond 
 of union between the States, contained provisions 
 which were not acceptable to some of the citizens 
 of the Northern States ; chief among them were 
 those which protected negro slaver}- in the South ; 
 but the value of the Union was considered so great, 
 that the vast mnjority of the people opposed all 
 efforts to weaken it. A few, however, considered 
 slavery so great an evil, that they declared they 
 "wanted no Union, with slaveholders:" and meas- 
 ures were adopted in Northern States in conflict 
 with the " supreme law," the Constitution. South- 
 ern men claimed the right to take their slaves into 
 
the new Territories ; and a fierce hostility arose be- 
 tween the two sections. Political parties were 
 formed on this basis; and at the election of 1800, 
 the more populous free States gained a victory. 
 This triumph of the people of one section over those 
 of the other, intensified the bitter feeling already 
 existing ; and the more nltra men of the South de- 
 clared that, inasmuch as Northern States had already 
 shown disregard of those provisions of the Consti- 
 tution which protected their slave property-, they 
 could have no hope that the " supreme law of the 
 land " would be respected by the party coming into 
 power. Some of the Southern States adopted meas- 
 ures of resistance ; declared themselves out of the 
 Union ; and proceeded to form a new Confederacy. 
 It became apparent to those who then had posses- 
 sion of the Federal Government, that the States of 
 the South could not be subdued, without disregard- 
 ing other and fundamental provisions of the Con- 
 stitution ; and the imminent peril of the Govern- 
 ment was given as a reason for laying aside the 
 " supreme law " during the conflict. We need not 
 detail the events of the fearful war which followed ; 
 and during which a ver}^ large part of the Southern 
 people, who desired to preserve the Union, found 
 
 themselves so situated that they must be enemies 
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 of the Federal Government, or of the States of 
 which they were citizens. Being compelled to 
 choose between the two, most of them acknowledged 
 their first allegiance to be to their States, which 
 were the creators of the Union. 
 
 The people of the Northern States triumphed. 
 The defeated armies of the Confederacy submitted 
 to terms of surrender, offered by General Grant. 
 These terms were adhered to b}' the Southern peo- 
 ple, but were subsequently repudiated b}' the party 
 in power, with the sanction of General Grant ; and 
 a harassing and insulting military tj-ranny has 
 since that time been excercised over the Southern 
 States. The slaves were emancipated as an act of 
 war ; subsequently the}' were enfranchised ; while 
 their former masters were degraded and deprived 
 of citizenship. Even now, man}^ of the most intel- 
 ligent men of the South remain disfranchised, and 
 the emancipated negroes vote under the tutelage 
 of the parasites of the Federal administration. 
 
 The people of the South, in endeavoring to esta- 
 blish a confederacy, adopted a constitution contain- 
 ing the essential features of our own ; and by doing 
 so showed a regard for its principles. Our Consti- 
 tution has been changed to suit the views of North- 
 ern men, and to secure the franchises of the negroes. 
 
The people of the South evince a willingness to 
 accept that Constitution, and to aid in the election 
 of a life-long opponent of slavery. The}' desire the 
 establishment of a government of law ; and to be 
 freed from the rule of the bayonet. 
 
 The venal journals and orators of the adminis- 
 tration tell the people that the men of the South are 
 not sincere, and cannot be trusted ; and that they 
 may again get into power and rule the whole country. 
 
 Whj' do they fear this ? 
 
 The wliite people of the States engaged in the • 
 Rebellion, are not a fourth part of the whole white 
 population. How can they control the government ? 
 It is the people of the Northern States that General 
 Grant's minions fear. The plain issue presented to 
 the American people now, is this. Shall we return 
 to a government of law ; or shall we continue to 
 submit to the rule of the oligarchy of military poli- 
 ticians, brought into existence by the events of civil 
 war ? 
 
 The ablest and most respected men of the party 
 which elected General Grant four years ago, now 
 tell the people that genuine freedom and prosperity 
 can only be attained by displacing a most unworthy 
 administration, and driving from office the unscru- 
 pulous cormorants who feed at the national treasury. 
 
ONE HUNDRED REASONS 
 
 WHY 
 
 GENERAL GRANT 
 
 SHOULD NOT BE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. 
 
 1. — In a country where men are at liberty to ex- 
 press their opinions, it is natural for those who 
 have opposed a dominant partj^ to declare their dis- 
 satisfaction with its measures, and the conduct of 
 its men ; but when those who have been most promi- 
 nent in electing a leader, whom they have chosen, 
 become disgusted with his tj-rann}^, and the corrup- 
 tion and arrogance of his minions, publicly de- 
 clare that he is trampling the laws under his feet, 
 and encouraging the most shameless disregard of 
 decency and propriety, men of common sense will 
 not fail to see that there must be strong reasons for 
 their severing the bonds which have united them 
 with party associates. 
 
 The men who did most to make General Grant 
 President, now most earnestly call upon the people 
 to aid them in resisting an unscrupulous tj^ranny, 
 and in re-establishing a government of laws. 
 
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 It is not those who voted against General Grant 
 four years ago, who now denounce him ; but those 
 who then told us that he was a most proper man to 
 fill the Presidential office. His accusers are the 
 men who made the Republican Part}'', and in whom 
 the men of that party have most confidence. 
 
 2. — It is wrong in principle to reward men for mili- 
 tary services, b}' placing tliem in civil offices, where 
 the}' may exercise great power and authority. It 
 would have been better to have given General 
 Grant many millions of the public money, than to 
 have permitted him to prostitute the higliest office 
 of the Republic, to enrich himself and his friends 
 and followers. 
 
 It is not fair to say that the election of Washing- 
 ton and Jackson are precedents for honoring Gene- 
 ral Grant, who had nothing but military services to 
 recommend him in the same way. 
 
 Wa&hington and Jackson were soldiers only when 
 foreign foes invaded our country ; and they returned 
 to the peaceful work of agriculture, as soon as their 
 military services could be dispensed with. 
 
 3. — Xo country in the world possesses sucli 
 ample and varied resources as ours ; and yet the 
 credit of the nation is so low that our .v/.r per cent, 
 bonds in Europe are wortli no more than English 
 three per cents. The English people do not expect 
 that their public debt will be paid off; but they have 
 
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 confidence in the integrity of those who manage 
 public affairs; and the}^ invest their mone}^ in the 
 " consols" at a low rate of interest. The capitalists 
 of the world have not the same confidence in the 
 good faith of those who administer our government, 
 and they will only lend their money to us when a 
 high rate of interest tempts them. 
 
 The interest on our national debt is over 
 $103,000,000 a year; one half of which would be 
 saved if the credit of our government were as good 
 as that of Great Britain. 
 
 In the one item of interest on the public debt, 
 tlie American people pay over $50,000,000 in gold 
 every j-ear for political profligacy ; and endure 
 the mortification of appearing before the world as 
 citizens of an indebted and discredited nation. 
 
 4. — General Grant's renomination was an insult 
 to the American people. A Convention prepared 
 by his parasites and hirelings, assembled in Phila- 
 delphia, and declared that they represented the 
 people of the whole country ; and without a dis- 
 senting voice they proclaimed that he was the 
 choice of the people for the oflfice, which he has 
 brought into utter contempt. 
 
 Xo Imperial C{3esar ever committed a more arro- 
 gant act ; nor one which showed less respect for 
 the intelligence of the people. 
 
 If a President may send his servants to speak in 
 the name of the people, and re-nominate him ; and 
 
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 then use the patronage of the government, and the 
 influence of more than a thousand subsidized news- 
 papers to secure his re-election, it will not be long 
 until our elections will be as great a burlesque as 
 the plebiscites of Louis Napoleon's empire. 
 
 5. —Our country is practically placed in the posi- 
 tion of a province of England. The debts of the 
 Government, States, municipalities, corporations, 
 and individuals to foreign capitalists, is enormous. 
 It has been stated in Congress by a prominent sup- 
 porter of General Grant, that these debts amount 
 to $4,000,000,000, and they are increasing at the 
 rate of not less than $400,000,000 a year. If this 
 shall be continued, in a few years all the most pro- 
 ductive property of this country will be owned* in 
 Europe, and the American people will be. working 
 as servants of the aristocracy of the old world. 
 
 6. — The mismanagement of the "Alabama claims" 
 treaty has made our government ridiculous in the 
 eyes of the civilized world ; and the friends of 
 General Grant can find no excuse for his discredit- 
 able withdrawal of the claim for indirect damages. 
 If the claim for a vast sum of money as a compensa- 
 tion for" consequential " losses were just and proper, 
 it was a gross act of cowardice to abandon it, at tlie 
 threat of England to throw up the treaty. If it 
 were not right and judicious, it was a very silly 
 thing to present it. To declare that it was just, 
 and then to abandon it, was unmanl}'. 
 
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 7. — The onl}^ securit}- for the rights and liberties 
 of the people, is in obedience on the part of those 
 who hold important offices, to the "supreme law of 
 the Republic" — the Constitution — which General 
 Grant and his subordinates habitually and persist- 
 ently violate. Nearly all the chief acts of this ad- 
 ministration are in disregard of the Constitution, 
 which was intended to define and circumscribe the 
 powers and authority of all oflScials and political 
 bodies. The founders of our Republic intended 
 that those who filled the highest positions should be 
 the servants of the people, and should have no more 
 authority to violate the laws than the humblest 
 citizen. If we acknowledge the right of a Presi- 
 dent to trample upon the laws, no matter what the 
 pretence may be, free government is at an end, and 
 imperialism is established. 
 
