The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-09
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Ihe reader is already informed Of the
nomination of General GRANT for the Pre-
sidency by citizens of New York at large
meeting held in that city on Wednesday
night. There were present and co0pera-
ting many very wealthy and very infuen-
tial persons. The essuenty million man, h. T.
STEWART, presided, and he was reinforced
by such nsiuionaires as WILLIAM B.. AsToR,
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, PETER COOPER,
HAMILTON FISH, MOSES TAYLOR, and
others. Addresses were delivered by
Messrs. CUTTING, SIcKLEs, and TREMAINE.
The resolutions adopted on the occasion
present platform upon which the whole
nation outside the ten southern States may
ride. They commit General GRANT to
nothing, and of course. they commit his
supporters to nothing but support of him.
The following are the resolutions
Resolved, That the American people
have ever been true to tho instincts of
patriotism in maintaining the rights and
honor of the nation and that the acknoW-
ledgment Of distinguished services in the
national cause cannot fail to be regarded
as grateful duty by free and intelligent
people. EF fr
"Resolved, That, the brilliant services
rendered by General Ulysses S. Grant at
a period of imminent peril to the existence
Of the American Union have shed impe-
rishable renown on the American name
and character, and can never be forgotten
| by people alive to the blessings Of insti-
tutions under whose benign influence they
have become free and united nation. r
"Resolved, That, in the judgment Of this
meeting, representing all the great inte-
rests of national industry, the public senti-
ment ofthe country Enthusiastically indicates
its choice for the office Of Chief Magistrate;
and that in accordance Herewith, and re-
lying with perfect confidence on the saga,
city, judgment, persistent energy, and un-
faltering patriotism, so strikingly displayed
throughout his whole civil and military
career, we present General Ulysses S.
Grant as the candidate of the loyal Union
people of New York for the Office of Pre-
sident of the United States.
"ResolUed, That the president of this
meeting have authority to appoint twenty
four citizens, who, with himself, shall form
a standing committee, with power to take
measures to effectuate the objects and pur-
poses OF, this meeting.' - ..,
| These resolutions are general enough
| for General GRANT or anybody else. They
were adopted by acclamation.
| The New York journals throw their
main strength in favor of this nomination.
The Herald; Times, and Commercial Adver-
tiser, are decidedly for it; the Post,
Journal Of Commerce, and World, do not
take positive ground against it; and the
1ri6aae alone gives it a very cold recep-
ton. 1t declares that the carefully
worded platform whereon General GRANT
"was presented plainly ignores his sup
sport as Republican candidate, or as the
Representative of one distinctively Repub-
I" lican idea" This, we imagine, is. ex-
actly what the meeting desired should be
the character Of the platform. The
Tribune could be content with no declara-
| tion Of principles which did not present
the negro and his rights in most impo-
sing light. No doubt the meeting consi-
: dered that this sort of imposition had gone
so far that it was not safe to attempt to
carry it further, and therefore dropped it.
The Tribune will none Of it; and, further
more, is not satisfied with the company in
which General GRANT is found. Among
1.-THE officers of the meeting were men who
can only support General GRANT "upon
"the presumption that if elected he is not
"to be OF to seem Republican," and
4 these offend the Tribune; nor, does it like
Messrs. MONTGOMERY BLAIR and Tom
Ewing, .Jr. General GRANT must cut
loose from these and all like them, or he
forfeits the support of the Tribune; but if
he will drive them off, and take the negro
1 into his home and heart, the Tribune will
swear by him and stand by him, of course
The Times, which has been for some
time cultivating the General, is as. de-
lighted at the nomination as is fond mo-
ther when her child cuts his first tooth.
| The Times is most felicitous in its CON-
mentary upon the event. Finding in the
platform of this meeting, and in the posi-
tion of General GKANT, beautiful illus
tration of its own indecision, it is really
ecstatic with satisfaction. It thus speaks
of General GRANTS explicit attitude be-
| fore the world:
aAfter an intelligent reading of his evi-
dence before the Impeachmet COMMITTEE,
| and his report as Secretary of w ar, no one
need have any doubt as to where he stands,
| or as to whether he has standlng."} AZ,
I, It is quite natural that the Times should
/ be Jealous of the too near approach OF
others to the object of its adulation; and
! it takes occasion to say to corrupt parti /
! sans and political hacks that the nomina-
ton is none of theirs that they must
stand off. 1t says: 81 ASK agese
| "This movement cannot be engineered
/ by selfish party politicians. If such men r
! attempt to obtain control of it, or to use
! it for their own purposes, they will be
shaken off at the outset, and will be de-
] feated in their ultimate end.' "a i ee
/ The Herald, in language not SO well
brushed up as that employed by the Times,
assumes to New York, and of course to the
| Herald, as it's heart and soul, the credit OF
giving q signal rebuke to the extraVagant
/" passions and crazy experiments of reck-
"less and visionary politicians" and it as
sumes that it was most fitting that this re-
bnke should "come from the commercial