The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-04
The Partisan Rural Prcss and General
Grant.

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tisan papers Of the rural districts seems to have
done them a world Of good. Many that were
then on the fence now declare decidedly for
| Grant Others which were then out against
Grant are now upon the anxious seat, ana give
promise of repentance and conversion. In tue
large pile of country papers before us we mud
only three or four hardened sinners that still
refuse to listen to the word Of truth, and even
these have got so far as to sympatbize with
General Mcclellan feeling which may be
likened to conviction Of sin, and therefore
encourages US to hope that they may yet be
converted to Grant. Nothing helps along a
missionary among the heather so much as the
sight of a fine lot OF proselytes; and conse-
quenty we feel some inducement to prosecute
our missionary work among the barbarian coun-
try editors, and shall again take the trouble to
look over their lucubrations and show our read
ers the abundant evidences Of the effects Of
saving grace, as administered through our in
strumentality
The chief among the hardened reprobates is,
of course, the Chicago Tribuae-a sort Of aboli-
ton sewer through which the fanatics pour
upon the public everything which is too dirty
for the New York Tribune to print. The Chi
cage Tribune is dreadfully exercised because
we do not support General Mcclellan for the
next Presidency. We have three very good
reasons for not supporting Mcclellan. In the
first place, we do not want to support him at
present; and we always do as we please In
the second place, the aboltionists would like to
have us support him. and we always do what
the abolitionists dislike. In the third place, we
are now supporting General Grant, who will
be elected; and there cannot be two Presidents
OF the United States at the same time. Now
that these questions are satisfactorily answered,
will the Tribune inform us why it does not sup
port Mcclellan? II appears very anxious about
him, and ought certainly to do something for
him. Precisely the same remarks apply to the
obscure st. Louis Ne,cs. The Cleveland Leader,
. very dingy little sheet, has not gone SO far as
Mcclellan as yet; but it has abandoned Presi-
dent Lincoln, aud copies whole column
of extracts from our columns, proving that
Old Abe is not the man for the Presi-
dency That is a step in the right direction
certainly. The Yonkcrs ,Stqtesman-which be-
lies its name-is q mean little sheet, living
upon the county patronage. 1t abuses the
HERALD and praises Grant. We don't care q
pin for its abuse, nor Grant for its praise This
ends our list of hardened sinners Is it not
miraculously short.
Next we pass to our conscence-s trickcn.
anxious inqurers. The Boston Post denies
that the people are in favor of Grant. Tha.
shows that the Post is behind the age and
knows nothing of public sentiment. The
Providence journal, edited by Senator An
thony-who should have resigned his seat
ut the same time that Senator Simmons
dd-denies that Grant will accept our
nomination. This denial is favorite plea
among the anxious inquirers. The Philadel-
Schenectady twinkled over it. The Cincinnati
Enquire copied it. The Washington Re7a,Ni-
can repeated it in n faring telegram, dated at
New York, but really concoctcd in the Repub-
licdn Office. The Cleaveland Leader. whose
editor is an administration postmaster and
bound to work for bis pap, reiterated
it. The Hartford Cooram gives 1t as an
original piece of news. TIE New Or
leans Times, kept by the public treasury
comes out strong about it. Some say that
Grant has written to certain friends announc-
ing that he will not run. Others say that he
has told certain politicians that he will not run.
Others say that we have killed him of. and he
will not run. So the same lie takes different
forms. Let lie assure all these anxious editors
that Grant will run, and will be elected. The
Madison Patriot asserts that elf General Grant
~ ha v,la IN, op,o
the administration for the Presidency he will
very soon learn his mistake; for Mr.. Lincoln
will permit no General to come between him
and the succession, and the movement in be-
half of General Grant will be more likely to
displace him than to make him President
Yet General Grant will run, in spite Of all that;
and we defy Mr.. Lincoln to displace or i'm.
pede him. 1t is too late for such scheme to
succeed. The people endured it in the case of
Mcclellan: but the administration dares not
renew the experiment in the case of General
Grant. Therefore, since General Grant will
certainly run and be elected, it is quite time
that these sinners upon the anxious seat be-
came converted to the winning cause.
At last We como to our trophies-the papers
we have redeemed from political barbarism
and led over to General Grant. They are
numbered by hundreds. and we can only name
few OF them. But even these few will appear
many in contrast with the ridiculously small
number which still hold out and refuse to be-
lieve the truth. The Troy Tines, formerly a
very wicked sinner, now calls Grant "our great
est general" and says that "his greatness rests
securely upon his brilliant military achieve
ncnts." This conversion is miracle of grace.
The Boston Courier copies our articles upon
Mr.. Lincoln, and goes for Grant, now that Nc
Ciellsn is no longer a candidate. The Council
Bluffs Bugle is peace bugle, and therefore
blows for Grant, who is peace man, as was