 8. — A FRAUD is imposed upon the community by 
 the mercenar}^ journals in the service of the admin- 
 istration, in calling the faction which sustains Gene- 
 ral Grant, the Republican Party. General Grant, 
 and the chief of the men who have re-nominated, 
 and desire to re-elect him, were not recognized as 
 leaders, nor as prominent supporters of that party, 
 before the war furnished offices and plunder ; and 
 no considerable part of the rank and file of the 
 Republican Party would support General Grant, if 
 they were not deceived by the newspapers which 
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 depend for subsistence upon the patronage of the 
 administration. 
 
 The Grant faction is composed of ofliceholders, 
 ring managers, and the parasites who are supported 
 b}' them ; but no old Republican, who has sustained 
 that party for the purpose of establishing princi- 
 ples, can consistently^ support General Grant in 
 opposition to Horace Greely. 
 
 9. — General Grant's services have been abun- 
 dantly recompensed. No matter how extravagant 
 ma}' be our ideas of the value of his management 
 of military affairs, it is certain that his work, his 
 deprivations, and the dangers which he encoun- 
 tered have been recompensed with an unsparing- 
 liberality. A military title higher than any con- 
 ferred upon Washington, Jackson, or Scott, was 
 created by Congress to honor him ; he has been 
 elected to the highest civil office of the Republic, 
 for which he has shown no fitness ; and he has 
 been permitted to use the power and influence of 
 his great office to accumulate a large fortune. 
 
 Hundreds of thousands of the American people 
 gave their lives in the same war, and many of them 
 left families in destitute circumstances. A small pen- 
 sion has been deemed sufficient to reward their sacri- 
 fices, although man}' of them were quite the equals of 
 General Grant in intelliirence and moral worth. 
 
 10. — General Grant has not shown the wisdom 
 needed to enable a President to select proper per- 
 
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 sons to fill cabinet offices. The Navy is presided 
 over by a third-rate lawyer from New Jersey ; the 
 War Department is under the control of a military 
 coxcomb ; our foreign affairs are managed b}^ a 
 gentleman of refined manners, but not smart enough 
 to cope with the statesmen of England ; the Treasury 
 is in the hands of a man of two ideas : 1, to pay off 
 the public debt and, 2, to restore a specie currency ; 
 to accomplish which, he is willing to grind the people 
 to powder ; and there is at the head of none of the 
 departments a man who has shown unusual ability. 
 The weakest of former Presidents chose eminent 
 statesmen to fill cabinet offices ; but the great 
 minds of our countr^^ at the present time, are 
 forced into obscurity, and compelled to acknow- 
 ledge that 
 
 " The post of honor is a private station." 
 
 11. — It is not possible for the people of the North- 
 ern States to enjoy the rights of free citizens, while 
 despotic rule is enforced in another part of the 
 Union. If those who have the powers of a cen- 
 tralized government in their hands, be allowed to 
 exercise authority not granted by the " supreme 
 law," over States and individuals in one section, 
 their absolute rule will be directed against all who 
 resist their encroachments, whenever their posses- 
 sion of power may appear to be endangered. 
 
 In the better days of the Republic, no President 
 ventured to imnish States for opposition to the ad- 
 
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 ministration at Washington. When individuals 
 commit any wrong act, the}' may be punished le- 
 galh^ ; but the notion of condemning communities, 
 where no one is convicted of any offence, is utterly 
 subversive of the great principles upon which our 
 civil S3^stem has been founded ; and if it be not 
 promptly rebuked by the people, there will no lon- 
 ger be any safety for any one whose rights or free- 
 dom may be assailed by men in power. 
 
 Revenge is not warranted by our institutions ; 
 and all disabilities and oppressions, imposed with- 
 out warrant of the Constitution, are acts of unmi- 
 tigated tyranny. 
 
 1 2. — The American Republic as founded by our re- 
 volutionary ancestors, whose supreme law was, and 
 is, the Constitution of the United States, was in- 
 tended, and was well calculated, to secure to the 
 people a greater amount of freedom, happiness and 
 prosperity, than had been enjo^'ed by the people 
 of any other country. It is undoubtedly, when 
 honestl}" administered, the best government for the 
 people that the world has ever seen. Its chief pe- 
 culiarity was tliat it made those who held the 
 highest positions, as much subject to the law as 
 the humblest citizen ; and it carefully guarded the 
 rights of all. 
 
 This government has l->een practically subverted 
 by General Grant, and the faction which supports 
 him ; who have assumed unwarranted power. It is 
 
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 desirable that this government of law shall be re- 
 stored ; and it can onl}' be done by displacing the 
 horde of nnscrupnlous parasites who now have the 
 government in their hands, and use it as a means 
 by which they may plunder the public treasury. 
 
 13. — He has sent his son in a government vessel, 
 under the care of a General of the Arm}^ to Europe, 
 to visit the courts of the despots of the old world; 
 thus imitating the customs of the great monarchies, 
 and placing his son on a footing with the heirs to 
 imperial dignities. 
 
 This proceeding is a gross insult to the American 
 people, inasmuch as it shows how contemptuous an 
 opinion the President has of their intelligence. 
 
 14. — Seven years have passed since the Con- 
 federate army laid down its arms, accepting the 
 terms of surrender otfered by the Federal authori- 
 ties ; and yet the Southern States have not been 
 restored to the Union. It is not pretended that 
 the Southern people failed to observe the terms of 
 that surrender ; and no legal prosecutions have been 
 instituted against them, to show that they have 
 committed offences against the laws ; but a military 
 tyraiiu}' has been exercised over them, well calcu- 
 lated to keep alive feelings of resentment, and to 
 prevent a cordial union of States, on the basis of 
 the Constitution ; and in accoi-dahce with that great 
 principle of the Declaration of Independence, that 
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 the members of our Federal Union " are, and of 
 right ought to be free and independent states.^'' 
 
 An exhibition of wise statesmanship, and a de- 
 sire to deal justly with the people of all sections, 
 would long since have restored harmony and 
 friendly intercourse; for the irritating questions 
 which provoked civil war, no longer enter into our 
 political contests ; and only mercenary demagogues 
 endeavor to keep alive feelings of sectional ani- 
 mosity. 
 
 15. — General Grant is the first President who 
 has enriched himself by holding that office. The 
 early Presidents were satisfied with the honor gained 
 by a wise and just administration of the aft'airs of 
 our great Republic ; and some of them were im- 
 poverished by occupying the great ofliice. 
 
 16. — He has brought discredit upon the govern- 
 ment by permitting the national treasury to be used 
 to accomplish the nefarious schemes of gold specu- 
 lators and stock gamblers. 
 
 17. — He has shamefully abused the patronage of 
 the Presidential otfice, making use of it to enrich 
 his relatives. No other President has shown so 
 gross a disregard of the moral sense of the commu- 
 nit}^ ; but those most honored by the American 
 people, have evinced their appreciation of the de- 
 moralizing eff*ects of nepotism, in a manner which 
 cannot be mistaken. 
 
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 18. — The industry of the people is discouraged; 
 and the cost of subsistence and home comforts 
 enormously increased by the continuation of inter- 
 nal taxation, and the monopolies in various depart- 
 ments of business established by the "rings " in 
 the Grant faction. If the revenue from duties on 
 imports were honestly collected there would l)e no 
 excuse for internal taxes. It is known to every in- 
 telligent man that in the New York Custom House, 
 duties to an immense amount are evaded by impor- 
 ters, acting in collusion with the government offi- 
 cials. 
 
 It is estimated that the national treasury is rob- 
 bed by those, whose duty it is to guard it, of at 
 least one third of the whole amount of duties. 
 This at the present time is not less than one hun- 
 dred million dollars a year. This the country loses 
 because of the unfaithfulness of the servants of 
 the administration. It may be that General Grant 
 cannot find among his supporters honest men enough 
 to collect the revenue, but such an excuse for plun- 
 dering the public treasury will not induce honest 
 men to vote for him. 
 
 19. — Had our country never been engaged in 
 civil war, no one would have thought that Gene- 
 ral Grant was fit to be President of the United 
 States. 
 
 Although educated at the expense of the govern- 
 ment, in the best school of the country, he did not 
 
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 show unusual intelligence ; and his habits were not 
 commendable. " 
 
 Our sanguinary strife, which destroyed the lives 
 of hundreds of thousands of the American people, 
 made fame and fortune for him. 
 
 20. — While we were engaged in civil war. the 
 danger to the countr}^ was made an excuse for dis- 
 regard of the laws by men in power ; but now there 
 is no armed resistance to the government ; and no 
 proper excuse can be made for treating the laws 
 with contempt. It is necessary to defeat the im- 
 perial aspirations of General Grant, in order to 
 re-establish a government of law. 
 
 21. — General Grant has nothing to recommend 
 him to the favor of the people of this country, but 
 his militar}' achievements ; and these are excessively 
 over-rated. The great events of the war which 
 tended to crush the Southern Confederacy, were 
 the battle of Gettysburg, the destruction of Hood's 
 army at Nashville, the taking of New Orleans, and 
 Sherman's march through the Southern States. In 
 the expedition to Richmond, General Grant had a 
 ver}' large and well-supplied army, and reinforce- 
 ments in large numbers were sent to him as he 
 "swung round the circle," and through incompe- 
 tenc}^ lost many thousands of the troops under his 
 command ; and Richmond was not taken until 
 Lee's comparatively small army was exhausted, 
 and his supplies cut off. 
 
