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“I care nothing for promotion, so long as our arms are successful.”—Grant to Sher man, February,s62. “No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing in good faith any order I may receive from those in authority over me. —Grant to Secretary Chase, May, 29, 1863. “This is a Republic, where the will of the people is the law of the land.”—General Grant's letter to President Johnson, Au gust, 1867. “I shall have no policy of my own to inter fere against the will of the people.”— Grant's letter, May 26, 1868. “Human liberty, the only true foundation of human government,—Grant’s letter to the citizens of Memphis. Hon Schuyler Colfax, our next Vice President, is to be married on the 27th of the present month. At a Democratic meeting in Princeton, the other day, several girls wore gray coats and blue dresses. It is stated that General Grant is a Methodist. He evidently believes in the doctrine of “ Election.” The Democrats want a military candi date for president. Why not take Lee? He is the ablest General on their side. The need of the Democraic party may be thus briefly stated: Wanted—A Dem ocratic candidate for president. No Democrat need apply. “]How many regular, steady boarders are there in this house?” asked a census taker of a servant girl. There's fifteen boarders in all, sir , but not mor’n four of ’em is steady persons, sir. The rest is Democrats.” The present position of the Democrat ic party as very much akin to that of the two shipwrecked sailors, who, finding that their frail raft was rapidly going to pieces, said, one to the other: Troartio. “Frank, can you pray?” Frank. “No, can you?” Horatio. “No, but something must be done d—d quick.” While the copperheads of the North are talking about disbanding, those of the South are coming out in favor of negro suffrage. The State Committees of Georgia and South Carolina have ta ken ground in favor of the right of the negroes to vote, “as secured to them by the Constitution of the United States.” The world moves. During the Democratic procession in Cincinnati, on Saturday night, an old lady cheered for General Grant, when a bold “White Boy in Blue” stepped from the ranks and knocked her down. Two ladies at another point cheered for Grant, when an officer of the procession approached them with a drawn sword, but 2 Grant man drew a revolver and the coward sneaked away. The Cops, who have bet against Grant being elected in contemplation of the withdrawal of Seymour, now insist that their bets are ‘off’ and demand their money back. Play or pay, gen tleman. Don't attempt to crawfish in that way. Grant is going over the course, no matter who is backed off, or is backed on. It is not his fault if the Seymourites show the white feather. The World has two ways of account ing for the overthrow of its party on Tuesday. One is by “the prestige of Gen. Grant,” and the other by “the per versions of Gen. Blair’s position.” If neither had been nominated, the World thinks the result might have been dif ferent, ‘Henry ” said old Mr. Beecher one day to his son. “I once came very near marrying Nancy Eaton; if I had done so, would you have been you?” Even when a boy, Horatio Seymour couldn’t“ hold his own,” but slipped off on the slightest pressure, as is evidenced by a story related of him by an old lady who used to teach scool in Pompey, near Syracuse, and Horatio, who is described as a “little fat squab,” was among her pupils. His place was on the extreme end of one of the benches, and it was an every day amusement of his companions to crowd him off, when Horatio, in great disgust, would gather himself up and lisp, “ Darn it, I can't back on.” All the scholars would giggle at this, and presently down Horatio would slide again, and the performance would be re peated. Certain Dersat.—The following is from the New York Sun, an independent Democratic paper, one of the most re spectable and reliable journals in the country: From the elections which have taken place, the prospect is that the Republic ans will sweep the country like a whirl wind. ‘This result is to be attributed to the issue which the Democratic Nation al Convention decided to make in the election, that is the issue of the war. It is scarcely anything else than a contin uation at the ballot box of the struggle already fought out on the field of battle between Secession and Unionism. On this issue Lee, and Forrest, and Wade Hampton are doomed in this contest, as they were doomed in the war, to certain defeat.
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Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1868
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