Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30
GENERAL GRANT FOR THE PRES
IDENGY.
Response TO his Nomination at Roch-
ester-He Is N Hope Of Loyal Men.

ester-He Is the Hope of Loyal Men.
From the GAlena Gazette, March 18th
Our readers are not unmindful Of Of the
fact that some time since q Republican
and Union meeting in the city of Roches-
ter, n. Y, nominated Lieutenant General
Grant as the Union candidate for the
Presidency in 1860. Neither are they un-
mindful of the further fact that the loyal
and devoted friends of the country, whose
sublime efforts in the field and in civil
life have saved the nation, are now look
ing to that distinguished soldier and
patriot 10 preserve what has been saved,
the same as Washington was looked to
after the Revolution to save, perpetuate,
and secure what had been achieved BY his
wisdom and valor. 1t can be truly said
that there are no persons in the whole
country more devoted to the interests of
the Lieutenant General than his wi per-
sonal and political friends in Galena.
From the moment he entered upon his
military career these friends have follow
ed his fortunes with answering fidelity,
through both good and evil report, and in
them he has ever found his most earnest
defenders, whenever and wherever as
sailed. While those friends look forward
with both pride and hope to the time
when ne shall receive the highest office
which can be bestowed upon him by q
grateful people, as reward for the inesti-
mable services he has rendered the
country, they have we'll founded fears of
the result which might follow from a too
premature agitation of the subject of the
Presidency in connection with his name.
Lieutenant General Grant is the highest
military officer in the Government, and
only subordinate to the President of the
United States, who is, by the Constitution,
the Commander-in-Chi of the army and
navy. He is a soldier and not q politician.
Though brought up in the old Wing
school of politics, and entertaining the
notions which belonged to that great and
patriotic party, yet he never mixed up in
political questions,
While profoundly interested in the sue
cess OF the Union party at the late Presi-
Dental election, he was never known to
use his official position to influence the
vote of a single citizen or soldier. Hold
ing firmly to his " opinions and eonvic-
tions, he never sought to impose them on
others. Filling his present position, it is
AOi kuuhlG 4OI TIC COuuLIN LldL Nc uds SlOOu
and still stands aloof from politics. He
devotes himself with patriotic seal to the
discharge of the duties which his official
position deVolves upon him. Calm and
unmoved, writing no political letters, en-
forcing no opinions upon the public, be re-
mains undisturbed as the political elements
are dashed into fury around him. He takes
no part with the Presidents as against Con-
gress, and no part with Congress as against
the President. 1t Is no part of his duty to
do so, however clear and distinct his con-
v~ictiens may be in regard to many of the
subjects involved. No person has any
right to quote him either enc way or the
other, as for or against any particular pol
icy, except 30 far as his official acts are
concerned. His views in regard to the
necessity of the Freedmen's Bureau, and
of keeping the troops in the rebel States
are recorded. His orders for the protee-
ton of Union men in the South, bis sup
preston Of disloyal papers in the North,
are also on record. His written deelara-
ton, written nearly three months in ad-
vance of Mr.. Lincoln's immortal procla-
nation, that slavery should be wiped out
before the war ended, is well known to all
intelligent men.
From our knowledge of General Grant
we feel authorized in saying that, in the
future. as in the past his position and his
opinions on all the great questions which
are c%Onvulsing the country will be made
known as far as they can be, through his
official acts. He will want no other plat
form to stand upon before the American
people than that which he makes by such
official acts and by his military orders. |
They will be such as will show, when
the time comes that the great mass
Of the loyal people of the coun-
try can repose the most implicit conf
dence in him. We know all his hopes
and sympathies are with the great and
patriotic Union party of this country. In
feeling and sentiment he is thoroughly
identified with the millions of loyal people
who, in the long years of war, and car
mage, and blood, gave their hearts, their
blood, and their treasure to the country.
He has neither sympathy nor liberation
for any party, nor any set of men, who
were against the country in its terrible
time of trial and peril, through which it
safely passed.
With no ambition but to serve the best |
interests of his country, guided by the
loftiest patriotism, looking to a regener-
ated nation, now resting upon the basis
of universal liberty, all loyal and good
men can turn to him as their reliance and
hope. If the good of the nation demand
it there can be no doubt that he will, at
the proper time, respond to the unani-
nous voice of his loyal oountrymen, and
permit them to rally under his banner,
which will prove no less victorious in
peace than it was in the storm-cloud of
war.