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 The sacrifice of troops in this expedition is one 
 of the most fearful on record. The details of the 
 slaughter at " Cold Harbor " are sickening to read. 
 
 22. — The prosperity of the country cannot be re- 
 stored 'until free and friendly intercourse shall be 
 established between all sections ; and the harassing 
 interference of the officials and emissaries of the 
 administration, in the business and political affairs 
 of the Southern people, has been, and yet is, a great 
 detriment to our internal commerce, in which the 
 interests of a large part of the people are involved. 
 
 23. — He has received valuable presents, and be- 
 stowed important offices upon those who have given 
 them, although they have proved incompetent to 
 perform the duties required. 
 
 Thus he has incurred the reproach of making 
 merchandize of the most honorable and influential 
 positions in his patronage, and brought discredit 
 upon the government. 
 
 When the President of the Republic sets the ex- 
 ample of corruption, the demoralizing influence is 
 too readily felt by those in humbler conditions 
 of life. 
 
 24. — The aim of General Grant and his followers 
 is to keep alive the sectional animosity which 
 caused our civil war, and destroyed a million of 
 ine American people. A restoration of peace and 
 
friendly intercourse would enable the people to set 
 a correct value upon military heroism ; would bring 
 statesmen again into the councils of the nation, and 
 would consign those who have abused the power 
 entrusted to them, to merited obscurity. 
 
 25. — The insolent abuse of all who rebuke the arro- 
 gant assumptions, and illegal and unscrupulous acts 
 of General Grant, by his parasites and hireling news- 
 papers, is insufferable ; and deserves the severest 
 censure of every independent-minded citizen. 
 
 Under despotic governments the hardest thing to 
 bear is the insulting conduct of underlings and pam- 
 pered menials. If the American people are content 
 to endure more of it, it must be because 
 
 " Thoy are pigeon-livered, 
 And lack gall, to make oppression bitter." 
 
 26. — A DEEP feeling of dissatisfaction exists in the 
 minds of that large class of men who depend upon 
 wages for subsistence. The expense of ordinary 
 living is so great, that those who support families 
 cannot improve their condition, although their 
 labor produces immense wealth. 
 
 The administration has controlled the majorities 
 in Congress ; and the latter have been mainly occu- 
 pied with schemes to perpetuate General Grant's 
 power and their own plunder. Measures to secure 
 the prosperity and independence of those engaged 
 in productive work, form no part of the programme. 
 
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 of this administration. There is no hope of a 
 better condition of things for workingraen, unless 
 we can have statesmen at the head of the govern- 
 ment. 
 
 27. — General Grant's administration has sus- 
 tained a horde of predatory knaves in the Southern 
 States, who feed and fatten upon the plunder of 
 States, municipalities and individuals. The scan- 
 dalous and enormous increase of State debts mani- 
 pulated by them, and of oppressive taxes imposed 
 by them, are a disgrace to the countr3^ and should 
 be resented by all who have any regard for the 
 reputation of the government. 
 
 28. — The libert}^ of the press is virtually destroyed 
 when the money of the government is used to sub- 
 sidize newspapers, which deceive the people who 
 read them, and denounce all who oppose the party 
 in power. The prostitution of the public press is 
 one of the most fearful evidences of the debasement 
 and profligacy of the times. 
 
 Large capital is needed to establish and sustain 
 popular newspapers ; and a party which has not 
 laj-ge sums of money to expend for political pur- 
 poses, cannot support such a means of advocating 
 principles, and is in a measure without organs. 
 
 The supporters of General Grant have boasted of 
 the large number of newspapers which defend him. 
 
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 29. — It is right and proper for every citizen to 
 criticise the conduct of those who hold important 
 offices ; and it is a duty to censure the unlawful and 
 nnworthy acts of a President, and to hold him re- 
 sponsible for the conduct of his subordinates. If 
 we admit that the dignity of a high office should 
 shield the incumbent of it from rebuke, when he has 
 violated the laws, or demeaned himself in a manner 
 " unbecoming an officer and a gentleman," we adopt 
 the notion inculcated in monarchical governments, 
 that " the king can do no wrong ; " which is abhor- 
 rent to our ideas of civil rights. In our Republic, 
 the more important the position held by an individ- 
 ual, the more stern should be the reproof, when he 
 disregards the " supreme law," and the responsibili- 
 ties of his office. 
 
 30. — If peace and good order were restored in the 
 South, the occupation of the harpies, who for seven 
 years have preyed upon the people of that section, 
 would be gone, and their plunder taken from them. 
 
 No man of common sense can believe that the 
 corrupt and unscrupulous men, who sustain Gene- 
 lal Grant, desire a restoration of harmony and 
 friendly intercourse, which would compel them to 
 earn their subsistence by honest labor. 
 
 Ku-Kluxisra in the South is their harvest. 
 
 31. — The leading supporters of General Grant in 
 Pennsylvania are denounced by journals prominent 
 
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 in the Republican partj^ as composing a " ring " of 
 plunderers ; who have for a number of years depre- 
 dated upon the State treasury ; and one of them — the 
 Governor of that State — has recently pardoned two 
 men convicted of an attempt to assassinate a gov- 
 ernment official ; the facts of the case making it 
 evident that they were hired to undertake this work. 
 When the journals of their own party proclaim the 
 infamous character of their prominent men ; and 
 their acts show that they desire to conciliate hired 
 assassins, it is time for honest men to repudiate the 
 whole concern ; and make an effort to purify the 
 political atmosphere. 
 
 32. — The opponents of General Grant in this con- 
 test are not a political party ; but the intelligent peo- 
 ple of the country', holding different opinions with 
 regard to measures of policy, but united in their de- 
 sire to resist personal government, and to re-esta- 
 blish the Republic. The struggle is between the 
 American people on one side, and General Grant 
 and his hirelinos on the other. 
 
 33. — The more candid journals in the service of 
 General Grant admit that his opponent is an honest 
 man; and the success of the latter in conducting a 
 leading journal for man}' years makes it evident 
 that he is intelligent. 
 
 Capability and honesty are the most important 
 qualifications for any office. 
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34. — General Grant has appointed to some of the 
 most important offices, men wlio liad nothing to re- 
 commend them, but servility and unscrupulous wil- 
 lingness to advance his schemes. This elevation 
 of unworthy persons to high and honorable posi- 
 tions, is most discouraging to honest and useful men ; 
 who perceive that knavish sycophancy and super- 
 serviceable prostitution more readily secure fortune 
 and influence, than moral worth and genuine merit 
 can do. Conspicuous rewards for baseness are most 
 injurious to society, and should meet the stern re- 
 proof of all honest men. 
 
 35. — Whatever may be our views with regard to 
 the conduct of the Southern people engaged in tlie re- 
 cent war, we should rememl»er that we cannot exer- 
 cise t3'ranny over them, and preserve the rights of 
 citizens in our own section. If we disregard the 
 supreme law, in order to inflict vindictive injur}* and 
 disabilities upon persons we dislike, we shall destroy 
 the power of the law to protect us when our rights 
 are assailed. The Constitution is the people's friend, 
 and if we are wise, we will rather preserve it, than 
 seek revenge upon those with whom we have been 
 at war. 
 
 36. — It has been uniforml}' found that when one 
 part\' has long had control of public affairs, its offi- 
 cials become corrupt, profligate and arrogant. A 
 change of administration at short intervals, is neces* 
 
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 sary to secure an honest and prudent management 
 of the business of ofovernment. 
 
 3Y. — Our Federal government was instituted for 
 the accomplishment of certain objects, which the 
 individual States could not conveniently effect ; but 
 it was not intended that it should be used to reward 
 military exploits. 
 
 The people may find means to express their ad- 
 miration of brilliant feats of arms, without yielding 
 up their legal rights, and the prosperity of the 
 country. 
 
 38. — The personal habits of General Grant are 
 such as to disqualify him for the performance of the 
 duties of an office of such vast importance to the 
 people, as that of President of the United States. 
 
 A person of unpolished tastes and manners might 
 be tolerated in such a position, if he should possess 
 judgment and prudence ; but none of the qualities 
 needed to make a worthy Chief Magistrate can be 
 found in General Grant ; and when we remember the 
 dignified and honorable demeanor of the early Presi- 
 dents, we cannot avoid a feeling of indignation, in 
 consequence of the degradation of the great office. 
 
 39. — The pretended dismissal of General Grant's 
 relative, the collector of the port of New Orleans, 
 when it became known that he had made use of a 
 United States vessel to accomplish an illegal move- 
 
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 ment of a faction in the Louisiana Legislature, al- 
 lowing him to retain his position, \Yas a gross out- 
 rage upon propriety, and a significant commentary 
 upon the professed desire of the President to intro- 
 duce reform in the civil service. 
 
 40. — General Grant's usurpation of the war- 
 making power, conferred by the Constitution upon 
 Congress, is one of the most audacious acts of his 
 administration. Senator Sumner, in a recent letter, 
 speaking of his movement to capture the Island of 
 Hayti, says: 
 
 " Here is a most instructive ' antecedent,' reveal- 
 ing beyond question his true nature, and the whole is 
 attested by documentary evidence concerning the 
 idea of annexing Dominica, which is the Spanish 
 part of the island ; and, shrinking at nothing, he 
 began by seizing the w^ar powers of the government, 
 in flagrant violation of the Constitution, and then, 
 at great expenditure of mone}', sent several armed 
 ships of the navy, including monitors, to maintain 
 the usurper Baez in power, that through him he 
 might obtain the coveted prize. 
 
