American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-08-28
Mistellaneous.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

1t was inevitable that General Grant
would be nominated By somebody for the
Presidency. So great fame and SO uni
versaI "a popularity were capital too prom
isDg to be unappropriated. If to be
made President it were enough to be the
hero Of New Orleans, or the hero of Tip
pccanoe, or the hero of Buena Vista, it
would seem that the conquering hero Of
the greatest wars should be President, of
course, and without nomination. From
the famous morning at Appomattox Court
House, therefore. there have been long
ing eyes fixed upon the General, and un
able longer to delay, fearful lest some
nimbler body should name him, COM
mittee of gentlemen, whose political dis,
tinction it is to have repudiated the policy
which General Grant favors, have, as we
lately mentioned, formally nominated him
The nominating body are the representa-
tives OF few adherents of the Repub.
hcan party who in the very moment when
political fidelity was to be proved rated
to the Democratic party and President
johnson.
From neither of those powers, howav-
er, have these gentlemen received any
comfort. They are therefore experiment.
ing. Not to speak lightly of so grave
and exalted body, they are "bobbng
round" They are, il the expression may
be permitted looking about for Murgans
Like handful Of shipwrecked sailors
drifting in boat which is not exactly
Jolly without food, and utterly with
out liquor, they are for any port tina;
offers Their nomination, therefore, al.
though as we said formal, and more i'm
posing than that of a single individual is
not one to whici General Grant is very
likely to make any formal response even
il he were gravely apprised OF it. Its
If we may again not speak lightly, an
anchor 10 windward. 1t is, if an ex-
preston may once more be permitted
scoring date SO that if some great
party convention should hereafter uomi>
nate General Grant, and he should be
elected, these worthy gentlemen would
have an opportunity of reminding him in
the distributing day of custom houses
aud other fat things that they we're up
very early in the morning and brushed
the sparkling dew carcling his anne
1t is evident that General Grant is the
controlling fact ip the Presidential csn>
~ass unless he absolutely and finally re-
fuses to be a candidate Usually it Is
not clear that any particular person must
be a candidate. However warm and re.
solved large and apparently dominant
wing of party may be, their preference
as in the case of Mr. Seward, may be
set aside, and wholly unsuApected and
insignificant person, az 10 the case of Mr..
Polk, may be nominated So at the pres
,ent time it is very easy to see that in q
nominating convention Mr.. Chase, or Mr..
Colfax, or Mr.. StanGon, or whoever the
most promising man should be might be
necessarily abandoned for n entirely new
person. But it is not possible to see that
If he be willing the reasons for General
Grants nomination should prevail over
all others.
The reasons indeed are of various
kinds There is, to begin with, the uu.
doubted sense of national gratitude for
his part in the war and the genuine pops
ularity that results from it, There is
then the equally undoubted confidence in
his Judgment of the state of national
affairs, and 10 his sympathy with the pol
icy of Congress and the ioyal country
There is the further feeling that he is
already The choice of powerful portion
ot the dominant party, and that his nom.
ination is approved by some of the most
eminent Republican leaders, and openly
advocated by some of the most cen spicu.
GUS Republican papers. Besides this,
fhereis a reason which is felt to be Of
Sreat weight as between the nominetiou