 "Not content with this audacious dictatorship, 
 he proceeded to strike at the independence of the 
 black Republic by open menace of war, and all 
 without tlie sanction of Congress, to which is com- 
 mitted the war-making power. Sailing into the 
 liarbor of Port-au-Prince with our most powerful 
 monitor, the Dictator, properly named for this ser- 
 vice ; also, the frigate Severn as consort, and other 
 monitors in their train, the admiral, acting under 
 instructions from Washington, proceeded to the 
 
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 executive mansion, accompanied by officers of his 
 squadron, and then pointing to the great war ships 
 in sight from the windows, dealt his menace of war, 
 threatening to sink or capture Haj'tien ships." 
 
 Facts like these should convince every citizen of 
 the United States, that it is not safe to allow 
 General Grant to fill the office of President for 
 another term 
 
 41. — Slavery to party is one of the great evils 
 of a Republic. Few men, even when they find that 
 the}^ have been led astray by crafty demagogues, 
 have the courage to change their course, and incur 
 tlie sneers and denunciations of their former asso- 
 ciates. 
 
 The menial press, in the service of General 
 Grant's party, is vituperative and malignant toward 
 all who have the manliness to resist their tyranny. 
 
 42. — The prevalent idea that it is bad policy to 
 speak the truth with regard to the merits of a con 
 spicuous military man, deserves rebuke. 
 
 Men of eminent military merit have been most 
 dangerous enemies to the American Republic. Few 
 meu in this country have b}^ brilliant military ser 
 vices gained the admiration of the people in a 
 greater degree than did Benedict Arnold. 
 
 43. — The inhumanity of creating enmity between 
 the negroes of the South and their former masters, 
 ^3* 
 
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 upon whom they depend for employment. Daring 
 the war the slaves were faithful to their masters, 
 and worked on the plantations in the absence of 
 the latter, producing the supplies needed by the 
 Confederate armies ; and there was no cause of hos- 
 tility between the two races ; but to secure negro 
 votes, swarms of unprincipled men have been sent 
 into the South to delude them, and place them in 
 political hostility to the white people. 
 
 44. — He has kept hordes of parasites in the 
 South, who have plundered the States they pre- 
 tend to govern, and devoured the substance of 
 the people. Since these knaves have had control 
 of political affairs in that section, they have in- 
 creased the debts of the States be3^ond what they 
 formerly owed, to the extent of over two hundred 
 million dollars; for which the peoi)le have no 
 equivalent. 
 
 45. — The despotic measures of the administra- 
 tion in the South have no longer an excuse. The 
 willingness of the Southern people to accept as 
 President one of the founders of the Republican 
 party, who has been all his life an advocate of the 
 equal rights of men of all races, shows plainly that 
 no lurking desire to renew the sectional conHict 
 exists. 
 
 The election of a President on the basis of the 
 Constitution, will restore peace and harmony in all 
 sections of the Union. 
 
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 46. — The effort to establish parties on tlie basis 
 of distinctions of race, if successful, will inevitably 
 result in the oppression of the negroes, who are but 
 a tenth part of the people, and have not intelli- 
 oence sufficient to enable them to contend with 
 white men. There is no hope of improvement and 
 elevation for them, if the^- be placed in an attitude 
 of hostility to the men of the Caucasian race. 
 
 47. — Wfien General Grant was inaugurated Pre- 
 sident of the United States, he took a solemn oath 
 to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," 
 which is "the supreme law of the land." The whole 
 course of his administration has been in violation 
 of this oath. No candid man, who knows what the 
 fundamental law of the government requires of the 
 President, will pretend that he has respected this 
 oath; and the journals and parasites supporting 
 him, insolently assail all those who remonstrate 
 against his notoriously unconstitutional acts. 
 
 The man who will not keep his oath is unfit to be 
 President of the United States. 
 
 48. — The habeas corpus is essential to the protec- 
 tion of the rights of ever}' citizen ; and General 
 Grant's persistent disregard of it shows that he 
 is ignorant of the fundamental principles of our 
 government. 
 
49. — The pretence that General Grant and hi? 
 faction are the Kepiiblican party is a fraud upon 
 the people. 
 
 The men who were most prominent in organ- 
 izins: that party now oppose the re-election of Gene- 
 lal Grant, because they perceive that he is striving 
 to retain power by subverting even Republican 
 principles. 
 
 50. — One of the first acts of General Grant's ad- 
 ministration was the appointment to a cabinet office 
 of a person of great wealth, from whom he had 
 leceived a pecuniar^' favor; this person was not 
 legally elegible to the office for which he was 
 chosen. 
 
 It is a maxim of law that the most uninformed 
 person is not excused from censure for an improper 
 act, on account of ignorance of the law ; and yet it 
 Avas found that one deemed fit to fill the position of 
 Cliief Magistrate of the American Republic, through 
 hick of knowledge, disregarded a law designed to 
 protect the national treasury; and when informed 
 that his act was unlawful, he arrogantly asked Con- 
 gress to abolish the law which was an impediment 
 to his desire. 
 
 Such a request shows in a strong light the little 
 regard which General Grant has for the institutions 
 of our country. Like an absolute autocrat, he 
 would have laAvs made and unmade to suit his 
 ])leasure, without regard to the interests and rights 
 of the people. 
 
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 51. — General Grant has very few active suppor- 
 ters who have not a pecuniar}^ interest in keeping 
 him in power. But for the use of the public money, 
 his friends woukl have no hope of re-electing him. 
 Vast sums will be expended to prevent a free choice 
 by the people. 
 
 52. — There is an imperative demand from all in- 
 telligent and true men throughout the country, for 
 a reform in politics. The notorious and unblushing 
 corruption w^hich pervades the General Government, 
 as well as those of States and municipalities ; and 
 which is increasing with the growth of wealth and 
 population, makes it evident that the very founda- 
 tions of our civil institutions are undermined, and 
 will soon be destroyed, if we do not introduce a rcr 
 form which will restore something like honest}^ in 
 the management of public affairs. 
 
 Tins reform should begin at the chief seat of 
 venal debasement, which is the capital of the nation. 
 
 53. — The people of the Southern States choose 
 an old abolitionist — one who has been all his life, 
 earnestly opposed to negro slavery — as a candidate 
 for the Presidency ; in the hope of being relieved 
 from the despotic rule of the present administration. 
 This makes it evident that there exists no desire to 
 make an effort in the future to re-establish the in- 
 stitution which caused so much bitter animosity ; 
 and that no obstacle to a cordial reunion of the 
 
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 States remains, but the effort of General Grant's 
 minions to keep parties divitlecl on a sectional basis. 
 
 54. — While the war fever prevailed, muDV things 
 were tolerated, which, if acknowledged to be correct, 
 would tend to the subversion of justice and good 
 morals. General Grant's treachery to President 
 Johnson, and disobedience to his commands — the 
 President being commander-in-chief 'jf the army — 
 would under different circumstances have subjected 
 him to severe punishment. If a soldier in the ranks 
 had thus betrayed and defied his superior, he would 
 most probably liave been court-martialed and shot. 
 
 55. — The honor of the national government has 
 been tarnished by the refusal of General Grant to 
 keep faith with the men of the Southern Confede- 
 racy. He proposed terms of surrender to Lee, the 
 chief of which were, that the Confederates should 
 la}^ down their arms, and return to their homes ; 
 and that they should not be molested ivhile they did 
 not violate the lav)s. He subsequently repudiated 
 these terms, and aided in the infliction of the most 
 irritating, oppressive, and humiliating conditions 
 upon them. They were deprived of citizenship, and 
 the elective franchise was given to the recentl}- lib- 
 erated slaves. No country pretending to civiliza- 
 tion, has ever inflicted so barbarous a penalty upon 
 a conquered people, as that of degi-ading them below 
 their former slaves ; and elevating the latter to the 
 
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 condition of citizens. No one was prosecuted for 
 bearing arms against the Federal government ; but 
 the indignitie-s imposed upon the Southern people 
 were gratuitous and illegal. 
 
 There can never be an enduring peace and union 
 of the States, if they be not based upon justice and 
 respect for " the supreme law of the Republic." 
 
 56. — The attempt to whitewash the conduct of 
 those Engaged in the sale of arms to the agents of 
 the French government, is one of the most discredit- 
 able acts of General Grant's administration. At the 
 time when a claim upon the English government for 
 indirect damages to a vast amount was made, based 
 upon the neglect of the authorities of that country 
 to prevent a breach of the neutralit}^ laws, it was 
 discovered that our government officials had sold 
 arms and munitions to emissaries of the French 
 government, during their war with Prussia. 
 
 The wretched effort to cover up this violation of 
 neutralit}^ showed the weakness, as well as the un- 
 scrupulousness of the men who misgovern our great 
 Kepublic. 
 
 57. — The nav}' of the United States is in a wretch- 
 edly inefficient condition. A very large amount of 
 mone}^ has been expended upon it ; but very few of 
 the vessels in it are in condition to do effective ser- 
 vice, if they should be needed. 
 
 Should a collision with any foreign power require 
 
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 the use of a naval force, our condition would be 
 mortifying. 
 
 In former times no nav}' in the world gained a 
 higher reputation than ours, but times have changed. 
 
 • 58. — The grandest republics of the world have 
 been changed into despotisms by military leaders ; 
 and they have mostl}^ gained power through the 
 dissensions of the people, and civil wars fomented 
 by mercenar}^ demagogues. 
 
 The great enemy of free government has ever 
 been military ambition. 
 
 59. — The immense patronage of the administra- 
 tion, and the money plundered ))y corrupt officials, 
 are freely used in this contest, to secure the election 
 of General Grant ; and if he be allowed to hold on 
 to power in opposition to the remonstrances of those 
 to whom he owed his election in 18G8 ; the same 
 means, augmented in amount, will in future be used 
 to perpetuate his power ; and elections will be a 
 wretched mocker3\ 
 
 60. — Introducing the toadyism of the court jour- 
 nals of the monarchies of Europe, should not escape 
 rebuke from the American people. We frequently 
 find among the items of important news telegraphed 
 from Europe, notices of the movements of General 
 Grant's children, designed to magnif}' the import- 
 ance of the family of the President. The anti-re- 
 
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 publican tendency of such a fashion cannot be mis* 
 taken by any thinking man. It shows a lack of 
 good sense in those who countenance it, and it is in 
 very bad taste. 
 
 61. — The attempt to unite the soldiers of the 
 Federal ann}^ recently engaged in our great civil 
 war, in a political organization, should be discoun- 
 tenanced. The aim of all truly patriotic men is to 
 re-establish the rule of law, and not to introduce 
 a government of bayonets. This movement is a 
 part of the programme for perpetuating the impe- 
 rialism which has been already begun, and which 
 will utterly destroy our free institutions if it be 
 not rebuked. 
 
 '* Let us htive peace." 
 
 62. — It is time that men who appreciate and de^ 
 sire to enjoy the rights and franchises of free citi- 
 zens, should understand that they must do their 
 own thinking, and refuse to be led by the nose b}: 
 venal newspapers and political demagogues. The 
 man who takes his opinions from others is always 
 in danger of being declined, for the most mercenary 
 knaves are usuall}^ the most active in party contests. 
 
 " He only is a freeman whom the truth makes free, 
 And all are slaves beside." 
 
 63. — It is not merely a right, it is the duty of 
 intelligent citizens to censure those who fill public 
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positions unworthily. History presents many cases 
 in which men who have fought great battles, and 
 been placed in high offices, through the injudicious 
 gratitude of the people, have betrayed the trust re- 
 posed in them, and proved enemies to those who 
 elevated them. 
 
 "The price of liberty i< eternal vigilance;" 
 
 and the vigilance of those who desire to have it, 
 must be directed to those who have the power and 
 treasures of the countrv in their hands. 
 
 64. — Embittered partisan feeling has ever been 
 the bane of republics ; and wise and prudent states- 
 men strive to allay animosity between parties, and 
 between sections. The aim of the demagogues, 
 who excite the passions of the people, by appeals 
 to party and sectional prejudices, is to delude them. 
 
 The calm and dispassionate observation of the 
 conduct of the administration will cause man}' who 
 have supported it to withdraw their favor. 
 
 Party pride and ignorant bigotry pre dangerous 
 enemies to free government. 
 
 65. — Our country once had the largest foreign 
 carrying trade of any nation in the world ; and it 
 produces more of the bulky merchandize which 
 makes commerce than any other. Our foreign com- 
 merce is now lost, and many millions are paid 
 
yearl}' to foreign ship-owners for carrying our pro- 
 ducts to their markets. 
 
 General Grant's administration has not shown 
 the ability needed to restore this trade ; but it ta- 
 citly consents to tlie humiliating condition in which 
 our country is placed ; and makes no effort to re- 
 deem what has been lost. 
 
 66.— The indecorous conduct of General Grant 
 in going personally to the capitol and engaging in 
 lobbying for his Santo Domingo bill, made it evident 
 that he has a very faint idea of the dignity of the 
 office of President of our great Republic. 
 
 Such want of judgment indicates a mind incapa- 
 ble of directing the affairs of government in a po- 
 pulous nation. 
 
 67. — The emancipation of the slaves in the South- 
 ern States involves responsibilities which General 
 Grant has not the head, nor the heart, to appreciate. 
 The enfranchisement of the negroes was an act of 
 the Federal government, not asked for b}^ them. 
 Citizenship was forced upon them, when they had 
 not intelligence sufficient to comprehend its privi- 
 leges and its duties. The new citizens have been 
 under the particular guardianship of the national 
 authorities ; and instead of protecting them from the 
 perils to which their abnormal condition naturally 
 subjected them, hordes of hungry parasites have 
 been sent among them, to manage the affairs of the 
 
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 States they inhaV.it, and they have devoured their 
 substance; and created antagonisms between them 
 and the white people of that section. These dema- 
 gogues are the most heartless enemies of the igno- 
 rant people they pretend to protect ; and they have 
 brought untold evils upon the southern portion of 
 the Union, by deluding the enfranchised negroes, 
 and plundering the unfortunate States, over which 
 they have been allowed to tyrannize. General 
 Grant has not the abilit}- needed to comprehend the 
 situation of the Southern people ; nor the enlarged 
 philanthropy required to meet the wants of the poor 
 Africans. 
 
 The condition of things in the South requires 
 wisdom — statesmanship — of the highest order; 
 which General Grant does not possess ; and a com- 
 prehensive generosit}^ of heart, which only one 
 whose life has been devoted to the improvement of 
 an inferior race, can be expected to exhibit. 
 
 General Grant is not fitted by natural gifts, nor 
 by acquired intelligence, to grasp so unusual a con- 
 dition of tilings. 
 
 68. — When citizens of a republic permit them- 
 selves to be dazzled by the glare of militar3' glory, 
 and acknowledge the superiority of the destructive 
 deeds of war, over the conservative and beneficial 
 measures of peace, they soon become willing sub- 
 jects of despotic power. 
 
 In all ages of the world, the chief enemies of 
 
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 popular freedom, have been those who, like Alexan- 
 der, Cassar and Napoleon, have won applause by 
 great victories, and erected empires on the ruins of 
 republican institutions. 
 
 69. — Should we allow General Grant's satellites 
 to re-elect him, we shall show either that the Ame- 
 rican people do not understand the value of free 
 government ; or that they have not the manliness 
 and intelligence needed to check the encroachments 
 upon their rights of a would-be emperor. 
 
 70. — A FEARFUL blot upou the pages of our cur- 
 rent history, will be the treatment of the Indians 
 inhabiting the Western Territories. That they 
 have proved incapable of civilization, does not ex- 
 cuse the conduct of those who have robbed them 
 of the consideration ostensibly given them for their 
 lands. Frauds upon Indians are not a new thing ; 
 but the increased means of intelligence and com- 
 munication in our time, render them inexcusable. 
 The clamors of the most ignorant people for justice, 
 should not be unheeded ; nor should their demands 
 be left to the "tender mercies" of subordinates. 
 
 Recently when a delegation of Indians desired to 
 have a deliberate "talk" with their "great Father," 
 they were referred to the Commissioner, because 
 the President had not time to hear it. He was 
 about to go to a fashionable summer resort, where 
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 horse-racing and other popular sports occupy the 
 season of pleasure. 
 
 A gentleman of Philadelphia possessing ample 
 fortune, and having no responsibility of govern- 
 ment upon him, has voluntarily spent much of his 
 time, and considerable means, in efforts to civilize 
 and improve the condition of the Indians, leaving 
 the luxuries of a pleasant home to encounter the 
 rough life of the wilderness, on his errands of phi- 
 lanthropy and humanit3^ It has required the ex- 
 hibition of a large, amount of phj'sical and moral 
 courage on his part to " unearth " the villainies of 
 the officials who have preyed upon the poor savages. 
 
 The contrast between the conduct of General 
 Grant, President of the United States, and that of 
 Mr, William Welsh, a private citizen, needs no com- 
 ment. 
 
 71. — One of the most flagrant violations of civil 
 rights, is that of bringing soldiers to election polls 
 to over-awe voters, or in any way to prevent the 
 free exercise of the elective franchise. This expe- 
 dient has been resorted to during the administra- 
 tion of General Grant, in States which have not 
 been in arms against the Federal government; and 
 such a use of the military power of the nation is 
 without excuse. 
 
 William Penn, who founded the commonwealth 
 which bears his name, " by deeds of peace, " accom- 
 plished more in his intercourse with untutored sav- 
 
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 ages, and promoted the prosperit}^ of his colony in 
 a more eminent degree than any other, by establish- 
 ing the rule of justice, and rejecting the weapons of 
 war ; and no one who honestly desires to advance 
 the civilization of our country on his principles, can 
 give support to the military tyranny, sustaining the 
 most shameless political profligacy, which is enforced 
 in the Southern States. 
 
 Support of General Grant, and his " rule of the 
 bayonet," is direct censure and rejection of the 
 Christian principles illustrated by William Penn. 
 
 72. — The efforts of government officials to deceive 
 the people with regard to the credit of the nation, 
 are insultinc^ to their intelligence. A statement 
 has recently emanated from Washington, to the 
 effect that calculations had been made to show the 
 comparative credit of our government and that of 
 France, as exhibited by the rate at which the large 
 loan just made had been effected. It stated that 
 the difference in favor of the United States was 
 " from fifteen to forty per centum." 
 
 The French five per cent, loan was taken at 84^ ; 
 and at the same time United States six per cent, 
 bonds sold in London for 91 1. Any one who may 
 choose to make the calculation, can estimate the 
 relative credit of the two nations. Can any banker, 
 merchant, or business man sustain an organization, 
 which resorts to such means to delude the tax- 
 
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 burdened people of our country? English three 
 per cent, consols sell for more in Europe than United 
 States six per cent, bonds. 
 
 Our credit is not like to improve in Europe wliile 
 our debts are rapidly increasing. 
 
 We need a thorough reform in our financial and 
 commercial policy ; and the men who surround 
 General Grant have not the wisdom to effect it. 
 
 73. — The foundation of Christian morality is ac- 
 knowledged to be that precept which says, " Do 
 3^e unto men as ye would have them do to you." 
 
 This means honesty, candor and fair-dealing in 
 all the atfairs of life; and it is incumbent upon 
 those who occup}^ high and honorable offices, to 
 present examples which may influence the conduct 
 of those in humbler condition. 
 
 What do we find ? 
 
 Republican papers, as well as others, are con- 
 stantly complaining of the corruption and gross 
 profligacy which fill the political atmosphere ; and 
 tempt men to leave honest pursuits, by the chances 
 which they oflTer to persons of intelligence, who will 
 stifle conscience and do the unclean work of part}^ 
 leaders. 
 
 The combination of unscrupulous men who now 
 control the affairs of the Kepublican party, and 
 hope to re-elect General Grant, has for its chief 
 managers the most notoriously depraved political 
 
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 partisans of the countiy. Those who divided and 
 defeated the Democratic part}' in 1860, are now re- 
 garded as trnstworthy leaders of the Republican 
 party ; although it is known that they are ready 
 to sustain any organization which will pay them 
 most liberali3^ 
 
 Venality and an inordinate greed for plunder are 
 exhibited in more disgusting forms under the rule 
 of the men now in power, than at au}^ former time. 
 
 Can an}^ one who professes to be a Christian, give 
 countenance and support to a party which has so 
 fearfully demoralized the countr}^ ? 
 
 n. — In a community of intelligent men, " the 
 pen is of more value than the sword ;" and one who 
 has for many years wielded the pen successfully, is 
 of more worth to the American people than a Gene- 
 ral who has been brought into notice by the events 
 of a civil war. If the people generally should ac- 
 knowledge the propriety of giving all honor, power, 
 and the emoluments of office to those who have taken 
 part in the devastating work of wav, who would be 
 inclined to engage in the unremunerating arts of 
 peace ; upon which we depend for subsistence, com- 
 fort, and the refinements and gratifications of an 
 advancing civilization ? 
 
 " Peace hath her victories," more valuable, if less 
 pompous, than those of war. 
 
 75. — It is improper and unseeml}^ for members of 
 the President's cabinet to interfere in the political 
 
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 contests of the States ; and particularly unbecoming 
 for them to make perverted, or incorrect statements 
 to deceive voters, and prevent the free exercise of 
 the elective franchise. 
 
 When men who fill the most honorable offices, 
 forget the dignity and sense of propriety, which 
 should ever attach to them, there will not be found 
 much that is worthy of respect in them. 
 
 The men most honored and esteemed by the 
 Republican party, oppose the re-election of General 
 Grant ; but others who are not much respected ad- 
 vocate it. 
 
 Sumner, Trumbull, Shurz, Banks, Moorehead and 
 others of their character desire the defeat of Gene- 
 ral jrrant. General Butler, Forney, Wade, Frede- 
 rick Douglas, Spotted Tail, et id omne genus have 
 declared in favor of ** the military candidate," in 
 opposition to the "old abolitionist." 
 
 76. — No President should be re-elected. 
 
 Experience has proved that great abuses arise 
 from the efforts of a President in office, and his de- 
 pendents, to elect him for a second term. Every 
 department of the government is perverted ; and its 
 expenses increased to accomplish this object ; and 
 many smart and active men are debauched and de- 
 based by the nefarious work in which they are in- 
 duced to engage. 
 
 The immense pecuniar}^ interests legislated upon, 
 
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 and the vast amount of mone}^ handled by officials, 
 present temptations which but few have the virtue 
 to withstand. It is generally admitted that a tho- 
 rough reform in political affairs is imperatively de- 
 manded ; and we should begin with the establish- 
 ment of the "one term" principle. 
 
 Once elevated to the Presidency should satisfy 
 the most ambitious. 
 
 77. — The welfare of forty millions of people is of 
 far more consequence than the gratification of one 
 man ; and it is no disparagement to any one to say 
 that he has not the ability needed for the successful 
 government of a great nation. Yery few, even of 
 the worthy and intelligent, are capable of adminis- 
 tering the affairs of a Union of many independent 
 States, having various, and in some things conflict- 
 ing interests. General Grant had not the experience 
 needed to constitute a statesman; and his personal 
 habits and associations have not been of a kind to 
 create in his mind a profound idea of the responsi- 
 bilities and duties assumed by those who undertake 
 such a task. 
 
 78. — It is not freedom for the negroes of the 
 South, to keep them under the tutelage of the politi- 
 cal emissaries of the dominant party ; who by decep- 
 tion, coercion, and appeals to their credulity and 
 their timidity, cause them to vote as the adminis- 
 
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 tration may wish them to do. The Southern people 
 are disposed to allow the new citizens fairly to 
 test their capacity for the exercise of the rights 
 and privileges bestowed upon them, witliout undue 
 influence from their pretended friends, who de- 
 sire through the aid of negro votes to continue in 
 possession of the power they have so unworthily 
 used. 
 
 General Grant's followers know that when the 
 negroes are really free, most of them will vote 
 against the carpet-bag charlatans, who affect much 
 regard for them, but have done them no substantial 
 service. 
 
 79. — It is an intolerable tyranny to use money 
 taken from the people, to sustain journals engaged 
 in deceiving uninformed citizens, traducing and de- 
 nouncing all who oppose the arrogance of theif 
 masters, and by perversions of facts and cunning 
 sophistries, defending the unlawful assumptions 
 and dishonest conduct of profligate officials. 
 
 It is yet more insuflerable oppression to use 
 money ground out of the bread of the people, to 
 corrupt unreflecting voters, and thus defeat the 
 free choice of the people at the ballot-box. 
 
 If the men who have a pecuniary interest in sus- 
 taining General Grant were to refrain from active 
 exertions, and use no money to influence votes, 
 their candidate would not get a single electoral 
 vote. He has no friends but such as are held by 
 " the cohesive power of public plunder." 
 
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 80. — When official profligacy and venalitj^ receive 
 no rebuke, humble usefulness and honest industry- 
 are wronged and disheartened. Public offices were 
 not established by the founders of our Republic to 
 enable rooues to grow rich, and to lire in extrava- 
 gant ostentation and luxury ; while the mass of the 
 people toil for a meagre subsistence. When the 
 head of the government countenances official plun- 
 der and arrogance, our equality is destroyed, and 
 an aristocracy of the meanest description is in- 
 stituted. 
 
 AVe have courts and prisons to punish ragged 
 rascals ; but rogues in ruffles enjoy high offices, 
 wealth and importance, at the expense of the people. 
 
 The standard of morality which prevails in official 
 circles is expressed in the trite couplet : 
 
 " 'Tis mean to rob a hen-roost of a hen ; 
 But stealing millions makes them gentlemen." 
 
 81. — A President of the United States should be 
 " not only pure but unsuspected." 
 
 Serious charges and damaging testimony have 
 been brought against officials who still retain the 
 favor of General Grant, and the idea is put forth 
 that men in public office are to be regarded as in- 
 nocent, unless positive and palpable evidence of 
 guilt be brought against them. 
 
 This principle is considered correct when persons 
 are charged with criminal offences before a court of 
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 justice, skd are in danger of disgraceful punish- 
 ment ; but when men have been entrusted with im 
 portant public duties and authority, as well as the 
 care of public moneys, the case is very different. 
 If circumstantial evidence shall indicate malfeasance 
 in office, severe scrutiny should be demanded by 
 those implicated, in order that the whole truth may 
 be known and justice done to all concerned. 
 
 In a number of cases, in which grossly improper 
 conduct has been charged against persons holding 
 important offices under the administration, " white- 
 washing " committees have been appointed to 
 smother investigation ; and to hide facts from the 
 public view. In the " sale of arms " investigation, 
 a witness acknowledged that he " had received ten 
 thousand dollars " for services performed in the 
 matter ; and the fact of the sale and transfer of the 
 arms to emissaries of the French government was 
 sufficiently established ; but no censure was visited 
 upon the guilty parties by General Grant ; and by 
 retaining them, he practically assumes their acts as 
 his own ; and becomes responsible to the people for 
 conduct more reprehensible than that of England 
 in the " Alabama case." Men in high offices should 
 be held bound to prove their innocence ; when facts 
 bear testimony against them. 
 
 82. General Grant has never shown a disposi- 
 tion to make any sacrifice to preserve the most 
 
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 cherished institutions of our Republic ; and in his 
 selfish desire to retain power and gain wealth, his 
 conduct presents a broad contrast with that of 
 others who have filled the office he now occupies. 
 When Andrew Jackson, in command of the army 
 at New Orleans, believed that the defence of the 
 place required the disregard of the right of a citizen 
 to the habeas corpus, he took the responsibility of 
 refusing to obey it, wpon himself personally ; and 
 when the danger was passed, he, as an individual, 
 submitted to the penalty imposed by a court of jus- 
 tice for his illegal act ; preferring to appear in the 
 attitude of a culprit, rather than to sanction the offi- 
 cial invasion of an institution " inestimable to fi'ee- 
 men, and dangerous to tyrants only." 
 
 General Grant, when no armed resistance to the 
 Federal government has existed, using the military 
 power placed in the hands of the President to de- 
 fend the rights of citizens, has for years violated 
 the great " writ of right ; " for the mere purpose of 
 securing political power and plunder for his servile 
 followers. 
 
 83. — The most baneful of all the evils which afflict 
 our countr}^ at the present time, are those combina- 
 tions formed by unscrupulous men, to control legisla- 
 tion, and the administration of National, State, and 
 municipal governments, popularly called " rings." 
 
 All our institutions, designed to promote the 
 prosperity, improvement and happiness of the peo- 
 
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 pie, have been perverted ; incorporated companies 
 and associations have been formed, which to a great 
 extent monopolize business ; and compel the people 
 to pay extravagant prices for the things most needed 
 for their comfort and subsistence. The ostensible 
 representatives of the people make merchandise of 
 legislation ; and sell rights and privileges to any 
 bod}' of unprincipled men, who will pay sufficiently 
 for them ; and the most useful portion of the com- 
 munity find their M^ages insuftlcient for the comfort- 
 able support of a famil}'. Intelligent men see that 
 fortune and influence are gained by subserviency to 
 the leaders of the " rings ; " general demoralization 
 pervades the countr}- ; and threatens the utter de- 
 struction of free institutions. 
 
 General Grant is the first President of the United 
 States, who has lowered the dignity of his station 
 so far as to be compromised in "rings," formed to 
 make use of the government, to accomplish pecu- 
 niary objects ; and if the people are wise, he will be 
 the last one who will so utterly ignore the honor 
 attached to the high office, which he has used for 
 such unworth)^ purposes. 
 
 84. — If military merit be regarded as a proper 
 reason for the advancement of a person to high civil 
 office, General Grant and his followers deserve se- 
 vere censure. Through jealousy or malevolence, 
 the ablest officers of the United States arinv have 
 
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 been kept in obscurity ; while servile flatterers have 
 been placed in important positions. One of the 
 generals who did most efficient service in crashing 
 the Southern Confederacy^ has been sent to Europe, 
 to "chaperone " the Prince Imperial at the courts 
 of the great kings. 
 
 85. — More than seven 3^ears have elapsed since 
 our country has been engaged in" any war, except 
 the petty and harassing warfare needed to elect the 
 supporters of General Grant's administration ; his 
 partisans have control of most of the State govern- 
 ments and municipalities; and the Ameincan people 
 are more heavily taxed than the subjects of any en- 
 lightened monarchy in the woi^ld. 
 
 The expenses of the Federal government are 
 enormous : and may be greatly reduced without 
 detriment to any part of the public service. 
 
 The men who do the real work in the different 
 departments, receive but moderate pa}^ while the 
 high salaried offices are in many cases filled by par- 
 tisans who are utterly incompetent. 
 
 86. — A CENTRALIZED government is necessarily a 
 despotism. 
 
 By the use of the patronage of the Presidential 
 office, General Grant has controlled legislation in 
 Congress ; and b^' a misuse of military power he 
 has perverted elections in a number of States. 
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 In defiance of the will of the people, and the pro- 
 visions of the supreme law, he has concentrated the 
 power to make, and to execute the laws ; and by the 
 help of a vast army of office-holders, ring-managers, 
 and venal political hucksters, he aims to hold on to 
 the power he has gained. 
 
 The Roman Empire was called a Republic long 
 after its power was in the hands of the Caesars. 
 
 87. — Industry and honest usefulness are discour- 
 aged when the highest honors, and the most influ- 
 ential offices are given to those whose onl}' claim to 
 popular regard is based upon the destructive opera- 
 tions of war. It is the culture of the arts of peace 
 that makes nations truly great. One ingenious and 
 accomplished mechanic is of more value to a com- 
 munity, than a score of popinjays in tinsel and 
 epaulettes. Public sentiment should give the 
 greatest encouragement to what is most useful 
 
 88. — The persistent efforts of the administration 
 to array the negroes of the Southern States in hos- 
 tility to the white people, must be condemned by 
 all right-minded men ; and the deception practised 
 on the Northern people by their journals in the per- 
 severing attempt to cause the belief that the negroes 
 were alwa3^s hostile to their masters, deserves con- 
 demnation. During the war, the slaves proved 
 
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 most faithful to their owners. No attempt was 
 made by them at insurrection, when it would not 
 have^ been possible to coerce them. When the 
 robust white men were in the army, the slaves pa- 
 tiently worked on the farms and plantations, under 
 the direction of women and old men ; making no 
 attempt at resistance. They produced the subsist- 
 ence of the Confederate troops, during the four 
 years' struggle, when resistance would have de- 
 stroyed the prospects of the Rebels ; and freedom 
 and citizenship were forced upon them by the Fed- 
 eral government. They had not asked for either. 
 
 Tlie Southern negroes never claimed equality 
 with white men until carpet-baggers deluded them 
 with the idea of living in luxury upon the property 
 of their former masters. 
 
 The ignorant negro is an easy dupe of the crafty 
 demagogues, who are devouring the substance of 
 both white and black men in the South. 
 
 89. The Federal government at the present time 
 
 is in the hands of a powerful combination of profli- 
 gate men, who carry it on for the purpose of making 
 money out of it, and aggrandizing themselves, by 
 an arrogant and unscrupulous use of official power. 
 
 Without the possession of the money and author- 
 ity which they use, these parasites would not have 
 the favor of any considerable part of the American 
 people 
 
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 90. — All despotic governments depend upon 
 military power to sustain them ; and all military 
 governments are in their nature despotisms. 
 
 The American Republic was founded upon law ; 
 and it was intended that no one in any otlicial posi- 
 tion should be above the law. The essential differ- 
 ence between despotism and free government is that 
 the former is one of force, and the latter one of law. 
 These are the two extremes of civil institutions ; 
 and a candid observation of the conduct of General 
 Grant and the men who sustain him, will show that 
 the}' have subverted the American Republic ; and 
 established an irresponsible despotism in its place. 
 
 If the American people are willing to submit to 
 such rule, and to bear the burthens which it imposes 
 npon them, they are fit subjects for a military 
 empire ; such as General Grant and his satellites are 
 now workinor to consummate. 
 
 91. — It is essential to the preservation of free in- 
 stitutions that all the incumbents of official posi- 
 tions should recognize the right of the people to 
 criticise their conduct ; and regard it as a gross 
 impropriety to make use of the journals receiving 
 patronage from the government, to impugn the 
 motives of those who protest against their illegal 
 acts. 
 
 It is indecorous for servants to malign their mas- 
 ters ; and those who accept public office, should not 
 
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 set themselves above the iinobstrusive citizen, who 
 censures unlawful assumptions of authority. 
 
 92. — The unmannerly abuse of political opponents 
 by the journals in the service of the administration 
 is discreditable, and shows a want of correct notions 
 of propriety. The following extract is from one 
 of them : 
 
 " We find that his (Greeley's) friends are the per- 
 sonally bad men in every community. The obser- 
 vation of every one of our readers must bear us 
 out in this assertion." 
 
 No candid person will deny that the more promi- 
 nent friends of Horace Greeley will compare favor- 
 ably with those of General Grant ; and no one can 
 fail to see a gross lack of dignity and fairness in 
 the administration which sanctions the slanders of 
 its organs. " Want of decency, alwaj's shows 
 want of sense." 
 
 93 — The broad contrast between the conduct of 
 the first President and that of the last one, must 
 bring a blush of shame to the cheek of every one 
 who feels pride in the early history of our Republic. 
 
 Wasliington, with a small force and scant re- 
 sources, encountering privations, dangers and dis- 
 couragements, contended with a powerful foreign 
 foe, for seven years; and when tlie triumph was 
 complete, he refused to receive any pecuniary com- 
 pensation for his sei'vices. 
 
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 General Grant, raised from obscurity by the inci- 
 dents of a civil -svar, and placed at the head of a 
 powerful and well-supplied array, after sacrificing 
 myriads of his troops, succeeded in wearying and 
 worrying out the greatl3' inferior and poorly sup- 
 plied force of the Confederates ; for which, honors, 
 never before conferred, were created for him; and a 
 l)rincely salary bestowed upon him. Not satisfied 
 with this, he aspired to the Presidency; and having 
 gained it, made use of his position to advance the 
 schemes of unscrupulous " rings." He has grown 
 rich upon the bounty of the nation, and the liberality 
 of individuals who were covetous of official honors 
 and plunder. He has not been ashamed to 
 
 " So sell and mart his offices for gold 
 To undeservers." 
 
 94. — It is not decent for newspapers and persons 
 enjo3'ing the patronage or favor of the administra- 
 tion, to misrepresent the motives of those who 
 charoe the President with having^ acted in violation 
 of the Constitution, or with indecorous conduct. 
 
 When it is asserted that General Grant, in his 
 effort to annex Santo Domingo, has assumed power 
 not warranted by the Constitution ; and that he has 
 behaved improperly in "lobbying," to carry the 
 measure through Congress, the parasites of the 
 administration assail those who make these charges, 
 declaring that they are actuated by feelings of " per- 
 sonal hostility to General Grant," and are not wor- 
 tliy of the confidence of the people. 
 
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 It is ivith facts that the j^eople are concerned. Per- 
 sonal quarrels are of but little consequence to thera. 
 But it is of much importance tliat they should know 
 whether it be true, or not true, that the Preside lit 
 has done what is charged against him. The trick 
 of the mercenary servants of the administration, 
 to divert public attention from the' true issue, and 
 involve them in the quarrels of public men, should 
 not be allowed to deceive honest people, whose wel- 
 fare is concerned in the manner in which the affairs 
 of the government are managed. 
 
 95. — When the minions of the administration by 
 a gross outrage forced the passage of the " En- 
 forcement Act " through the House of Representa- 
 tives, a leading member of the Republican party 
 declared that, as a Judge, "he had sentenced men 
 to the penitentiary for smaller offences." 
 
 The object in passing this act was to enable Gene- 
 ral Grant's parasites to carrj'- elections in Southern 
 States b}' fraud and force. 
 
 96 — The centennial anniversary of our Indepen- 
 dence is approaching, and when the intelligent peo- 
 ple of distant countries come here to do homage to 
 the men of the Revolution, we are not willing that 
 they should see that we have proved unworthy of 
 the oreat heritage of Constitutional Government. 
 •We should be mortified to hear them say, •' Our 
 
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 great Republic began with Washington and ended 
 with General Grant." 
 
 The statesmen who presided over it in its early 
 days, won for us the admiration of all enlightened 
 nations ; but its latter times have been inglorious. 
 There has been a fearful fall from " the sages of 
 'seventy-six," to the jockeys of Long Branch. 
 
 97. — One of the journals most ardentl}^ support- 
 ing General Grant, in an article upon the decay of 
 manly virtue in this country, sa^'s : 
 
 " The meretricious finery of the Pompadour 
 architecture had no more favor in the eyes of our 
 forefathers than Pompadour morals. It has come 
 in with suddenly acquired wealth, shoddy contracts, 
 political corruption, and a social state more nearly 
 allied to that of Louis XIII. and XIY. Bogus 
 coats of arms on republican carriages, and yellow- 
 l^lush flunke^dsm are equalh' symbolic of the times. 
 
 " "Within the past few 3^ears the political road to 
 wealth has been found a rapid and sure one through 
 Ring organization, with its adjuncts of corporation 
 stock jobber}', gold gambling, and other things more 
 or less subject to political influence. Jobber}' has 
 been reduced to a science, and the men elected to 
 enforce the laws and protect the public property 
 neglect or pervert the former tliat they may plunder 
 the latter. 
 
 " The only remedy for this is a health}^ reaction 
 in public opinion, which will discard from official 
 position and social prominence men of questionable 
 character, and strive once more to elevate the 
 
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 standard of qualification to that which inspired our 
 fathers in the early days of the Republic." 
 
 Reform should begin where it will be most effec- 
 tive. A stern rebuke of General Grant and his 
 panders will have a most wholesome influence upon 
 the countr3\ 
 
 98. — The impudentassertion so frequentl^uittered 
 and reiterated b}^ the administration papers, that 
 " General Grant saved the country," is an unmiti- 
 gated slander upon the people of our Union. If it be 
 acknowledged that the country could be saved only 
 b3^ military operations, it is insulting to the popu- 
 lous Northern States, to say that they could not send 
 a sufficient force to defeat the armies of the sparsely 
 populated South, without the aid of this omnipotent 
 general. 
 
 The white population of the States which took 
 part in the effort to establish the Confederacy was 
 less than a fourth part of the whole population of 
 the Union ; and in pecuniar}^ and material resources 
 the disparity was yet greater. 
 
 To assert that General Grant saved the country, 
 is to declare that the Northern people were greatly 
 inferior in military skill and prowess to those of the 
 South. 
 
 99. — Much may be gained, and nothing can be 
 lost b}^ defeating General Grant. If the penitenti- 
 aries of the country were searched, a more unscru- 
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piilous coml3ination of plunderers than that which 
 now manages the General government, could not 
 be found. There are unprincipled men who, hav- 
 ing gained high positions, have intelligence enough 
 to strive to appear honorable in the e^'es of the 
 world ; but those who now have our government in 
 their hands, are actuated only by a greedy desire to 
 get money ; and they are not restrained by any 
 sense of honor or decency. 
 
 They show to the community by the style in 
 which they live, and their profligate expenditures, 
 that they have much more than they could possibl}^ 
 get honestly. 
 
 100. — The establishment of rank and titles in the 
 army and navy, similar to those of the monarchical 
 nations of Europe, is not in accordance with the 
 true spirit of Republican institutions ; it is incom- 
 patible with the equality of citizens, and should not 
 be continued. It tends to excite aristocratic no- 
 tions, and to cause young men to look upon useful 
 occupations with disfavor. 
 
 That there is no necessity for the regal title of 
 Lieutenant-General, and for grades of Admirals, is 
 manifest from the fact that the most brilliant 
 achievements of our army and navy were won with- 
 out them. The 3'oung navy of the United States, 
 when it gained so grand a reputation from the 
 actions of the war on the Barbar}^ coast, and in 
 that of 1812-15, had no commission higher than 
 that of Post-Captain. 
 
CONCLTJSION. 
 
 If the founders of the American Republic were 
 rio-ht in the belief that a written constitution, which 
 plainly establishes the rights of every individual ; 
 and defines and circumscribes the power and autho- 
 rity of persons in official positions, and of political 
 bodies, forms the only sure basis of freedom for the 
 people, and the administration of justice and good 
 order in society, the people of our country will 
 make a great, perhaps fatal mistake, if they allow 
 the passions and resentments of a sectional contest 
 and a sanguinary civil war, to obscure their judg- 
 ment so far, as to induce them to allow feelings of 
 vindictive triumph, and admiration of the pomp 
 and glor}" of a magnificent centralized government, 
 to destro}^ those divisions and balances of power, 
 and reserved rights of the States, which are the 
 only security they can have for personal safety from 
 oppression. 
 
 Onl}- one argument, having any foundation in 
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 truth, and any force, is offered, why General Grant 
 should be re-elected. It is that his services in com- 
 mand of the Army, in the war against the Southern 
 Confederacy, were of such value, that gratitude to 
 him should overcome all other considerations ; even 
 the sacrifice of constitutional government, and 
 
 "All those noble rights which freemen love." 
 
 Those leaders of the Republican party, who four 
 years ago were most earnest in efforts to elect him, 
 now declare that he is unfit for the position ; and 
 that he disregards the restraints of law, designed 
 to secure the rights and franchises of the people. 
 Observing men perceive that the chief desire of 
 General Grant is to possess the wealth to be gained 
 directly and indirectly by holding the Presidential 
 office. Would it not be better therefore, to give 
 him a vast sum from the national treasurj', rather 
 than sacrifice the "supreme law of the land," to 
 gratify his wishes ? His retainers excuse his re- 
 warding those, who have given him valuable gifts, 
 with important public offices; by reminding us of 
 the munificence of the Englisli monarch}- toward 
 the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Wel- 
 lington. 
 
 We have not been accustomed to such things ; but 
 
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 let Congre,ss appropriate hundreds of millions of 
 dollars, to make him richer than any other indi- 
 vidual on the continent, for the services rendered 
 as commander of the army. If by such a pecuni- 
 ary sacrifice we can get a President who will respect 
 the laws, and drive the greedy " rings " from their 
 plunder, the people will be gainers by the opera- 
 tion. 
 
 But sensible men will not consent to the aboli- 
 tion of the fundamental law of the nation, to gratify 
 the grandest of military heroes. Like thousands 
 of others, when the country became involved in 
 war, General Grant strove to gain a high military 
 position, and he was more fortunate than the rest. 
 Without personal injury he got into the highest 
 command, while hundreds of thousands of others 
 lost their lives, and sleep in unknown graves. 
 
 Is it not time that we should be done with the 
 worship of demi-gods, heroes, and conquerors ; and 
 take common sense notions of things, and of the 
 matters which most concern our welfare ? If we 
 must have epic heroes, let them wait until poetic 
 genius shall immortalize them in verse. It should 
 not be forgotten that the Ulj'sses of ancient days, 
 waited for a Homer to perpetuate his deeds ; and 
 
 that from the latter we learn that the followers of 
 
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 that ancient general, were, on an unlucky occasion, 
 transformed into pigs. Perhaps it would not re- 
 quire the sorceries of a Circe to change some of the 
 favorites of the modern Ulysses in a similar man- 
 ner. 
 
 We live in an age when men and things of a use- 
 ful character are appreciated ; we sadly need hon- 
 esty, intelligence, and a disposition to make public 
 affairs public to the view of the people, that all mny 
 know what is transpiring, and who are to blame, 
 when industr}^ and unassuming worth pine for fair 
 reward ; while unblushing knavery rolls in wealtli 
 and ostentation. 
 
 The capital of the nation needs a cleansing ; and 
 we need a statesman at the head of the government. 
 Seven years should be sufficient to satisfy men of 
 brains that the war is ended ; and that the people 
 desire peace on the solid basis of justice and good 
 faith. 
 
 THE END. 
 
One Hundred Reasons 
 
 vvtlY 
 
 SHOULD NOT BE RE-ELECTEE 
 
 WHICH WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO 
 
 PEIVEIT EVERY SEJISIBIB AND HOHEST MAN 
 FROM VOTING FOR HIM. 
 
 " Now, in the name of all the gods at once, 
 Upon what meat doth this, our Caesar, feed : 
 That he is grown so great ?" 
 
 j PUBLISHED BY 
 
 I THE AUTHOR, J. O. THOMPSON, 
 
 No. 31434 Walnut Street, 
 I PHILADELPHIA, 
 
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Will be lyublished in a few days. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED REASONS 
 
 "WHY 
 
 HORACE GREELEY 
 
 SHOULD BE ELECTED 
 
 President of the United States. 
 
 BY 
 
 J. C. THOMPSON, 
 
 314J Walnut Street, 
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